Freesound

Freesound Scores Avant-Garde Shorts

2009-11-03T01:10:00.015-06:00

Faulconer Gallery from 7-10 p.m., Friday, November 6th.

In collaboration with the Grinnell College Cultural Film series we be performing live musical compositions to accompany shorts projected onto a big screen in an art gallery.

shorts will be performed in chronological order:

Scott coffin, Tyler D Banas- Anabelle butterfly dance/serpentine dance (1894)
Brian Cavanagh-Strong, Adam Thein, and Randy Brush- Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913)
Adam Thein- Rhythmus 21 (1921)
Michael Blankenship, Nicole Bridgland- Le Retour A La Raison (1923)
Drum Collective (names will be listed in program)- Ballet Mecanique (1924)
Adam Thein- Anémic Cinéma (1926)
Mike Kober- Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexican Footage (1931)
Michael Blankenship, Nicole Bridgland- The Hearts of Age (1934)
John Rassenfoss- A study in choreography for camera (1945)
Brian Cavanagh-Strong- Le Vampire (1945)
Randy Brush and Mark Root-Wiley- Rabbit’s Moon (1950)
Eliyah Afzhal, Alan Driggs, Sam Peterson, Shaurya Rajbhandari- Kustom Kar Kommandos- 1965
Tucker Bush and Chris Davis- Dirty (1965-67)
Pooj Padmabaj, Clint Williamson, Vadim Fainberg- Dresden Dynamo (1971)
Mike Kober Maia Pilot, and Sadish Dhakal – Broadwalk (1972)

Jazz trio, percussion duo, and classical compositions, in addition to freesound bands.

Pisfits on Halloween Night

2009-10-30T22:24:00.004-05:00

Saturday Night 10/31

Halloween

9 p.m. @ Loose Lounge

come out in costume!

the pisfits will be trick or treating you to misfits covers. Perfect way to spend time before Harris.

FREESOUND's NEWLY ORDERED PAPAYA

2009-09-24T12:49:00.005-05:00

saturday 9/26 in bob's
pie contest @ 8:45
bands @ 9

in collaboration w/ the New Order Dance Party

fun games, records, PIE CONTEST... good luck matching the papaya pie

Alas Alas, jersey freeze and opiate in one interactive team experience!

School Days Like Sea Waves (Freesound Digital EP Spring 2009)

2009-08-21T00:36:00.007-05:00

School Days Like Sea Waves (Freesound Digital EP Spring 2009)

WPMX + OPIATE + FESTIVAL

2009-04-18T08:47:00.008-05:00

4/18 @ WOLF HOUSE: WPMX and OPIATE!!!

ACOUSTIC @ BOB's 4/22
Allie Joelle

Kevin Plattner
Everyone Whistling/Chris Peconga
Ethan Kenvarg
TRIANGLE

ROCK @ Gardner 4/24
Dick Cactus and the Woo Woo Sisters
Maxx/ Max Farrell
The Name of This Band Is Not Talking Heads
WxPXmX
Opiate

New Song from the Jersey Freeze

2009-01-06T03:38:00.004-06:00

Hey Guys:

so i am leaving for India tomorrow but I managed to piece a new song together (even though all my music equipment is somewhere in Iowa).

its called springtime celebration

download it here:

zshare download link

-Jersey Freeze

Folksound is the real sound

2009-01-04T02:11:00.006-06:00

Anyone remember the folksound comp from 2008?

well here it is, finally up for download in mp3 format

Dl here in zip format

K Plattner- A Man Who Himself Was LP

2008-12-26T22:15:00.008-06:00

this is truly majestic so check it out

DL: K Plattner- A Man Who Himself Was LP- zshare

Honor G Performs @ Cleveland Lozzia

2008-12-01T19:22:00.003-06:00

Honor G performs "The Workday" live at their album release party last spring.

