Reblogged from zenith-angle
Prudential Center, Newark, NJ, USA
May 31, 2012
photo: Amanda Hatfield
(via treefingering)
This is my senior project in its completion. The tracks are good, apart from a few moments on a few tracks, but I hope you all have a listen and enjoy them.
My personal favorites are Videotape, How To Disappear Completely, and For Those Who’ve Gone.
NEW COVER: Sleeping With Sirens - Iris (Originally by Goo Goo Dolls)
I.. don’t know if I love or hate this.
Why the fuck did they get Spongebob on vocals
._. not spongebob
Yo it’s okay I don’t actually think that’s literally Spongebob
Most definitely Spongebob, but hey, I can’t sing this song either. Requires way too much belting for me; get dizzy and fall over halfway through.
I’m standing in a room with some of my best friends and longest companions, and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so damn lonely.
So I’ve come up with another alternative, that for some reason didn’t click to me. I’m sitting here with a band mate who was the technical owner of the French Connection we had in the band room, and although he agrees it’s a French Connection prototype, he suggested it could also be a completely different instrument that Greenwood had made. It’s probably… no definitely, easier to schlep around a smaller French Connection controller with the modules inserted into the body of the paneling, than it would be to carry around his stage rig with him all the time. It makes sense to me, but I guess TKOG is entitled to his alternative opinion.
The wood is most certainly walnut, after having seen the Henry Rollins show video, and although we agree that the design is not consistent with AS, I think we’ve both concluded that it’s probably from the same manufacturer. I’m sticking to my guns on this one, that it’s either a French Connection prototype, or an alternative so that he can take the thing on the road with him for spontaneous jamming without the necessity of carrying his whole synth. I wish there were better pictures from Haiti so we could see if it was there; might better prove my hypothesis.
Submission from DHD
If I’m following the post correctly, the version or clone of the ondes shown in the picture with Thom and Jonny was seen prior to 2006. Please refer to the performance of The National Anthem from Saturday Night Live that aired in late 2000. I also recall reading that AS…
I’m not sure if TKOG will read this, but I think the responder might agree with me on this one, that the instrument in questions is a prototype French Connection. I’m waiting to hear back from AS about it - sent them the picture that got reblogged, as well as another one I found around the net - so we’ll see. After having seen ours up close and personal so many times, I’m convinced that what portions are similar, if not identical, are in fact AS items. The wood I can’t explain, but I do feel that it is walnut, and not an alternative, and the volume control is just too uncannily similar to the one on the AS French Connection for it to be merely coincidence.
I think it’s entirely plausible that synthesizer modules were integrated into the instrument when you think about creating a prototype for a controller. You cut down the nonsense and just include an oscillator, ADSR, and amplifier into the system, you can just plug the damn thing into the wall and rock and roll! This is particularly plausible, in my humble opinion, if Greenwood was unable to acquire modules prior to having the item built. I’m not sure if he ordered it for a single song, but it certainly makes sense when you think about how old tracks like How To Disappear Completely are, and others that feature the Ondes type portamento and glissando heavily.
Anyways, I’ll be hearing back from AS sometime soon, so I’ll post up the results of that email conversation and see where we can get! Looking forward to it actually.
PS: Mounting quarter inch on the back of the French Connection is plausible. Ours didn’t have it, but if your keyboard controller isn’t mounted directly against a panel, like it is in Trent Reznor’s studio (I’ll find the picture later), having a rear panel mount output isn’t much of an issue. You really only need to send the CV signal from the top panel though, and if you can jam that Oscillator and amplifier module into the keyboard panel (which could have been done on ours, having seen the inside of the panel to diagnose some of the factory issues we had with it), you can pretty much run it without anything more than CV out and Gate out.
