The International House of Dancakes Blog and Podcast

Megan Goes To Antarctica

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:03:00 +0000

Megan Cook won the awesome Rolex Our World Underwater Society scholarship to travel around the world and dive, and now she's working on a mini-doc to show off some of the amazing things she's done and footage she's captured. My friend Pete Cowman pointed her to me when she needed some music for it, and I whipped together this quick and dirty little fakey classical thing. It's big and bombastic and adventurous, which is fun to do, and let me dust off some of my cool orchestral sound banks. It could use some polish, but it's still pretty neat.

http://www.danwarren.net/Podcast/Megan%20Goes%20To%20Antarctica.mp3

Cash Rules Everything Around Me - I butcher the Wu Tang Clan

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:40:00 +0000

http://www.danwarren.net/Podcast/C.R.E.A.M.mp3

So after a long absence, here's me doing something horrific. The less said about it the better, I reckon.

Rough Draft - Spanish Seagrass

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:04:00 +0000

Hey y'all. I haven't posted anything in a while, so here's a thing. This is a rough draft of a soundtrack I'm working on for another short nature video by Days Edge Productions, who by the way just won admission to The Most Interesting Academy.

This piece is for an as-yet unreleased video about seagrass on the Spanish island of Formantera, so it's supposed to sound kind of Spanish and beachy and underwatery at points.

http://www.danwarren.net/Podcast/Seagrass%205.mp3

Great cover of one of my songs by Jason Withers

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:23:00 +0000

Jason Withers has just recorded an excellent cover of one of the songs off of my eternally-forthcoming album A Series of Tasteful Nudes. The song is called Time Is Fire, and it's great to hear it sung by someone with such a good voice.

Video here!

Thanks, Jason!

Song of the Semelparous

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:26:00 +0000

I'm traveling pretty much all of July and half of August, so I can't really record anything new right now. That being the case, here's one off of The Scientist, Song of the Semelparous.

Droppin' some more pointless funk

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Just messing around with some electric piano sounds, came up with a nice little funky track.

Waiting/Birds

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:02:00 +0000

This is a proof of concept for something I've been thinking about: an album that's focused on the passage of time. This is actually the first two tracks fading into each other, but I haven't yet decided whether that's how it will eventually go.

Backyard Naturalists

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:10:00 +0000

Neil Losin and Nathan Dappen commissioned me to do some soundtrack music for a short video for Backyard Naturalists, an organization that encourages kids to go outside and learn about nature. The video is here:

http://vimeo.com/42520204

As with pretty much everything Neil and Nate do, it looks fantastic!

Baby Makin' Music

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:33:00 +0000

And now, for no good reason at all, about a minute and a half of babymaking music. Not that a minute and a half is long enough, but you can loop it or something, I don't know.

Springtime

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 04:02:00 +0000

By request, here's my song about the wonders of nature.

For friends

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:48:00 +0000

Here's a song I've been playing around with for a while. It's basically just about friends, and how sometimes we don't sufficiently appreciate how much they contribute to our lives.

State Of The Union, 2027

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:18:00 +0000

It's only a matter of time!

Son of Strelka, Son of God Chapter 8 Instrumental

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:07:00 +0000

Here's the instrumental track for chapter 8 of Son of Strelka, Son of God, entitled "Restoration". Found sound by Jon Bernstein.

Video for Son of Strelka, Son of God Chapter 5 - The Fall

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:55:00 +0000

Here's the video of Chapter 5, entitled "The Fall". The art was done by Matthew Rainwater, scratching and sound effects by EBA. Other music and story by me, assembled via hacked-up bits of Obama's autobiography. As always you can download the full album at sonofstrelka.com for free. Enjoy!

Son of Strelka, Son of God Chapter 7 Instrumental

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:09:00 +0000

Here's an instrumental track of the Buddha chapter of Son of Strelka, Son of God. I also have some really cool news - there's a draft of the video for chapter 5 almost done! It's a series of pictures by artist Matthew Rainwater, and they're pretty damn cool if I do say so.

Rough Sketch - The Tank

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:15:00 +0000

The next sample-mangling project I'm working on is going to be based on astronaut memoirs, or at least that's the plan. What I'm presenting here is not part of that - it's just a fun little thing that's actually completely intact from the source material. I will chop it up and use it in the final product, but that process is only just beginning. It comes from a book called Almost Astronauts, which basically chronicles how badly female pilots got shafted by NASA in the early days. It's a great book, but it's also somewhat infuriating to hear how such amazing, completely qualified women were completely shut out of the early days of space exploration.

Anyway, this passage describes the isolation tank tests. For some odd reason it's written in the second person, which is actually pretty great for my purposes. I haven't really mangled the source material at all, I just threw it over a spacey organ track I had sitting around because I wanted to see how it sounded.

Rough Take - Oh, You Captain Of Industry!

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:08:00 +0000

Here's a rough take of a song I just finished writing. There are still some rough edges lyrically and it's a rough draft musically, but I think all the bits are more or less there. It wasn't really intended to be a political song, but I guess it kinda comes off that way. Ah well.

Son of Strelka, Son of God Chapter 6 Instrumental

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:17:00 +0000

Here's the instrumental for chapter 6. Fun anecdote: the primary percussion here is a darbuka slowed down, and at the end of each eight bars there's a loud "tick-boom-boom". That tick was a happy accident, and is actually my wedding ring hitting the rim.

Son of Strelka, Son of God Chapter 5 Instrumental

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:52:00 +0000

Here's chapter 5, which was done with the help of awesome Atlanta DJ EBA.

Son of Strelka, Son of God Chapter 4 Instrumental

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:11:00 +0000

Here's chapter four. I want to give a shout out to my dear, departed cat Cheese for being the voice of the monster in this one. He liked to walk around the house yelling at the top of his lungs for no clear reason, and one afternoon I caught him on tape. Slowed down, his caterwauling sounds like some giant, horrible beast.

He was pretty much the best cat in history, and we miss him every day.

Son of Strelka, Son of God Chapter 3 Instrumental

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:53:00 +0000

Instrumental for Son of Strelka Chapter 3. I need to give a shout out to Thomas Anderson for just up and giving me a banjo for nor real reason other than the fact that he had a spare. The banjo features heavily in this chapter and chapter 9, and in my mind serves as a sort of tonal leitmotif that surrounds Stanley's interactions with his parents.

Son of Strelka, Son of God Chapter 2 Instrumental

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:34:00 +0000

I've been meaning to get back to posting these for a while, my apologies for the slow progress.

Interview with Anne Fiero on WKCR

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:49:00 +0000

As part of the Son of Strelka thing, I was lucky enough to be interviewed by some really great people. Here's one of my favorites: an interview with Anne Fiero at WKCR in New York. Unfortunately my cell phone cut out a few times, but I still think it's a really neat discussion. I'm reposting it here with Anne's permission. Thanks, Anne!

Creation Instrumental

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 14:41:00 +0000

I've been meaning to start posting the instrumental tracks from Son of Strelka, Son of God for a while, and I've finally pulled my thumb out and started to do it. Here's chapter one. It was recorded in my living room using pots and pans and a drum set.

More Internet Art for Son of Strelka, Son of God

dan.l.warren@gmail.com (Dan Warren) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:10:00 +0000

Here's another bit of concept art from SA Forums user Everdraed, which is hilariously creepy.