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20 Mar 2012

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On Words and Actions

This is just a quick recording I did on my phone. I wanted to create a test post but couldn’t think of anything. So tonight, while at work on a cigarette break I recorded this little thing about words and actions. It’s completely off the cuff and may even seem a bit incoherent. I was just rambling. I like the subject though and may revisit this theme in the future with something a bit more cohesive 🙂

Since I recorded it on a phone and I’m at work, I couldn’t really clean it up. I downloaded a free copy of Audacity just to do a quick noise reduction and I encoded the mp3 with LameXP – both very useful and very free tools.

What I’m talking about in the audio is the difference between words and actions. About how we tend to see the words as actions and not the real actions themselves. In fact, there’s a lot I’d like to say on the subject. Maybe I’ll get back to this sooner than later.

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6 Jan 2010

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Mixing and Mastering My Sound

The sound of my recordings have been a major problem for me for a while. I record my audio in my room, not a studio. I try to mix it to the best of my abilities, which are, admittedly, non-existent in this area. I suffer from a deaf ear to musical nuance as well as a lack of proper equipment, such as a good set of monitors. Any engineers
out there in need of a friend?

I have some monitor headphones, but the stuff you hear in the cans don’t sound anything like they do in the car or on the stereo. What I really need is an okay pair of studio monitors…or a damn studio :)) but neither of those things are in the budget at the moment.

Case in point: I took two of the tracks that I recently blogged about – GunSpeak and WhereDoWeGo – and burned them to a disc to play on my way to work today. Both tracks sounded extremely hollow when I turned them up in the car, which upset me no end.

These problems I have with the sound are due to my inability to properly mix and my complete lack of any sort of mastering on my tracks. There are many services available to do both of these things on a per track/album basis no matter if it was recorded in a studio or not. However, at this point in time, I can’t justify the costs (since I don’t have an actual product to sell) nor can I even afford the costs.

This is a big reason why I don’t like to share a lot of tracks. It’s also one of the reasons that I get highly frustrated with a lot of the music I work on, causing me not to finish as I just can’t get the sound right…or even close to right :)) But I guess I have to just say fuck it and keep moving forward. That’s the motto for the O-10 folks 🙂

I guess I said all that to say this: sorry for the sub-par audio quality. I try 🙂 I’m going to try to upgrade over the course of this year.

And as always, I’m open to suggestions and advice. Leave a comment.

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9 Sep 2008

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SilencioBarnes Audio Blog 002

This is a audio blog post – partial transcription below

It’s ya boy Silence, silenciobarnes whatever whatever

September 9^th 2008 – 9:30 pm

Da usual – bored, broke and sober

Went to New York over the weekend

Saw my peoples

Got reminded of exactly where it was I came from

You know

Dreams disappearing,

fiends just appearing out of thin white smoke And they need what you giving but you need what they giving

Hamiltons, Jacksons, Grants, Franklins thank for the business

12 and thirteen –

young adult girls but they think they grown women And they shaped like grown women –

Desire turn to sex, sex turns to life and the babies having babies and they think they have feelings

For a nigga that think he a killa, Think he a grown ass man and he think he a dealer

but really he just trapped in a river, Called life where he born in a place that traps him forever Cause he can’t see past what he isn’t

Then ends life trapped in a prison maybe not the kind with the bars but he still can’t forget that he feels life HAS to forgive him

But that’s the same dude I grew up with I have to forgive him cause I came from the same type of vision

The same life the same hopes the same passion same cryogenics, frozen having sex with the same kind of mistress

We call her death she bears witness to this crazed type of living

May life bless and raise our children – cause it seems that we can’t really raise our own limits

We Can’t fly

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31 Aug 2008

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SilencioBarnes Audio Blog 001

This is a audio blog post – transcription below –

This is an audio blog. SilencioBarnes – Pretty much just…bored.
Sunday, August 31 2008 – 14:41
Most of y’all would still consider this Saturday night, but…yea…I don’t know 🙂

Silenciobarnes, more bored than a wood carver’s barn
Heineken and tobacco but he wish he had traum
Late night steady wishing for the following morn
Steady living but he wish he had more –
I’m kinda horny too, daydreams of fucking you raw
I’ll assume that you know who you are
About to go to the store
Red Bull or a Monster of course
I’m a need it when I stay up till dawn
My arteries clogged my lungs in a fog
I’m a mess, need a straight jacket hand cuffs and muzzle just to silence the god
– This is Silence the God
And the boredom so thick you can cut it like a blade through the heart
True story I feel desperate and loss
I went to the bar with a twenty dollar bill for a drink and a talk
Just to chill, but I feel strange in these parts and unwelcome
Like a ghost in a house or a drunk in a park
All I need is some weed and a chick with a car
And a ass and a brain and original thoughts
Come and braid my hair or lets take us a walk
Or tell me about your life and the battles you fought
I’m sicker than a necrophile raping a corpse
Yet sweeter than the love that you lost
Bitter like the taste of a love that is forced
Or the feel of a lovers remorse
I get’s blunted of course
And can deal with both sides of the force
I can build with the best but my paper is short
So I’m a build me a nest and pray to I for support
Glory be as I travel my course, now let’s get it

SilencioBarnes – I wanna shout out all my social networking friends and those of you that support me and let me know that you feeling the kid. I appreciate the love.
To all my haters, if any of you exist, continue doing what you doing.
To all of you that don’t like me or got some sort of problem with me, for whatever reason…fuck you, eat a dick.

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