republishing inri049

rabit is wolf arose accidentally from the cynicide project (inri048), but produced far more material in the end. what happened was sean and i showed up to a few jam sessions and the guitarist (jon - it was his band) didn't, so we started writing some material without him...

initially, the intent was to include rather than exclude jon but he quickly developed a disinterest due to a variety of obvious if never fully articulated reasons. i was playing guitar parts on the demos, which he couldn't deal with. we were doing joy division songs, which were outside of his sphere of interest. we were writing without him, which made him feel unimportant. we were talking about songs without drums, which he wasn't interested in at all. etc. however, he did record a guitar part (that i wrote) that was never replaced.

upon release in 2014, this was a collection of demos from the first month of rabit is wolf, which included multiple versions of the title track and a joy division cover. in the end, none of this would be released in the form it's in here (which was only available for download), but it created a cohesive (if short) introduction to what followed that was self-contained in a historical context. stated differently, this was the first (post-punk) incarnation of rabit is wolf.

in oct of 2017, this release was expanded to act as a comprehensive exploration of this track and made available for physical purchase. seven further versions were added: three from 2002, three from 2014/2015 and one from 2010. disc finalized on oct 21, 2017.

i don't analyse sean's lyrics, but the subject matter is clearly that of contemplating suicide - i believe from the perspective of an imagined character.

written and recorded in the fall of 2001. compiled on sept 6, 2014. expanded and finalized on oct 20-21, 2017. as always, please use headphones.

the album version of the track (track 11) appears on the rabit is wolf demo:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/rabit-is-wolf

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2001, 2002, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2017). 

credits

released October 15, 2001

j - electric bass guitar, electric & acoustic guitars, analog & digital effects & processing, synthesizers, score writing, writing, production
sean - vocals, lyrics, writing

jon - some extra guitar performance (6-8, 10-11, 13) 

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

an enlightened way to approach a kid like that is to force her to write an essay on islamic imperialism, the muslim slave trade and arabic colonialism, and ask her to reflect on how what she's learned makes her feel about her co-operation in canadian colonialism, as a muslim.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

does she think she's not participating in colonialism, because she's not white? as though arabs don't have a history of colonialism and slavery that is as bad or worse than white colonialism? or as though the vast majority of cultural arabs, including this one according to my eyes, aren't white in the first place?

the reality is that she might very well know absolutely nothing about the history of islam, it's complicity in african slavery, it's history of conquest or it's violent colonial past - because she's a white canadian with a tenuous connection to her own roots who has been force fed a poorly generalized pseudo-academic theory that at best applies very narrowly to the descendants of african slaves in the southern united states.

if she's discriminating, it's on the basis of religion. that's the only reason this person thinks she's not as involved in white canadian colonialism as any other white eurasian immigrant - which is exactly what she is, and exactly what she's caught up in.

she's a hypocrite.

that said, she should not face academic penalties. she needs an education, not a punishment.

i don't know how she got that position. if she was voted in, due process will make her face her peers - although i might suggest that she should be pressured to resign. and, if she was appointed, she should be fired for misconduct.

but, that's not an academic penalty. nobody should feel comfortable about universities policing expression, regardless of their views on what she said.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/dalhousie-student-faces-disciplinary-action-for-concerning-facebook-post/article36674220/ 
 
jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

nobody expects the spanish inquisition.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

so, what am i doing now?

well, i spent the morning looking through listings and - minus the blurry thinking on the possibility of renting office space - there's still nothing on the market that looks preferable to this place.

there's nothing happening in detroit that i want to go to this weekend. and, the temperature just collapsed, out of nowhere - it was supposed to be warm today. the chelsea wolfe show on sunday is sold out (that club never sells out. weird.). boris on wednesday is possible.

i think i'm going to spend the weekend closing records and reevaluate things on monday.

i don't know the outcome of the court case, but it seems like i'm going to be putting things in storage for a while, if i lost.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

i'm starting to think these are being advertised as price per square foot.

none of the ads say that anywhere. but it has to be the truth of it.

so, my $12/month would be more like $850/month in a usable room, and then this doesn't work.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

what i'm worried about is...

can i get disability if i "own a business"?

looks like it should be ok, so long as i don't make more than $200 profit/month, which i never have.

well, i don't have great options. i should look into this.

http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/en/mcss/programs/social/odsp/income_support/odsp_business.aspx 

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

this city is full of abandoned office space, and it costs nearly nothing.

i could legally set up a recording studio and move all of my gear in, then sleep on the couch. i'll just say i'm up all night recording. even if they cut me off the rent portion of disability, i could conceivably end up with more money, so long as i'm paying less than the difference over $480 - which is currently about $200. at $12/month, i could handle $150 worth of electrical & internet without losing money - and it would no doubt be fast, too.

if i can find an office with a shower....

i should ask my worker about this.

https://www.point2homes.com/CA/Commercial-For-Rent/ON/Windsor/City-Centre/100-OUELLETTE/44834295.html

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

that was a brawl.

n12s are probably the hardest thing a tenant can fight - there's a certain concept of entitlement underlying them that has to be overturned by a demonstration of bad faith, an appeal to rigour in the burden of proof and a little bit of good luck in compassion from the judge on s. 83 grounds. that was my argument. and, i made it as well as i could.

if i lost, i put up a helluva scrap. and, i have to think that if she was going to throw me out, she would have done it on the spot.

but, i got a little bit of extra luck: this landlord is legitimately daft. she didn't want to listen to her counsel, and she gave me a dozen openings when she didn't need to. some of it was necessitated by a need to bullshit one way or the other: for example, the excuse they gave about moving mom in had to do with her having lifelong epilepsy, but there was a unit open upstairs in july, so what they really had to do was manufacture an event between july 1 and august 30th, but they instead pretended they planned this all along, which let me question why they didn't move mom into the open unit. the counsel was cringing. i noticed. the judge noticed. i also caught her in an open lie and think i managed to convince the judge of it, which was so key - and totally unneeded on her behalf. again: she clearly didn't understand what was going on around her, and it got her into some messes that might end up being the difference.

but, as mentioned, i had a difficult task in front of me, and i can only hope i pulled it off.

the judge will type up a decision some time next week and mail it out the week after that. if i'm out, i'll get at least 11 days. but, she's obligated to consider extending this due to my situation, which is legitimately pretty dire.

i think this is accurate: we went the distance. and, the judge will need to rule on a tko. it's either going to come down to her entitlements overpowering everything, or the judge is going to flat out call bullshit.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

oct 18-19 vlog, where i go to court to fight a frivolous eviction attempt by an aggressive, malicious, dishonest landlord.

i have a recording of this, but i can't upload it, as it's against the law to distribute court recordings in public.

so, i wanted to stay up all day so i could sleep tonight, but that didn't actually happen: the headache came back in this morning, and i ended up sleeping all day.

it's not friday. but, there's a stench in here. i'm going to have to get some activated charcoal right after i win the case. i've been waiting, as i didn't want to buy it if i have to leave, but it's clear at this point that it will be necessary.

i'm going to eat. i may go back to sleep.

it's not likely that i'll get anything at all done before i get back from court.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i've said enough about this: i don't like religion, but i don't support the fashion police.

