VIDEO: The Protector
Performed, recorded and produced at Harrison Skydeck by Warren Harrison
music / musical composition / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering / video
VIDEO: Mad World (Jess Lamb and The Factory, live Tears For Fears cover)
Performed, recorded and produced at Harrison Skydeck by Warren Harrison, Jess Lamb, Kris Linkugel. Written by Roland Orzabal
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VIDEO: Golden Hour (Jess Lamb and The Factory - Blueprints)
Written, recorded and produced at Harrison Skydeck by Warren Harrison and Jess Lamb
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SINGLE: Molly Sullivan - Blue
Written, recorded and produced at Harrison Skydeck by Molly Sullivan and Warren Harrison
music / musical composition / musical production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
SINGLE: Jess Lamb and The Factory - S-E-X-Y-Y
Written, recorded and produced at Harrison Skydeck by Jess Lamb and Warren Harrison
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VIDEO: Harbor
Written, recorded and produced at Harrison Skydeck by Warren Harrison
music / musical arrangement / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering / video
VIDEO: Indiana in Venice
What if life's resolution was altered? Visualized experience shot in Venice Beach, CA in Aug, 2018 with music originally written in Venice Beach in Aug, 2016
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SINGLE: Jess Lamb and The Factory - Your Hands
from demo to finished single
music / musical composition / musical arrangement / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
SINGLE: Anna Applegate - Gypsy Heart
from demo to finished single
audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
ALBUM: Warren Harrison - Neither Yesterday, nor Tomorrow
Solo instrumental release
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ALBUM: Jess Lamb and The Factory - Slow Down
2018 full-length release from Jess Lamb and The Factory
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Website: greatrecruiters.com
Ruby on Rails website development
web development / ruby on rails / javascript / data wrangling / api integration
SINGLE: Krystal Peterson - Professional Victim
Written, recorded and produced at Harrison Skydeck by Krystal Peterson, Jess Lamb and Warren Harrison
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SINGLE: Anna Applegate - Devil Knocked on Our Door
Here's a recording of Anna's beautiful song recorded and produced at Harrison Skydeck
audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Sun Down Road
Obsessed with both sunsets and making music, I decided to relieve my night time melancholy by writing some music to a video I shot somewhere in Indiana a couple of days ago.
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Timelines
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Website: rookwood.com
Wordpress customization, while working for Studio Elsa
web development / wordpress / javascript / data wrangling
SINGLE: What I'm Fighting For (with Rylee Kenna & Jess Lamb)
music / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
The Third Person 0001 (experiments w/ Amy Whitaker and Erin Peisert)
Amy's video and rumbles, Erin's voice and sounds and Warren's video
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Monday Improv
music / musical composition / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Feel It (with Jess Lamb)
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Music: Tiny Steps (live looping improv)
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Music: Live in the Now (Jess Lamb and The Factory feat. Zebediah Williams of Zebras in Public)
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Music: From the Bridge (Warren Harrison & Nathan Singer of The Whiskey Shambles)
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Music: ... is not forever
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Music/Video: What It Seems
Is it what it seems? Does it truly matter?
motion graphics / music / musical composition / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Video: “Slow” by That, That Revolves
Music video and production for TTR
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Video: “Sweet Dreamer” by Jess Lamb
Music video and production for Jess Lamb
video / motion graphics / music / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Video: “The Morning” by Jess Lamb
Music video and production for Jess Lamb
video / motion graphics / music / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Music: “One Heart” by Jess Lamb & Tennis Mounts
Music production for Jess Lamb
music / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Music: “The Morning” by Jess Lamb
Music video and production for Jess Lamb
music / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Music: Tortoise
Something about shelled creatures, buzzing bass and thumpy drummings
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Website: brewingheritagetrail.org
Ruby on Rails website development
web development / ruby on rails / javascript / data wrangling / api integration
Website: theagar.com
Front-end website for a Wordpress.com site. Uses REST API for light-weight front end.
