Oh man....

I haven't played in a band in front of a crowd in too many years. Even then the most we ever did was play loft parties in Brooklyn.

Creating music is still one of my biggest hobbies. It's meditation, adrenaline release, and self medication all in one. At this point I do it for myself.

Recording demos is pretty easy now. Here is a few that I did this year. All instrumental, rockish. Nothing terribly exciting but neither overly incompetent. My geetar skills are blah. My keytar skills though... outta this world!

Instrumental 1
Instrumental 2
Instrumental 3
Instrumental 4
Instrumental 5

Noone has ever heard these before (world exclusive archinect release), so if I've been overly mean to any of you in these here threads, here's your chance to rip me a new one.


spacefraud, since you asked, do YOU have anything to share? :)

turkish band with some unemployed architects in them. los angeles / istanbul.
twenty7
"no chemical love"
"muhtemelen ask"

http://bandtwenty7.com/

rusty u got some skills son. a nice order and simplicity to a sound that is actually quite complex to achieve. i wish i did, im actually working on an album with some friends right now i hope to have something for you guys tomorrow or monday. never played a live show in my life. never even recorded anything so this experience is very neat for me having been the closet writer for so many years...and im right there with you on "meditation, adrenaline release, self medication". talk about a golf clap.

One of the guys in my class is the drummer of a Juno-nominated band. Canadians will appreciate that, Americans will wonder "wtf is a Juno? Wasn't Michael Cera in that movie?"

btw, you can book 'twenty7' through me! they already played at whisky and viper room in la.

I played drums in a metal band a few years back. You check check out one of our CDs here. This album came out in 2005.
Boy do I miss making music like I use to

Yes, we started few months ago and I hope to be sharing something sometime soon.

a true legend as far as architects who dabbled in music
Iannis Xenakis

incase you didn't read his bio
" In 1947 he arrived in Paris, where he became a member of Le Corbusier’s architectural team, producing his first musical work, Metastasis, only in 1954, based on the design for the surfaces of the Philips pavilion to be built for the Brussels Exposition of 1958."

Rusty, thats some fun tunes you got there. listening to those songs makes me want to play logic puzzles.

Every Friday before studio and every Saturday after basketball games I get together with two different drummers and record 45 minutes worth of tunes to cassette. Hoping to share with you folks in the near weeks... waiting on a new microphone to use the four-track (stereo one-track for now) and waiting until I'm not busy to transfer from cassette to digital. The Saturday drummer is an architecture student as well and is probably the most promising.

spacefraud:

Thanks daddypants! You should post some tracks once you got something. Recording can be tricky as hell ('live' sounds in particular), but it's never boring.

Orphan:

Your friends' band is very polished and professional in everything they do. Almost too polished. I like their live recordings better. Ones shot in a Istambul (?) nightclub are the most interesting ones. Song "No Chemical Love" sounds like 'mechanical love' to me, which makes me think of all the plumbing engineers I worked with over the years. I don't like to think of them that way... Their songs sung in Gipsy are also cool :)

BenC

Which Juno band is it? At least give us the nomination category.

gonad:

I'm loving the Last Perfection. It's on my iPod now. I see a campfire on the album cover blob. You? Great job with the sticks! Do you still have a set? Finding space for a full blown drum kit is extremely difficult with our urban careers. Thanks for the complements btw. If I could make a living making soundtracks for logic puzzles I'd do it in a heartbeat.

architectum:

I hope your Friday drummer doesn't read Architect. He'd be heartbroken to hear what you have to say :) Otherwise, do share with us once you got something.

I prefer the Polaris over the Junos, not saying/just saying (Canadian indie electronica pun intended)

<-- beatbox's/vocal scratching

rustystuds, yes they are polished act because they perform on a stage in front of audience. they are a real rock n roll act breaking into music scene in a large competitive venues like los angeles and istanbul. they already built following and can fill the house. the percussion player is a brother of my friend and occasional collaborator. he is an historical restoration architect. vocals , drummer architecture graduates.
you need to get your act together if you want to live on your rock music and that takes a lot of polishing.
check this out for all time polish king (mainly art students at the time of the formation);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21VecIIdBI

i found your jingles ok. better than many like ones and not as good as the others.;.) they might need little more color.

you called me 'orphan' is that intentional?

Orhan,

I keep misspelling your name. Sorry. Word association and all.

I'm happy to hear twenty7 is doing so well for themselves. 'Too polished' comment is in regard to the fact that most indie bands tend to shun the protools digital sheen. In fact, flawed DIY sound is all the rage with artsy fartsy kids these days. The weirder the sound, the better. twenty7 seems so be stuck in radio friendly days of 1990's. Which is fine since LA music scene hasn't exactly been relevant at least since then. Maybe they are aiming for the Nickleback's audience (at least for their English music). Think neoclassical architecture built in 2011. Polished sounds tend to appeal to older audiences and pre-teens, neither of groups too vested in actual music. Tell them to move to Silver Lake.

Speaking of jingles, do the eggroll. Who needs production? Not them.

haha.. they already live in silver lake..

btw, i am not into pop music but i want them to succeed in what they do. and some of them are architects, so, there..

rustystuds: Awesome, thanks for checkin it out. The cover is actually some lion-monster illustration. I'll post the artwork tomorrow. Its just too bad I can't play drums like I use to. When I lived with my parents in new york, I had a sound proof studio in my basement. I'm over in philadelphia now, married, with two kids...
my drums are actually still set up in a spare bedroom on the second floor in my house (this place is about 80 years old with what seems like no insulation). So you can imagine not many people appreciate the noise.

does turntableism count?

Mixcloud

or

http://soundcloud.com/figure2

What's great about music these days is one can create atmospheres without having the hurdles of a boss or a client or... anyone else to deal with. OK, some of it's sloppy, some crap, some spooky, some creepy, some I totally love that no-one else does. But that doesn't matter with music.
I think I went into architecture as a career without really realising other people existed ;p

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nice bots

I did the music/animation for this PS1 MOMA proposal.
Best to combine it all :)
http://www.vimeo.com/19919078

I think all of this guys old stuff pretty much sucks and his new stuff is a bad attempt at scandanavian electro pop meets minimalist experimental crap...but he is an architect (well not really unless licensed in your state)
www.last.fm/music/Metamechanics (No fooking bracets on the blackberry keyboard, wtf)

i'm a future architecture student! I'll find out soon -- *crosses fingers!*

my band, sans soleil, is actually following me to austin if I get in. well, we're all actually moving to austin regardless, but my pending application was the catalyst for the move.

http://soundcloud.com/sans-soleil-tx/caldera

i also just started a side project, CATS IN HEAT, no recordings yet, but heres a vid from our last show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSiWAprmPas

Any rappers?

MC T-square
Dr. CAD
Mies van der Snoop
OMA Boyz
Zaha HD
Frank O'Gehry and the House of Pain
DJ Coop Himmelblau
Vanilla Box
Renzo-E
A.I.A.
A.M. Stern and Thugs
KPF to the SOM
Big BIM
Fiddy-Storiez
Master B141
No Limit Interns
Lil Vestibule
Rem Koolhaas

I also make music by myself, but I'm not ready yet to share it. I can only present a little youtube clip to get an impression of the music I'm trying to make: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IwqD859w2_E

Right, it's wonderfull and beautiful flamenco!!!