This is a remix that I did for a contest that a member of coil had.  The contest was never completed.  The track was completed in 2005.  Fun to hear stuff from ten years ago.  

Nasahara Horchata Remix Beat

This is another remix I did in 2005 for a contest for a remix project started by a member of coil.  The contest was never completed.  

Nasahara Horchata Rmx Ambient

This is a live drone set I have been working on and getting ready to perform live.  It has bits from lots of different horchata albums.   It is far from done, but getting there.

201205xxdronelive

This was a remake of Erik Satie’s “Gymnopédie No. 1” .  I made it a dark ambient piece.  Oddly, I have been learning to play this on the piano the past month and was excited that this junto project came up.  I used a reaktor patch, modular synth, wavetable synth, and absynth.  I used ableton live to record the tracks.  I changed the BPM to 37 and made different tracks for lower notes and the higher melody.  I also placed a field recording I made this past summer in northern Finland at a mire while I was doing fieldwork there for a NASA funded project.

disquiet0363

disquiet0363_finland_kaamamen_dark_ambient

live set at the red door in Portsmouth, NH on May 26th, 2009. This live set combines ambient works by horchata off of the red insecta album, the aferecords acytota, and some new material still being worked on. The first song is a song from Cellula, a side project of Miles Tillman, Rob Braswell, and Mike Palace.

This is the second set horchata played that night.

from live20090526, released 21 November 2012 

live20090526  - termite set

this is a set comprised of songs off of the darkwinter.com net release titled "isolated house"

This album is heavily influenced by the numerous abandoned houses and factories I have explored in my life. The first of such houses was discovered and shown to me by Dieter von Schramm, who did the artwork for this release. When we were eleven years old, Dieter found an old house that had been gutted by fire. I remember looking in the boarded up windows and seeing a burned Hammond organ and a melted phone. Since then, I have been oddly drawn to such places. They are part of civilization, yet still remain outside of humanity, often being retaken by vegetation and animals. As I enter these places, I go through a liminal state, and the experience of exploration is almost a ritualistic process. One such adventure I was part of in the 1990’s was what we had termed a factory performance. We found an old textile factory (a woolen mill) in Charlottesville, VA, only accessible via a railroad bridge. There, we would improvise sound, and burn and break artwork that we hauled over for sacrifice. I also remember an old mansion in Charlottesville, VA that I often visited with friends. It had an elaborately decorated design in the bottom of the pool. We visited it one Halloween and the next day it burned to the ground. Such infiltrations have continued, and just a few years ago friends and I entered an old WWII military bunker on the seacoast of NH. Around the same time I read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I’d like to say that that excellent book influenced this project. It did and it did not. I felt that the soundtrack to such a house in the book would be single sounds, placed in an audio field of dead silence, with not even reverberations of the space that one was in. Still, I felt that a house itself could be an entity with its own soundtrack. This net releaese on the Dark Winter label is an attempt to compose a soundtrack for an isolated house.

music by michael palace

Photographs and design by Dieter Von Schramm
www.overprocessed.com
credits
from live20090526, released 21 November 2012 