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Originally posted by Oneself
Nice work Derrick... do you do a lot of field recording for your sounds?
I always wanted to incorporate more field recordings into my music....
Yes, I use allot of different sound sources but definitely field recordings. I don't know if you clicked your way over to my soundcloud page but I post up allot of unedited field recordings and leave them for download in case people want to chop them up and make another composition. I just like listening to raw field recordings.
I have about six or seven new tracks that I will be putting up soon. My new stuff doesn't have as much field recordings. I have a sort of streamlined method now and use a couple of analog synths and two drum machines controlled by ableton. I sort of go through phases of doing things differently to keep my self productive. So I will probably come back to field recordings and found sounds when my current method gets tedious.
Your stuff is cool too. I sort of got into electronic music and art through jungle/drum and bass, house, hip hop, detroit techno, acid etc. I used to go to raves allot in the mid 90s and before I had a good computer (or a computer at all) my friends and I had a set of turntables and we would mix records for fun. I even used to dj every thursday when I was living in Chicago. I don't only listen to electronic music. I have always been into hip hop, punk, experimental music but jungle and aphex twin sort of brought me into djing and eventually making my own music. Actually I have been messing with traktor recently so I've been getting back into djing and every once and awhile someone asks me to dj for some event. I do more eclectic mixes now though I like mixing old and new stuff or sort of improvised remixing.
I saw you are following Soul Slinger. That guy was one of my favorites back in the day, all that liquid sky stuff. DJ Odi etc. I had piles of their mix tapes back when they were being passed around and dubbed on maxell cassettes, haha. Makes me feel old a bit, but not too old, haha. I still love all that stuff and wish I still had those tapes. I still have some vinyl from back then though.
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I haven't had a chance to join up with the Plein Air Artists of Hawaii Island, but thought I would post this website for anyone who might want to make art outside:
http://www.lesliesearsart.com/calendar-p...tions.html
The East Side group meets at a different site around Hilo every Thursday. There is also a group on the other side of the island.
This is a blurb about the group that meets at Ahalanui:
AHALANUI WARM PONDS/ART DAY- Every Friday at 9 am. for 15 yrs. now, painters, friends, & artists gather for a day of painting & aloha. Ahalanui Warm Ponds just off the Red Road in Kalapana, between Pohoiki & Kapoho.
In both groups, people come and go as they wish. You can stay the whole day or just for an hour - up to you.
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Nice links, everyone! I know Leslie Sears personally (who organizes the plein air group). You couldn't meet a lovelier person. Also loved seeing the art links, everyone. Some great stuff there!
Oneself, to answer the question about publishing on kindle: What can I say? It's a process. I'm a graphic designer by trade, so what I did was I laid out my print version and first published that through createspace (amazon's POD division). Normally, if you do this, you'll automatically get a kindle version. But I didn't want what they would put together, esp. bc this particular book is footnote heavy and has illustrations throughout, and I'd heard stories about how it would get screwed up. So I had a tough learning curve there. Ultimately, I used a combination of Microsoft Word, Calibre, and Kindle Previewer apps. I have instruct's if you're interested. Otherwise, if all you have is text and a nice cover, amazon walks you through it rather nicely and all you need is a Word file for the interior, and a .jpg for the cover. As copies sell, you get royalties by direct deposit.
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Originally posted by Derrick Barnicoat
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Originally posted by Oneself
Nice work Derrick... do you do a lot of field recording for your sounds?
I always wanted to incorporate more field recordings into my music....
Yes, I use allot of different sound sources but definitely field recordings. I don't know if you clicked your way over to my soundcloud page but I post up allot of unedited field recordings and leave them for download in case people want to chop them up and make another composition. I just like listening to raw field recordings.
I have about six or seven new tracks that I will be putting up soon. My new stuff doesn't have as much field recordings. I have a sort of streamlined method now and use a couple of analog synths and two drum machines controlled by ableton. I sort of go through phases of doing things differently to keep my self productive. So I will probably come back to field recordings and found sounds when my current method gets tedious.
Your stuff is cool too. I sort of got into electronic music and art through jungle/drum and bass, house, hip hop, detroit techno, acid etc. I used to go to raves allot in the mid 90s and before I had a good computer (or a computer at all) my friends and I had a set of turntables and we would mix records for fun. I even used to dj every thursday when I was living in Chicago. I don't only listen to electronic music. I have always been into hip hop, punk, experimental music but jungle and aphex twin sort of brought me into djing and eventually making my own music. Actually I have been messing with traktor recently so I've been getting back into djing and every once and awhile someone asks me to dj for some event. I do more eclectic mixes now though I like mixing old and new stuff or sort of improvised remixing.
