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Ambient Experiment. The mathematics of audio. The beauty of stillness.

Damon Law — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:28:05 +0000

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you could put music into extreme slow-motion? It's like taking a walk on a sunny afternoon filmed on a high-speed camera. Darker music lends itself to scarier scenes. Brighter music retains it's brightness, just extends itself from 4 minutes to 40 or 400. By changing the time scale of a track you can hear things you wouldn't have heard before, spaces in between the spaces.

I've taken a recent composition of mine and run it through an application called PaulStretch – some of you might recognize this from a post I made a while ago about the Justin Bieber track which got put through the same process.

What's interesting about the PaulStretch app (I'm running a Mac OS X port of the app) is that the algorithms used tend to dither the moments with a warmth and ambience that other simple timescale/stretch/shift apps fail miserably at. I am a fan of glitch and noise, but often those kind of audio manipulations are very tinny and digitized. PaulStretch is a wonderfully interesting way to take a new look at audio in a new and listenable way.

I've put a composition I've written and then slowed with the app up at Soundcloud.com.

I'd love to read your comments on it.

http://soundcloud.com/thestark/an-extended-exit

Welcome to Sportland! 3DPDX user group meetup and presentation.

Damon Law — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:50:14 +0000

Looking forward to drinking some free Rogue Ale and mingling with the local talent. If you've got a vested interest in Portland and Professional Level 3D/After Effects/Motion Graphics/Retail Presentation work – this is a must-attend event!

http://3dpdx.com/

And you should really RSVP at http://events.linkedin.com/Welcome-Sportland-Presented-by-AEPDX/pub/529620

Typography for Lawyers. Gorgeous. Litigious.

Damon Law — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:12:20 +0000

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/05/typography-for-lawye.html

Lawyers. Do it.

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It’s either pretty good CGI, or something far more interesting…

Damon Law — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:25:43 +0000

What do you think?

http://gizmodo.com/5750864/is-this-ufo-caught-by-multiple-cameras-a-real-alien-spaceship

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Graphic Design: Painting Planes.

Damon Law — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:29:50 +0000

Here’s my entry into the Paint The Plane contest that Alaska Airlines and the Portland Timber are putting on.

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New music: Pangea Obscura (featuring Kevyn D. Hay)

Damon Law — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:44:52 +0000

An experiment in music, poetry, and theory.

Words © Kevyn D. Hay.

Recording & Music © theStark (Damon Law).