i'm less concerned about "religious freedom", which i think is an oxymoron, and more concerned about the question as to whether something like this is actually effective. this bill ignores history, and the fact that attempts to suppress religion always lead to religion coming back stronger. if we wish to stamp out religion once and for all, we need to take more enlightened tactics than this. we're better off finding ways to increase integration through gentle coercion. that's what actually works.

what i want to see is muslim women coming together at feminist rallies and burning their niqabs in a show of defiance against muslim patriarchy. i want to see sikh men feel like it's time to move forwards and let go of the past, and cut their beards off and leave their daggers at home. we need gentler tactics in order to accomplish this.

these laws will have them double down, and grow more insular at a time when it is more important than ever to open their social groupings and religious meetings up to outside ideas and secular influences.

i would be more likely to argue in favour of individual expression than religious freedom. but, as it is, individual expression is the more correct argument anyway, because the religion doesn't actually mandate this. this isn't a ban on religious symbols, it's a ban on a fashion decision that is ubiquitous in a specific religion. that's a very different thing, and that much more contemptible: there are excuses for cracking down on religion because it is inherently oppressive, but there are no excuses for restricting individual expression.

i've pointed out before that, despite questionable polling, quebeckers have proven at the ballot box that they don't actually support these laws. the pq has completely exited the left, at this point. let's hope that quebec solidaire takes advantage of this and cleans up.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-niqab-burka-bill-62-1.4360121

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i was not a fan of the tragically hip - i found them to be excessively pretentious and excruciatingly boring - and i'm not going to pretend that i was.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

Since this is the Landlord’s application, the Landlord bears the burden of proving, on a balance of probabilities that her son genuinely intends to move into the premises.  The Landlord failed to prove on a balance of probabilities that it is more likely than not that her son does genuinely intend to move into the premises.  Since the Landlord failed to meet the burden of proof, the Landlord’s application must be dismissed.

this is very reassuring to read from the most likely adjudicator on the case.

https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onltb/doc/2017/2017canlii60235/2017canlii60235.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQANbjEyIGFmZmlkYXZpdAAAAAAB&resultIndex=5

...considering that there's still no affidavit. i'll call one more time tonight, i guess before i crash.  it looks like i'm going to get to cross-examine, as they're going to do it in real-time. i'm hoping it's the mom as that's going to be fun to rip apart. "you're going to pay your ex-husband rent?". but, something i didn't think was viable was the idea that it could be the guy upstairs - the father. that struck me as absurd on it's face, but there are cases where parents take over basement units for themselves, albeit not separate ones like this. see, here's the thing: he has threatened me with eviction repeatedly. hey, he ran his mouth off and has to deal with it - but it's his attitude that's the problem in the first place.

i'm confident, but i can't get cocky. and, if it goes to trial, which i am not convinced it will, then this is far from over, one way or the other. i think this guy is going to get overwhelmed by the stack of paper i give him, freak out and fold.

and, that would be smart.

if he's smart, he'll know when to fold.

i was up early in the evening, did the shopping i needed to do for the rest of the month (minus peppers, which were bad, and eggs, which i forgot), dotted the rest of the is i needed for the case (mostly burning the disc, and making sure i have extra emails on usb if i need to print on the spot) and then got distracted at canlii.

i read dozens of cases through and there's a common theme: n12s are hard to beat, unless the landlord fucks up in leaving behind evidence, and this one has done quite a bit of that. i have eight documented threats of eviction - that is the kind of thing that helps. something else that helps is evidence demonstrating that the landlord is irritated or angry about being forced to do repairs, which is actually what one of my n5s was: she cluelessly filed an n5 requesting i be evicted for asking her to landlord, which is exactly what i need to prove to the court. the large amount of conflict is the other thing i need to demonstrate. i also have examples of her behaving in bad faith. i even have evidence suggesting she wants to sell (two fire inspections and an appraisal in the same week). nobody wants this, but i couldn't ask for a better situation, if i have to have it. the few cases that i was able to find that seem similar led to a dismissal.

even so, if i somehow lose, the outcome is usually an extension. i can also claim hardship, given that i live on odsp. that's usually good for a few months, and by then the building might be sold, which should give me time to appeal.

i need to push myself to stay awake until late in the afternoon so i'm up fresh on thursday morning. i think i've got together everything i can get together. so, i should get some work done over the next few hours.

i'm not going to ship before thursday. it will be soon, though. 48 will be printed tonight, at least.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i'm glad i gave myself a few days, but that didn't take as long as i feared it would.

i have a mountain of evidence to sort through, designed to question whether they're acting in good faith, which i think they clearly aren't.

i'm expecting the judge to throw the case out, if the paralegal even lets it get there.

this was a ploy cooked up to generate a settlement. there's no chance i'm going to sign on to this: the choices are that they can walk away and avoid a counter-suit, or they can go through with it and suffer the consequences.

they are not intelligent people, and i do not expect them to make a smart choice.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i didn't realize it at the time, but that principle had thatcher hair.

it was your typical mindless anti-science, pro-conformity conservatism that had her tell me to go sit down and be quiet and wait my turn. the test scores were clear enough, but the data was no match for her wisdom.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

iq scores.

i've done well on these my whole life. i was identified as gifted as a kid and recommended to be skipped forward grades, although the principal stepped in and decided against it. in hindsight, the principal was a moron: she claimed that my behavioural problems suggested i should not be skipped, when any behavioural expert would have immediately realized i was acting out because i was bored. i obviously needed more stimulation, and she specifically stepped in to deny it. she was a very stupid woman and made a clearly wrong choice.

i wrote an iq test for the government of canada about ten years ago, and scored in the 99th percentile. when i showed up to the interview, the guy thought it was a typo - and i was unable to convince him that it wasn't. he'd done hundreds of interviews and never seen a score that high.

the self-identified genius, trump, vs. tyrannicalasaurus rex? i actual don't think trump does particularly poorly on an iq test. clinton was a rhodes scholar, and trump is not that, but he's not legitimately stupid like bush was, either. his iq likely comes in around average, to perhaps a tad above average. the fact that he's teetotal actually probably helps him a little, here - but he really is a reflection of your average fox watching blue collar stiff, and his iq scores will no doubt reflect this. if he wasn't born into money, he'd have been an assembly line worker somewhere. and he fucking well knows it.

what is likely to be more surprising is to learn that t. rex actually uses his sharp, pointy teeth to eat fruit - that he's about average intelligence, too.

verdict: statistically interchangeable.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

republishing inri048

this track represents somewhat of a refocus, but it never found itself to fruition in the way it was meant to.

over the summer of 2001, a friend of a friend decided he wanted to start a band and asked me to play bass. now, we didn't really have a lot in common besides both being musicians. i was spiralling out into obscure independent music, and he was into all the mainstream rock bands. 2001 was the point where grunge was losing it's last bit of mainstream potential, and giving way to nu metal and various watered down, corporatized offshoots of hardcore. so, i was sitting around listening to tortoise and writing jazz compositions and he was sitting around listening to limp bizkit and writing mtv/radio rock. how could this legitimately work?

there was a small amount of overlap, centred mostly around tool. it so happened to be that tool had just released a new record, we were both listening to it and neither of us really had anybody else to talk to about it. so, something formed out of that.

now, when you're an isolated twenty year old that's never been lucky enough to meet another musician you can start a band with, you take what you can get. it seemed implausible that it was going anywhere, but wasn't that the case for every other band that ever went anywhere when they first started off? i don't think either of us thought we were natural creative partners, but we had a set of common goals and if we could put aside our differences...