I saw you are following Soul Slinger. That guy was one of my favorites back in the day, all that liquid sky stuff. DJ Odi etc. I had piles of their mix tapes back when they were being passed around and dubbed on maxell cassettes, haha. Makes me feel old a bit, but not too old, haha. I still love all that stuff and wish I still had those tapes. I still have some vinyl from back then though.
Yea man !
I DJ'd for over a decade from 97-2010.. Soulslinger is a friend, i was introduced to him from my best friend Meszenjah who was with Jungle Sky Liquid Sky for a while and designed some stuff for them.
I'm sure we will connect when I get to the island...
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Originally posted by DTisme
Nice links, everyone! I know Leslie Sears personally (who organizes the plein air group). You couldn't meet a lovelier person. Also loved seeing the art links, everyone. Some great stuff there!
Oneself, to answer the question about publishing on kindle: What can I say? It's a process. I'm a graphic designer by trade, so what I did was I laid out my print version and first published that through createspace (amazon's POD division). Normally, if you do this, you'll automatically get a kindle version. But I didn't want what they would put together, esp. bc this particular book is footnote heavy and has illustrations throughout, and I'd heard stories about how it would get screwed up. So I had a tough learning curve there. Ultimately, I used a combination of Microsoft Word, Calibre, and Kindle Previewer apps. I have instruct's if you're interested. Otherwise, if all you have is text and a nice cover, amazon walks you through it rather nicely and all you need is a Word file for the interior, and a .jpg for the cover. As copies sell, you get royalties by direct deposit.
Has it been at all profitable for you ?
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Has it been at all profitable for you ?
Seeing as how it cost me like $10 for the ISBN and that's IT, yes. Then again, if you divide the royalties on a few hundred books sold by the thousands of hours it took to write, I made like 4-cents an hour.
The Kindle version, of course, was free. That's all gravy.
Course it'd be MORE profitable if you'd buy a copy! ha!
Well, we do this for love <3 and... sometimes 4 cents an hour 
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Originally posted by Oneself
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Originally posted by Derrick Barnicoat
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Originally posted by Oneself
Nice work Derrick... do you do a lot of field recording for your sounds?
I always wanted to incorporate more field recordings into my music....
Yes, I use allot of different sound sources but definitely field recordings. I don't know if you clicked your way over to my soundcloud page but I post up allot of unedited field recordings and leave them for download in case people want to chop them up and make another composition. I just like listening to raw field recordings.
I have about six or seven new tracks that I will be putting up soon. My new stuff doesn't have as much field recordings. I have a sort of streamlined method now and use a couple of analog synths and two drum machines controlled by ableton. I sort of go through phases of doing things differently to keep my self productive. So I will probably come back to field recordings and found sounds when my current method gets tedious.
Your stuff is cool too. I sort of got into electronic music and art through jungle/drum and bass, house, hip hop, detroit techno, acid etc. I used to go to raves allot in the mid 90s and before I had a good computer (or a computer at all) my friends and I had a set of turntables and we would mix records for fun. I even used to dj every thursday when I was living in Chicago. I don't only listen to electronic music. I have always been into hip hop, punk, experimental music but jungle and aphex twin sort of brought me into djing and eventually making my own music. Actually I have been messing with traktor recently so I've been getting back into djing and every once and awhile someone asks me to dj for some event. I do more eclectic mixes now though I like mixing old and new stuff or sort of improvised remixing.
I saw you are following Soul Slinger. That guy was one of my favorites back in the day, all that liquid sky stuff. DJ Odi etc. I had piles of their mix tapes back when they were being passed around and dubbed on maxell cassettes, haha. Makes me feel old a bit, but not too old, haha. I still love all that stuff and wish I still had those tapes. I still have some vinyl from back then though.
Yea man !
I DJ'd for over a decade from 97-2010.. Soulslinger is a friend, i was introduced to him from my best friend Meszenjah who was with Jungle Sky Liquid Sky for a while and designed some stuff for them.
I'm sure we will connect when I get to the island...
Hey, I got a JBL P.A. and a big backyard.Only one neighbor who is around all year. It's not a huge sound system, probably needs a sub woofer, but it sounds pretty good, just saying….
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