tag:zammutosound.com,2005:/blogs/nick-zammuto-s-blog?p=21Nick Zammuto's blog2019-05-08T06:21:56-04:00zammutofalsetag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/41181072016-04-02T18:09:28-04:002024-03-22T05:04:15-04:00Learned the cube this week. #rubickscube #lateafternoon...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Learned the cube this week. #rubickscube #lateafternoon #scratcheditionart</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40821522016-03-10T13:17:48-05:002024-03-28T01:19:35-04:00extreme wow! #diy analog vibrato nausea. Jonathan Edwards...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>extreme wow! #diy analog vibrato nausea. Jonathan Edwards ‘Sunshine’ #sick #vinyl #lowlowlowfi #ill #thatkindofday</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40813112016-03-09T21:13:55-05:002024-03-27T02:42:40-04:00I’m in my final week of #T25 and i can’t recommend...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/54f4b98b567831a4ef8c2b4e55f5b21a/tumblr_o3swv7HjlH1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>I’m in my final week of #T25 and i can’t recommend it highly enough. When i was 38 i felt like garbage all the time now i’m 40 and in the best shape of my life. Thanks to Don from Caretaker Farm for turning me onto it and Sean Dixon for turning me onto #p90x and #p90x3 last year. and Molly and the boys for the daily motivation #shaunt #tonyhorton #resolutionskept</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40781412016-03-08T10:51:18-05:002024-03-22T05:03:17-04:00I didn’t know that. #thebooks #idkt #golf #thrift #find<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/393a1ee2b2e3183769fb7e2fc9090f6c/tumblr_o3q9didKPE1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>I didn’t know that. #thebooks #idkt #golf #thrift #find</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40763942016-03-07T09:34:29-05:002024-03-28T07:26:30-04:00Record origami hang glider flight time this weekend: 8 minutes...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Record origami hang glider flight time this weekend: 8 minutes and 24 seconds. #nokidding #origami #paperairplane #flight #aerodynamics #homeschool #gliding #surfing</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40742742016-03-05T08:46:29-05:002023-12-10T14:21:05-05:00I’m going to put this warning on my next record.<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/25bfceec4f4efd4604ba459d6a645814/tumblr_o3kjlhIsb11rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>I’m going to put this warning on my next record.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40742752016-03-05T08:41:52-05:002024-02-15T04:18:21-05:00‘Sounds of a Thousand Strings’ #sampling #vinyl...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/d9df4d801c328f46eddf603358ccc913/tumblr_o3kjdsfz3x1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>‘Sounds of a Thousand Strings’ #sampling #vinyl #thrift #widestereo</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40742762016-03-05T08:33:22-05:002023-12-10T14:50:38-05:00‘Your Invitation to Stereo’ circa 1959 on clear red...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/0262e41ffe774ed9d027afee284c873b/tumblr_o3kizmi2qz1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>‘Your Invitation to Stereo’ circa 1959 on clear red vinyl. A recent Goodwill find. Every cut on this record ends with a beautiful wide isolated orchestral chord. Very useful. #coloredvinyl #vinyl #thrift #sampling</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40684672016-03-01T17:43:17-05:002024-03-28T07:26:30-04:00The new location of our webstore. #vinyl #music #albums...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/f92600965311dd64a3abb66e7910a1df/tumblr_o3dts5idzh1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>The new location of our webstore. #vinyl #music #albums #zammuto #thebooks #fiddle #ukelele</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40627492016-02-26T18:59:43-05:002024-03-22T05:07:22-04:00Diabolo grind to whip-catch #newtrick #diabolo #circusarts...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Diabolo grind to whip-catch #newtrick #diabolo #circusarts #homeschool</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40599522016-02-25T09:49:25-05:002023-12-10T14:34:33-05:00Snow fog time-lapse from this morning. #trebuchet #snowfog...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Snow fog time-lapse from this morning. #trebuchet #snowfog #gameofthrones</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40590382016-02-24T20:39:28-05:002024-02-27T04:00:07-05:00A lightweight origami hang glider made from phone book paper...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>A lightweight origami hang glider made from phone book paper (design from sciencetoymaker.org) #diy #homeschool #origami #penguincafeorchestra #aerodynamics #flight #hanggliding #surfing</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40576822016-02-24T10:06:03-05:002024-01-02T01:59:46-05:00Sepp (9yo) just tied this knot for his avatar at diy.org. Check...<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/c00f93090b12905d85d8d781686fa7b2/tumblr_o324m3wWY01rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Sepp (9yo) just tied this knot for his avatar at diy.org. Check out his videos over there, they’re fun. He goes by SeppiZ. #brucescupknot #knot #tying #homeschool #diy</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40572182016-02-23T21:09:20-05:002023-12-10T11:43:25-05:00Here’s the new bedroom. I got the curved window at a...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/fdbd0071597fc704bb4cfffc431f00c9/tumblr_o314nkEzHL1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Here’s the new bedroom. I got the curved window at a salvage place in Brattleboro, VT. #goodnight #knottypine #architecture #diy</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40568932016-02-23T20:54:14-05:002023-12-10T11:54:34-05:00Weird ceiling. Upstairs at our house. i just renovated this...