Intercontinental Music Lab

The War Is On

barney.brown — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:26:27 +0000

We’ve just launched the blog for our next album The Intercontinental Music Lab Goes To War. We’ve also got a tremendous list of people taking part this time round including (so far):

KELLY HOGLUND/w-TIM DONDEREVO
GREG DEAN
BENJAMIN ARNTZEN
MATT FLAHERTY
JULIAN PETERS
BARNEY BROWN
LAYLA VAN
THOM LYNE (Seventy Seven)
DAN WALDKIRCH
JIM SMITH
LUCIANO VARGAS
OLI HAYHURST
NEIL PARFIT
FLIGHT OF BIRDMAN (Richard Yates and Nik Osbourne)
SAM BERRY
KIP LOADES
ROB FISHER
SEB ROBERTS
JOE DEAN
ASH (Joseph Ashley-Smith)

Cripes what a squad. This one might have to be a double album.

I hope you’re all liking the new website

barney.brown — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:26:52 +0000

There’s a bunch more stuff we want to do with it including more map based fun on the track pages, and a collabaration-ometer which shows who’s collaborated with who, and how much.

One of the things that’s great about playing with creative stuff like the music, art and exploration of the IML and the wonders of the web, is that new exciting ways of presenting stuff arise.

Ingredients to play with include the people in the band, the subjects they write about, who they write with, where they are, and what they blog about. What we’re going to try to do with this site is look for interesting ways of knitting all this together in obvious/not so obvious ways so hopefully you can all enjoy exploring this wonderful project. Now back to the code! Do comment if you’ve got any bright ideas about what sorts of things you’d like to see. We’re going to be pestering all the band for mugshots soon so you can see what we all look like. Radical.

Chang and Eng Bunker

barney.brown — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:56:27 +0000

Highly esteemed colleagues…

tim.donderevo — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:38:00 +0000

Men [and women] of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal…
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

Artwork for Mysteries Of The Unexplained

tim.donderevo — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:16:00 +0000

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!

dan.waldkirch — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:25:00 +0000

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)

tim.donderevo — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:54:00 +0000

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

layla.vandenbergh — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:16:00 +0000

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

Inexplicable magneto-lunar events over Legoland

tim.donderevo — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:38:00 +0000

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!

tim.donderevo — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:41:00 +0000

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