see, the thing is i knew that the only way anything was going to happen is if i sat down and recorded a bunch of stuff. but, i also knew that this is a guy that defines himself in terms of his oversized ego and that the whole purpose of it from his perspective was to give himself a way to explore it. that's not the worst trait to have if you want to start a band, either. my overwhelmingly shy introversion hasn't exactly got me filling stadiums, has it? nor is it ever going to, and i realized it even at that stage. so, a natural role would be for me to play the producer (along with the bass guitar) while he throws some stuff at me. if that meant i'd be doing 90% of the actual recording, that would be ok, but i realized i had to let him provide the actual song structures or he'd storm off and pout about it.

so, i waited for him to provide some material. and waited. eventually it became clear that he didn't actually have any serious songs. we did a few demos, but he could barely play what he was trying to demo and the tracks were not of a gigging quality level.

in the mean time, he'd recruited a guitarist. he kept saying he was talking to a drummer (no drummer ever appeared), and he also recruited another friend of a friend as a singer. so, we had what seemed like a full band, if you include the imaginary drummer. what i saw was an opportunity. if he wasn't going to write some songs, i guess i'd have to...

the other guitarist almost immediately dropped out, and the whole project really fell apart rather quickly when the guy that initiated the whole thing stopped showing up to practice. it was several weeks in a row that only the singer and i showed up. i had a few songs i had written, so we started working on those instead and that became rabit is wolf. predictably, there was much pouting.

that leaves this particular song in an isolated limbo. when it was reworked for rabit is wolf (inri057), it took on the epic and experimental nature i was exploring at the time and lost the crux of itself as a stadium rock song. i feel something valuable was lost in this process, if for no other reason that this is so dramatically different than anything else i was doing at the time.

thankfully, i still have the original drum files, and i remember how to play the guitar part, so it's simply a process of recreating it. the raw mix sounds exactly as the track did in 2001. the complete mix takes it to it's final conclusion.

a number of literal remixes were added on oct 16, 2017, including the electronics only mix for the ry30 disc, from dec 27, 2015.

the ep also includes some files from 2001 that are attached to the initial cynicide project.

written in the summer of 2001. remembered over july, 2014. completed august-september, 2014. released sept 24, 2014. expanded, finalized and re-released on oct 16, 2017. as always, please use headphones.

credits

released september 16, 2001

j - electric guitars, analog & digital effects & processing, electric bass guitar, synthesizers, orchestral & other sequencing, drum programming, digital wave editing, sampling, loops, equalization, vocals (8), production

the rendered electronic orchestra includes tuba, saxophone, flute, clarinet, orchestra hit, piano, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and various full string sections.

sean - vocals (track 9)

jon - acoustic guitar (track 9)

 

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i have eight items left to ship on that huge order.

i was hoping to ship at least two before i had to stop for the court process, which is on thursday morning. in order to do that, i'd have to at least get done 48 and 56.

i'm just about to close 48. i'm not going to be able to look at 56 at all.

the date is on thursday. of course i'm stressed out about it, but all logic suggests that i have a very strong case in front of me.

i don't know how long it's going to take for me to prepare. i don't plan on taking any video, but i'm going to have to print some pictures of things like dead cockroaches. looking at what's between 48 and 56, 55 is the only substantial hurdle. the important thing is that i get the numbers right...

i might be able to ship this week, still.

if not, i'll still have until the 31st here - and probably until dec 1st, worst case.

again: i can't imagine a judge ruling against me, given the circumstances. if i was the judge in this case, i'd demand extreme documentation. as far as i can tell, they haven't submitted an affidavit, and i might even be lucky enough to get to cross-examine it in real-time if they leave it to a verbal statement on the day of. but, let's suppose the reason they give is medical. given the circumstances, if i were the judge i'd demand a doctor's certificate to back up the statement. this is a landlord that has already attempted to evict me three times without cause - it is an extraordinary claim for them to claim their parents need the unit, all of a sudden, so they need extraordinary proof.

i'm dealing with a paralegal, here. but, i think they've already fucked the situation up so badly that the case is virtually impossible. if they claim it's medical, for example...how? this place is not near a hospital, it has insects and the air quality is terrible. how do you get a medical claim out of that?

the place should probably be declared uninhabitable, and i'll take a scorched earth policy if i need to...

...but i'm kind of relying on the ability of the judge to smell bullshit. and, it stinks. badly.

further, if i get the expected judicial response, it opens them up to damages. even if i lose, and they list the unit, as of course they will, they're still opening themselves up to months of damages. i'm going to have to reiterate to them, as i already have, that they're better off walking away from the trial. virtually any other choice is going to cost them a small fortune. and, if i end up evicted for chasing cats off the property, you can be certain that i'll make them pay dearly for it.

i'm going to close 48 and get something to eat. then, i'm on pause until further notice. i apologize to the guy that bought this stuff, but this is a really dire scenario - i don't have another option, and could very well end up living in a storage bin for months.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

republishing inri047

to understand this piece, it's necessary to go back to 1998.

i was working out primitive sequencer parts for the first inri demo and it just sort of crossed my mind that there was really nothing stopping me from composing symphonies except for a lot of music theory. well, if i could write electronic music without training, why couldn't i write symphonies without training? i mean, the score writing program exists in front of me. it was just a question of experimenting with it. i could do it myself...

...but i actually already had a pretty hefty disdain for music theory by the age of 17. i'd managed to come across a music history textbook that traced the deconstruction of western theory from beethoven through to schoenberg and this, combined with my experiences as a guitarist, was enough to prevent me from taking it seriously. the perception i had was of modern composers viewing music theory sort of like how biologists viewed creationism. i use that analogy fairly frequently. it just didn't strike me as relevant.

now, i've softened a bit over time to a view that music theory is best understood in terms of the underlying physics. this renders the theory useless, but upholds the basic relationships between tones as physical, mathematical realities. the thing is the next step of abstraction is understanding that these mathematical objects can be arranged and analyzed in any arbitrary way, and the conventional theory really *is* a fallacy akin to creationism. so, i still hold to the general thesis. this is actually the first serious example of me putting that disdain for the idea that music should have a theory into real action. i remain adamantly of the view that art is not a realm where theories should exist or be viewed with anything other than scorn. theories are rigid, formal things; art is informal, chaotic.

so, it's 1998. i have a scorewriter and a very basic soundcard and i want to bullshit a symphony out of it. i did this by composing a single brief melody by randomly mashing notes into a scorewriter. i then took that melody and pasted it over top of itself at differing speeds (64th, 32nd, 16th, 8th, quarter, half, whole notes). i then took that, cut it off near the end of the half notes and pasted it over itself, backwards.

that might sound like it's going to sound awful, but it actually sounds quite lovely. one could analyze it quite easily, but it's creation is beyond the realm of any rules of construction.

which is where art belongs.

