Sunday, September 25, 2011

Versificator- Inside (2002)























Inside was the last album put out as Versificator before focusing the bulk of musical efforts of m0dnAr. Despite reusing a bunch for the first m0dnAr album and having a few good leftovers, this might have been my weakest effort because of a couple of songs that I've left off.

It was also a bit of a retreat from the experimentalism of the last two releases, which seem much better than they did at the time in retrospect

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Versificator- Dramatizations, Deconstructions, and Miscarriages disc 2 (2002)




























Versificator-
Dramatizations, Deconstructions, and Miscarriages

CD1: Select Mispronounced Pieces 1997-2002

1. synethesia
2. r1Ng5 (gas tank mix)
3. s0nar eclipse
4. MIDI chlorians
5. 0d3 (crAftverld mix)
6. 5318008
7. uNt1tl3d (soar thumbs mix)
8. 1 w3rLd (ecumaniacal mix)
9. cR3 8shun uv f1r3 (pyrowonderland mix)
10. 58008
11. ode (hydrogen jukebox mix)
12. the rain
13. the orangatang conspiracy
14. greiyce uv gawd
15. b7R (jason smells like cunny mix)
16. eschatology (criminal kid’s whimper minus bang mix)
17. urine evaporates, semen is forever

BONUS CD 2: the christmas album

1. a smile, 2 bangs, and a religion
2. m1d1 cut 217
3. clits and cuts
4. commercial for soylent green
5. t0Ny dAnZa (seasoned in hell mix)
6. 0d3 (blind leading the naked mix)
7. works in phono
8. fun with glass
9. fuck the dmv
10. burning flesh hanging from a flag pole
11. 7734
12. modern templars (a christmas carol)
13. allergic to death

All songs written by Timh Gabriele
Except “Fuck the DMV” written by lucidfluid
And “t0Ny dAnZa” written by timh gabriele and andrew matusciwitz


Disc 1: t1, t5, t7, t9, t11, t 15 remixed by Versificator
Disc 1: t8, t16 remixed by the Criminal Kid with additional production by Versificator
Disc 2: t5, t6 remixed by Versificator

Disc 1 t 16 originally appeared on Suicidal Fetus Recording #015
Disc 2 t 10 originally appaeared on Suicidal Fetus Recording #009

Friday, September 23, 2011

Versificator- Dramatizations, Deconstructions, and Miscarriages (2002)

An album of remixes, alternate takes, and other tracks that didn't have a place on the other two albums.





































Versificator-
Dramatizations, Deconstructions, and Miscarriages

CD1: Select Mispronounced Pieces 1997-2002

1. synethesia
2. r1Ng5 (gas tank mix)
3. s0nar eclipse
4. MIDI chlorians
5. 0d3 (crAftverld mix)
6. 5318008
7. uNt1tl3d (soar thumbs mix)
8. 1 w3rLd (ecumaniacal mix)
9. cR3 8shun uv f1r3 (pyrowonderland mix)
10. 58008
11. ode (hydrogen jukebox mix)
12. the rain
13. the orangatang conspiracy
14. greiyce uv gawd
15. b7R (jason smells like cunny mix)
16. eschatology (criminal kid’s whimper minus bang mix)
17. urine evaporates, semen is forever

BONUS CD 2: the christmas album

1. a smile, 2 bangs, and a religion
2. m1d1 cut 217
3. clits and cuts
4. commercial for soylent green
5. t0Ny dAnZa (seasoned in hell mix)
6. 0d3 (blind leading the naked mix)
7. works in phono
8. fun with glass
9. fuck the dmv
10. burning flesh hanging from a flag pole
11. 7734
12. modern templars (a christmas carol)
13. allergic to death

All songs written by Timh Gabriele
Except “Fuck the DMV” written by lucidfluid
And “t0Ny dAnZa” written by timh gabriele and andrew matusciwitz


Disc 1: t1, t5, t7, t9, t11, t 15 remixed by Versificator
Disc 1: t8, t16 remixed by the Criminal Kid with additional production by Versificator
Disc 2: t5, t6 remixed by Versificator

Disc 1 t 16 originally appeared on Suicidal Fetus Recording #015
Disc 2 t 10 originally appaeared on Suicidal Fetus Recording #009

“Urine Evaporates, Semen is Forever” contains a sample of “Goodbye Cruel World” by Pink Floyd
go, it’s so easy inside to be a lie and not the waking night
and on that day the sun shone not.
Cut god in half and count the rings and count the rings and count the rings and.
There’s a place for us.
Somewhere a place for us.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Versificator- Notes from the Fridge (2002)

Notes from the Fridge was an album assembled around choice phrases written in magnetic poetry on the fridge at the house where my group of friends all hung out. Though we did customize some words, it was mostly names, hence the "name" tributes here. Some names were chopped off for aesthetic purposes only. It was a period of lots of Warp, IDM, and electronic listening music, though there's some aberration from this (particularly the first track and the last two). Many of these tracks were repeated on m0dnAr's first album, hence the duplication here.

