Pavonine

Pavonine Review

From Audio Gourmet

PAVONINE - "Pavonine"
Here on Webbed Hand Records, is wonderful dark Ambient music from Pavonine. It's so cleverly put together and is every bit the compelling listen. There's so much subtle detail to get to grips with, that it's easy to forget that you're actually meant to drift off to space when listening to this stuff!!!!

Review of Pavonine

From vuzh music blog

Pavonine - Pavonine … Soft industrial drone work, reminiscent, to me, of the Hafler Trio’s quieter music, but more explicitly ‘ambient’. Very atmospheric and admirably restrained. “Rassamblement des choses qui portent malheur” has a subdued musical theme that is so understated and melancholy that it could be heartbreaking under the right circumstances. Completely lovely.

*waves*

Well, I am just getting all into this new broad spectrum of networking and interacting.  It is a far cry from the person I once was.  The shyness that was almost crippling has sloughed off for the most part and I have to say life is intensely more fun when you aren't terribly afraid of people.

So...here I am sharing with the world through my vox account and out through my last.fm account since I discovered I can news feed Pavonine gossip on my page.

Hello! to all of my listeners. =)

So... maybe I should explain some of the stuff that is on my page, yes?

The self-titled album is well, self-explanatory and if you would like any further information on it, I would suggest going to the Webbed Hand Records page as there is all to be known as well as the opportunity to listen to the other amazing artists available!

Katabatic Winds is a very very short little free album I made up after watching hours worth of documentaries on Antarctica and being infatuated with the environment.  It is composed with freesound [freesound.org] and a few audio samples ripped from the docs.  Free for download, enjoy it.  I just find it a soothing bit of audio.

The War in the Bookcase is to be my next album which will be finished shortly.  I am currently kept busy with school and haven't had the time to devote to its completion, but I am working on it when time permits and promise to have it out within the next month or so.  I don't have any other details than that, but there's some previews up for you to hear if you're interested in where I am at.  The next track, which I have open in another window right now working on, hah, is definitely representative of a lot of shifting I have had going on in just the day-to-day music I enjoy listening to.  I have been getting braver and more adventuresome.  Let's all toast to that, shall we? The stuff of life!

Plutopia 2009 was the material for a live performance I did for the Creative Commons Plutopia event at SxSW this year [2009].  I had great fun and enjoyed it doubly as I had released my album under Creative Commons license with Webbed Hand Records that same month so it was pleasant to give a hat tip back to the great work The EFF has been doing.

Ahh... The Old Innsmouth Road... When I live in Austin I decided to hold a dark ambient event in the cold, dead of winter that would feature music inspired by HP Lovecraft.  At the time I was only working under the project title Naught for 3 which was a harsh, experimental noise bit of nonsense that was great fun.  Love to Mr Lovecraft was my first venture into creating dark ambient sound and I never looked back.  It is rather primitive in sound because at the time I only had a rinky-dink little laptop running Sound Forge.  The entire track was special mixed and the waveform hand edited solely in Sound Forge with no other addition.  I recently rescued it from a dying drive, cleaned it up, refined it, but left it primarily in its original state as it is a bit of history for me.  This track was the birth of Pavonine.

Lastly, I have a remix folder.  I would like to do more remixes of songs from various artists, but it will all have to wait until after War in the Bookcase is completed and I find the time during a break from school.  Currently in the folder is a little one-off remix of "Lake of the Minde" by Blood of Kvasir. 

Well then... there's an explanation of all that is currently available.  In the future I will post when new things go up, events occur, or something interesting in the world of Pavonine happens.  For now I will let you go and get back to this track.

ta!

The latest news 3/12/2009

Röyksopp 'Happy Up Here'

Today my bit of inspiring video has been Royksopp's "Happy Up Here"

Not that it has anything to do with the work I do.  It is far happier, and more bouncy, but sometimes the things that are so different is all you need when trying to work.

So, even though it has been posted near everywhere, gotta stay consistent... the self-titled Pavonine album is released on Webbed Hand Records.  It is sitting currently at 905 dlds on archive.org which nearly just kills me with smile, and I just seem incapable of getting down to business on the work that needs to be done right now.

I would talk about my upcoming performance, but I think everyone knows that so I'll skip it.

Now... back to work.

think.

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned ... to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and school teachers."

-from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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