an ever grateful thank you for the decades of music Ozzy, Rest in Valhalla.

15 here on the coast with fog and rain, like something out of Silent Hill.

three years, over twenty albums and four hundred songs, over two main projects (Aural Sechs and Switch) were produced. All stemming from a challenge to some pretty mediocre lyrical poetry. Thanks Heather, sincerely.

- Eliza

I sent the link to the new account to Heather, she listened, and was rather impressed (probably that I followed through, not on the quality of the content). Thing is, this started something in me that I wanted to continue and not just make this a “one and done effort”. Ultimately over the next…

sign up for a MySpace Music account. Not really having a solid name for it, I recalled the joke band name I came up with to submit to Blender magazine’s on-going monthly contest (never did, though $50 was kinda enticing). Aural Sechs was officially created and had three “songs” to its name.

my very first song. This was at about 1:30 am on May 24th, 2005.

In between work and classes at the community college, I came up with a few other ideas, including an “instrumental” only version of H.X, along with the first iteration of Cardial Arrest. It wouldn’t be until June 10th, that I would…

had. Having no instrumentals was going to be an issue, but however I noticed an option to transpose the audio into midi tones, so that was used as the instrumentation. Everything was cleaned up as best as I could in Sound Forge, arranged and mixed in Acid Pro, and ultimately finished as the demo of…

Studio), and reinstalled the demo copies of Sonic Foundry’s Acid Pro 3 and Sound Forge 5 (which I used a keygen to bypass the demo expiration notice, as they were previously installed as I messed around with them years before), I got to work on trying to craft something out of whatever-the-fuck-I…

were captured. That evening I had reviewed what I recorded and went with the fourth take. Tracking down a 3.5mm to 3.5mm patch cable from my CD burner, I plugged the recorder into my PC’s sound card. Having downloaded an early beta of Audacity, some drum machine software (LeafDrums and HammerHead…

skill to do so. But that wasn’t going to stop me. At work the next day, I purchased a Sony micro cassette recorder, a pack of tapes, and some batteries.

The following morning, when alone, I sat in the same location where I wrote the lyrics to “sing” and record the vocals. Five different takes…

the MySpace poetry group I was a member of. A few days later, the group’s creator and moderator Heather Hughes, ultimately challenged me to record them. Not one to back down from a challenge, as a naive and bullish early twenty-one year old, I accepted. However, I did not possess the gear nor the…

All social media is vacuous and vapid, some just less so than others.