FLOTATION WALLS

Sesame Street had some amazing visuals back in the 70s. This one...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:34:28 -0500

Sesame Street had some amazing visuals back in the 70s. This one Al La Philip Glass.- Drea

Net sculpture

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:41:39 -0400

echelman.com

- Luke

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This is a custom Carlos plush by Heather Saunders of Needlings....

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:50:40 -0400

This is a custom Carlos plush by Heather Saunders of Needlings. It’s also really cool.

Bathroom Vocals

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:42:24 -0400

Hear what this whole song sounds like at our OBELISK release show at Carabar TOMORROW for FREE!!! RSVP»»

New videos page

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:42:41 -0400

We’ll be adding videos from our recording work as we go. See them here.

pAtarm

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:48:23 -0400

pAtarm

She Saw Me

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:39:38 -0400

In research for our upcoming album, some of us have been looking to the pioneers of early electronic music and inventions in hopes we can make some innovations of our own. This is a very early example of speech synthesis: VODER.

Carlos

Projection mapping. - Luke

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:13:00 -0400

Projection mapping.

- Luke

We had a great weekend playing Athens and Cincinnati. Thanks to...

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:10:21 -0500

We had a great weekend playing Athens and Cincinnati. Thanks to everyone who came out to see us!

My sister is fucking playing Carnegie Hall !!!Fuck Yeah!...

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:13:00 -0500

My sister is fucking playing Carnegie Hall !!!Fuck Yeah! Way to go Liz! I love you!

2011 First Prize winner of the Barry Alexander International Vocal Competition
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall on Sunday January 23, 2011 at 1:30 p.m.

Tickets & Information

Press Release

http://www.elizabethbuckley.com/

-pAt

p.s. let’s step it up fellow Walls and start wearing powdered wigs !

Deerhunter- 30 Century Man Scott Walker cover. Carlos introduced...

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:24:31 -0500

Deerhunter- 30 Century Man Scott Walker cover.

Carlos introduced me to Scott Walker this weekend and now I am in love. It is about time that something should inspire me to write music again for as of late…nothing has been floatin my boat if ya know what I mean. More often times than not its someone who made music in the 60’s total shocker. Anyhow..just watched the Scott Walker documentary and watched a bunch of Walker Brothers videos on youtube. I found the Deerhunter (love them) cover in my serach. Now here you may enjoy some classic Scott Walker. Discuss!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6YWDm0GSU

Andrea

This is a nice site where you can do something pretty on the...

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:53:13 -0500

This is a nice site where you can do something pretty on the internet. Click on the photo to make your own.

Czarlos

Here’s a song I wish I wrote. At around the 2:55 mark it makes me leave my body and go to a...

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 05:04:59 -0500

Here’s a song I wish I wrote. At around the 2:55 mark it makes me leave my body and go to a much nicer place. Sad music can save you from hell sometimes. Hopefully it does something for you.

Carlos

Friday, December 17th at 9pm you can hear 3 Flotation Walls songs played live in-studio on...

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:08:00 -0500

Friday, December 17th at 9pm you can hear 3 Flotation Walls songs played live in-studio on Columbus’ CD101 fm (or at cd101.com if you live anywhere else in the World).

New songs are coming along. There’s one that will no doubt be called something other than I’m Glad I’ve Got My Friends to Help Me Clean Up All This Mess that has these really intense drum things happening. It also is starting to sound like 3 distinct seasons in one song. I wish I could tell you more, but I don’t want to spoil it. We will likely play a few things out long before a record comes out, so things can be spoiled that way, if you like that sort of thing.

Here’s a video that’s worth watching. It’s got some crazy surprises. Give it a whirl, at least to the 1:55 mark. It’s kind of funny but at least it’s not cute.

Carlos

Recently read Carl Sagan’s Contact. It was somewhat of a...

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:58:47 -0500

Recently read Carl Sagan’s Contact. It was somewhat of a stinker stylistically, but the idea is good and I want that man to be my uncle and to have taken me aside at a tender age during a family gathering and snuck me bits of whiskey, pointed out the magellanic clouds through a golden telescope, and told me how to woo a woman.

This video seems somehow related to that.

- Luke

I thought I’d give you an update on “the next album” or “albums”. Let...

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 04:44:33 -0400

I thought I’d give you an update on “the next album” or “albums”. Let me preface by saying that not one note has been recorded other than demos and home service demos which are basically me and a guitar or a piano tracking my ideas as soon as they come. I am tentative about even addressing this because it may be another instance of me speaking too soon about something that doesn’t exist yet. Although, while nothing has begun, it likely will in short order.

We have 4 or 5 songs which are starting to sound like actual songs. There are another 5 or so that we will probably be working on very soon. I have roughly 10-15 more that the band hasn’t heard either because the songs haven’t been rough sketched for mood, or they are missing parts. On top of that, I am going back through every piece of recorded melodic ideas I’ve done since 2001. There are literally hundreds of those, and literally hundreds of those will be gone over critically. That’s not to mention potential contributions from other band members.