All in all, this still may be the best thing I've ever put out.



A weird way to open the album, for sure. Unlike anything else on the mix. I hada friend who worked at Pizza Hut with me who was really into what he termed "hardcore" rave and techno. It turns out this was a term still being thrown around in Belgium and Holland,but what it was was actually closer to gabber than either of those things. I wanted to pay tribute to this scene, but the track I came up with became rather cerebral and percussive, instead of the amphetamine candy rush of most of the music I'd heard in this genre. It turns out, this does bear some resemblance to tracks by Marc Trauner, specifically his "Symphonies of Steel" by Mescalinium United. With dark techstep-style paranoid samples of 1984, I was tapping into an existing sentiment I didn't even know existed (. The rest of the album was hugely influenced by Warp, IDM, and other listening music genres


























The original magnetic poetry was "timh feels vaseline-y", so it got changed a bit. These were all mouth sounds until the very end. take that, matias aguayo



for some reason, this phrase on the fridge always reminded be of Seurat and Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte. The idea was an idyllic, chilled place...with lots of monkeys.












Monday, August 22, 2011

Versificator- Versificator LP (2001)

2001 Purple Monkey Dishwasher publishing. Suicidal Fetus recordings #22

All songs written and performed by versificator.

Ode/Coda contains elements of “Finale” written by Bernstein/Sodheim
Isopod contains elements of “Sex Machine” as performed by The Flying Lizards
Sickle contains elements of “Raining Blood” as performed by Slayer
Theme from Bubblegum Gestapo contains elements of “La La Love you” as performed by the Pixies
Aphid Twix contains elements of “Ice Cream Truck” from the “Sounds for Little Ones” compilation
I Can’t Stop Raving contains elements of “I Can’t Stop Raving” as performed by DJ Liquid

Other sources of Interest: “Network”, Allen Ginsberg, Richard Pryor, etc.
Mixed by t. gabriele at the pleasuredrome, Poughkeepsie NY
Produced by the criminal kid

In memory of Napster.

Ode(5:11) Ripples (7:28) Inchworm (1:39) Creation of Fire (5:29) Isopod (2:58) One World (5:59) Sickle (7:21) Phoam nd Warsh (2:32) Phoam nd Wosh (2:51) Theme from Bubblegum Gestapo (1:05) Essays in Perpendicular Normailty (3:24) Aphid Twix (2:55) Rings (2:58) I can’t stop Raving (15:59) Coda (3:52)




This was just coincidental fusion, wherein the finale from West Side Story fused well with pieces from Ginsberg's "Howl", assuring the "best minds of our generation" that "there's a place for us" (which is actually from WSS's "Somewhere", also my parents' wedding song).








I forget the criteria that led to this being called "Isopod" (insectoid theme here,what with "Aphid Twix" and all), but it had something to do with how disgusting Rush Limbaugh, heard here, is. His stuttering here has been mixed with the intentional stutter of the Flying Lizards



obviously, this is the infamous "invisible hand" speech from Network, which was absolutely revelatory when I saw it. I fused it to an old MIDI which was originally called "MIDI Eastern" for its eastern tinge.



I was studying notes for a midterm or test or something and I found the lyrics to this song, which don't start until nearly halfway through the song, scribbled in the side of a notepad. I have no recollection of ever writing them. The most automatic of writing.

You're Sweet
It's dark
and i live in the river
snake uncoiled
violence in mind
is never accessible at hand

your ivory whites
are gold to my libido
and i chase by choice
the fabled virgin













this is a piss-take on the raving standard "I Can't Stop Raving" made to sound as if this phrase was not euphoric, but nightmarish. Years later, I learned that there was a whole genre of music like this called "darkside"



Versificator- Clubber's Guide to Canaan (2001)











1. inebriation/ adrien (hell is other people)/the marble conspiracy/ school blaze
(creeping death mix)/ bodyrock/ the happy birthday to you song/ millenium
2. the promised land/ speedway/ now/ rejection of conformity/ speedway (ode)
3. sliced tomatoes (the great party)/ tropicallous/sho' nuff/ peter and the wolf/
it's a small world/ adrien (intestine vendor mix)/
4. everything is beautiful/ debasser/ on her majesty's secret service/ global/ yous a
ho (crackpipe suite mix)/ Boll Weevil
5. circles/ adrien (hell is other people)/ vaporlogue

Friday, August 5, 2011

Versificator- Adrien EP (2001)







While all the music previous to this on this blog represents a "third period" of my music writing, involving collaboration with partners, bands, and record labels, this will mark the first release of my "Second Period", that being my first experimentations with computer music. Not music through computers, mind you as I did do some primitive stuff with MIDI and sound recorder cut n pastes prior to this, but music fully made through the computer and nothing else. There is some overlap of material here, as many of these songs were recycled for m0dnAr tunes, but listening to these again there is some interesting stuff within.