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/bb53afac86ed22e98c9abb7378355376/tumblr_o313yeXoET1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Weird ceiling. Upstairs at our house. i just renovated this orange room into a bedroom for my eldest boy. #vaultedceiling #bottlecaplamp #architecture #diy #knottypine #carpentry #mitersaw</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40275602016-02-05T16:46:45-05:002023-12-10T14:39:59-05:00Around the leg #diabolo #livingroom #woodstove #homeschool...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Around the leg #diabolo #livingroom #woodstove #homeschool #circusarts</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40217672016-02-02T19:13:11-05:002024-01-30T06:16:44-05:00Easy choice for movie night! #groundhogday #nedryerson...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BBTbdBLODBF/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-02-03T00:13:06+00:00">Feb 2, 2016 at 4:13pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Easy choice for movie night! #groundhogday #nedryerson #billmurray #earlyspring</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40189962016-02-01T13:43:25-05:002024-03-26T00:42:00-04:00solo cat’s cradle fishnet figure #catscradle #homeschool...<iframe src="//www.instagram.com/p/BBQQ681ODBx/embed/" width="400" height="464" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"></iframe><br><br><p>solo cat’s cradle fishnet figure #catscradle #homeschool #woodstove #oldtimey</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40189972016-02-01T13:40:58-05:002023-12-10T14:40:00-05:00solo cat’s cradle fishnet figure #catscradle #homeschool...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BBQQpC7ODBN/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-02-01T18:40:54+00:00">Feb 1, 2016 at 10:40am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>solo cat’s cradle fishnet figure #catscradle #homeschool #woodstove #oldtimey</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40126962016-01-28T09:20:05-05:002023-12-10T12:35:41-05:00a working grandfather clock made out of legos. #homeschool...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BBFfiatODEA/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-01-28T14:19:25+00:00">Jan 28, 2016 at 6:19am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>a working grandfather clock made out of legos. #homeschool #simplemachines #lego #legoeducation #grandfatherclock #ticktock</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40049462016-01-24T13:03:46-05:002023-12-10T11:58:23-05:00we missed the big snow but the skate skiing is great right now. ...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BA7mBpauDAx/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-01-24T18:03:43+00:00">Jan 24, 2016 at 10:03am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>we missed the big snow but the skate skiing is great right now. #crosscountryskiing #vermont #winter #skating #sledding</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40049482016-01-24T11:35:08-05:002023-12-10T12:03:34-05:00another golden beauty #analog #answeringmachine #vintage...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/ffbcb2d47b337ae0dac585d3a07ed929/tumblr_o1gu2lpOjK1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>another golden beauty #analog #answeringmachine #vintage #wowandflutter #sampling</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40030132016-01-22T18:01:02-05:002023-12-10T14:15:43-05:00Molly working in her flower garden… it’s hard to...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/8c49ff8c6981aba867aacdcd4b102a33/tumblr_o1dmlq9ADJ1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Molly working in her flower garden… it’s hard to imagine now, but this is coming again. patience. #poppies #irises #lavender #lillies #honeysuckle #bleedingheart</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/40004202016-01-21T11:14:15-05:002024-03-21T06:26:06-04:00me in the studio. #2015 #rareselfie #musicstudio #moog #electrix...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/0ed22edf9961448d73fb3848002d8507/tumblr_o1b93rINjg1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>me in the studio. #2015 #rareselfie #musicstudio #moog #electrix #davesmith #nord #dsm-1 #everytimeicheckmyemailigetanothergrayhair</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39990502016-01-20T13:26:23-05:002023-12-10T13:57:12-05:00They were originally named Mr. Margaret, Humpy Dumpy, and Doda...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/f5b0d94d008bdd0e208692836bb34ee7/tumblr_o19kjzewmo1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>They were originally named Mr. Margaret, Humpy Dumpy, and Doda the Exploda, but dad can’t always have his way. #guineapig #guineapigs #pets</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39968382016-01-19T16:09:45-05:002023-12-10T12:07:07-05:00Good luck tonight, Paul! My former esteemed colleague and Books...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/fa3020766cc4c30fc78da306088084f1/tumblr_o17xg9peZx1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Good luck tonight, Paul! My former esteemed colleague and Books co-founder Paul de Jong is debuting his new band tonight at Joe’s Pub in NYC. Here’s a picture of us from back in the day.<br>
#thebooks #pauldejong #nickzammuto #anagrams</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39954542016-01-18T17:35:05-05:002023-12-12T01:48:03-05:00movie night was an easy choice this week. Labyrinth was one of...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/f62869d809247734ca2ffb4a3deb8326/tumblr_o166qhZlWa1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>movie night was an easy choice this week. Labyrinth was one of my very favorites growing up and introducing my boys to it is a true pleasure of fatherhood. they seem to love it just as much as i did. #formative #davidbowie #jenniferconnelly #jimhenson #georgelucas #hometheater #classic #creatureshop</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39929682016-01-17T09:48:14-05:002024-03-05T20:26:54-05:00rainbow bullwhip. Sepp (our boy age 9) designed it and made it...<img src="//56.media.tumblr.com/b573db77b1742980b9b2549467add379/tumblr_o13qgeh3lN1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>rainbow bullwhip. Sepp (our boy age 9) designed it and made it for a friend. #bullwhip #rainbow #paracord #homeschool #turkshead #there'salwayroomforbeautyintheworldofbullwhips</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39920332016-01-16T10:02:51-05:002023-12-10T13:50:15-05:00morning ski jan 16 #perfectconditions #vermont #winter...