About the Album:
After finishing Som·Nam·Bu·List, my college and design schedules left me with little time for music production. As a result, I spent way more time listening to music than producing it for those few years. I discovered a lot of new favorite artists and styles, largely redefining my tastes, and eventually got back into writing and composing in 2008. In the early stages I chose to title the collection In·Som·Ni·Ac, acknowledging both the continuation of many themes from Som·Nam·Bu·List, as well as the transition to an almost exclusively graveyard-shift production schedule.
I produced twenty or so varyingly unfinished works over the course of the next year and a half, but ultimately lost them all in a sudden hard drive failure during a move. Most of the newest project files hadn’t been backed up, including many custom instruments, countless samples and irreplaceable live recordings. It’s been a RAID setup for me ever since.
Later in 2009, I started in on resurrecting the project. Some older saved versions of project files were workable, though I scrapped most of them. I’ve also spent more time on adopting new methods and techniques in general to get the album back on its feet faster. For now, here are some works in progress.
Cover Art:
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Insomniac cover art
The Music:
Following this paragraph is an alphabetized listing of mostly-completed tracks that make up the work-in-progress In·Som·Ni·Ac. This page makes use of HTML5′s multimedia embedding capabilities, and as such, each track should show its own player native to your browser, a Flash-based player, or a textual download link.
Jane’s Body Moving
President
ROWM
Sorrow
Additional Credits:
All original recordings done with free audio editor Audacity and an MXL 990 microphone. All audio was otherwise created, manipulated, and sequenced in ImageLine’s FL Studio 9. Retuning was handled with Celemony’s Melodyne. President is an interpretation of If I Were President, originally performed by Wyclef Jean. Vocals and acoustic guitar were recorded live. Jane’s Body Moving is a mash-up of Jefferson Starship’s Jane and The Beastie Boys’ Body Moving. Sorrow is an interpretation of Bad Religion’s song by the same name, and features live vocal recordings and a drum sample from Boxcar Racer’s There Is. ROWM is an original composition comprised of samples taken from John William’s score for (and dialogue from) the 20th Century Fox/LucasFilm classic, Star Wars.