To be honest, these early songs were more collage-y then I'd wanted to be. I liked sample-based music, but the ease of construction on these almost seemed like cheating. It wasn't until later when I found out that the process I used was not much different than many of the Moby-ish personalities out there. I guess where I felt I cheated most here was in the rhythm department, blatantly stealing a lick from another big beat song.

Mainly I wanted to see how the Wayne's World sample and Sleepwalk went together





Not particularly proud of the Wesley Willis dialogue at the beginning of this, but it was the final part I added over the "clown music" ("Entry of the Gladiators" by Julius Fucik). "Adrien" had been described in A Very Vari Christmas as Circus Music, so it seemed appropos to make a demented circus out of it. Then there's the "God is Dead" bit from Rosemary's Baby and Paul Whiteman's "Whispering" at the end, which adds a demented but interesting afterthought.





when i am high
they make worms of my friends
i too am tempted
but insist on the handbook
to party partisan is
leverage
to lay down is
heavy damage

from concentrate
shine with peroxide
on the shelves
like product, like wholesale
i'm not your centurian
i'm not eons elapsed
we bitch at what we shit
tight feeling of forever
is e to my I
anchor to my leg
cementing each sunken flash
ad nauseum ad infinity

save my life
save me from hell




Another rip-off rhythm, I think from an Alec Empire track (who probably sampled it elsewhere). I wanted to make something like an Empire track, extremely hard, fast, and noisy. So, I did that noise thing and crossed a line, trying to make it sound like a thrilling video game ride through a school shooting rampage. Not the only song I'd create to comment on school violence either. It actually fits the model of darkside jungle pretty well, though I wasn't really listening to any of that at the time.
Nothing gets between me and my A-K

There's Alice Cooper in there and a Metallica reference if you listen close too (perhaps the creepiest part).



Versificator- Adrien EP
1. Adrien (EP mix) (4:30)
2. Googleplex (quantum mechanical mix) (0:38)
3. The Happy Birthday to You Song (4:40)
4. Adrien (hell is other people mix) (10:05)
5. Tropicallous (3:31)
6. Adien (instestine vendor mix) (7:05)
7. Googleplex (versificator's at-at destructo mix) (1:03)
8. Googleplex (3:39)
9. School Blaze (3:33)


(yes I left off a few tracks because they were pretty stupid)

Monday, July 4, 2011

Lunch With Beardo- Western Winds (2006)



a live performance from 07/28/06 at the Best Western in Nyack, NY, show with Death by a Thousand Cuts, the Alienist, Cabbage.

A rare performance with drums and one of our best, if I do say so. The mix has been slightly doctored to patch over a few screw-ups and dry patches, but this is the full live performance.

The visual was a projection we used during a couple shows in the backdrop of our performance.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Lunch With Beardo- Surrealistic Picnic (2006) (FDH Records)







001 The First Official Transmission from the Planet Lunch; Innocence to Wisdom
002 The Second Official Transmission from the Planet Lunch; They Are Wonders of the World
003 The Third Official Transmission from the Planet Lunch; Space is the Plate

Produced by Eric the Ill at Spacestation 11
Mastered by Colin Marston


After travelling a spacedelic journey in from the Planet Lunch aboard a Surrealistic Picnic basket travelling at the speed of interstellar overeat, the mysterious band of bearded men orbited the industrial wasteland of the Hudson Valley (which closely resembles fruited plains and fertile crescents on their homeplanet) and the eastern United States for several years, occasionally making stops at an abandonned NASA/NSA spacecraft called "Spacestation 11" to beam down mixed signals of galactic ear candy to the art-terrorist unit FDH Records, who then released the broadcasts for public consumption (though they remained mostly a fetish object for disillusioned loners, slackers, sporto homos, and other members of the permanent underclass).

