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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Jay in California sent me this e-mail after receiving a CD copy of The Lemon Kittens EP:

heya rj–

i got the cd today. kewl!

i really dig yer renditions of “lycanthrothene” and “what the cat brought in”. even more psychotic than the originals. i was reaching for the kitchen cutlery by the end of the last track.

very worthy covers, with a unique twist.

D’aw! Kinda makes me feel special.

And speaking of listeners, keep in mind that This Is Where the Fish Lives has made all three tracks from The Lemon Kittens EP available for free download on last.FM.

…and, in case you were looking for “serious business music” (well, serious enough that I released it under both my own name and that of my collaborator, rather than as This Is Where the Fish Lives), I’ve recently released “Music for Un Chien Andalou” via my lulu.com account. “…Un Chien Andalou” is an over sixteen minutes long piece of improvisational music recorded using electric viola (bowed and pizzicato), voice, mic’d throat, carefully directed feedback, synthesizer, snare, and bone flute for the Dalí and Buñuel collaborative film opus, Un Chien Andalou (France, silent, 1929). This differs from the original soundtrack (Wagner excerpts selected by Luis Buñuel to be played at screenings of the film), in that it is of a similar school of industrial/noise as Throbbing Gristle and Premature Ejaculation and idea-based avantgarde punk music as Lemon Kittens as Virgin Prunes.

This mix is very rough and this release is of the single unedited track. In Spring of 2008, we’re hoping to have a remastered “clean” version of the track that is better timed with the film, as well as at least one “remix”, all for a second release, and by Summer of 2008, hopefully a DVD or CD-ROM release of the film with the new music (as the film has lapsed into the public domain [cabbage-patches]).

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Bowed Radio Advertisement

Sunday, January 20, 2008

I wouldn’t normally do this, but since I just got this e-mail from Mark at Bowed Radio, and since Bowed Radio was the first Internet outlet aside from this and the MySpace TIWtFL site to expose people to This Is Where the Fish Lives, I figured I’d post this as a sort of gratitude:

Hello everyone,

I have released a podcast this week to talk a little about the future of this program. You can download it at http://www.bowed.org/xxx/xxx.mp3. I feel envigorated to continue with this podcast: I have a wealth of music ready to go, a lot of exciting things are happening in the world of strings. But I am struggling to keep this as a pro bono venture. I am not going to be able to continue this program in the format it currently exists in without some form of sponsorship.

In short there are five advertising “spots” on each program. I will be selling these spots starting at 20 USD each. For those interested in other options, a rate sheet is available for download here:

www.bowed.org/xxx/BR-Rate Sheet.pdf

Payments will be made via PayPal to my email address: string@bowed.org . All advertisers will receive a receipt verifying payment, wording of script, and information on where their message will be nested.

Please consider supporting a podcast that supports so many string players worldwide.

Thanks everyone. I appreciate all your support.

Mark Allender, producer-host
web: www.bowed.org
email: string@bowed.org
phone: 330-781-4387
skype: mark.allender

Yeah, I know that I have few listeners here, but if even just one TIWtFL fan passes along this info to two people, and those two people pass it along to two more people, and so forth, well, that can really add up.

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The Royal “We” Have a Fan!!

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

I’m always finding out about all sorts of ways that people find out about this project. Most, understandably, are MST’ies. Many are Subgenii. But a couple of days ago, This Is Where the Fish Lives got a couple of very excited e-mails from a Lemon Kittens fan who found out about TIWtFL via Lemon Kittens’ MySpace page.

This guy was also the first person ever to request a free CD-R of The Lemon Kittens EP. Excellent.

Not bad for a music project that gets almost nothing in the way of promo.

Speaking of, and since it’s already free, I also uploaded The Lemon Kittens EP for free download via last.fm. This means This Is Where the Fish Lives will also be getting free Internet “radio” play via last.fm — most likely something like their “tag radio” for stuff like “sound collage”, even though there’s no collage in those three tracks (unless you count throwing in Twin Peaks samples), just cos people have this bad habit of calling something “avantgarde” or “experimental” when there’s nothing really “avantgarde” or “experimental” about it. Joyfulness.

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More Fish?

Friday, November 16, 2007

Well, I got an e-mail this last week from Joe, who has registered thisiswherethefishlives.org. Apparently, a google search (or so I’m guessing) was the first he’s ever heard of this load of crap I call music.

Sweet!

