1 track (4 minutes) of bedroom pop. Mastered at Big Name.
N64 Tonal Inversions – Set 6
A short overview of this project can be found here.
GoldenEye 007 – Surface I
WWF No Mercy – Diggity Dog
BONUS – WWF No Mercy – Diggity Dog with Reversed Vocal Samples
Mission: Impossible – Embassy Function
Super Mario 64 – Hazy Maze Cave
Perfect Dark – dataDyne Research: Investigation
A short overview of this project can be found here.
More to come.
Liminal Veil
My 2014 release Bird Surgeon – Vanishings is a math rock album that was heavily influenced by screamo. Ever since putting that out, I’ve wanted to do the inverse and write some music that is primarily skramz but heavily influenced by math rock. This is that.
This EP was inspired by the corruption and ineptitude of the Trump administration, the smoke-filled-room political dealings that took down the Sanders campaigns in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, and the bungled pandemic response which has resulted in millions losing work while the billionaires continue to rake in unconscionable profits. Our representation in this country is bought by the mega wealthy and the big corporations to protect profits for shareholders above all else. This is an indictment – not only against the cartoonish evil of the Republican party leadership but also against the complicity of the Democrats in maintaining this system. It is a call to fight, to do what you can with what you have in order to make change to this broken system.
Available on cassette via Bandcamp – BNR2001
Evergreen Refuge – Of Spirit, Of Earth
Evergreen Refuge – Of Spirit, Of Earth
It was my pleasure to be asked to play drums for this track from Evergreen Refuge. Drums recorded at Big Name. Everything else recorded, mixed, and mastered by Evergreen Refuge.
N64 Tonal Inversions – Set 5
Planetary Scale
jonlervold.bandcamp.com/track/planetary-scale
This musical sketch utilizes Dave Tremblay’s The Planetary Scale, which takes the planets’ relative distances from the sun and converts them into (you guessed it) a scale.
0.00 ¢: Sun
11.77 ¢: Mercury
21.98 ¢: Venus
30.40 ¢: Earth
46.31 ¢: Mars
158.18 ¢: Jupiter
291.36 ¢: Saturn
583.34 ¢: Uranus
913.31 ¢: Neptune
1200.00 ¢: Pluto
Delmak-O – Cerulean Tomb
7 tracks (48 minutes) of sci-fi / dark synth. Mastered at Big Name.
N64 Tonal Inversions – Set 4
[syzygy] – [xendeavor one] Can This Even Be Called Music? Blurb
[syzygy] – [xendeavor one]
Once again, I present a [syzygy] album. Once again, it has an entirely different sound than anything that has come from the project before.
What ties [syzygy]’s albums together is an approach of minimalistic experimentation and a musical atmosphere of unease. In the case of [visitor], the experiment was to see what I could do with just my untuned piano and a fretless bass. In the case of [ouroboros], it was to see what could be done with only a mixing board plugged into itself. With [xendeavor one], the experiment was to delve headfirst into the world of microtonal* electronic music.
The vast majority of Western music uses the 12 equal divisions of the octave tuning system (12edo). These songs use 7 other possible EDOs (10, 11, 15, 19, 31, 37, and 85), an overtone scale, and an undertone scale.
The term “microtonal” tends to conjure expectations of extremely dissonant, noisy, and/or unstructured music for some people because a lot of music labeled “microtonal” fits those descriptions. But it doesn’t have to! There is plenty of melody and harmony available to utilize within these systems. And you get the bonus of unique intervals and chords that are impossible in 12edo.
Since I discovered microtonality a few years ago I have really wanted to make this album. I tried to start a couple of times and was never happy with my results but this time it all clicked. I am very excited to share this with the world.
* If after reading this you have no idea what I’m talking about here, see the “Microtonality” section of my Loiterer – Adrift writeup for some further explanation. Or check out the Wikipedia article.
Cassettes were made in the print shop and are available via Big Name Records and through the Bandcamp.