I’m too busy to produce any new sounds today, so here’s a track off Keston and Westdal’s second release, Truth is Stranger, for your listening pleasure. My best estimation is that we produced this track back in 2004, but the album wasn’t released until we partnered with Unearthed Music in March, 2007. The track’s name, 128 Dirty, is an example of one of those working titles that doesn’t go away. We must have used up all our creativity on producing the track and had nothing left to name the damn thing. You can preview all of the tracks on this album on the releases page at Unearthed Music, or just click on the image or title to go to the page specifically for Truth is Stranger.
128 Dirty

Once again, today I set out to experiment for a few minutes and make a new sound using some processing I had yet to use. But like it is prone to happen, as I tweaked and played around a musical piece started to emerge. I sequenced a series of vocal samples then applied a real-time randomizer to the sequence. Second in the chain was a vocoder plugin programmed to produce a Csus chord, followed by a stereo delay. Underneath it I layered a low melody and automated the waveform setting for one of the oscillators to get a digitized static effect. I titled it Cuba, Illinois after a town of about fifteen hundred people in Illinois called Cuba. I’ve never been there, but I like the juxtaposition of the town and state names.
Today notes the fiftieth entry in my
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