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Scott Evans

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recording engineer at antisleep, guitar/vox in kowloon walled city, writer for tape op, photo nerd, dad, part of @ampsintheroom

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I’M MOVING STUDIOS. Next month Antisleep relocates to the west room of Jack Shirley’s @_the_atomic_garden_ in east Oakland. Fuck yes!

AG is a Wes Lachot-designed studio with two nearly identical control rooms & isos, and a shared 1000’ live room. The live room sounds great and is super flexible, and the control rooms are fucking amazing. I’ll be able to work faster and better, tracking and mixing will be seamless, and bands will be a lot more comfortable.

Jack and I will operate separate private studios, but we’ll share mic closets as well as amps, guitars, drums, vegan ice cream, etc. Jack’s a good friend and one of the best engineers working so I am thrilled to set up shop with him. Genuinely a dream come true.

There’s a lot to do but I’ll be up and running quickly. I’m already booking sessions. Let’s go.

(Yes, that SSL is for sale if anyone’s looking, along with a lot of very good outboard. The previous tenant is closing up shop.)

And this means I’m moving out of my studio home of 10+ years. I’ll miss it dearly. Huge love to my friends at @sharkbitestudios - 15 years ago Ryan Massey took a cold call from me and said “hell yeah, come by and I’ll show you how the console works.” Changed my life. I love Sharkbite and I know I’ll work there over the coming years.

📷 Zach Minjack. Thanks Zach for helping make this happen. by @gse

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Thanks for the nice words about the GOLDENER ep. Figured I’d post the remaining pics & videos I have from our sessions - there’s not a ton because my cpu was usually maxed out. Enjoy @tantine_mere shredding vocoder + piano + fucked synth + vocals.

Special thanks @beaunoise for beautiful mix work. I had rough mixes in an okay place but Beau really put it all together and I loved getting to sit there and listen/watch. Fun & I learned stuff. Engineers almost never get to work together this way and it’s a treat. Thanks too to @ummm_r for a beautiful master. I love you guys.

Thus ends the 2-post Goldener PR spree. I think these songs may live on in Evelyn’s solo sets, which I can’t wait to hear. by @gse

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GOLDENER is Evelyn Davis (piano/voice) and me (modular synth/pro tools). Our self-titled EP is out today, on bandcamp and the streamers.

This music is built on a foundation of tens? hundreds? of hours of live performance, chopped up and framed into detailed little structures. Hours and days of piano into modular, mined and formed into songs with Ev’s vocal stacks (so many of these are first takes), my beats, hand-played basslines, and more piano. There is no MIDI and almost no “synth”.

Evelyn is a fucking wizard, a wildly advanced player and vocalist. Being in session with someone like that is hard to describe. Greatness floats in the air and your job is to catch it in a net before it vaporizes.

We set out to make long ambient drones and soundscapes. We ended up making strange, beautiful pop songs that I love. But the process was hard and very slow, and I guess killed this project on the vine. So this project starts and ends here. We have no plans for live shows, PR rollout, weeks of social media posts, physical media.

@tantine_mere: instruments & vocal.
me: production & electronics.
@caitykeen: “lifting” viola.

recorded at sharkbite, the lab, antisleep 2021-2024.

mixed by @beaunoise.
mastered by @ummm_r.

cover photo by maxine rosin.
thank you halley o’malley for helping with the band name. by @gse

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GOLDENER is Evelyn Davis (piano/voice) and me (modular synth/pro tools). “Heaven” is the first song on the self-titled EP we’re releasing on August 28. The single is bandcamp only.

I’ll write a little more about this record in a couple of weeks but there’s a nice blurb on the bandcamp page. I’m very proud of this music.

Happy solar eclipse.

goldener.bandcamp.com

@tantine_mere voice & instruments
me: production & electronics
mixed by @beaunoise
mastered by @ummm_r by @gse

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Recent work…

WESTERN ADDICTION “Psychedelic Munitions” The most democratic band in California tearing shit up. Downstrokes + Gibsons into Marhsalls + Mitch’s right hand on bass is a weapon + how does one write lyrics like this. Recorded at Sharkbite + the old Antisleep, mastered by @audiosiege

HARBOURED “We’re Only The Love That We Lead”. Second LP of blackened prog-gaze I’ve done with these sweetheart shredders and their blastbeats. Lots of growth from the first record but still no solos, MIKE. Also recorded at Sharkbite + the old Antisleep, yet again mastered by @audiosiege

GREAT FALLS “Conscription”. A collection of the various singles / splits / self-destructing mini CDs they’ve done over the past few years. I think we tracked 4? 5? of these songs on the last day of the “Objects” session, and @veratonepdx tracked the rest. I mixed it all. Fucking gnar. Also mastered by @audiosiege

RHODODENDRON “Ascent Effort”. Prog screamo that’s heard a lot of Breadwinner. What a great band. Recorded by @nichwilbur and Zach Sullivan, I mixed, THIS TOO mastered by @audiosiege

LEAFMINER “Stay Buried”. Sad Chicago-style noise rock a la Silkworm/Shellac/New Brutalism. This band ain’t right in a way that really works for me. Andrew please send me the vinyl. @veratonepdx tracked, I mixed, @carlsaff mastered by @gse

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We made a desk for my console. Or a console for my desk?

