ambient guitar - Chris Bocast - News http://chrisbocast.com/news.html Chris Bocast: News Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:28:08 -0800 Gigging with Lissa http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#120 Spent some time on stage and up in the hills with Lissa Hanner, performed some of the tunes of Mother's Fault. Finished some guitar for the MVS project and got some of the SMG polished as well. Back in Wisconsin soon...

]]> http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#120 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800 ambient guitar - Chris Bocast - News Progress http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#119 Quite pleased to have finished the People of the Sturgeon audiobook project, and the publisher is very excited about it. Expect a release in the fall of 2012. Meanwhile, I'm about two-thirds through with the reworking of the SMG album, and am slowly working on the songs for the collaboration with Michael Ver Steegt. Taking some time in Colorado to get caught up and try out some different DAW approaches as I'm fed up with Pro Tools...

]]> http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#119 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800 ambient guitar - Chris Bocast - News Grinding it out... http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#118 Hmmm... I find myself mixing audio sometimes 12 hours a day right now, and still can't find time to finish my own albums! The downside of producing for a living but it's something I can handle for now... I have made some progress with the next album, and I'm thinking of some novel and arty way to release it. I did get the King Crimson re-release of Discipline which has a DVD of 24-96 mixes and a rough mix by Rhett Davies as well. Perhaps I'll do something in this manner.


I'll take suggestions as well...

]]> http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#118 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 ambient guitar - Chris Bocast - News Ringtones http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#117 I have found that several tracks off my last few albums make unusual and pleasing ringtones. You can make them yourself for iPhones in Garage Band - just drag a track off the CD you purchased (!) into Garage Band's ringtone template and then export them into iTunes. I like to make them for the maximum 40 seconds, and it sure beats Crickets. Some of my favorites:


Intake, Quantum Entanglement, Miskatonic, Amarna, Stabat Mater (off SMG)


I'm still fussing with some SMG material but the delays are all work-related. I have 1000 things to produce and no clones to help me...

]]> http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#117 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700 ambient guitar - Chris Bocast - News Back from Cornell http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#116 OK - Did an intensive sound analysis workshop at Cornell and contributed my first scientific recording to the Macauley Library. I will now be happily getting back to finishing the small issues I had with the Shining release and try to get that out before Christmas (why does everything take so long?)

]]> http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#116 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 ambient guitar - Chris Bocast - News New music! http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#115 As a celebration and a reward to my patient fans, for a short time I am adding a free download of a brand new piece by Debussy, performed by Emily Blessing and myself, that will be featured on the upcoming album, Deep. It was recorded this August at Morphy Hall at UW-Madison. Let me know how you like it!

]]> http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#115 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 ambient guitar - Chris Bocast - News Passed my qualifying exams! http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#114 Apologize for the lack of activity, but the demands of my acoustic ecology study consumed this past month. Happily I passed my exams at the Nelson Institute with flying colors, and to celebrate this I will be posting a free high quality download of one of my assignments tomorrow. Stay tuned!

]]> http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#114 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 ambient guitar - Chris Bocast - News (almost) too busy for words http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#113 A few things accomplished! The Graminy project went very well - the musicians played superbly, the music came out well, and it fits wonderfully with the People of the Sturgeon audiobook. That project is coming along slowly but surely, and the word back from the publishers on the initial chapters is: "Fabulous!"


Got the master of Shining back from Jim Wilson, who I was able to spend some time with out in Colorado last month. He did the usual swell job, but I have a few more things I'll need to touch up before it goes out... sigh...


I have the qualifying exams for my doctorate going on right now - a lot of writing but also some recording! I'll give more details after the 18th.


Hope you're having a great summer!

]]> http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#113 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700 ambient guitar - Chris Bocast - News New article in InCommon http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#112 Quite good article has come out in the Spring 2011 issue of the Nelson's Institute's InCommon magazine. Here's the first page:


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You can get the whole pdf at this link (the article is on pgs. 22-25):


http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/community/in-common.php


 


Also producing a recording for Graminy as well as going full bore on a major audiobook project. Very busy!

]]> http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#112 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700 ambient guitar - Chris Bocast - News June news http://chrisbocast.com/news.html#111 Finished up the Debussy run with Emily - good fun! Working on MVS material, and will be producing a group from Madison called Graminy next month as well. Looks like Jim Wilson will be mastering the next release once again, the long-threatened Shining Mountains collection will finally get a proper presentation.


 


Oh, and I bought a new bass for the MVS pieces!

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