Author: jjdeprisco
Sonic explorer, sound artist, guitarist in Fricknadorable, software designer.
UPDATED 1/27/12 – Getting an Akai LPD8 to work with Propellerhead Reason is a challenge to say the least. Earlier, I reported issues with the MIDI implementation chart (Reason compared to LPD8). I am posting the results of my work to help others who may have the found the same ...
How the idea started… After being a closet electro musician and experimentalist for many years, and after attending electro-music festivals in 2010 and 2011, I decided it was time to find somewhere locally to further explore this side of my creativity. Turning to the Interwebs, I found what I ...
This was composed this evening, 1/13/12. All sound sources except the bass drum were created from objects in my desk (see picture). The objects included: – Arabic bowl from Ebay – Small allen wrench from my bass guitar (used to strike the bowl) – Rubber band type cable tie – Velcro cable tie – ...
Dog Assassin: The Musical debuts March 2012 Book & Lyrics by Stephen Schrum Music by Jeremy dePrisco In this post-progressive rock musical, a young grocery bagger makes extra cash on the side – but when he meets a young woman, his world turns upside down. A tale of spiritual redemption and love. ...
Robert Dorschel is one of the many friends that I made at Electro-music 2010, a festival dedicated to electronic music. Ironically, while most of the festival was electrified, it was during the acoustic jams that we really got to talking. Robert brought his melodica and Zen drum, which added some ...
Matt and I met while attending classes at PSU Hazleton. He was working on his BA right out of high school. I was there in a two-year Associate program for business, after taking a year off from high school to work. I was still very much exploring the completely acoustic, ...
This was a very good year for music. So much so that listening to all this stuff is sometimes a major distraction when trying to focus on one’s own work as an artist. Still, it’s good to know that there is such a variety of good stuff out there, both ...
Besides being built like trucks, ElectroHarmonix (EHX) pedals just sound great. They have the perfect combination of quality single purpose and multi-purpose built into each of their pedals, so no single pedal is a one trick pony. My current arsenal for electro performance and recording includes: One of the things ...
Going all the way back to my first musical experiences, I was always interested in synths, drums machines, etc, but never took time to really dive into that world too far because I couldn’t produce the music live without a large band. Other musicians were not really interested in the ...
“Forget your records and your CDs. Don’t need cassettes or MP3s…” – From the song “8-Track Underground” on my album Cadillacs & Tarantulas. My father recently unearthed two 8-track tapes of his mom, Frances dePrisco, singing some old gospel tunes. Recorded in her living room in 1979, these tapes (which ...
1 Reason RPG8 Experiment – “Hermano” 2 Thorgan (transition) 3 Record Player 4 Somethin Funny (with samples from recovered 2006-07 Minidisc recordings) 5 Ghost Adventures – Are You A Witch? 6 Ghost Adventures – Play With Ya 7 Ghost Adventures – Bass Tuning Weirdness 8 “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe (using material from LibraVox.org) 9 Vampire ...
Don’t have Flash? Use this link: http://soundcloud.com/shivasongster/sets/electro-drafts ...