Drive-by Blogging

• 2010-02-24

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  On the internet, nobody knows you’re not a pianist. Here’s a two-minute GarageBand piano sequence.

• 2010-02-03

  Zero

  An ambient track I posted to Tumblr last year. Made a video for it using clips from DOA, a film noir classic from 1950. (The film is now in the public domain, and free to download from archive.org. I’d recommend it.)

• 2010-01-24

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  Capital Wasteland Medley

  It seems I still can’t get over how incredible Fallout 3 is. So imagine my joy upon discovering that all 99 minutes of Inon Zur’s ambient soundtrack are right there in the game folder in MP3 format.

  Here’s a 10-minute mix; a short sample for your listening pleasure.

• 2010-01-23

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  inky – 2010-01-22 (1:41)

  Second track of the week: an attempt at psytrance. Hopefully I didn’t subconsciously rip off Astral Projection.

  I’m also uploading to Last.fm again. Both of the tracks I made this week are free to download.

• 2010-01-19

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  inky – 2010-01-19 (1:34)

  First GarageBand doodle of the year. Playing with chiptune-ish synths, syncopation and pop drumkit blastbeats.

  (Some day I will learn how to name my songs…)

• 2009-11-14

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  Here’s the first half (~8 minutes) of an ambient track I made today. It’s very slow, and mostly improvised.

• 2009-09-28

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  Here’s an unfinished song I’ve been working on. I’m happy with what I’ve got so far, but not sure how to progress from here just yet. If I don’t post something, it’ll probably end up hiding in the dark, grubby corners of /unfinished/stuff/unsorted, so here it is!

• 2009-09-19

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  Have I mentioned that Garageband is awesome? Here’s a piece I call Random Nature Samples with Phaser and Reverb Effects (2:42). The astute listener will notice it alternates between the key of C♯ and the key of S.

• 2009-08-29

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  inky – yet another untitled track (2:28)

  Today I discovered that, for the first time, I own a computer with a built-in microphone that actually picks up sound. Madness. I also discovered recently that my amp appears to be busted. Or, possibly — if I’m lucky — every single guitar cable I own is busted. Needless to say, I am disappoint.

  So I started hitting chords on an unamplified guitar (donated to me by Travors, no less), and, for some reason, I decided to open Audacity and hit record. After some chopping, reverbing, more chopping, and general mucking about, I ended up with this short ambient piece.

  I’ve managed to create a few songs this year just by focusing on a simple idea, hitting record, and then improvising. If people like it, I should probably try putting together an album.

  Bonus: Here’s a guitar tab.

  B |------0-------------------------------------------|
  F#|-----0----------------------- just, --------------|
  D |----0-------------------------- like, ------------|
  A |---2------------------------- whatever, ----------|
  E |--2----------------------------- man. ------------|
  B |-0----------------0-------------------------------|

• 2009-05-22

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  inky – Shoot At It Until It Dies (0:54)

  Starting to get the hang of GarageBand.

• 2009-05-16

  inky music

  Preserving my old music “biography” here, because someone will probably delete it eventually:

  INKY was formed an æon ago in the darkest, mankiest corners of a Norwegian forest which technically shouldn’t exist. Originally a five-piece ska-grind group, the band soon disbanded due to musical indifferences. Hairy frontman Inky chose to continue writing songs in their name.

  Their debut album, Of Inverted Crosses And Wartorn Shopping Malls, was self-released ten years after the breakup. This was limited to 40 copies, and not a single copy was sold. Nevertheless, Inky considered this album a success. The following year the album was re-released with a bonus track featuring a medley of Britney Spears covers. This release saw great commercial success, staying in the top 10 charts for over three years.

  Today, Inky is still making music, but has yet to release a follow-up album. Instead, he bangs his head on his keyboard from time to time and uploads the resulting mp3s to the internet. Sometimes he choose to let people hear these tracks; other times he explicitly forbids people from listening to them, stating that humanity as a whole is “too untrue” for such sounds.

  He is currently living in Washington, Washington with his wife, his thirteen children, and his other wife.

• 2009-03-15

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  inky – untitled

  Improvising some pretty late-night beats with GarageBand.

• 2008-12-17

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  Here’s an untitled drone-doom track I’ve been working on. It’s a little over ten minutes long, made with distorted synths in GarageBand.

  I have no idea what this sounds like on real speakers; all I have at the moment is a dying pair of €15 headphones. Comments from fellow drone-lovers would be greatly appreciated.

• 2008-12-06

  

  Klamath – 436876534B (9:04)

  Minimal, procedurally-generated ambient. I made this track some time in 2007, and forgot about it until today. Enjoy!

• 2008-06-23

  inky noise.