The Skunk!

LawrenceMinute0063: The Skunk!


Jeff sent me some of the recordation he got from his sweet new stungun microphone thing setup. In his words:

Anyway, this here audiorecorder thing that i got kicks such amazing serious ass that it's not even funny. [Censored (hehe!)], but everything else about it is amazing. Seriously. It has those two mics that sort of face off in an X formation, so you get true stereo sound. Last night I played my dad in ping-pong and stuck the mic on a chair right next to the net. Listening to that shit, you can totally tell where the ball is at any moment. It's awesome. not to mention the fact that it looks just like a fucking STUNGUN!!! Who could ask for more?

Seriously though brah, this thing could be just what you're looking for. It also hooks up to your computer via USB and works as an external sound card, didja know that? 2 phantom-powered mic inputs. Fucking crazy sick, this here thing. Seriously, the sound quality is just insane. Like... damn brah. It's a little lightweight, and I'm a bit afraid I'll destroy this thing in a month or two, but other than that it's pretty fucking awesome.

I've made this minute entirely from the aforementioned recording because it was simply the most funny and amazing thing i've heard this year. It's a saga of epic and oedipal proportions, a bitter struggle between youth and experience, a battle between father and son, a tragic story of love and despair.

So why is it called the skunk you ask? Jeff explains:

[We] commence a game of ping-pong during which I completely skunk my pops. like skunk him as in shut him out, beat him without him scoring a single point. good one for the record books.

Ya gotta admire the younguns moxy, eh?

Ack!

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After going through all that trouble and accomplishing nothing i figured i would post a new minute the old-fashioned way. This is something i've been working on the last couple of days in an effort to familiarize myself with Reason.

The Lost Minutes

Naively i have been uploading my minutes to ToidBoiglah. Unfortunately that site is hosted by Sleazefest McShitface and now those files are no longer accessible. I decided i would restore the lost minutes in their true glory and here they are. Now they're at GoogleSites so, if we may believe Jeff, they'll be there till the end of time.


Argh! What am i doing wrong!? I've been farting around with this forever and i give up. Fuck the minutes.

Locust Canasta! - LawrenceLocust

LawrenceMinute0061: Locust


This is the first Locust track. Jeff will add the Canasta to this. You know... give it that extra je-ne-sais-quoi if yer know what i means.

Locust Canasta! - Concept

Hereby i present to you our latest little project brewing in the darkest corner of the minute music laboratory, code name: "Locust Canasta!"

Concept: it's a easy as a pie! I make the 'locust' part of the track after which Jeff adds the 'canasta' and vice versa. All tracks will be posted separately and conjoined with its counterpart. If all goes well this will result in not one but two brand new locust canasta! minutes. Check it out.

Finally - The 2008 MinuteMusic Project!

Our minutes have finally been combined!

Lawrence & I have each been making minutes for the past 2 months or so, and each time one of us finished we would send the other one the last 3 to 5 seconds of our minute. The other would then build upon those 3 to 5 seconds to make a new minute. Tonight, we finally put them all together! This is the 2nd time we've done this - the first time was the experiment that began our whole minute music website.

(Click here to see the original minute music project post)

A lot of it is roundaboutly about this dude. Long story.


Anyway, I think it sounds pretty goddamn awesome, what do you think?

The Combined Minutes Pt. 2!

The 60th minute!

LawrenceMinute0060:


The cycle is complete. Here is my 60th minute made up of all its predecessors. All my minutes in one minute, damn. Every fragment is 1 second long. I took the first second from the first minute, the second one from the second minute etc. However i did smuggle some milliseconds left or right where i felt it would serve the flow of the collage. The inevitable question of course that is burning on your very tongue is: 'yeah, but what's the 60th and final second made up of?' That last second, my friends, is made up of all preceding seconds in the same fashion as the whole is built up out of all the preceding minutes. If you wonder what the 60th part of the last second consists of though... well... we'll just have to leave that to your imagination now won't we?

The Frontier

Sweet! I did it! I went the distance! Here are minute 58 and minute 59 (which is a lil' addendum to its predecessor.)

LawrenceMinute0058: The Frontier


LawrenceMinute0059: Addendum


So this is it guys! One of us has finally reached the frontier. The 60th minute; a minute for every second in a minute! I'm going to make the leap, the big one. Once one passes through this barrier one goes from being mere man to being a MinuteMan. I bet y'all are excited as i am, boy oh boy! Of course before you may wander into the dimensions beyond, you must prove yourself worthy of the title and fit to venture out on the journey into the unknown.

As it is written in this sentence that i'm typing right now, one can only transgress to the next level after passing the sacred minute test. This test puts forth the challenge of posting within a week 7 proper and true minutes that exemplify that you have truly understood and mastered the art of minute music making. Ideally one would post one minute everyday. Unfortunately i've been caught up in the wallpaper scraping game. Having posted 7 minutes within a week and thereby reaching the 59th minute i believe i'm ready nonetheless.

