15 People

Here’s part of our live set from the Optic Echo Showcase for the Closer Festival.

I’m excited to announce that Marcus Fischer and I will be playing a set together for the Opticecho Records showcase on the 24th. More information can be found at the Facebook Event.

This should be a great way to kick off the summer, and includes sets from our ambient friends, including _wndfrm, Widesky, and Ethernet. It’s free, and on a lazy sunday afternoon, so please come!

Here’s a track that I submitted for the SEQUENCE4 compilation. I asked the question, “What if Erik Satie and Kevin Shields made a track together?” Enjoy.

As always, you can find my latest sonic experiments on my soundcloud page at soundcloud.com/ooray.

A short, Harold Budd inspired soundscape for cello and Electric Piano for the springtime rain.

A lovely way to start spring. A video of the DC cherry trees in bloom, with “Silhouettes” as the soundtrack.

Evidently my track Silhouettes is becoming quite popular as a soundtrack. Here are some of the more interesting videos that are using it. Quite a wide selection, and glad you guys chose my music.

Austria Up&Down&Cold from Christian Schneider on Vimeo.

Demo 2011 from Amco Mertens on Vimeo.

??? ???? x Shoes of Prey from Yasuyuki Kubota ????? on Vimeo.

A DOGs Video — Malteser and Bijou from Martin Lachmair on Vimeo.

out 4 the weekend from miguel ferreira on Vimeo.

Time Lapse Curitiba from Igor Neves on Vimeo.

Time lapse adventure Dover – BTS from Wesley Versteeg, VIP3Rmedia on Vimeo.

Kaleid (like the Longfellow poem with it, too).

Kaleid from Kaleid on Vimeo.

Zion National Park Tour by Jensend60

It’s really heartening to see that my music is being used for such diverse projects.

My Instagrambient track “Silhouettes” was used as the soundtrack for Ryan McNight’s Demo Reel. Neat!

Ryan McKnight HD Videography Reel from Ryan McKnight on Vimeo.

A Night of Winter Drones featuring
Parties (CA/TX/VA, dronelife)
Unrecognizable Now (PDX, pehr / kesh / unrecognizable now)
The OO-Ray (PDX, Audiomoves / Distance Recordings / luvsound)

Ella Street Social Club (21+)
714 SW 20th Place
Portland, OR

January 9, 2011
10 PM
Donations suggested

Please join us at Ella Street Social Club for a lovely night of winter drones to herald the new year.

The OO-Ray (Ted Laderas) will open up with his signature shoegazer cello, which utilizes looping, pitchshifting, and distortion to produce symphonic drones to get lost in.

Next are the delicate sonics of Unrecognizable Now (Marcus Fischer and Matt Jones), who utilize a battery of instruments such as glockenspiel, guitars, tuning forks, music boxes and field recordings in order to build towering sonic cathedrals brick by brick.

Finally, Parties is a supergroup that hails from California, Texas, and Virginia that have come together to produce a joyful roar. Featuring the talents of Joe Morgan (The Late Virginia Summers), P.D. Wilder (Hotel Hotel & More States), and Andrew Weathers.

Each of these acts are a unique electroacoustic talent and should not be missed.

Event is Free, but donations are suggested.

The OO-Ray: http://15people.net/
Unrecognizable Now: http://unrecnow.com/
Parties: http://parties.bandcamp.com/

Just in time for the new year, I’ve taken part in Marc Weidenbaum’s Instagr/am/bient compilation by contributing both an image (above) and a track called “Silhouettes”, inspired by Naoyuki Sasanami’s photo below. The idea behind the Instagr/am/bient project first came up from a twitter conversation Marc and I had about how Instagram images look a lot like album covers, and that he’d really like to hear the album that went with the photo above. Quickly enough, he put the idea out there, and here we are.

The OO-Ray: “Silhouettes” by disquiet

This photo, with its silhouettes and shadows, inspired me to use more discrete transformations such as digital editing and pitch shifting in my piece. The main phrase in the piece is a digitally edited and pitch shifted piano figure, highlighted with several cello tracks treated with a mixture of overdrive and reverberation. Looking at the photo reminds me of those moments right after waking where everything is out of focus and reality snaps into place after a second. I tried to recreate an extended recreation of that transition from dream state to reality, when sunlight floods the room and the day starts anew.

INSTAGR/AM/BIENT: 25 Sonic Postcards by disquiet

A full stream of the project is above, and a PDF document showing all of the photos is available from the dedicated website. Please enjoy!

Just in time for the Holidays, I offer a shoegaze EP called Waimea. Free for listening and downloading via Distance Recordings. Enjoy!