...excepting the algorithm i used, of course. i suppose it's more reich than schoenberg, but kind of more xenakis than either.

the initial version ended up subsumed underneath a messy noise collage that i created independently and have lost the source material for. that messy noise collage was eliminated from the track for the 1999 version, which was reconstructed by reproducing the algorithm. these are tracks 19 and 20 on this systematic exploration of the theme.

in 2001, i ran the midi file through my soundblaster live!, which as primitive as it is, has a much nicer wavetable in it than the primitive soundcard i used in 1998 and 1999 (i don't remember what it was). this is track 21. i also slowed it down by about 20 bpm and allowed the full file to "intersect", which let it breathe more; this is track 22. i've previously not done anything with this mix other than append it to some mix cds. the guitars on the soundblaster are notoriously bad, so there wasn't a lot to do with it....

why? well, i was writing a lot with scorewriters at the time and was just experimenting with the old file, really. but i was also finishing up what would be the only year i would spend in the math-physics department, and thought it sounded like i would imagine intersecting particles *should* sound like. i was generally interested in finding ways to combine science with music then - an interest that is present in older tracks as well and that has stuck with me. i may explore these themes further in time. one of the ideas i really wanted to accomplish was a physical modelling of the universe, to actually simulate the music of the spheres, as pythagoras imagined it. i think i underestimated the complexity of such a task....

of course, i never expected the music of the spheres to be tonal. and i wouldn't expect the sound of particles intersecting to be musical, either. but, we can take some artistic license. if intersecting particles are to make a sound, it OUGHT to be something like this!

now, the place to work out the actual intersection is rather arbitrary. i had initially cut off the entire section of pure whole notes, back in '98. what i wanted to do in '01 was create a sequence where it's cut off incrementally, creating shorter and shorter pieces. i didn't actually do that then, but i did do it in july of 2014.

as for the piece, i haven't changed it much or the 2014 reconstruction. i've doubled the guitar with a pizzicato string section, and put it through a better guitar synthesizer (and amp simulator, and effects). the sound fonts are otherwise identical, just updated mildly to a better synthesizer.

a string orchestra mix was added at the end of may, 2015. a new album mix for my first record was created at the beginning of jan, 2016, but not added until october of 2017, along with the failed 2013 remaster and solitary forwards and backwards versions built on the 2016 mix. the release was also split into two discs at this point.

i've included the midi files of the original composition, if you'd like to mess with it on your own.

written one day in june, 1998. re-created on another day in june, 1999. reimagined on yet another day in june, 2001. a failed remaster occurred at the end of 2013. slightly rearranged and re-rendered at the end of july, 2014. rearranged again at the end of may, 2015 and one last time at the beginning of jan, 2016. expanded and finalized over oct 15-16, 2017. as always, please use headphones.

the 2014 version appears on my fifth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

the 2016 version appears on the final remaster of my first record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inri-3

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1998, 1999, 2001, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017). 

credits

released June 18, 2001

j - programming, digital effects & treatments, digital wave editing, composition.

the rendered electronic orchestras variously include piano, electric guitar, orchestra hit, synth pads, pizzicato strings, violin, viola, cello, contrabass and pc card. 

 

 

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

finalizing inri046

the core of this was written in my parent's basement in the spring of 2001. planning on going to a rave that weekend, i had previously purchased a large amount of drugs; i was, however, forced to stay in due to having a calculus test that sunday (the rave was out of town). well, my parents were gone for the weekend, most of my friends were out of town and i had a massive stash of drugs...

it is quite literally a symphony of psilocybin induced madness and was written directly into an ancient, hacked score-writing program. while it has been labelled as a symphony of drunken confusion in certain contexts to get around certain social stigmas, this is inaccurate.

around 2006 or so, i took a course in electronic music design that had a recorded component and pulled the score off of my hard drive with the intent of finally recording it properly. the dx7 i had available to me greatly improved the synth patches, enough that i'm willing to let the track rest that way.

i've included midi files of the original composition, if you'd like to mess with it on your own.

i now consider this my fifth symphony.

written in the spring of 2001. lent out for a different project in jan, 2004. reconstructed in the first quarter of 2006, especially over march. the vst mix was added on jan 10, 2015 and the two guitar mixes were added on may 29, 2015. finalized as symph005 on oct 15, 2017. as always, please use headphones.

the album version of this track appears on my fifth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

the divine amoebas version also appears on my seventh record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ftaa

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2001, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2015, 2017). 

credits

released May 15, 2001

j - electric guitars, programming, digital effects & treatments, sampling, composition, production.

the rendered electronic orchestras variously include synthesizers, clavinet, kalimba, nylon guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, banjo, electronic drums, pc card, violin, cello, bamboo flute, flute, viola, soprano saxophone, tuba, trumpet, organ and music box.

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republishing inri044

(this was initially published on the morning of the 14th and fast forwarded to early on the 15th, to account for fixing a corrupted file.)

regarding this piece, my memory is blurry; yet, i have a vivid recollection of playing parts of it for my guitar teacher on a sunny day, where there was still snow on the ground. it's funny how we remember seemingly irrelevant details, but i guess the atmosphere of the performance is important because the performance is. that would date it to roughly march, 2001.

i switched the piece from classical guitar to piano halfway through writing it, and vaguely remember thinking that an impossible interval had something to do with it (a specific c# cannot be hit on a standard classical). yet, that doesn't change the fact that it's guitar music. the counterpoint is very guitar.

to further complicate things, i've long wanted to turn the piece into a jazzy idm romp. it has a kind of a jingly feel to it that belongs in the warp records sphere.

so, what is this? a classical guitar piece? a jazzy piano piece? a techno tune? all of the above! as with other pieces from this period, this is presented here in multiple formats: several rendered midi tracks, live guitar versions, a vst version and a "full band" version - as well as multiple remixes.

i have included the original midi file (and sheet music in pdf) as a bonus item in the download, if you want to play with it on your own.

conceptually, the time machine aspect referred simply to the slowed down guitar chords at the beginning of the song. if you play it a certain way, it sounds like time is collapsing in on itself. or, so i thought, anyways. the various versions i have created here have made an attempt to take that idea to it's logical conclusion. it's a mix of the vision i had at the time and a bit of hindsight.

six further mixes were added at the end of may, 2015. two of these are "techno" mixes of the song, three are interpretations of the piece on a solo instrument and one is a rearrangement for a full string orchestra. i've decided to present the material in a way that is really two eps combined together, with the first being arrangements for multiple instruments and the second being arrangements for solo instruments. note that there is a placeholder for the track as it was initially written for a 21-fret classical guitar.

four more mixes were added in mid oct, 2017: two orchestral mixes and two more interpretations for solo instrument.

written early 2001. drastically rearranged in june, 2014. rendered, arranged and performed over june and july, 2014. remixed and re-rendered several times over late may, 2015 and again over mid oct, 2017. this release cannot formally finalize at this time, but has been put into it's existing state as of oct 14, 2017. as always, please use headphones.

the album version of this track (the time machine + reprise) appears on my fifth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2001, 2014, 2015, 2017).

* download only 

credits

released March 21, 2001

j - electric guitar, programming, digital effects & treatments, digital wave editing, loops, production, composition

the various rendered electronic orchestras include acoustic bass, synth bass, electric bass, upright bass, brass section, orchestra hit, drum machine, electronic drum kit, nylon guitar, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, french horn, trumpet, tuba, trombone, synthesizers, synthesizer effects, harp, music box, detuned piano, piano, bells, flute, hammered percussion, vibraphone, marimba and mellotron. it also includes choir. 

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fixed.