The band of beardos has been spotted assuming the form of resident musicians at various venues throughout upstate New York and beyond. These include, but are not limited to Eric "The Ill" Hansen (Humans Are the Worst Invention, Murdershift, Lance Uppercut), Jesse Heffler (Deprivation), Jon Wazoo (The Sex Machines, The Casket Architects, Rails to Wounded Knee), Timh Gabriele (m0dnAr, Autocratic Forcefeed), and Jeff Bumiller (dylar, Murdershift), pictured right

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Lunch With Beardo- The Surrealistic Picnic Sessions (2005)



Recording for Surrealistic Picnic (2006, FDH)

Lunch With Beardo- Live at DCC (2003)

Recorded 10/10/03
Again, I was not a part of this show, but was performing with m0dnAr in the "clothing" performance. Also on this bill were Mr. Noise, Dick Motorolla, and Mark Marinoff.



m0dnAr and Lunch With Beardo- Live in Tim's Basement (2005)







Lunch With Beardo- Live at Six Mohonk (2004)

Another video recorded 09/17/04 that I was not a part of. I did however perform at this show as m0dnAr (a "hugging" show) that was filmed (not sure where the footage wound up). Also on the bill were Emil Beaulieau, Prurient, Crank Sturgeon, El, and FFH.



Lunch With Beardo- Live at the Flywheel (2004)

Here's a video recorded 05/05/04. It should be noted that I did not participate in this performance and was not active with the group until 2005/2006.





Sunday, May 22, 2011

Lunch With Beardo- Miles of Smiles (2006)



Excerpt from a performance 04/26/06 at Fort Smiley's in New Paltz, NY

Lunch With Beardo- Weird Stones (2007)



excerpt from a practice session in 2007

Lunch With Beardo- The Right to a Lunch Break (2007)



Excerpt from a performance 02/26/07 at SUNY Purchase
show with Prurient, Burning Star Core, and Carlos Giffoni

Lunch With Beardo- Postprandial Dim Sum (Live at the Rugroom) (2006)



caution: this is loud as fuck

Recorded 08/13/06 at the Rugroom in New Paltz, NY as part of the CD Release show. Also on the bill were If, Bwana, The Subliminator, Carpet of Sexxy, and It's a Trap

Lunch With Beardo- Live at the Shithole (2004)



Recorded live at Club Crannell in Poughkeepsie, NY on 01/14/04

Lunch With Beardo- Live at Rock Against Racism (2007)

Innocence to Wisdom:


Recorded 04/29/07 at Rock Against Racism festival at SUNY New Paltz. The studio version appears on Surrealistic Picnic (2006)

Gluttons for Punishment:

Lunch With Beardo- Go Fly a Kite (2006)



Recorded live at SUNY Purchase in 2006, opening for Kites. Extract of a much longer (way too long) performance

Lunch With Beardo- Captain Milkshake (2008)



from a 2008 practice session

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Lunch With Beardo- "Atonement", "Punishment" (Live at Tritone 2007)






Lunch With Beardo performing at Tritone in Philadelphia, PA. This show was split into three segments,"Sin", "Atonement", and "Punishment". "Sin" kinda sucked so it's excluded here. "Atonement" is probably the best of the three numbers in the night, with "Punishment" being the full on noisefest

Lunch With Beardo- Trepanation (Live at Purchase 2007)



Not sure which SUNY Purchase show this was. We played a bunch since Jesse booked the shows for the school. Here's an example though of a show that was way too long (30 minutes)- not the only example either mind you- that I've distilled to the essential bits (the middle of it).

Friday, April 22, 2011

Lunch With Beardo- Live at Millcreek Tavern (2006)



Lunch With Beardo performing live at the Millcreek Tavern in Philadelphia, PA in 2006. This is the second (and more interesting part of the set). This show was part of a lineup with Elder Statesmen and Satanized

Lunch With Beardo- Live on WVKR (2006)



1. Red Dragon



2. The Hunger Artist

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Lunch With Beardo- Space Transmission (2006)



This animation and music served as the introduction to Lunch With Beardo's web site. It is a version of "The First Official Communication from the Planet Lunch; Innocence to Wisdom" from the album Surrealistic Picnic

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Lunch With Beardo- Public Relations Disaster (2006)



from the Surrealistic Picnic Sessions. Vocals by J Heffler, mixed by Forcefeel

Lunch With Beardo- Space is the Plate (2006)



This was music that played in the background of Lunch With Beardo's homepage on their website. It is a remix of "The First Official Communication from The Planet Lunch; Innocence to Wisdom" off of the album Surrealistic Picnic

Lunch With Beardo- All You Need is Lunch Jam (2006)



Live Jam Excerpt. Previously unreleased

Monday, March 14, 2011

Lunch With Beardo- Jackson Pollack Indigestion (2004 to 2007)



Compiled from various live and practice sessions by Forcefeel in the style of Holgar Czukay. Previously unreleased