web development / HTML/CSS / javascript / data wrangling / api integration
Website: snaac.com
Full stack web development, while employed by Topic Design
web development / HTML/CSS / javascript / data wrangling / api integration / ruby on rails
Website: findlaymarket.org
Full stack web development, while employed by Topic Design
web development / HTML/CSS / javascript / ruby on rails
Music: “Lovers on the Run” by Jess Lamb
Music composition and production for Jess Lamb
music / musical composition / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Music: “Balloon Girl” by Hungry Lucy
Music composition and production for Hungry Lucy
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Music: “End of the Line” by Jess Lamb
Music arrangement and production for Jess Lamb
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Music: “Step Out of the Dark” by Jess Lamb
Music composition and production for Jess Lamb
music / musical composition / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Video: Jess Lamb Tour Diary - Paramount Theater, Oakland w/ Bootsy Collins
Video Diary and music production for Jess Lamb
video / motion graphics / music / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Video: Jess Lamb Tour Diary - Brooklyn/Manhattan
Video Diary and music production for Jess Lamb
video / motion graphics / music / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Video: Jess Lamb & The Factory visits WOBO fm
Video Diary and music production for Jess Lamb
video / motion graphics / music / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Album: “Chasing Sunshine” by That, That Revolves
Music composition and production for TTR
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Music: Breathe Me (Sia Cover)
Haven't done this in a a while, but gave myself a 1-hour challenge to record a cover tune. This time, I chose Sia's "Breathe Me". I'm no Sia, vocally, so I ended up sounding like Feargal Sharkey and Howard Jones' love child! :) Kept it minimal, musically. The song is a powerful song... needs little embellishments.
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Music: Indiana in Venice
Needed a little musical output, so I made this serene little ditty
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Music: Cool (Skydeck Remix) - originally by The Perfect Children
Here is a remix (or reimagining) of The Perfect Children's song, "Cool" by myself and Jess Lamb.
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Music: How am I Not Myself?
Challenge: create something musical during lunch break pulling in recent experiences (Boards of Canada, I Heart Huckabees and the feeling of being lost)
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Music: From the Bridge (sketch)
From the Bridge (sketch) by hungrymedia
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Music: Red Glass (Sketch)
Popped into my head and so I fleshed it out a bit. Vocal ideas, anyone?
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Music: Tingle
Not sure what this will become, yet, but I like it.
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Music: Silver Springs (Fleetwood Mac cover by Erica Allen & Warren Harrison)
Erica Allen & Warren Harrison's cover version of the Fleetwood Mac song, Silver Springs, written by Stevie Nicks.
Additional guitar goodness by Sean Davis.
Recorded and mixed at Harrison Skydeck - Cincinnati, OH
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Music: Foolish Games (Jewel cover by Erica Allen & Warren Harrison)
A synth-poppish cover for Jewel's Foolish Games with vocals by the lovely and talented Erica Allen
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Music: Dust
It snowed. I made a little music.
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Music: Future's Brighter (instrumental)
Future's Brighter (instrumental) by hungrymedia
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Music: Nobody's Diary (piano/vocal cover)
Hit record and go, because I wanted to play and sing. Also, I forgot how crappy the SM58 was for recording, but no matter.
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Music: Kinder
Kinder by hungrymedia
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Music: Mad World (Tears For Fears cover)
Between laundry loads I thought I'd try a quick cover of one of my favorite Tears for Fears songs... so I did.
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Music: Calm Amid the Chaos
This one was recorded 20 years ago in a freezing cold studio, not 2 blocks from where I work now. I can remember trying to play with gloves, scarf and hat on... there weren't no heat!
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Music: Puppy Funk
Not quite sure what this is, but I dig it. Started the pieces this past weekend and then riffed on it a bit this evening.
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Music: Bassically
A first run with the new Moog Minitaur. 4 audio tracks, no MIDI (and sloppy playing). I just recorded a track, tweaked the sound and went for another. Very stream of consciousness.
Some observations:
The low end is VERY nice (duh).