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when i remixed this last night, i just ran the guitars that i recorded in 2014 through a transform to slow them down from 180 bpm to 70 bpm - which is a good ways. midi is instructions, and that's not much to deal with. but, slowing down actual audio that much is going to create artifacts.

in fact, that was a part of the design of the thing - this was intentional. i want some blurriness in the guitar. it's trippy, and the thing is trippy - it's a good match, and it fits the aesthetic. i was also expecting it to come in a bit out of phase, as the part is doubled.

see, i really did play it in at 220 bpm, which is very fast. when you're playing that fast, you can be wrong by fractions of a note and not have anybody notice. but when you then slow the tape down, the distance between the notes becomes more audible - it's still the same fraction of a bar on paper, but it's been expanded to the point where you can hear it. that 32nd note botch that i didn't even notice at 220 becomes a huge problem at 70.

it's an easy enough fix; while these were live guitars at one point, now they're just samples and can be manipulated like any other.

i have a replacement for the slow mix coming that fixes some of the phasing issues, while keeping others for effect.

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my first guitar teacher - in a music academy - used to dangle this in front of me as the piece i'd learn one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0aMCpRZPZE

i didn't get there. but, i enjoyed the style. and i'm a life long fan.

i was never able to get into anything in the metal spectrum though. it wasn't just the superfluous expressions of empty masculinity, it was the accompanying rigidity in playing - because men can't express emotions, maybe? i'm a feel player. i can enjoy the technicality, but truly intellectual technicality understands that the instrument is about expression, and that's what the best jazz players understood and almost every metal player never has.

the metalheads don't just lose that touch, they seem to take pride in not having it, and look down on anybody that does.

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fwiw, if you're curious, the reason i didn't take instruction in metal guitar is that i didn't enjoy listening to it, partly because i didn't like the culture attached to it. i liked fusion, jazz, prog - stuff that was more intellectual and less macho. metal was something i interpreted as "music for idiots" from a very young age.

and, i started playing at too young an age to benefit from any kind of instruction in punk or grunge - by the time i started listening to it, i could already teach myself that stuff.

my instructional phase was in blues, mostly. hendrix. zeppelin. that pushed into jazz. i was actually playing zappa & crimson with ease by the time i was 15.

then i stopped, because i was having more fun teaching myself soundgarden songs out of guitar world and i wanted to write my own music.

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so, after some months of denial, i've come to the sober realization that most of my classical guitar monstrosities are now forever lost in the consequences of a snow-flooded backyard shed. i would shed a tear, if it weren't for the reality that they've been lost to my mind and my fingers for far too many years to recover them, anyways.

i would have laughed at you if you would have told me i'd be sitting here, thirteen years later, lamenting the fact that i never recorded these pieces. yet, here i am.

there's not really a good reason why i never recorded these. i just didn't. it's true that i was distracted by other projects, and that i wanted to make sure they were perfectly imperfect before i let them out. that doesn't explain why i never bothered demoing them, or even just recording them half-assed for historical purposes. alas...now they are gone...

i took classical guitar lessons for about a year from spring '00 to spring '01. by that time, i'd been playing guitar for almost ten years and had been through many years of blues and jazz training, albeit not for several years before then. i didn't want to go back to rock-era instruction, but i felt i could benefit from approaching the guitar with a different perspective. i also wanted to learn a little about counterpoint. so, we went with renaissance pieces to start off with (and which comprise this short offering) and more avant pieces by the likes of leo brouwer near the end.

a punk with a classical guitar is still a punk, just a punk with a classical guitar. throughout the experience, my cobain instincts and hendrix flairs overpowered any demands to play nicely. the truth is the guy i was paying absolutely despised me, but he also had a muted level of respect for somebody with the panache to actually think about even trying to pull this shit off. i caught him open-jawed a few times, as impressed as he was shocked.

there were almost twenty of these things written out. he'd present me with a score and i'd just go to town with it, scrawling notes all over it, changing chords, making up notation symbols, just whatever i thought sounded better. the results were a legitimate fusion of noise rock and classical guitar music in a way that stressed technical playing over atmospheres. what is present here is the very tip of this iceberg.

yet, i didn't want to just record them. i wanted to recreate them. the version of little suite that is here is a good example of where i wanted to take these things. the problem i ran into was that i didn't know how to. which isn't to say that i didn't how to do what i wanted but that i couldn't conceive of what i wanted to do. so, i kept putting it off until that stroke of inspiration would finally come...

it never came, and is now lost.

there will be a second version of this; how far in the future that will be, i cannot say. i think a part of me wants to wait until i'm older and is happy i now have the excuse to do that. for now, though, i'm closing down this project, restricting it to this short ep and an album of unrealized dreams.

recorded in the first part of 2001. sequenced as is in january, 2014. as always, please use headphones.

the second & third tracks appear on my fifth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2001, 2014). 

credits

released May 10, 2001

j - classical and electric guitars, ebow, effects, organ, synthesizers, sound design, sampling, sequencing, drum programming, vocals, digital wave editing

original authors forgotten. please contact if you recognize these pieces. 

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update post.

this will build further as i go:


this disc is now full:

these are dated to the 13th:



and these are dated to the 14th:



write-up pending.

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also, if you haven't got the joke, yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

when i resequenced this "single" (it's now at 19 tracks...the last one closed at 17...) in may of 2015, i set it up to alternate between slow and fast versions - then put the solo sections at the very end, after a pause. the initial orchestral mix that i set up last night is done, but it means i have one too many fast versions.

i'm just going to slow the full orchestra mix down to the same length as the string orchestra mix. it shouldn't take long.

i don't have a lot of days left to waste, but i guess i lost a day due to migraine and this taking longer than expected. what can you do...

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my head was still wonky after my tomato sandwich (i bought too much mayo for thanksgiving, and am probably going to need to get some more poultry to use it up), so i had to take a nap this evening. i took some aspirin around 9:00 and it's mostly cleared up.

the orchestral mix is firming up. i'm not going to town with this like i did with the other ones - it's a short romp, and everything is just going to push on, brute force, on top of itself. you should feel refreshed after listening to it, like you got a power wash.

i'm going to put a drum mix up, too. i mean, these are programmed drums, but they're interesting in and of themselves - like somebody caught a robot phil collins showing off in rehearsal.

and, of the pressing questions in humanity's history: robot vs gorilla?

trump used the argument today that appeasement doesn't work - invoking the spectre of hitler, and the memory of chamberlain.

it's the same argument that antifa uses, and so i'll admit i'm partial to it. it's funny how you can use the same argument to come up with conflicting deductions, isn't it?

the issue all along has been around the question of whether iran is a threat or not. i don't think bush really thought iran is a threat, he was just a tool in the hands of an aggressive policy of conquest. and, i distinctly recall interviews where obama literally laughed at the prospect - he realized that iran is barely even a regional power, and he could just send the turks after them or something if he really had to. he openly referred to the idea that they're any kind of serious threat as comical - as not serious.

trump is a product of right-wing cable news. his ideas were placed in his head by the demagogues that frequent fox news. he seems to honestly believe that iran is a threat to the united states, and that he is truly taking steps to protect the world from harm.

again: i don't think this man is particularly stupid in a literal sense, but he is clearly incredibly ignorant and simply doesn't know how to consult sources, or separate good information from bad information. he is consequently very easily misled. and, i saw that coming.

the threat that the administration should be focusing on is not iran, but the saudis. i am convinced that the next world war will be fought to contain saudi expansionism, under the guise of some kind of neo-islamic imperialism. if we are to learn a lesson from the run up to the second world war, it should be that we cannot be funding the saudis - as we funded hitler.

if the idea of iran as a threat is a farce, the saudis are truly a tragedy waiting to happen.

he has chosen the wrong side of history.