Kiri documents the festival (day 3)

2008-11-29T16:09:00.005-06:00

Nahboo Live Set

2008-11-28T18:08:00.006-06:00

Nahboo's first live set ever. It ruled. You can hear it here:
mediafire dl link

Rasco and the Rats of NIMH Live

2008-11-28T18:03:00.008-06:00

"I Don't Want To" was recorded live at the Music Still Hates You Festival.
Check it out, here:

z-share dl link

New Triangle

2008-11-23T16:32:00.003-06:00

Randy Brush gets a special new triangle for the performance this Tuesday (nov. 25) in Bob's Underground.

Thats what the word around this town is.

Slaughterhouse 6 Live Vids

2008-11-16T16:02:00.002-06:00

~~Slaughterhouse 6 is headlining the first punk show on this friday (the 21st)!!!!~~

JUST KIDDING

Jersey Freeze Gets Some Reviews

2008-11-15T22:21:00.006-06:00

Where I named my band after

(my cousin grew up in Freehold)

I'll post up some new songs I've been working on soon.

We like orange

2008-11-15T18:42:00.002-06:00

Last night was a great way to start the festival. Here are 2 more posters.

Oh god this is so embarrassing

2008-11-15T14:16:00.003-06:00

The Grinnell College newspaper just published an article about our on-going music festival featuring a really tawdry interview of myself, a couple of Freesound guys and my roommate, who just happened to be eating lunch with us. Note: I so do not say "tees"! >: (

Local, midwestern bands to rock campus

by Charles Netzer

With the addition of a new practice space and some extra funds, Freesound, the campus bands collective, has never been stronger. It's set to prove just how much stronger it is with four concerts (in which 22 bands are set to play) over two and a half weeks, starting tonight in Gardner.

The "Music Still Hates You" festival will incorporate a number of musical genres into the larger concert scheme. The festival will kick off with a primarily dance and hip-hop-oriented concert tonight featuring the campus bands All the Romeos, Maxx, Honor G, The Jersey Freeze, as well as a guest DJ From Kansas City, TACTIC.

"The party's going to be workday style," said Chris Farstad '09, one of the leaders of Freesound, referencing the all-night dance party last spring in Gardner. "It's going to be off several chains at once." The workday style party hypothetically runs from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., hence the name.

"Seriously, don't come if you're lazy," Farstad warned. "DJs K, No-Face and Fancy Mike will spin into the wee hours."

The festival pauses until the next Friday, and then kicks into high gear. The punk show on Nov 21 begins with a handout of posters and t-shirts in Quad for those who get to the show early.

"We had alumni David Barnett ['08], Mac Pohanka ['08], and Carson Smith ['08] from the Brooklyn Company Tingle Fingers make show posters and tees," said Soleil Ho '09, another Freesound leader and member.

"There'll be food too," Farstad added.

The music itself begins at 9 p.m. in Quad. Cover band Fabio & The Gods of Romance start things off, and then punk outfits The Schmohawks, Unknown Assailant, and Rasco & The Rats of Nimh hit the stage. Local ska band Slaughterhouse Six will then finish the show off. "We call the show 'The Co-Optation of Counter Culture,'" Ho said.

The sweaty masses can take a break until the following night, although Farstad admitted that the festival doesn't technically end. "People gotta sleep," he said. "But you can stay."

Headlining the next night's concert, which will again be in the Quad, and will again have food, is Caustic Vision, a local hardcore outfit. College headbangers Opiate open, followed by punks Nahboo, Pigs for Miles, and White People Music before Caustic Vision begins their set.

The whole festival winds down on Tuesday in Bob's with an acoustic show featuring K Plattner, Nobody's Hippie and Friends, Allie Joelle, JTweeChasez, and Triangle. After the previous weekend's music overload, the group has decided to dub this show "Gently Caressing Like a Lamb".

"This festival has been several weeks in the making," Ho said. "All the same, we still need volunteers to help make sure things go smoothly."

