SNAKE APPLE TREE
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2014: Nobody is more surprised than me that there is any traffic on this site at all. Thank you for your interest!
March 2014
Have been recording vocal samples with a talented young lady
who is as professional as she is lovely.
Its a lucky break for the studio -
have been trying to get a female singer
to put down some soundbytes for a long time.
In Wales if you ask any woman if she can sing
or wants to be in a band or the time
or anything at all for that matter,
all she hears is the words;
'do you want to have sex with me'
and the actual straight-talk face-value words are irrelevant.
She has a great voice, it is versatile,
we plan to do more sessions in future.
So I bought a fairly decent microphone,
better than the two-for-a-pound ones from poundland
that I have been using for the last decade.
It is described as having a 'warm' sound.
It is sensitive! Picks up all the frequencies of background sound;
birds outside and breathing, cars going past,
which have to be EQ'd out or alternatively
add ambience to the recording.
Now I know why studio's use sound proof booths to record vocals in.
Considering converting the shower into such a thing,
having previously discovered the merits of buddhist chanting in the shower
which it is a cute booth for resonance.
"Hey girl how would you like to come and make sexy noises in my shower cubical?
It's safe, I only want to record you doing it."
Yeah right mate.
And so eventually the music will make its way into the public arena
so you will see for yourself that it's worth the effort of taking this seriously.
Jan 2014
Dreamed today again of some beneficial entity pulling a lizard from my throat,
out through my mouth, rising all the way up through my core.
Ideally it would be a snake and easy to slide out but this fucker has developed claws,
a spike in my voicebox and gripping my lower chakra's from within.
Whoever has been doing this healing, i am grateful.
My cat was sleeping next to me so perhaps it was her.
A few nights ago the same, and the lizard snapped,
left its claws in me and they grew back again, same as tonight.
The healer advised I relax and let go.
I want to let go, for some reason my subconscious seems not ready yet?
I am reminded very much of the mayan scroll-serpent stellae with a human in its mouth,
this time its the other way around; the snake coming out through my throat.
Wish I knew what it was. The voice answers;
it's dirt, it doesn't matter specifically what it manifests as,
what the lizard looks like.
Just get it out.
Why am I holding on?
What am I holding on to?
December 2013
Following discovery that someone has hacked into and deleted all of my webjam sites,
i have began the process of converting this (studio journal) site into my main website and internet presence.
At the same time, the discovery that everything we do in the google empire is spied upon using program code where the invisible functionality applications are also spyware, so that nothing works without them, a relatively new phenomena on the internet as far as i am aware given that i used to be able to do the same things without relying on these cookies.
i have gone over to duckduckgo which claims to make my internet activity invisible to the private corporations behind this sinister agenda. It has some useful applications of its own,
not only ad blockers also tracking blockers.
Fiddling with the tracking software on/off is how i have discovered the same tracking software is the functionality for accessing the websites owned by the corporation
who do not have my consent to store my data no matter what their intentions.
By UK Common Law their activity is in breach of my Rights;
it is shameful that they be permitted to get away with it.
i am a composer; they are terrorists.
"We are governed by consent"
Teresa May UK Home Secretary
I DO NOT CONSENT TO BE GOVERNED
because the government are criminals.
28.12.13
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Have been working on some compositions,
playing it live then input to machine so I can figure out how the next bit sounds,
I would write it to paper manuscript but I ran out already
then the using the computer takes on a life of its own,
derails the intended flow from the original theme and live improvisation;
it's a struggle to get it back there without it becoming something else.
Using machines directly affects the music in this way, changes it's structure.
Learning from both because both have their own forms of innovation.
Anyway here is the work in progress.
It is based around a famous French piece that I don't know the name of.
When the improvisation becomes the maths and the maths becomes the music,
the freedom is outside of that equation; the freedom is the real music.
The structure is there only to give a framework to escape from.
That dynamic, that journey; becomes what you hear.
These words are more exciting than the sounds.