We are attempting to record the music ourselves. While this is an ambitious proposition, it frees us to write as we record rather than hashing everything out in advance and then paying for studio time to see if the things really work. In the end we could end up in a studio, but we are going to really make a go of this. If it doesn’t sound polished, it won’t be released. If we can’t do sonic justice to the scope of the ideas, the material will have to be re-recorded. I was very nervous about this idea at first, but I think it’s become the Flotation Walls way to do things on our terms before looking outside for assistance. We’ve had successes and failures in these ventures, but we are a better band for the experience regardless of the outcome and this should prove no exception.

There are already loose themes and concepts in play. The concepts are more demanding of our imaginations and skill than anything I’ve ever been a part of. We are pushing our technical abilities beyond our comfort zones in both individual and band capacities. Our influences are also changing. I am looking critically at music from the last three centuries from all over the world.

I can say that the emphases conceptually and musically will be different than NATURE. While I am more proud of that record than anything I’ve ever been a part of, the process will also be different. This will not be a 5-year endeavor. This will be a more collaborative effort. There is one band at the center of the creation of whatever we do next, not a rotating cast.

There may be freebies or one-off songs, because it’s a way to remain connected between records. That being said, I still firmly believe in albums and EPs and I’ve heard nothing in the last 10 years to convince me otherwise. While the methods of distribution and listening habits have changed, the best format for artists has not. If anyone (including myself) tells you differently, they are trying to sell you technology or PR as a substitute for ideas. It’s not a stubborn refusal to adapt, it’s a an artistic refusal cave to whims, fads, economics and things that aren’t music.

I realize this is vague, but I don’t want to tease you with half-baked ideas or misdirections. I suppose this is a state of the union. I also want to say that we are not done supporting NATURE, there may be more things related to that to come. It’s laid the foundation for where we are today and has set a bar for us to surpass or sidestep completely. We will remain an active live band.

The main purpose for writing this is so that you know we are working. This may be the last long-winded bit on my part for a while. There will be bits and pieces soon I’m sure. Thanks for reading and for supporting us.

Carlos

SURVEY: We’re getting close to starting work on another record. We’ve decided we want...

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:59:25 -0400

SURVEY: We’re getting close to starting work on another record. We’ve decided we want to try to make it ourselves. We have much of the gear that we need, but we thought it might be interesting to see what we might be able to drum up from friends of the band. Call it crowdsourcing. So, DO YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW HAVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

- Practical and/or interesting instruments (i.e. your aunt Millie’s autoharp, your brother Tom’s vibraphone, that huge circus drum gathering dust in your attic, that synthesizer you used to play all the time, etc.)
- Practical and/or interesting recording gear (mics, mixers, preamps, rackmount gear, cables, etc.)

We’re looking to experiment a lot on this one, and though songs are coming together, arrangements and instrumentation are very much up in the air. Our plan is to set up in a house with as much interesting stuff as possible and see what happens.

If you’re interested in helping us out with this, let us know. We’re interested in anything we could borrow or visit long enough to point a microphone at. I can guarantee we are careful and conscientious folk who won’t break your valuables. Plus, you get to hear your stuff on our record.

You can reach us on facebook, at flotationwalls@gmail.com, or at 614-565-3542.

Thanks!
Luke/Flotation Walls

I can’t get over this song. Skip to 47:54. Or watch the...

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:02:09 -0400

I can’t get over this song. Skip to 47:54. Or watch the whole thing if you speak Hindi and have an hour and a half to kill.

-Luke

Recently It’s been a bit of a rough patch for a few of us personally (family stuff), but...

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:43:00 -0400

Recently It’s been a bit of a rough patch for a few of us personally (family stuff), but this makes things a little better. I’m aware that this kid is an internet sensation, but barring a ukulele sweatshop scenario, everything about this is genuinely sweet.

This song (not necessarily this version) is one of the most beautiful of the last century and the sad thing about it is, if it were written today, no one would give a fuck about it.

I think that probably speaks volumes about the state of music affairs. It’s symptomatic of a multifaceted problem. If it were simply an issue of curating (i.e. the song choices of most radio stations whose “DJs” are megacorporations, deeply steeped in the tradition of payola) or an issue of limited exposure, there would at least be powers to fight and some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately this problem is a hydra, whose main head is an audience of people ages 0-40 who, if not prompted to look for sources of music outside of the mainstream have been bombarded with mostly weak songwriting and lowest-common-denominator sounds until they like it.

My only hope is that someone much more intelligent and focused than me is working on a practical solution. It’s hard not to let these things make me want to be a dentist. A few years ago I said that music has to be it’s own reward, and although sometimes it’s not that rewarding, it’s enough for now.

If my Andy Rooney rant made you feel negative, watch the video again and everything will be ok.

Carlos

d.v.d -pAt

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:44:00 -0400

d.v.d

-pAt