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i'm just kidding; i know better.

maddow always stands up for the military-industrial complex.

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as usual, trump does not get his facts right.

but, you won't get the story from the msm, either.

the sanctions were designed to put the iranians in a vice and force them into compliance. as such, they required international adherence - not just from europe, but from russia and from india and from china. this was working the way it was supposed to.

...but, then, what happened was that the united states put sanctions on the russians. that was the error that obama made: sanctions on russia.

in response, the russians dropped their sanctions on iran. this led the chinese and indians to drop the sanctions as well, as they were now at a competitive disadvantage to russian influence. the deal came out of this collapse, as a face-saving mechanism - otherwise, we wouldn't have received anything at all.

trump doesn't seem to understand that the sanctions require international co-operation to be anything less than sanctions on american businesses. so, what we are going to see is a russian takeover of the iranian oil industry, which will find sufficient markets and trading partners in asia.

is this largely for his base? sure. but, the one thing he had to do here to maintain american influence over this geopolitical space was avoid unilateral sanctions, and he has failed to do this.

somebody give maddow the scoop. i'm sure she can find anonymous sources.

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it would be one thing if these migraines were random, but they seem to happen every friday morning between midnight and 6:00, leading me to conclude that there's something environmental about them.

i noticed the smell of dry air this morning, which i've tended to associate with the air conditioner. this morning was different than the last few weeks, because it is not warm out and the air should not be running.

i've long suspected that somebody in the building is smoking something dangerous, like crack or meth. it's a chemical smell. and, while i can't say i smelled it this morning (or all summer...), i'm starting to suspect that it has to do with that dry air.

i'm ok. and i'm staying in this weekend. but i guess we'll need to put this test down: will the migraines come back again next friday?

i had to abandon the mix this morning due to disorientation, but i think it's done. and i think this slab of consciousness should be productive in terms of results.

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trump is a legit ditherer, isn't he?

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

republishing inri043

this is one of the tracks that i can't date well. i do, however, remember working on it during the winter, which means it must have been late '00 or early '01. i'm going to consequently deduce that it must have been what i was working on over the 2000 christmas break and date it coming out right after it.

actually, i have another reason to date it in early '01 rather than late '00: the introductory piano part was recorded live into my notation program on my dx100, which i was given over christmas (maybe a little before; it was a cheap garage sale pickup) to act as a controller for my recently broken jx-8p, that i had tried to take apart over the summer to clean a sticky key (a common problem with mid-80s roland analog synths) but failed and left keyless. it's still keyless. yet, the dx still drives it....

that introductory piano part formed the basis of the track, which built itself up fairly quickly. somewhere, i lost the nwc file by saving it as midi, which ruined all the formatting. it's been sitting on my drive ever since.

why put together seven different midi versions of the same track, and sequence them after a polished recorded version? well, this was never actually meant to be computer music. i was just composing something the old fashioned way with the intent of later giving it to some musicians to play. that never happened. what did happen was that i found myself playing it back on multiple sound cards over many years, trying to make it sound as good as possible in the short run - until i could finally get the chance to sit down and actually record it. while each of the different renders has it's strong and weak points, i ultimately don't feel that they form a total order. something i thought about doing was recording tracks independently on different cards and then pasting them together, but that would have just created another dozen incomparable mixes. rather than arbitrarily pick one, i decided to just upload all of them.

in hindsight, i think the format is interesting in itself in terms of it being a psychological experiment with sound. the differences from track to track are sometimes inaudible and sometimes extremely noticeable. stringing it all together in a row like this is challenging to any listener in the sense that it rips apart the process of becoming familiar with a piece. it means listening to exactly the same song through multiple different sound libraries. i think your brain would have to interpret that as a sort of a trip, especially when it comes to trying to build associations in sound within tracks that are both similar and different sounding, soundcard wise. i think that might be part of the reason i had so much difficulty isolating tracks in the first place.

so, listening to the ep through all the way is likely to be a bit disorienting and might ultimately be a strange experience. however, if you like the track for what it is as a collection of overlapping sequences of notes then i hope you get something out of the process of comparing and contrasting the renders together.

i have included the original midi file as a bonus item in the download, if you want to play with it on your own. the added guitar sections in the final version are recent additions and have not been written out.

thematically, the track is meant to orchestrate a feeling of claustrophobia with society pushing down on you too hard. it's meant to transmit a feeling of existential dread. at the time, i really felt stuck with life in general and not sure how i was going to get out of it.

four further remixes were added at the end of may, 2015, which initially forced me to move two of the midi renders to 'download only'. it also split the ep into jazz and orchestral components, with a glitch mix added on to the end. in oct of 2017, this separation was formalized by converting the release into a double ep with 'jazz' renders on the first disc and 'classical' renders on the second one. two jazz mixes (album mix, vocal mix) were added to disc one; three further mixes (percussion mix, string orchestra mix, guitar-only mix) were added to the second one.

written late 2000 & early 2001. the renders present here are all from either the early months of 2014, the second half of may, 2015 or the 11th/12th of october, 2017. minor instrumentation changes to facilitate a small wind section were implemented in late april, 2014. live guitars were layered into the final version over may 2014. four more mixes were added from may 19-26, 2015. five more mixes were added on oct 11/12, 2017. release finalized on oct 12, 2017. as always, please use headphones.

the album version of this track appears on my fifth record:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (2001, 2014, 2015, 2017). 

credits

released January 10, 2001

j - electric piano, programming, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, vocoders, digital effects & treatments, digital wave editing, composition.

the rendered electronic orchestras variously include piano, bass, synth bass, distorted electric guitar, clean electric guitar, other guitar effects, steel string acoustic guitar, nylon string classical guitar, sitar, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, french horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, oboe, english horn, bassoon, synthesizers, clarinet, flute, piccolo, xylophone, glockenspiel, woodblock, tubular bells, orchestra hit, jazz drum kit, hand drums, melodic toms, orchestral drum kit, hammered percussion, marimba, taiko drum, synthetic percussion and electronic drum kit.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

it doesn't matter who wins or who loses - we all decompose in the end.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

i don't hold to imperialist ideals or calvinist dogma about strength and perseverance; i am perfectly comfortable with admitting weakness, and perfectly content in giving up. and, i will not feel any shame in being labelled a quitter. i would rather that rational agents see the logic in it, and the foolishness inherent in struggling.

there is no purpose to existence, no reward for competing, no value in winning. i'm sorry if you're lost in a world of make believe. but, i will openly choose to give up without shame, if i must.

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flac dvd containing material originally recorded from 1999-2000 and completed between 2013 and 2017. inri030-inri042. numbered with a cd printer and shipped in a jewel case. inriℵ8.

full contents:

/inri030: war
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/war

/inri031: liquify
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/liquify

/inri032: inrimake
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrimake

/inri033: inridiculous
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inridiculous

/inri034: book it!
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/book-it

/inri035: ambient works vol 0
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-works-vol-0

/inri036: let freedom ring
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/let-freedom-ring

/inri037: the curious george suite
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/the-curious-george-suite

/inri038: ignorance is bliss
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/ignorance-is-bliss

/inri039: acidosis
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/acidosis

/inri040: curious george
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/curious-george-2

/inri041: deny everything
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything

/inri042: inrimoved
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/inrimoved

total disc size is gb 4.013
total running time of official releases, inri030-inri042, is 11:44:59.

