Just getting started on a recorded version of our song, Cheap Meat. Here's a super-rough mix with some guide vocals...

Fakebit Polytechnic - Cheap Meat (Test 1)

This is a breaks track I made back in the day. Found the vocals crate-digging in South London, in a box labelled "that which cannot be categorised".

It was a vinyl recording of a guy giving lectures in early 60s America about how kids shouldn't be made to feel ashamed of touching themselves downstairs.

Memoid - Conditioning

Deep Space 1968 is a Reaktor ensemble (available from the NI Reaktor User Library, http://www.native-instruments.com/en/community/reaktor-user-library/entry/show/5183/).

It listens to soundcard input - so if you plug unconnected leads into your audio interfeace the ensemble will listen to static, which I think is caused in part by cosmic rays...

Its input passes through a reverb, then through a band-pass filtered feedback loop. Then, the system listens to the output level of the reverb, and - in a slightly random way inspired by neurophysiology - adjusts the feedback level to avoid the output getting too loud.

Filters turn the noise into drones. 

Deep Space 1968

Some of the music written for a Comedy Central promo for their sitcom Brotherhood. The brief was for 5 tunes that sound like they're from 8-bit video games... and versions of the same tunes that sound like main room club tracks in various genres.

Brotherhood Demo

The glitchy sequence comes out of a Reaktor sound machine I made... optimised for funk.

Funky Virtual Machine - Excerpt

This is a location recording on a houseboat moored on the River Thames at Nine Elms. The recording was made a few years ago - the moorings are at least threatened by development on the bankside.

Around 7 mins into the recording a boat goes past, and at about 7:50, the prow wave causes the houseboats to stretch their ropes and gently bump into their moorings.

Thames houseboats atmosphere

This is a mini showreel featuring recent sound design, remixing and composition work.

It shows I can remix songs, make surprisingly good beats considering how ridiculously old I am, produce unique and sometimes stupid noises with my synthesisers, and record funny things with my mate Joe.

Hope you like it!

Dave Pape - Mini Showreel

This week, we explore the dark art of guerilla foley, and the science of sound design, with sound designer and foley artist Stephen Goldsmith (http://mrsteveproductions.com). 

Cornwell and Braidy, Museum Technicians, look into the possibility of supplementing their incomes by contributing work to internet-based sound effect libraries, and discuss the impact of deeply interconnected digital technology on our listening habits and expectations of recorded culture. 

We close with some experimental foley of our own.


Museum of Techno - Mr Foley

In this episode, the Technicians are charged with organising a night out for the Museum staff.

We discuss the impact on nightclubs, electronic music and other forms of group entertainment of communicable diseases like swine flu, and the fundamental links between the will to public performance, social satus and sexual success in various cultural contexts.

The show features the our customary guerilla sound design, including phonography from one of Croydon's most generic pubs, and culminates in a rare live musical performance by Braidy and Cornwell - to the music of Mr David Powell.

Many thanks to everyone who's contributed to the show, and to everyone who's listened and given us your valuable feedback. We hope to be back soon with more over-produced yet underthought nonsense in the nearest possible future.


Museum Of Techno - Karaoke

I recorded this on a trip to the Science Museum with my 3 year old daughter. We spent a few minutes walking round Google Web Lab, which was generating some web-influenced music. You can hear & interact with it in Google Chrome, but that's just a summed mix of mono recordings of each instrument, but I like the point-of-view you get from a stereo location recording.

Google Web Lab - Science Museum, London 20130121

Quick sketch for maybe a Fakebit Polytechnic song about workplace advice. Ideas for lyrics, choruses welcome, here's what I've got so far...

You've got to think more entrepreneurially.
Allocate proportionally more to your pension.
Think of every holiday request as a weapon.
Only volunteer if it's a piss-easy project.
Head Office has a totally different culture.
At least he's a decision-maker...
Where's the revenue? I don't see the revenue.

Head Office Culture

I'm in a demented synth pop band called Fakebit Polytechnic and I was a technician at London's fictional Museum of Techno.

museumoftechno

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