Students were impressed at the scope of the event and looked forward to attending. "I'm so excited," said Claire Comstock-Gay '09, "this is going to be the best Grinnell show of all time!"

Music Still Hates You Schedule

2008-11-12T20:15:00.001-06:00

november freesound festival info:

The (Music Still Hates You) Festival:

Day 1: Friday, November 14th
Location: Gardner Lounge
Genre: Dance/ Pop/Hip Hop
Name: Winter Is Coming
Starts: 9 p.m.
Ends: (Workday style- whenever you stop moving)

Late night nachos and cheese!

All the Romeos
Maxx
Honor G
The Jersey Freeze
w/ special guest: TACTIC (dj duo from Kansas City)
Late night sets from DJs: K, No Face, Fancy Mike

Day 2 and 3 Friday November 21st, Saturday November 22nd
Location: Quad
Genre: Punk
Name: Co-optation of the counter culture
Punk show starts: ~9 p.m.
Pre-show starts: 8 p.m.

Friday:

Pre-show Feature: Fabio and the Gods of Romance
We will be giving out free show posters and t-shirts by Tinglefingers Design at the pre-show only! We will also be serving food(falafel and Cupzzas).

Rasco and the Rats of NIMH
The Schmohawks
The Unknown Assailants
w/ special guest Slaughterhouse 6 (ska)

Saturday Lineup:

Pre-show Feature: Opiate
We will be giving out free show posters and t-shirts by Tinglefingers design at the pre-show only! We will also be serving food (tortilla bar).

Punk Show:
White People Music (wxpxmx)
Pigs for Miles
Nahboo
w/ special guest Caustic Vision (hardcore)

Day 3: Nov. 25
Genre: Acoustic
Location: Bob's Underground
Starts: 9 p.m.
Name: Gently Caressing Like a Lamb

K Plattner
Nobody's Hippie and Friends
Allie Joelle
JTweeChasez
Triangle

Music Still Hates You

2008-11-07T23:36:00.004-06:00

Punk Show poster!

Ben Schrager- Live at Bob's LP

2008-11-05T19:00:00.009-06:00

"Co-optation of the Counterculture" will make you laugh, cry, and sway like you're more bad-ass than Claire Comstock-Gay

Recorded by Emily Iwuc in '07.

Ben Schrager- Live at Bob's LP-zshare

Interview: Opiate

2008-11-04T19:14:00.001-06:00

Opiate is: Shaurya Rajbhandari ‘11, Eliyah Afzal ‘11, Sam Peterson ‘11 and Alan Driggs ‘11.