What comes now is kind of a right of passage and also a celebration of the art of minute making. I'm now going to mentally prepare myself for this final stage, the one that will make my transformation complete, by drinking 4 liters of banana milk and taking an ice bath. The procedure takes the utmost concentration and dedication. One slip-up may prove fatal. If i don't report back in a day or two it means i've failed the test and am now most likely dead or living in Luxembourg under the name Fransz von Schlagerau. Hopefully i will see you once again after i've arisen as a MinuteMan, Man of Minutes.

Professional wallpaper scraper

LawrenceMinute0057: Professional Wallpaper Scraper

Eskimo!

LawrenceMinute0056: Eskimo!

A minute, minute-style

I've noticed that the 'minutes' on this blog are getting longer and longer. Somewhere along the road we lost our minute music making ways. Corrupted by an evil and deceitful world, we chose to ignore our founding principles. Losing ourselves in endless musical statements that wither away in redundancy. The principles that made us what we are today we have forsaken. Being a man of tradition however i figured it was my task to restore in honor the proper musical minute. Yesterday there were two and here's yet another one.

LawrenceMinute0055: Triptonics

The Mysterious Johnny Hiatus

LawrenceMinute0053: Android Nightmare


LawrenceMinute0054: I Admire The Angle Of Your Dangle

ANNOUNCEMENT

The biggest uproar in minuteland since the fibonacci minutes! The thing people can't stop talking about! It's...

THE MEETING OF THE MINUTES
* part II *

PAM-PAM-PAM PAM PAM!

So Kojef and i have agreed to patch together a set of minutes like the one that started this blog. Now our first project was okay, this time however? This time we'll put Beethoven to shame! We'll make the Beatles redundant! John Coltrane will be reduced to a mere footnote in music history! Brace yourselves people, for something extraordinary is about to happen! Mwuhahahahahahahaha!!!

Okay, i'm going to take my medicine now. I was running out of exclamation marks anyway.

song idea

Just a late night idea. started it on the train coming home. Oh so tired. Must sleep now.
JeffMinute041: facebite

Another one

had the microphone and laptop all set up, so churned out another little fragment. Cheesy for sure, but i think it's kind of catchy indie-folkie a la super furry animals or gruff rhys or something. Anyway, that's tooting my own horn a bit too much, true keywords = repetitive, dumb, cheesy.

JKT040: Cheesy folk-pop

been a while

So I thought I would post something. Song of mine that i usually play with lightwires, thought I'd just lay down a quick acoustic version and stick it here. Not as original as the other minutes here, but oh well.

Lonely Nights:

Azo004

Another minute from Azo! Good stuff, eh? Kinda reminds me of Joy Division somehow in the way it projects its atmosphere..
AzoMinute004: Komodo

Yet another minute!

This one another gift from our good friend azo.. What a voice, eh?
Azominute003

Well look who's back

It's me. Here's a random minute. Happycheesystyle. Bassline came to me in the shower. Hissy laptop-mic'd guitar recorded in the morning before work. Oh, and how it brings the cheese!

JKT039: Jappycheesystyle

51 & 52

This week i've been haphazardly sampling odd bits and pieces from my music collection. Here's a little collage i made using some of that material.

LawrenceMinute0051: In Three Parts


And the following closing statement:

LawrenceMinute0052: Addendum

0050

LawrenceMinute0050: Yes-No-Public

0048 & 49

Tinkering with a Daniel Johnston sample. Also sampled a recording of a Laotian courtship song, Frans Bruggen, an old klezmer recording, Slayer and a recording of the Kalahari Bushmen. Most of it is done in Live. However i did use some loops that i made earlier in Reaktor. Posted this before but then i worked on it some more and came up with a new mix. Left the old version in case you would like to compare. Listen to the new shit first though.

LawrenceMinute0049:


And the preliminary version:

LawrenceMinute0048:

0047

LawrenceMinute0047:

0045 & 0046

LawrenceMinute0045:


LawrenceMinute0046:

Another Guest Minute!

From our good friend Azo, yet another minute to please the ears. He actually gave this to me quite a while ago, and I've been a bit of a bozo not posting it. Apologies, Azo. Here it is, world:

AzoMinute002: Coolish

Back from the Dead

Well, we were gone for a while. Now I'm back, at least briefly. Feel the need to make minutes. Here's a crappy one i knocked out.

JeffMinute037: A crying shame

A minute for the new year

Happy New Year everyone, we've been gone for a little while but it feels like it's about time to post once more. This minute's kinda cheesy and repetitive, but it's meant to say goodbye to the old year and hello to the new one. Or something like that.
JeffMinute036: HappyCheese

Osto on the biem

LawrenceMinute0044: bimp?

Bimp, bimp. Osto on the biem.