Last summer I upgraded my API 1608 to a 2448. Jack and I talked furniture ideas for weeks, then enlisted our machinist friend Trevor to scheme. If Trevor could machine plates that matched the API sides, we could seamlessly attach producers desks and build around it. A few weeks later my wife Bradee sketched slide 7 on her iPad while I tried to describe what I wanted.

In slide 1, the stock API mixer is in the center. Everything else we fabricated - producers desks, racks, keyboard shelf, wood, and steel stand. The aluminum rails that hold the wood are API parts that Trevor cut down and tapped; those really let us match the stock look. Thanks @thisisapiaudio for the great support.

Trevor’s work is beautiful and precise. His aluminum side plates matched the API plates dead on. The solid aluminum crossbars that hold the sides together and support the keyboard shelf are all perfect. The steel base is burly as hell and a work of art.

The “magazine rack” under the stand holds snakes and other cabling so they’re hidden. The “towel bar” in back holds the screen; the idea was that I could slide the monitor to the side on tracking days. In practice this is too much trouble, so I rotate the screen down and run a portable monitor off to the side.

We remade the console’s wood top and armrest with cherry, and made smaller versions for the side desks. We also replaced the black API sides with cherry sides, extended to fit the larger outer plates. The keyboard and side surfaces are hardwood with melamine. Wood was CNC cut and finished by my friends Rob + Luis. Beautiful and precise.

I’m so proud of our work. I’ve never made anything this custom or this nice. I didn’t know it was possible. Thank you Jack for fearlessness and inspiration, and Trevor, Rob, Luis, and Bradee for your patience and skills. I expect to work on this desk for literally the rest of my career. And every day I appreciate what went into it.

Metalwork: Keller Industries in San Carlos
Wood: MN builders in West Oakland by @gse

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I’m flattered and grateful to be in the latest issue of @earthetc.

I met Andrew 15+ years ago when I recorded Ventid’s fantastic “Remember Your Audience” LP (I still love this record) with Andrew shredding on bass. A few years later he got very sick. As he was recovering from brain surgery and other wonders of modern medicine, he rediscovered film photography and dove way in, including publishing a beautifully curated + designed 150+ page photo book, Earth Etc. Incredible.

When KWC + Ex-Everything were in Portland last summer we met up with Andrew to shoot some photos. He had just gotten very good MRI results (note his shirt), and it was so damn great to watch him shoot.

Lots of good stuff in this issue, and also a short interview with me. Get yourself a copy on the @earthetc website.

Thanks so much Andrew. by @gse

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NEUROSIS “An Undying Love For A Burning World” is out. A band that has rewired my brain more than once did it again.

After months of careful planning, we recorded at Litho in Seattle over three separate short sessions. We wanted to do complete songs start to finish each session, as opposed to drums for all of the songs one session, guitars the next etc - a great idea though logistically complicated. So one of my jobs was taking detailed recall notes and ensuring that each session sounded consistent. This worked out much better than I expected, even with the huge (for me) number of inputs.

The band tracked live, with everyone playing together. No click. Most of the songs are first or second takes. Of course there are punch-ins and overdubs, but for such a vast record the tracks are straightforward. The depth and impact comes from the songs and playing.

In February we mixed at my place in Oakland, three days of everyone listening and discussing and pacing around and asking me to turn everything up. A day or two later I sent files to Matt Barnhart in Chicago. We did one round of mastering revisions and that was it.

You can’t think about the Neurosis discography without thinking about Steve Albini. For 20 years and 6 albums, Neurosis recorded and mixed at Electrical with Steve. If he were alive today there’s no doubt they would have made this record with him too; I would have done the same. Since those are impossible shoes to fill, I did my own thing and the band more or less graciously adapted. I appreciate it. I also appreciated all the Albini stories during our sessions.

If I’ve made it sound like this was an easy record to make, it was not. But it was an easy record to work on because the people and music are so good. I loved seeing old friends work together and loved seeing a decades-old band welcome a new contributor as though he had been in the band for years.

Proud to be a part of this incredible record.

@neurosisoakland
@neurosisoakland
@neurosisoakland

Assisted by @jonrobaudio
Mastered by @matthewbarnhart by @gse

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