Eric Guenther

This will begin a series of shorter, more experimental tracks that I will release here and eventually package as a collection (ZERO SERIES). A chance for me to open up and surprise you. No rules.

I was going for a specific feel with this; rough, nasty, and big. Fun.

You can download an mp3 at my Bandcamp site.

“If this was engineered, it was genius. During filming of the video for “Down In It,” Chicago film crew H. Gun Video were faking a helicopter shot by using a camera tied to a weather balloon. The shot was a pull away of singer Trent Reznor lying in an alley looking like he was dead. The wind caught the weather balloon and took it to Iowa where a farmer took the camera to the police. The FBI thought it was a snuff flick and next thing you know, it’s all over Hard Copy (a fore-runner to Access Hollywood airing each day at 4:30 p.m.). Before this video, I think Nine Inch Nails sales were 8,000-9,000 units; after, they went through the roof.”

– Tour:Smart by Martin Atkins.

The Harmonic Center of the Universe from Jesse Stiles on Vimeo.

scary

Some great comments here on the direction of the music industry and how things will be changing for artists. He suggests that artists should give their music away and monetize elsewhere, which is something that has been said by many people for a while, but it is particularly interesting for someone in his position (multi-platinum artist) to say. Some would even go as far to discount what he says because of his success.

Although I’m not 100% sure how I feel about this, it made a lot of sense… This was the best quote from the segment:

“The true art isn’t necessarily creating the music, the true art is seeing how many people that music can touch in various ways… you can be as artistic as you want, and no one hears it and no one likes it, but I always thought the true art was trying to break through the noise and getting millions of people to notice what you’ve created.”

Watch it here:

I’m finally satisfied with the reworked site.

Lately, I have been working on nothing other than getting “Monolith” released… It is finally available on iTunes, as well as our own storefront, http://fromexile.bandcamp.com (which I would reccommend). It is my best work and we are very proud of it. Ordering CDs and T-Shirts next week, as well as more band member tryouts… An exciting time after 2 years of basically sitting on the bench.

I plan on using this site to serve all of my pursuits that are not From Exile – related. I will release music here; most of it completely unlike my band. For example, I have an old acoustic record that I want to make available here, as well as an electronic record. Even rough demos I have collected over the past 8 years of recording. I want to be able to experiment and this website is for that purpose. For now, you can get an idea of some of the older stuff I will be posting at on the myspace

my mom would love this video, she teaches high school

I love feeling this evil…

After buying the iphone, I searched out the best way to arrange music on the damn thing. Right now, there aren’t too many options, but the most in-depth applications I found, noise.io and beatmaker, seemed like they would combine to give me enough features…

Although these programs are about 10 and 20 bucks each, they were worth it… Limited in comparison to a computer and a DAW, but still powerful for what it is.

I spent a couple hours learning how use them, and this is what my learning curve sounded like:

I’ll probably go back and rework it later (its a part of a larger piece probably destined to be From Exile material)

Onset played another show, this time with Stephen Dimmick on drums. Ohmpark has posted some pics here