Sam Peterson: I guess we're all here. I'm Sam Peterson, and I play lead guitar and rhythm guitar, possibly metal vocals
Alan Driggs: I'm Alan Driggs, and I play lead bass
Eliyah Afzal: I'm Eliyah Afzal. I mostly play guitar and vocals
Shaurya Rajbhandari: I'm Shaurya, I play the drums.
SP: And we're all in the class of 2011.
EA: And we major in metal.
EA: One of the main reasons I'm awesome is because I was chosen to be awesome. When I was about 14 or 15, I was on top of a large mountain. And as I stood and gazed at the foggy skies, they blackened, and a light rain fell. And I heard the voice of one of the mighty gods, and it said: "You must play metal."
SP: I have far more mundane reasons for being awesome. My dad and I listened to a lot of Rush and a lot of Metallica when I was a kid. That kind of sets a precedent, so for the rest of your life you have to play awesome music.
SR: Well, what would you rather do?
EA: Do I just want to be a student? Or take dance classes or whatever everyone else does?
SR: Guys, it's a self-preservation thing.
AD: I spend most of my time watching live videos of bands. I see videos of Metallica and other bands and I say, "I wanna do that, I wanna do that well." But I want to do that in my own way.
SP: But there's still a lot of hero worship involved.
AD: Oh god, yes!
SP: We just have to sacrifice our goats to Alexi Laiho.
AD: Eliyah wouldn't wear his guitar so low if he hadn't watched pretty much every metal video.
EA: Basically, that's what I aspire to be. I aspire to be like Skwisgaar, from Metalocalypse. It's like seeking perfection. Like, you can't be so Christian that you're actually Jesus. You can't actually play good enough to be Skwisgaar, but you're supposed to try. That's our mission, and I feel like I've been charged by the gods and that's what I have to do. Are you gonna just refute your own destiny? Work against your soul? You can't really do that.
SP: Question: which gods? The Olympic ones, or the Norse ones?
EA: I don't know, it just sounded really powerful.
SP: Let's go with the Norse ones.
EA: I don't know about those other Grinnell bands. Maybe they can be really good, or maybe they can solo really fast, but they don't have distortion! ‘Cause remember, there’s that Who song, 'Pure and Easy': There once was a note, pure and easy/and it was distorted to create the world./We're living in the static of god's eternal note.
SP: Is that what they say in the song?
AD: That is an awesome song.
EA: Oh yeah, we've now come up with a name!
SR: We’re Opiate now.
EA: Because we are addictive.
SP: You see, religion is the opiate of the masses. But we are the religion of the masses. No, religion is the opiate-- basically, the end of the story is that we are the religion of the masses. Our masses. Something like that.

Interview: Robin Dugas

2008-11-04T18:00:00.002-06:00

DJing is really more of a science than an art. Well, I mean, it’s both. But it’s really just drunk psychology, or the psychology of drunk people. What I’m trying to do basically is more about creating an atmosphere than it is just putting together whatever songs … I don’t know, people have two really basic approaches to it: what I’ve seen is you either have your set planned out or you just go on the fly.

I usually try to go on the fly because when I try to plan a set it never works out. You can never predict what the audience wants, what the party wants. I'm not above pleasing the crowd just for the sake of pleasing the crowd, though within the limits of respectability, of course. All I want is for them to stay there, personally! I don’t want them to leave! What works in your room during practice may clear the floor, so you never know for sure what’ll work.

What I try to do when I spin is stop people from having conversations and standing around with cups and get them dancing. You're not supposed to be thinking right now, you're supposed to be dancing! That's why you're at a dance party! As a partier myself, I just want to forget for a while, you know, just be present … oh wait, that’s a contradiction. I mean, just forget about what the hell’s going on with school, whatever, you know, that’s why people do it. Just rock out, basically.

It’s really awesome to have all your friends at parties while you’re spinning; they’re very supportive. For one, they don’t throw bottles at you when you mess up, which is really nice. I’ve never had that happen before, but I could imagine it. But really, the worst that could happen to you is they leave.

But I do have a trick that I use, and swear by: I have all my songs arranged by key. Changing keys at the right time is crucial to having a good set, and I also use it to avoid key clashes. When I first started I didn't know how much that mattered and I wound up with some pretty lousy mixes.

I’m not sure about what’s next for me. I may be playing at the same show with Tactic in the future, that’s on November 14th. And … well, I don’t know! I don’t really have the money to throw parties so I’ll show up at whatever party people want me at, as long as it doesn’t suck and they’re not trying to turn the lights on and play beer pong in the middle of the floor. I would do Harris, a crowd that large would be a challenge. I’m not afraid of selling out. That is fine by me.

Photo provided by Kath Barbadoro '10.

The Freesound Interview Series!

2008-11-03T19:15:00.000-06:00

Hey internet dudes and dudettes! This is Vy from White People Music, and I'm embarking on a mission to find and ~~eliminate~~ interview all of the bands and musicians on the Grinnell College campus.

If you've ever wondered what these fine people are like off-stage, or if people who make music even exist here, these interviews are the answer. Hopefully they'll inspire you to make your own music, attend some of their shows or even just be a creep and stalk them on Facebook. We'd appreciate it <3