Ask me anything (except that)
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We finished shooting it in December 2011.
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That's a question I encourage you to ask Ethan Chancer. Spam him. Terrorize him. You have my permission.
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Thanks! I didn't go to school, so it's hard for me to give any specific advice in that arena, but in general, I'd say that you need to work your ass off to find your unique artistic voice. When your skill level matches your work ethic, then you're only limited by your own creativity.
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When I got my first set of medical bills post cancer.
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It's a three way tie between food, sex and art.
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I don't have any piercings. I'm not curious about them because I've been around them my whole life and there's not any particular air of mystery about them. I'm actually the only person I know who doesn't have any piercings or tattoos.
As an aside, I think it's wholly ironic that subcultures that purport to defy conformity are the only social groups that have clearly defined physical and intellectual boundaries. -
I'm not entirely sure I understand your question. Clearly, truth is a subjective matter. The definition of truth also varies tremendously depending on what manner of truth you're discussing. The subjectivity of it is greater in regard to emotional truth. Scientific truth is founded upon the principles of adjusting its meaning based on what is observed, so truth is essentially a perpetually evolving entity. Even the things you can claim as objective truths--what time you woke up--the cost of a gallon of gas at a specific gas station at a specific time--are subject to discrepancy at the quantum level. There are even theories suggesting that our entire universe is a holographic projection of another, which would mean that everything we perceive as true would be, in fact, false. So, I guess that's my answer. Unless I've totally misunderstood what you meant by "face(s)."
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Thanks. I hope this doesn't burst your bubble, but the vocals on my album are tuned. I'm sure you're referring to music in which hard tuning is used as an effect, but nonetheless, if you've heard any music with vocals in it produced in the past 10 years, I can almost guarantee that the vocals have been tuned.
Autotune is sort of a misnomer, because unless you're using it as a bandaid (which most people do during the production process), it's anything but automatic. Melodyne is usually the first step in the process, and that's a tuning plugin which is painstaking but offers a tremendous degree of control over both pitch and inflection, leaving you with a tuned audio file that sounds organic. The problem is that our ears have become so adjusted to hearing painstakingly processed vocals that anything but perfect pitch sounds wholly off-key now. As a result, vocals that have been tuned with Melodyne are then tuned again with Autotune, which is actually quite irritating in its function and involves drawling lines on a counter-intuitive graphic editor to pin formants to a certain pitch for a prescribed duration. That's how it's done if you want vocals to be tuned but not sound tuned.
In any case, I really don't mind when tuning is used as an effect, because the voice is, after-all, an instrument, and people are free to push sonic boundaries in any which way they like. Every time I hear people crusade against Autotune, it reminds me of how silly it seems now that people didn't know what to think of electric guitars at first, and that around the time that Robert Moog was pioneering the first practical synths, artists were releasing albums with disclaimers on them reading "no synthesizers were used on this recording." It's just silliness and fear of change. The people who adapt to new technologies and use them to better their art are the ones who will ultimately pave the way for a new generation to do the same. Fear of change is what keeps people bound to the past.
I think vocals with heavy tuning have an unfortunate association with very corporate, middle-of-the-road pop music, and it leads to the assumption that pop stars can't sing, which is, for the most part, complete bullshit. In order to make it to the radio in the current climate of a dying music industry struggling to maintain uniformity in order to keep from relinquishing their grasp on what's sellable, the product (music) has to be reflective of current trends. It's just a production choice. If you want to be on the radio and get paid as a top 40 artist, you have to construct within the bounds of what can be sold. It's become the sort of thing where music sung by great singers and left untuned just sounds out of tune compared to the product to which listeners have become accustomed. Tuning has just become part of the framework of modern production. Much like a fashion magazine will not come out if the cover model has a zit on their forehead. It's expected that they'll use Photoshop to remove it, and we shouldn't be expected to care. It's their right.
There's a whole other battle that musicians are fighting right now pertaining to the overall loudness of their finished masters which I think IS, in fact, detrimental to the state of music as a whole, and it's something that listeners are generally unaware of. -
Vespertine means "of, occurring during, or pertaining to darkness." It's a term applied to things that are nocturnal. That's why I chose it to represent me. It's the most accurate adjective available to describe me. I love Björk, but her album (it's an album, not a song) had nothing to do with my thought process when choosing a pseudonym for my music.
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Today is a good day for me too, finally. .__.
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Thanks muchly! There are a number of reasons why it could potentially sound different from other remixes, though I assume that's all subjective. I did my production before there was even a final track, based on the vocals that Kerli recorded for it in my bedroom, which was before she did the final vocals at her own house. There's a possibility that they have a different tonality to them, or that everybody else may have been working from a single vocal stem instead of from all the individual vocal tracks. I did my version with a series of minor chord progressions instead of the major progression of the final song, which also serves to give the vocals a different quality. Also, I sped it up quite a bit.
Or maybe--just maybe--it sucks and all the other remixes are great? Just throwing that out there as a possibility. -
You can send it to vespertinefanart@gmail.com, or just send it directly to my facebook. =)
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Well, duh. That's obviously the best kind of art. =p
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Don't know, don't care. I'm not a gossip portal for information about Kerli.
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