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about

purchasing this release does not come with a download.

inri030: initially created in sept, 1997. remixed and reimagined repeatedly over 1998 and 1999. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. partially reclaimed dec 8, 2014. rebuilt and resequenced on jan 9, 2016 out of material that had been remastered over 2013-2016. reimagined again on oct 26, 2016 out of material that was created in jan, 2016, but not released (and finalized) until sept 13, 2017, in order to properly fit into sequence.

inri031: recorded over the spring and summer of 1999. originally released on inrimake in october, 1999 (with an accidental phase reverse). the first section was modified further at the end of 1999. minimally altered and split into it's own ep in january, 2014. spliced further, appended to, remastered and finalized over sept, 2017. release finalized on sept 28, 2017.

inri032: recorded sporadically, and without cohesive intent, over '98 and '99. originally compiled in the fall of '99. augmented and minimally altered in january, 2014. finalized as lp006 on sept 21, 2017. as always, please use headphones - but note that they are especially mandatory for this recording.

inri033: written and demoed in multiple stages from 1996-1999. initially constructed in this form in dec, 1999. slightly resequenced in jan, 2014. finalized on sept 19, 2017. lp007.

inri034: written & recorded in the fall of 1999. originally released on inridiculous in december, 1999. split into it's own ep in january, 2014. remastered & finalized on sept 28, 2017.

inri035: initially written and recorded between 1996-1999 and remixed between 2013-2015. initially released as part zero of a three volume set on may 21, 2015. split into it's own release on june 14, 2015. finalized as lp008 on sept 29, 2017.

inri036: written and recorded in late 1999 and early 2000. these versions of these tracks were sequenced without further modification in jan, 2014. remainder of hummer added as a bonus track, and release finalized, on oct 3, 2017.

inri037: recorded in spring, 2000. released, unmodified, in jan, 2014. release finalized on oct 3, 2017.

inri038: written and recorded, 1999-2001. track 3 was reconstructed out of existing sound in june, 2004. initially sequenced in jan, 2014. four new mixes (maximal mix (2017), electronics only mix (2015), single mix for lp010 (2017), full instrumental mix from deny everything (2014)) were added on oct 5, 2017; release subsequently closed.

inri039: this was constructed over a little more than a month: from 7/7-8/20, 2000. it seems to have been recombined into one track around 2007 but has otherwise not been modified since it was completed. first released as an ep in jan 2014. release finalized on oct 8, 2017.

inri040: recorded in april, 2000. samples added in oct, 2000. album version reverted to original mix in sept, 2006

inri041: recorded over the space of the year 2000. remixed substantially in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014. existing version constructed in jan, 2014. finalized as lp009 on oct 9, 2017.

inri042: this record was recorded over the years 1999 and 2000, but did not take this form until mid september, 2017. the first track list dates to sept 14, 2017. these tracks are technically outtakes, but did not become outtakes until the remastering process removed them from their respective recordings. finalized as lp010 on oct 9, 2017.

originally created from 1999-2000. this compilation is dated to dec 2, 2000. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2013-2017. compilation finalized on oct 12, 2017. as always, please use headphones. 

credits

released December 2, 2000

j - guitars of all types, effects, bass, synth, piano, organ, ebow, flute, mandolin, drum kit, drum programming, orchestral and other sequencing, hammerhead (909 emulator), pick scrapes, sound design, found sounds, granular synthesis, noise generators, generative synthesis, generative percussion, cool edit synthesis, light-sound synthesis, loops, films, tapes, metronome, sampling, vocals, vocoders, windows 95 sound recorder, digital wave editing, digital effects processing, treatments, coughs, a broken equalizer, text-to-speech synthesis, remixes, reconstructions, reinterpretations, production

the rendered electronic orchestra includess piano, electric guitar, orchestra hit, pizzicato strings, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, synth pad, ukelele, theremin, string ensemble, taiko drums, gongs, trumpet and saxophone. 

 

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/flac-dvd-disc-vol-3

 

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

"bombing iran?

that's a paddlin'."

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

there are limits on trump's power. they don't come in the form of an advisory board, but in a set of red lines that he will be assassinated from the inside if he crosses.

ripping up the iran deal is probably not one of those lines. but, launching military action against iran very well might be.

the only president in the nuclear era that they had to talk down like this was jfk. reagan was actually deeply anti-nuclear.

it's the sanctions that are going to hand the country over. reports this evening are suggesting they aren't happening. that's good.

but, this man is pushing his luck. and, you know the deep state likes his vp better, anyways....

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.  

i'm technically pansexual.

but, i'm functionally asexual, because i hate everybody.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.  

i mean, i'm obviously queer, but i'm not really anything specific beyond that - i haven't had sex with anybody in over ten years, and i'm absolutely comfortable in that.

i would need to be post-op before i even think about it. but, the flat truth is that i don't expect to ever be sexually active again.

with anybody.

ever.

at all.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.  

i have to post this every once in a while.

again: i avoid queer spaces because i am not sexually active, i do not want to be sexually active and i hate getting hit on.

nobody hits on me in hetero spaces. for me, this is consequently a "safer space" - so long as it is liberal enough to allow for an open concept of expression.

i would actually be likely to get into a fight if i were to spend time in a queer space, because i am pro-active about defending myself against unwanted advances. i would punch somebody out. i know that.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.  

these is a legitimately new mix - not a remaster or reconstruction, but a new idea:


this is also a new mix, but from existing sound:


....and this is an upload of a suppressed track:


one more vocal mix coming for inri043, before it re-releases as a 2xep.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.  

i repeat: the only market that exists is for porn.

so, an artist needs to make a choice as to whether it will follow the art, or resort to chasing market demand.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

the modern bourgeoisie is really only interested in pornography, and will openly reject art if it is not sufficiently pornographic - even quite comically going so far as to question it's artistic value if it doesn't contain enough smut.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

you will meet white people around here that acknowledge their immense privilege, as they complain about having to wake up early to flip burgers around the corner from the university, with it's 40% foreign born student populace.

they had opportunity, mind you. but, they decided to study a dead-end in philosophy, whereas their less privileged peers became doctors and engineers.

i'm a realist. i'm an empiricist. i just want people to see things as they actually are, not as their synthetic a priori theory incorrectly predicts them.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

well, if they don't recognize the succession then it remains in the eu as a part of spain.

and, if they do recognize the succession then it should follow that they remain in the eu, too.

i cannot imagine a scenario where the eu would recognize the succession, and yet deny entry. the political situation would have to dramatically deteriorate, to start.

https://www.thelocal.es/20171010/analysis-an-independent-catalonias-tricky-path-to-eu-membership

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

if the catalans intend on staying in the eu, it's hard to escape from the narrative that what's driving succession is a desire to avoid taxes.

but, it won't even work: if those taxes do not go to brussels, they will go to an elite in barcelona, and the middle class will be no better off.

