Paddy's Brew

I grabbed an mp3 of Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew". Then I sliced it, diced it, stretched it, looped it, slathered some effects on it, eq'ed it, and rendered it; then I posted it here...

www.streamload.com/pstacey/electronic/PaddysBrew.mp3

hope you like it...

Long distance recording 20 years later

So twenty years later, I get an e-mail from my bandmate when I was in college. Yes , we're both still making music. We talk about the old band, the old songs, and decide to re-record a tune we wrote together back then...we exchange e-mails and mp3's and after a while, we had something... a record made long distance twenty years after the fact, amazing!

The tune's called "She's So Unpredictable"

special guest Mike Echols on bass

link below....enjoy!

www.streamload.com/pstacey/Solo/Unpredictable.mp3

Mash it up Right!

My brother asked me to make a "wacky mix" from the recordings of the Groove Thangs , the band we had together from '84-'91. All the kids are doing it these days...it's called a mash up.
We think it came out great. Imagine a 15 minute dance mix of all your fave GT tunes, only nuttier, and you've got the idea.

"Mash It Up Right" can be found at...

www.streamload.com/pstacey/GrooveThangs/MashItUpRight

Thanks for listening!

Gameboy Music!

I love retro, lo-fi electronic music...the blips from Ms. Pac Man make my heart sing! I found a company in Germany that makes an 8 track, fully editable, music sequencer/composer that's a cartridge for the Nintendo Gameboy!  www.nanoloop.com    

My first foray into this latest muse is called "nano2" and can be found here...

www.streamload.com/pstacey/electronic/nano2.mp3

I plan to perfrom "live" with my Gameboy sometime this year, check for updates here!

"When I press this little key, it makes a little melody!" Kraftwerk

Thanks for listening!

Homage to Ohm

Patrick Stacey's Homage to Ohm

This was an expiremental electronic improvisational performance piece that I put together in '04-05.

four live recordings and a promo movie clip are at...

http://www.streamload.com/pstacey/electronic/HomageToOhm

promo copy from project below...

For his most ambitious project in his 20+ year, wildly eclectic career, Patrick has constructed a one of a kind sound control station, painstakingly sampled the pioneers of early electronic music, and created an experimental audio abstraction unique in its history, form, and presentation - Homage to Ohm.

A project going into its second year, Patrick started by delving into the roots of his life long passion, electronic based sound, and came across a three disc compilation recently released by Ellipsis Arts entitled "OHM: the early gurus of electronic music". Using computer based digital signal processing technology, Patrick methodically extracted hundreds of sound bites from throughout the collection, loaded them into a performance based application from Ableton software called "Live", and slowly put together a piece that is all at once an improvisation, a tribute, a science, and an art.

Needing a bit more than his I-Mac laptop to execute his vision, Patrick enlisted the help of his father and designed and built a custom control desk to transport and present his medley of devices in a user friendly and efficient system that not only adds to the experience, but inspires it.

Patrick is currently promoting "Homage to Ohm" through live performance, the Internet and other media, and would be pleased to assist with any inquiry.

"Mush" a short film online

I've been looking into the history of the U.S. nuclear testing program lately and got inspired to make a short film, now posted online. It's called "Mush" and it includes footage from "Trinity and Beyond", a documentary on the subject I lifted off the TV, as well as sound bites from a lecture by Richard Feynman, a Nobel prize winning physicist who was one of the only direct eye witnesses to the first "Trinity" nuclear test.  Feynman's words come from  "Los Alamos From Below," a commemorative CD included with the book CLASSIC  FEYNMAN. More info?  The link is:
http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall05/006132.htm
There's also music from Kubrick's "2001". It's five minutes long.

Link below. Thanks for watching!

www.streamload.com/pstacey/MushMpegMovie/MUSHMOVIE.mpg