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TIWtFL on Bowed Radio

Monday, September 10, 2007

TIWtFL’s Lemon Kittens’ cover, “The Amerikan Cousin”, is appearing on Bowed Radio’s downloadable podcast for this week. You can download this week’s instalment here: [link]

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New This Is Where the Fish Lives track

Sunday, June 24, 2007


powered by ODEO

The above is a flash-embedded player from Odeo Studio.

If you’d rather, go to the TIWtFL MySpace page and feel free to add it to your page. Of course, MySpace won’t let me include the whole title of the piece, so remember, it’s called “Book of Ruadhan Verse 4:33 (To J.C. The Almighty)”!

And it’s totally funny.

I have no idea how I did it. But I did it. Yes, one effects-induced continuous low C-note on viola. For four minutes and thirty-three seconds. HILARITY.

(cross-posted from The Young Soul Rebel — feed it and read it!)

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In the event that you may actually be curious…

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

This Is Where the Fish Lives has the following crap planned for the upcoming album:

  • A new soundtrack for Un Chein Andalou — so far, I’m hoping for it to be a synth and viola piece that will be on the album and *maybe* I’ll do it as a single, too. Since the film itself is Public Domain (yay!), eventually I’m going to find a way to release the film with the new soundtrack, but since I’m not talking to anybody at any little art-house film distros, it’s probably going to be either on DVD-R or via Lulu.com.
  • I’m also working on a piece based on reading of an excerpt from Poppy Z Brite’s Exquisite Corpse. I have an e-mail from the author granting permission, and I feel like an ass-hole that I’m just now getting around to doing it, but sometimes you just have to find the right people to execute an idea (and it’s about as hard as you think it is to find somebody who can say “sugar candy ass-hole” with a straight face). Since the book was published by a division of Simon & Schuster, I’ve been examining “fair use” clauses and what-not and because it’s such a small excerpt (barely a paragraph), it can be easily argued as parody without debate. Either way, it’ll be available on-line, at the very least.

I’m probably going to get a few other ideas before I can feel safe in saying that the album is complete, so as it stands, I’m probably not even going to look at being done with this until maybe December of 2007. Maybe.

I’m still hoping for maybe an improv performance in the very near future, but it seems like it won’t be in April.

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This Is Where the Fish Lives – Live?

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Yes folks, you read right.

This Is Where the Fish Lives may be playing a one-off performance in Ann Arbor, MI at a “private party” (which is probably going to be at my place) in mid-to-late April. News to follow and be posted here.

Any performance that may happen is subject to audio and video recording. You HAVE been warned.

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Lemon Kittens EP – .zip file

Friday, March 2, 2007

DOWNLOAD ME!

OK, that’s the zip file of all three tracks from The Lemon Kittens EP. Download is totally free, and if you like that, check out the originals!

Karl Blake currently has set up a Lemon Kittens MySpace page, and sometimes he changes the songs on there. eBay sometimes Lemon Kittens stuff on there for sale, too. “The American Cousin” and “Lycanthrothene” were originally on We Buy A Hammer For Daddy and I think “What the Cat Brought In” was originally on Cakebeast.

If you’re actually waiting for “the real live This Is Where the Fish Lives album”, tentatively titled Ersatz Music For Ersatz People, first let me ask:

Why?

…but seriously…

Ersatz Music For Ersatz People is still a work-in-progress. I’ve been playing around with Odeo Studio recently, in addition to CakeWalk Pyro and LJ-Talk, so I’ve been saving up a lot of weirdness and samples of myself reading poetry and incredibly strange singing-type stuff. So this will hopefully keep me amused until a friend of mine comes up to visit me this April so we can noodle around and hopefully create a few things that will be used on the album.

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The Lemon Kittens EP

Saturday, February 24, 2007

OK, back in, like, November, I think it had a lot to do with listing Lemon Kittens as an influence on MySpace, This Is Where the Fish Lives was contacted to do a few Lemon Kittens covers for Karl blake’s 50th birthday.

So, for a while, I’m going to make available as download-only those three covers that I’ve jokingly/lovingly called The Lemon Kittens EP.

Right-click to download (zip-file coming later):
“The Amerikan Cousin” (Rowan Alpha Zeta on electric viola, X on bass flute)
“Lycanthrothene” (Rowan Alpha Zeta on electric guitar, vocals and extra-large bag of M&M’s; X on kitchenware percussion and synth-effects)
“What the Cat Brought In” (X on synth-effects, synthesized kitchenware percussion and bass-flute; Rowan Alpha Zeta on vocals and electric guitar; samples from Twin Peaks; cat noises by Little Vermin)

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