That was unexpected...

Quite a while ago we set up an account on thesixtyone.com to showcase some of our stuff and see if people liked it. T61 was a site whereby people could listen to your music, and if they liked it they would vote for it. Get enough votes and your song would be featured on the front page, where lots of people would then see it and listen to it!

It was a good little site - worked well and was quite well attended.

However, they did a major design change a while back, and (in my humble opinion) broke the dynamic of the site. It still does what it always did, but it's made it harder to do it. So we stopped checking it quite as much, and I've not really looked at it for *ages*

Anyway, last night, this dropped into my mailbox:

Dear quiddity,

Your song "A Brighter End" by "quiddity" has hit the homepage of thesixtyone.com! You can visit the new tab at http://www.thesixtyone.com/posted/?goto_song_id=x9Wvja34XCu to see your posted song.

Sincerely,
thesixtyone team

Which is pretty cool - looks like folks are still listening to quiddity on T61!

If you feel like pushing A Brighter End a bit further up the ladder, click on the link above, register and hit the heart button :)

Wonder if it's worth putting some of the newer tracks up....

Blogger .vs. Facebook?

Just a quick note to sort of say that the facebook page is a bit more active than the blog at the moment.

If you only read the blog and don't visit the FB page, then it might be worth wanderng over here and taking a look now and again --> http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Quiddity/38500958176

It's... all. Quiet!

It's been a bit quiet on the quiddity front recently. I just seem to be generally busy, and Dan's off making strange noises under his Kosmischeboy alter ego or making students do unnatural things with video.

We did say this would be a bit sporadic!

So I thought I'd chuck a very basic piece I was noodling about with earlier in the year up. I'd shelved it as I thought it was a bit dull, but coming back to it I quite like it's sparseness. Feels a bit contemplative as well. With Dan's sprinkling of faerie dust, there may be something there.

The bass feels a bit 'Twin Peaks' in places. Which reminds me, I must get round to buying that on DVD...

g.

Feb20.1 by quiddity

WiP (slight return)

So, here's a little insight into how we work.

Here's my original doodle:

Dec6-1 by quiddity

....and here's what it sounds like after Dan gets his mucky little fingers into it.

Dec6.2 (Kboy mix 1) by quiddity

Still needs some work - but I think it's sounding good....

Quiddity music in facebook....

Just a quick note to say that those nice people at Soundcloud have now fixed their Facebook app.

So you can now listen and download direct from the Tracks tab on our Facebook pages here


~g

There it was, gone...

I've taken the WiP track off the blog.

I've another couple lurking around, so may pop one or two up a some point.

~g

A bit of tidying up...

Just gone over thesixtyone and  last.fm sites and taken off all the 'alpha' tracks. So all the Broadening tracks are now known by their title without a daft suffix.

Made sense at the time, on reflection wasn't such a hot idea. :)

If you're an ol' timer, you may want to redownload the tracks so you get them without the alpha. You can do that above from soundcloud without even having to leave this page. I'nt technology **brilliant**?

~g

Rough as a badgers...

Thought you might like to hear a bit of a work in progress.

The way we work at the moment is I tend to do a few doodlings - bits of ideas, melodies, sounds - odd and sods really. I then share them with Dan, who takes them and makes the silk purse out of the sonic pigs ears :)

For some of the Broadening tracks, we then got together and put the finishing touches to them.

So quite a lot is done remotely. Which may play into some stuff we're thinking of for the future...

Anyway - here's something I've done, all pure and virginal before Dan get's his grubby hands on it and works his Machiavellian magic. Warts and all - timing glitches, preset sounds etc.

Won't leave it up for long - so have a listen while you can :)

[Once upon a time, something else was here....]

And here's one of us on PIcasa

Quiddity photos on Picasa here

Some pictures are up of our first ideas for the Broadening CD.

More to come, and more thoughts about what we want to do here will be along soon as well....

Quiddity YouTube Channel

We now have a YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/quidditymusic

Just the one video up at the moment for Bright Cadenza - but that'll change over time.

Probably slowly, knowing us, but more will go up :)

Link-me-do

As promised here are some links to the sites mentioned below.

quiddity's fan page on Facebook
quiddity's twitter page
quiddity on thesixtyone
quiddity on Soundcloud
quiddity on last.fm

And our (currently pretty basic) home page can be found at www.quiddity.org.uk

Please take a look and leave messages, comments - or in the case of thesixtyone, heart our music as much as possible!!

Cheers,

Social Mediating

Spent the morning ratifying and setting up various feeds, blogs, media sites and pages. Quiddity will have an official presence on:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Blogger
• thesixtyone
• Soundcloud
• last.fm

..and of course our own web site.

Links etc. to come soon once I've sorted out the domino effect of what updates what when something gets posted.

Bridge Anon by quiddity

Bridge Anon by quiddity

The first track we worked on as quiddity.

First post

Placeholder :)