The Intercontinental Music Lab (IML) is a world-wide music project whose aim is to promote musical collaboration. The core contributors, originally from Cambridge, England are now writing and recording music all over the planet – and new international collaborators are being enlisted all the time. IML collaborators submit backing-tracks to IML HQ where they are randomly redistributed to other collaborators who write lyrics and record vocals. The IML has diverse interests and musical tastes, which has resulted in five unique albums written and recorded since 2008.
Men [and women] of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal…
H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
Highly esteemed colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce the completion of the IML’s 5th album Mysteries Of The Unexplained.
Though it’s formulation was plagued by demonic deferments and extrasensory impedimenta, the final product of all our labours is a thing of uttermost recherche, and of arcane, eldritch gnosis. The challenge of putting together this album was a disquieting one, so immense was the emotive power behind its music and songs. Once I had completed it to my satisfaction, I required the services of a yogi, shaman, priest and parascientist, who prescribed acute psychic flushing, mountain solitude, exorcism, TM, parlance with spirits, irrigation, screeing, smudging with sage – cedar and and sweetgrass, regression therapy, psychic-surgery, hypnotism, holistic healing, astral projection therapy, lucid dreaming, yogic flying, alchemic enlightenment, alien abduction, sensory deprivation, shamanic transcendence, and plenteous doses of cheap medicinal Scotch.
I strongly recommend you enter a tranquil place, free from distraction and meditate on this metaphysical music in its entirety – if you do so and survive, I hope you are as aroused by it as I.
Yours eerily,
Timothy Donderevo
IML Headquarters of Paranormality
Here’s the artwork, hot off the press, for our new album: MYSTERIES OF THE UNEXPLAINED! Artist Eric Lebofsky reports that after a number of attempts at drawing and sculpting (in clay!) the individual subjects, he opted for cut-out construction paper to create this masterpiece.
Click HERE to see it in all it’s hi-res glory!
Finished my track!
It’s a weird one. It’s in German, and it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. I figured it might complement the French and Spanish tracks we’ve had, although I hope nobody actually speaks German — I was just doing my best to sound like the lady on Google Translate.
So anyways, we have a new album coming out soon! That’s cool.
Whoa! (That’s English for stop a horse,)
The time is almost upon us, believers of the impossible – so make the most of your final few days and make your mixes count! Remember to observe a few IML technical groundrules…
- Upload mixes in .WAV or .AIF formats at 44.1KHz, 16-bit.
- Submit mixes somewhere between -6db and -3db (around 3/4 volume – don’t mix at MAXIMUM volume!)
- Name the file with your chosen track title.
- Email me your track info: title, writing credits, vocal credits, lyrics.
…and most important of all – stay on the path and beware the moon!
Sincerely,
Tim
Static trouble
So here’s my crystal skull… I’m trying to access its hard drive but I’m getting nothing but static so far. Presumably, once my my mind is sufficiently expanded I’ll be allowed access to its rock capabilities, then I’ll have my song. I hope that’s how it works anyway. Ommmmmm Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
http://www.youtube.com/get_player
Due to inexplicable magneto-lunar events over Legoland and the excessive release of negative ions from Mr T’s Chuck Taylors, there have been some delays in the submission of backing tracks – but the assignments are all finally here! Through long sessions spent meditating on Michael Douglas’ cleft, I have mystically foreseen the uncanny events listed below. You must now clear your thoughts, let your lucid minds penetrate the metaphysical universe beyond our own, and then click on the links below to download your assigned backing track.
Kelly Hoglund will summon the ghast-specter of Kaspar Hauser (by Rob Fisher)
Layla Vandenbergh will be transfixed by the Crystal Skulls (by Tim Donderevo)
Barney Brown‘s camp will be rudely disrupted by Bigfoot (by Kelly Hoglund)
Eric Lebofsky will be drawn into the Himalayas by the call of the Yeti (by Craig Macintosh)
Joseph Ashley-Smith will scourge the village of El Chupacabra (by Michael Weber)
Rob Fisher will start his weekend with an un-announced Alien Encounter (By Layla Vandenbergh)
Craig Macintosh will delete data from computer discs via ESP/Intersubjectivity (By Eric Lebofsky)
Greg Dean will wake up exhausted after dabbling in Spectrophilia (By Julian Peters)
Kip Loades will, once again feel the uncanny sense of Deja Vu (By Oli Hayhurst)
Benjamin Arntzen, whilst scanning the seas, will hear The Bloop (by Dan Waldkirch)
Dan Waldkirch will be kept awake by unruly Poltergeists (by Joseph Ashley-Smith)
Michael Weber will witness Spontaneous Human Combustion (by Barney Brown/Rich Field)
Julian Peters & Sam Berry will together gaze upon the Face On Mars (By Joe Dean & Greg Dean)
If I have not assigned a track to you, and you want to sing – please email me and I’ll find a track for you.
Tim Donderevo
timdonderevo@gmail.com
STAGE ONE COMPLETE!
Congratulations! (Nearly) all of the backing tracks are in, and they’re a bunch of winners as usual. Sadly, some were nipped in the bud along the way, but there’s plenty to go round and everyone gets to thrust a thumb into this unexplained and mysterious pie. Spookily it looks like we’ve got 13 backing tracks and 13 singers.
Stay tuned true believers – I’ll be doling out tracks over the coming week! FYI I may employ magic to make the selections – or I might print out a spreadsheet and use a dart.
Tim
XXX
Wow! What a sinister spectrum of spine-chilling strangeness we’ve summoned together for this reconnaissance into the eldritch entropy of the metaphysical. Monsters! Blood! Ghosts! AAaarrrghh!!! It’s going to be a toe-curler.
Good luck with your mixes, and don’t forget the current IML standard specs:
44.1 Khz, 16-Bit
Average Mix level: around -6db (approx 3/4 volume.)
44.1 Khz, 16-Bit
Average Mix level: around -6db (approx 3/4 volume.)
Hello all.
Sorry I am so late to join the blog again. I have finally decided on a topic and it is… Spectrophilia!
The act of inter-paranormal relations. Be it a gentle kiss from a ghost or much much more! Could be handle gently and romantically or very differently indeed. Surely it is sexy and weird.wwooooooooooooooooooo uh! uh!
The Bloop
Assuming nobody else has taken it, I’m gonna write some music about the Bloop!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop
It was a tough decision between writing about the Bloop and writing about the Hum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum). I will, of course, be including the actual Bloop in my song. Maybe the Hum will make an appearance as well, but I suppose that would be up to my vocalist…
