December 2023 – Stereo Mike

On signal-flow colouration layering (as phonographic glue)

Posted on December 25, 2023December 25, 2023 by Stereo Mike

Christmas Day today which meant I had a whole day for recording. I thought it was a good time to express some of my Americana ideas which have been festering throughout my last semester of musical osmosis (during this PhD, I have been spending an average of about six months obsessing over a particular style, listening to it almost exclusively and learning or focusing on relevant instruments to perform it—the last few months have been...

What makes a single element ‘phonographic’?

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Stereo Mike

Or narrowing down on the difference between an overdub and a sample... So, last night—one day before the end of term—I was in an exhausted state but felt I should crate-dig in my hard drives of jams and pull out something inspiring from the recordings to spend some hours in the studio. I came across a (Yamaha) grand piano recording I had self-captured at the University of Westminster studios the year before. I had used some excellent mics...

Songs

	Stereo Mike - Wishbone (ft. Jo Lord)
	Stereo Mike - Arun Dva
	Stereo Mike - Keim Outro (ft. Andrew Caldecott)