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a former melbournite, now osakian commarade of mine, Kid Transistor, has just released an EP of collaborations called “+ others”. the first jam on said EP features me singing stuff and shredding some sick axe. stream and/or download why don’t you? it’s free because the internet says so. http://www.kidtransistor.com/ My good friend Subsketch has started a podcast and this week it features me talking about all things Zeal thusfar. He’s done some tricky editing to make me say things i never really said… check it out Y’all! Oh yeah! Give me that podcast!
While you’re at it, check out all things Subsketch. He makes tremendous stuff. It is worthy of your attention.  Leave a comment  animation, DIY, excitement, music, the intertron, video, video games  adelaide, animation, art, excitement, making of, mp3, music, music video, space-time, stop motion, Subsketch, the future, This is how i hear your voice, time, video game, with the moon along side racing us home, zeal
My new album “With the Moon alongside Racing Us Home” launched today. It’s available as a free download and also as CD in lovingly handmade cardboard sleeves made just for you. I wrote and recorded the album throughout 2009 in my bedroom studio dubbed The Pentagon, It has reoccuring themes of robots, dragons, anarchism and the night sky and a little three note refrain scattered throughout. You can download or buy the album here.
To celebrate the albums release I’ve also sent my new website live. mmmmm… orange.
What do think of the album and the site? let me know why don’t you.
as promised, a brand spanking new track from my upcoming album. download and share to your hearts content. Zeal – WaspsWasps was sampled and sequenced on a PS2 using this software and some of the lyrics were borrowed from a Benny Hinn song.
It’s been picked up by New Weird Australia vol. 3, a way cool compilation of interesting Australian music. CHECK IT! and Rose Quartz picked it up almost instantly and said nice things like “this new Zeal track is some cool fucking shit.” READ!
my EP This is how I hear your voice is now in delicious digital form. you can stream it from this lovely little widget, you can listen to it here, you can click share and tweet about it, you can click download and buy it for half the cost of the physical disc and you can click download and pay significantly more for it because you want to support my whimsical endeavors. isn’t the internet great? the EP will be up on itunes soon too so you’ll be able to do that whole thing too if you’d like. i tend to avoid itunes after it ate my entire mp3 collection (TWICE) but maybe you’ve had better luck. it’s all quite exciting and in celebration i have a free EP set aside for you. just send me a tweet, leave a comment or send me an email answering this question: how do you think YOU will survive the approaching inevitable robot uprising? the best answers received before November 4th receive a copy of the EP and stickers with robots and swear words on them. robots and swear words! late last year i picked up a second hand copy of the playstation2 music software “MTV music generator 2″. i was surprised by a few of the quirks i discovered, most importantly it’s ability to sample with a singstar mic(!). couple this with it’s nifty little sample editor that lets you trim, reverse, filter etc. and it’s stepped up to play a significant role in the recording of my next album. so i thought i’d tell you, the intertron, all about it and it’s glorious quirkiness. so apparently this game had a usb sampling dongle you could buy to plug in your diskman or walkman or horse or what ever we were using back then. it was basically a usb audio interface for your playstation, which is pretty cool, but you’re unlikely to have one just lying around. lucky for us, the software confuses the singstar mic dongle for the sampling kit which turns your ps2 into a sampler sequencer… and a pretty capable one. Continue reading music gerneration station long time no post. yes, my internet presence has been slightly neglected. apologies. but i have much to report. recording! recording! recording! after the string of gigs last october, i’ve a veritable bounty of tunes and beats and, at this point in time, i am committing them to binary. you could almost say i’m recording an album. and i even know what’s it’s going to be called… but i’m not telling. although recording at the mighty ja’s studio conctrete looked like this…
we recorded some drum samples two floors down in a big empty concrete room. the mic leads made their way down via the window and the side of the building but unfortunately we couldn’t get a headphone send down there. solution: a coke bottle + a piece of string. communique inside bottle. bottle out the window. genius! headphones are over rated i say. i was going to make a movie of this but hit a wall when i discovered how unbelievably crap imovie is… *about an hour later*… bah! combination of after effects screwing up and imovie not letting me pick my freaking export format. laaaaame! ok. never mind. hey, here’s an mp3 of a new song! it’s me in front of my computer playing ukulele and singing the morning after the last octoberlaide gig. anyone who came to that gig (rhino room) – this is that song i forgot all the words too. ok, so what else? well i’ve sort of officially release my ep. it’s release has been up in the air for almost a year due to a series of minor disasters and roadblocks in the shapes of people. so i’ve taken a page out of the book of punk and i’m going DIY. speaking of DIY (a segway worthy of radio!) i’ve been knee deep in drums and DIY midi triggers thanks in part to the truly wonderful guitar hero four. this game is really teaching me to drum. it’s the future of music education – or any skills training – i tells ya. my current project is converting the wireless usb drum kit into a fully functional midi drum kit. all of that equals a wireless, usb, midi drum kit. which is pretty neat. that will be the next post. right now, i’m off to drum.
on my recent travels around the intertron, i stumbled upon an old nes game, labyrinth – based on the 1986 masterpiece of the same name. don’t get me started on labyrinth… the fusion of bowie and henson was so obvious, it’s surprising it took them so long. but anyway, the best thing about this game is that somewhere out there, a nes programmer got to make 8-bit covers of david bowie songs. magic dance (:b
-presenting: zealousy 3.0- hi. my name’s bob, i make music as zeal. i make animation as robert jarvis. this is my new website. what it will become, i do not know. still a few kinks to iron out like the strange mouse over properties of the link below (now fixed -ed.). but right now – a ringtone! a ringtone written by me, played on a semi-stolen toy piano, playing on your phone… you’ve got a call. a voice says… bob. |
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