i should have some historical attachment to catalan independence. but, this appears to be a right-wing nationalism that is in dire need of a class analysis.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard. 

this is new.

i'm not suggesting you should take this seriously, but i am suggesting that you should be concerned about it, because it's very reminiscent of the nonsense they floated before they went into iraq.

the timing is very suspect.

it would simply be retarded for the americans to pull out of this.

give it a day or two. but if the administration runs with this then i guess the americans are, in fact, retarded.

this is full retard. full-stop.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/10/irans-secret-sites-linked-to-nuclear-weapons-development-revealed.html

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

ten years ago, some observers were arguing that alberta's influence would make the rest of the country more conservative.

all you'd have had to do was call up an albertan and talk to them for five minutes to learn that alberta's wealth has been a magnet for unemployed people, and it has in turn made the province more liberal.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

again: being brown doesn't give you a free pass to run for office on backwards religious ideals, or an excuse to legislate your morality at the expense of people that disagree with you.

sikhs. christians. muslims. what's the difference? i'm not voting for any of them: they're all equally ineligible for high office.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

the neo-liberal intelligentsia just doesn't get: it doesn't understand that there's a fundamental opposition to putting religious people in positions of power in this country, and that while it is strongest in quebec it is dominant pretty much everywhere outside of alberta - and even becoming dominant there, too.

the opposition to jagmeet singh is not going to be about what's on his head, it's going to be about what's in it. people are not going to like what he has to say, and they're especially not going to like where he's coming from when he says it. but, the press will endlessly obfuscate the point, and pretend it's about a fashion decision rather than that the fact that canada is a progressive country means it rejects the confluence of religion and politics.

electing somebody that thinks they have a magic beard is not progress, it is a leap backwards to the nineteenth century.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/10/09/pariahs-to-power-brokers-sikhs-have-become-a-major-political-force-in-canada.html

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

purchasing this release comes with the immediate download of the release that you linked to it off of. be sure you make the right choice.

inri036: written and recorded in late 1999 and early 2000. these versions of these tracks were sequenced without further modification in jan, 2014. remainder of hummer added as a bonus track, and release finalized, on oct 3, 2017.

inri037: recorded in spring, 2000. released, unmodified, in jan, 2014. release finalized on oct 3, 2017.

inri038: written and recorded, 1999-2001. track 3 was reconstructed out of existing sound in june, 2004. initially sequenced in jan, 2014. four new mixes (maximal mix (2017), electronics only mix (2015), single mix for lp010 (2017), full instrumental mix from deny everything (2014)) were added on oct 5, 2017; release subsequently closed.

inri039: this was constructed over a little more than a month: from 7/7-8/20, 2000. it seems to have been recombined into one track around 2007 but has otherwise not been modified since it was completed. first released as an ep in jan 2014. release finalized on oct 8, 2017.

inri040: recorded in april, 2000. samples added in oct, 2000. album version reverted to original mix in sept, 2006

inri041: recorded over the space of the year 2000. remixed substantially in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2014. existing version constructed in jan, 2014. finalized as lp009 on oct 9, 2017.

inri042: this record was recorded over the years 1999 and 2000, but did not take this form until mid september, 2017. the first track list dates to sept 14, 2017. these tracks are technically outtakes, but did not become outtakes until the remastering process removed them from their respective recordings. finalized as lp010 on oct 9, 2017.

originally created from 1999-2000. this compilation is dated to dec 1, 2000. slowly remastered, reconstituted, compiled, reconstructed, released and finalized from 2013-2017. compilation finalized on oct 9, 2017. as always, please use headphones. 

credits

released December 1, 2000

j - guitars of all types, effects, bass, synth, piano, organ, ebow, flute, mandolin, drum kit, drum programming, sequencing, sound design, found sounds, granular synthesis, noise generators, generative synthesis, generative percussion, cool edit synthesis, light-sound synthesis, loops, films, tapes, sampling, vocals, vocoders, digital wave editing, digital effects processing, treatments, coughs, a broken equalizer, production

the rendered electronic orchestra includes ukelele, theremin, orchestra hit, string ensemble, taiko drums, gongs, trumpet and saxophone. 

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/deny-everything-box-set

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

the united states government cannot be consulting with a universally acknowledged clown like benjamin netanyahu in determining serious policy - and the state department will be the first people to tell you that.

the united states will consult with stable institutions like mossad and the idf, which routinely contradict what bibi says.

the israelis are an important ally. but, netanyahu does not represent the jewish state at all.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.

publishing inri042

i initially began the process of completing the second period of my discography in the first weeks of 2014, and soon realized that the sequencing decisions i made upon initial release required a revisiting. i had unfortunately placed an original progressive rock song (liquify) on a covers disc, and a fruity techno song (book it) at the end of a noise compilation; it was immediately clear that i needed to remove these tracks from their respective official records, but that unfortunately othered them - both liquify and book it then became stranded outtakes, existing only as non-album singles.

in early 2014, i republished the vocal mix of ignorance is bliss as a standalone single; it had been unpublished since i removed it from deny everything in the summer of 2004. in early 2016, i decided i could reconstruct my first two records from scratch as instrumental electronic works after all, but i would have to remove the 14th track from the second record, too cold, in order to do so. this was also split off as a single, which was completed in the fall of 2017.

upon running through the first two periods of my discography one final time in the fall of 2017, i realized that i had removed enough material from my first four official records to compile an outtakes disc and that this material was even conceptually linked - all four of these tracks were some kind of guitar-driven electro-prog, and three of the four had somewhat embarrassing vocal parts that i wanted to remove from the tracks but was unable to due to having lost the original source material. together, these were the tracks that existed in the transition past inri, and into something else; each of these might have been a post-inri track, but the first three were initially pulled back, only to be removed again and left without records.

i strongly considered making this an official record and releasing it before deny everything in the sequence, but i cannot do this. the fact that i can't remove these vocals make these tracks outtakes, necessarily. as my first two records are now entirely instrumental, and remastered from scratch, these tracks would absolutely need to be properly remastered as instrumental recordings to fit into any kind of album sequence. this can consequently only be an outtakes disc.

the curious george suite has also been added to the compilation because it fits the aesthetic, it is not on an official record and it would have been a part of deny everything if i didn't think i had lost it; in that sense, it was sort of removed. the hidden track is added solely due to aesthetic similarities with the rest of the disc. 

this is an outtakes record of discarded and rejected material recorded over periods 1.3 (1999) & 2.1 (2000) that was all removed from some completed, official recording. it can be thought of as an outtakes disc for my fourth official record, deny everything.

this record was written and recorded over the years 1999 and 2000, but did not take this form until mid september, 2017. the first track list dates to sept 14, 2017. these tracks are all very thoroughly rejected outtakes, but did not become outtakes until the remastering process removed them from their respective recordings. finalized as lp010 on oct 9, 2017.

this release also includes a printable jewel case insert and will also eventually include a comprehensive package of journal entries from all phases of production (1997, 1999, 2000, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017). 

credits

released November 12, 2000

j - guitar, effects, bass, synths, piano, flute, loops, drum kit, drum programming, vocals, vocoders, sampling, cool edit synthesis, sequencing, sound design, found sounds, granular synthesis, noise generators, tapes, digital wave editing, digital effects processing, production

the rendered electronic orchestra includes theremin, ukelele & orchestra hit.