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Sketch#3 (Tape and Tensor)

December 13, 2018live sketch, state charger

Starting with a 5 second cassette tape loop recorded into the Red Panda Tensor. Pitching down the Tensor’s sample made for the soundbed. The TR-08 bopping a beat and sending a trigger out to the …

Sketch#2 (Swing Low, My Sweet)

December 10, 2018live sketch, state charger

I’ve got the EHX 8-Step controlling the Count to Five on some of the Mother 32 notes which is making for an unpredictable delay. The more things I can automate in the background the better. No, I’ …

Sketch#1 (Source Materials)

December 4, 2018live sketch, state charger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZVZgzzRgRk This is sort of an everything at once jam. For better or worse it’s busy and a bit all over the map. I am considering this as Source Materials; a …

Motorpranks

April 30, 2018mike downey tape

Between 2012-2016 I recorded a batch of Guided By Voices covers. A lot of these were done as a tool to teach myself how to play drums, and doing covers is a great way to take a break from the usual …

Mike Downey Tape: Open World Avalanche

January 18, 2018mike downey tape

Finally. I have been pysching myself out on this thing. I battled through some bouts of uncertainty but when I felt inspiration it was intense and plentiful. Here’s the result of a real up and …

Today’s collage: Limit on Magnets

July 29, 2017collage

I can feel the need to make collages coming back. I really enjoy doing these. I finally got around to getting my supplies out and making some cuts. This is the result from today’s work. …

Mathlete “Teleport” first generation dub

July 21, 2017mathlete

Teleport was originally released on cassette by In a Lighthouse in 1998 in an edition of 200 copies (ILC-5). A majority of these songs ended up on the Lincolnwood Tech CD on Blackbean and Placenta …

Ok, finally Audio Graves 3 is out in its entirety. This last one spans 2010-2015 and dips in and out the fidelity spectrum. There are some hints of more polished songs from my Shy Mirrors project to …

Collages, 2015-2016

July 16, 2017collage

For documentation’s sake, here’s a group of collages I’ve done in the past couple years. A couple of these were used as album artwork for my recent releases. I’d like to do …

Audio Graves 3, Vol. 11

June 25, 2017audio graves comps

Audio Graves 3, Vol. 11 is out now. Next week I’ll round this up with the final installment, then it’s on to releasing new music! This volume is all fairly new stuff from the past 3; …

Audio Graves 3, Vol. 10

June 17, 2017audio graves comps

Audio Graves 3, Vol. 10 is out now. This one is a time machine back to the late ’90s. 4-tracked tape saturation from small rooms in Central Illinois. Fueled by Rolling Rock. Mathlete outtakes, …

Audio Graves 3, Vol. 9

June 10, 2017audio graves comps

So I’ve been hinting at putting together another Audio Graves collection for a couple of years now. Man, these things take some time to figure out. As with the previous ones this will be a 100 …

I’m currently creating under the moniker State Charger …

… which is a series of audio experiments living in the space of ambient and lo-fi electronic. RIYL improvised looping, meditations, field recordings, tape. I have a couple releases on bandcamp and frequent updates happen over on Instagram.