7.12.13
lantana, piano work-in-progress
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this is a rare and recent (12.13) photo of the guy who the character snakeappletree is loosely based on
After a few decades of grubbing around in the lo-fi shit of alley gutters and lolly gussets its about time I make pretense at getting for real, wipe the sideways smirk from my scarred and stubbled angels fake and face being 'a real rock star' (to quote one of the groupies), for the sake of doing something with my life in the eyes of the bastard public instead of hiding away in studios doing bizarre scientific experiments with whiskey, women and opening electronic frequency gates to other dimensions to find out for myself what those damnable HAARP scientists are up to and battle otherworldly demons for kicks.
So here's some photos to make it easier to recognize me when you see me in public if that ever happens. Begrudgingly copying the traditional style of band websites so people think they know where i'm coming from and still not really fitting into that role either. Fuck paying someone else to make me a stereosite webotype under common delusion they're more professional because they charge money i don't have for it; This is the underground. I'll share some of my real music with you too soon.
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NEWS
5.5.2012 PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
"SNAKEAPPLETREE"
is now
trademark licensed
to
ORDO OCTOPIA LTD
previously;
"snakeappletree" was the stage name used by an artist, musician & shaman
now;
"snakeappletree" is not a living flesh & blood being :
"snakeappletree" is a soulless corporate fiction;
a brand product logo & adult cartoon caricature
used by Ordo Octopia with permission from the original copyright owner
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3.11.2013
finally at long last have everything placed more or less where it needs to be
so, have been experimenting with samples
recorded over the past decade onto Roland s760 (old floppy disks)
an old gunslinger now...
recorded a few singers this year, not done much else
playing live on the organ downstairs and composing
"SNAKEAPPLETREE"
is now
trademark licensed
to
ORDO OCTOPIA LTD
previously;
"snakeappletree" was the stage name used by an artist, musician & shaman
now;
"snakeappletree" is not a living flesh & blood being :
"snakeappletree" is a soulless corporate fiction;
a brand product logo & adult cartoon caricature
used by Ordo Octopia with permission from the original copyright owner
جو
3.11.2013
finally at long last have everything placed more or less where it needs to be
so, have been experimenting with samples
recorded over the past decade onto Roland s760 (old floppy disks)
an old gunslinger now...
recorded a few singers this year, not done much else
playing live on the organ downstairs and composing
جو
Thanks & Gratitude
(in no specific order)
All the greats who came before
and pushed the horizon over the edge
to give us headspace.
Jordan Reyne
whose youtube tutorials and her voice!
taught me the wisdom of acquiring some very useful gear
Louis Martine
of New Orleans Voodoo
for teach me the rhythms
for ceremony, which gigs are
Dan the Man
for years of support, encouragement, directions & friendship.
Check out the influential Red Shark Sound System for jazz-dubstep, seWales style.
The Live set is a hard act to follow!
http://soundcloud.com/theredsharksoundsystem
Mam&Mom
for supportive contributions making it possible
Sephir
for instructing me in Tarot, Alchemy and so much more!
That we are reunited proves the Beauty of Life
Angel
whose cadaceus wand begat voodoo sound tools
I hope that you are safe
Corey
for teaching me live drum tricks, spirit,
& for showing me Truth.
& Nostrovia!
Jon Shannow
for putting a sampler on my lap
& introducing me to the MIDI monster
Ben
BBC Young Composer of the Year Winner
for lending me his BA music lecture notes & assignments file
Ryman
for nocturnal groovebox tuition
Tora
for letting me play her djembe
& unleash rhythms of freedom
nobody knew where were coming from,
that night
Ginger
of Skindred
basically for being my studio tech
when his own ability is second to none
its an honour to have worked with you!
Nat
we learned together that music is Life
"voodoo people magick people"
Pablo
for providing me with magick stereo-lead
Check out his custom guitar art
http://board.violetprison.com/album.php?albumid=72
Paul Gray
Community Music Wales
for teaching me sampling law
"a significant proportion of the original creative intention"
= 'the 3 second rule'
and for getting me quality portable recording gear
put to much good use!
Russ of Durga
for teaching me street performance
“we’re on a mission from God”
at Zooport Chartists tunnel jam;
queues lined up to give us coins!
Win
a dark nagual
for everything!
Bryan Charleywood
hey man I named my kid after you
Charley Jungle
Staff at the Family Center for being there!
I can't write a list of gratitude without mentioning;
Far
who seered deep to the weave
NB some tribe names have been changed to protect true people
you know who you are and if you don't, you should do