There is an upper range limit to the oscillators, which is pretty low. Makes sense for a bass synth. If you tune oscillator 2 up an octave from osc 1 and play in the upper octave, oscillator 2 stops at it's upper limit allowing it to drone a single note, no matter where you play in that octave. Seemed like something was wrong at first, then I understood what was happening. You can hear the effect in the middle range repeating riff above.
While there's no noise generator, you can crank the LFO all the way up and get a "nearly noise" effect (heard in the "drum" sounds above)
I expected this to sound exactly like the Moog Little Phatty. Not so. The filter has a more growly sound. I dig it.
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Music: Inside, Looking Out (sketch)
After 41 years of being inside, looking out, I'm finally having a look around inside. While it's very organized, the functionality is all wrong. Water flows through the electrical circuits and power, through the plumbing. This piece is my mood after just a week of this rearranging.
Incidentally, I started and finished this little piece on my new Korg Kronos workstation. The only time it hit the computer was to upload to Soundcloud. The Kronos is pretty bloody fab and it's very nice to create music, once again, away from a computer screen.
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Music: Breathe (naked mix)
I wrote this song after the awful day a few students went on a shooting spree in Columbine, Colorado in April of 1999.
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Music: 8mm 01
First piece for a new film/video project I'm working on with my lovely wife, Christa (http://blackbreadbox.tv)
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Music: Multiply - HL Mix (originally by Stephanie's Id)
My remix of the lovely song, Multiply by Stephanie's Id. This is the first remix I truly struggled with! I have such huge respect for Stephanie and her original version. I was trying very hard to create something that sounded like SID... then I realized, there's little point in a remix if it sounds like the original. So I started from scratch and tried to focus on the lyrics. There is a darkness there that wrestles to break out and shine. This bears very little resemblance to the original... but (hopefully) a good illustration of the lyrics.
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Music: Sleep, Interrupted
Last night, I awoke in the middle of the night. All was still, except my mind. Within a few hours this arrived.
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Album: “Pulse of the Earth” by Hungry Lucy
Music arrangement and production for Hungry Lucy
music / musical arrangement / audio production / audio recording / audio mixing / audio mastering
Album: “To Kill a King” by Hungry Lucy
Music composition and production for Hungry Lucy
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Album: “Glō” by Hungry Lucy
Music composition and production for Hungry Lucy
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Album: “Before We Stand... We Crawl” by Hungry Lucy
Music composition and production for Hungry Lucy
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Album: “Itself” by Fishtank No.9
Music composition and production for Fishank No.9
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Music: Cinematronic
I've been thoroughly enjoying Daft Punk's TRON Legacy soundtrack and wanted to try an experiment in a similar style. I'm just using a very basic composition here. 4 repeating chords with various riffs inside of that structure. It's all in the arrangement. The cold electronics playing off the filmic strings and cymbal swells seem to be the key here.
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Music: The Imaginary Importance of Moving Quickly
This was my Saturday afternoon. With so much going on lately, I was reminded of the value in stopping and smelling the roses (http://goo.gl/4WWuP). Creating little pieces of music like this is my version of an open road, a mountain hike or a fabulous meal with dear friends... this is my bliss.
I could have spent hours getting the mix perfect and obsessing over sound placement. That would really miss the point of the endeavor, though... would it not?
Live life.
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Music: Do You Ever Wonder?
Laying on your back, staring up at the stars. A distant aircraft makes it's way across your view, recalling the journey that would change you life forever. Do you ever wonder?
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Music: Oblong Stroll (another GarageBand/iPad on the bus tune)
Another morning iPad Garageband composition on the bus. About 45 mins bus time using only Garageband on the iPad (shrewd observers will notice the punny title as it is "reminiscent" of another tune by another artist)
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Music: Supermoon Morning (iPad Garageband Test #1)
Garageband on the iPad is very impressive. It seems more musical than many of the other composition apps I've tried on the iPad. After an hour of playing around with it, I'd spent the time actually noodling with musical ideas rather than figuring out how to use it. This little piece was wholy created on the iPad and then exported via email.
Lack of sharing by anything other than email is really the biggest drawback of Garageband on the iPad, I'd say. Great stuff.
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