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BAmq9b-uDGK/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-01-16T15:02:46+00:00">Jan 16, 2016 at 7:02am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>morning ski jan 16 #perfectconditions #vermont #winter #chickenhouse #crosscountryskiing #mybeautifulwife #trebuchet</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39920342016-01-16T09:46:58-05:002022-09-12T21:40:13-04:00Sepp’s new passion for the last few days (post whips)...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BAmpJJkuDCa/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-01-16T14:46:54+00:00">Jan 16, 2016 at 6:46am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Sepp’s new passion for the last few days (post whips) #diablo #circusarts #homeschool #goodhair #grossmotorskills</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39915342016-01-15T18:54:46-05:002023-12-10T13:04:11-05:00drifting #icouldwatchthisallday #vermont #winter<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BAlDCiEODIb/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-01-15T23:54:42+00:00">Jan 15, 2016 at 3:54pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>drifting #icouldwatchthisallday #vermont #winter</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39862222016-01-12T13:04:19-05:002024-01-30T05:26:26-05:00Brian Eno on David Bowie’s final email to him. #tears...<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/454c79466c092f35771c84d592fcc928/tumblr_o0uq77f19p1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Brian Eno on David Bowie’s final email to him. #tears #bowie #borisearwig</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39855852016-01-12T08:41:50-05:002023-01-04T19:11:06-05:00morning mancala #finemotor #countandcapture #homeschool...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BAcOge7ODI4/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-01-12T13:41:45+00:00">Jan 12, 2016 at 5:41am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>morning mancala #finemotor #countandcapture #homeschool #ibeatdadamilliontimes #coffee #corningware #woodstove</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39826762016-01-10T12:46:32-05:002023-12-10T14:36:58-05:00analog answering machines were the best. certain models would...<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/747152d47a54f22c18904f14ad267edf/tumblr_o0r01koS9w1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>analog answering machines were the best. certain models would record entire conversations if you picked up after the machine did. this ‘cobra’ tape came from one of them. #thriftstorefinds #archeologyofrecentpast #sampling #30incoming #analog #thrillofthehunt</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39818112016-01-09T11:51:31-05:002023-12-10T13:32:02-05:00aw, kind of funny/sad timelapse we just made. #snowman #melt...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BAU11WGODFh/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-01-09T16:51:28+00:00">Jan 9, 2016 at 8:51am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>aw, kind of funny/sad timelapse we just made. #snowman #melt #timelapse #angleofrepose</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39804122016-01-08T12:13:27-05:002023-12-10T14:32:56-05:00iceskating on the lawn. our whole yard is literally a skating...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BASThMSODDv/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-01-08T17:13:08+00:00">Jan 8, 2016 at 9:13am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>iceskating on the lawn. our whole yard is literally a skating rink right now #perfectconditions #learningthehardway #iceskating #successfail</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39792272016-01-07T17:34:34-05:002022-05-31T11:12:27-04:00another great find today. this album will be fun! #cassette...<img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/189002f28d3e15d825a63e6466bd03c6/tumblr_o0ltdmTSTW1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>another great find today. this album will be fun! #cassette #sampling</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39785062016-01-07T08:46:48-05:002023-12-10T13:52:24-05:00another beautiful sunny january morning #timelapse #earlybusy...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BAPXGm_ODOU/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-01-07T13:46:44+00:00">Jan 7, 2016 at 5:46am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>another beautiful sunny january morning #timelapse #earlybusy #oatmeal #breakfastgeography #queensland #homeschool #mikeglier</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39766072016-01-06T08:32:23-05:002023-12-10T12:15:21-05:00morning light jan 6 #mastertimeline #homeschool #earlybusy<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BAMwqG2ODIF/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2016-01-06T13:32:18+00:00">Jan 6, 2016 at 5:32am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>morning light jan 6 #mastertimeline #homeschool #earlybusy</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39757042016-01-05T21:07:46-05:002023-12-10T14:24:07-05:00i’ve been getting back into sampling in a major way...<img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/f6ebf648a20222c75c8ac6ebabf6230c/tumblr_o0idwySWmn1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>i’ve been getting back into sampling in a major way recently. especially cassette tapes. #feelslikehome #thebooks</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39700372015-12-31T14:42:27-05:002023-12-10T11:51:36-05:00check out this amazing hat that Molly’s mom knit for her! ...<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/5e427e5b1856a06a6ddf11aab1a0ed33/tumblr_o08mqrHzZU1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>check out this amazing hat that Molly’s mom knit for her! Made with a single skein of painted yarn. #handmade #handknit #smartdesign #luckytohavemarriedintoafamilyofknitters</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39700382015-12-28T21:48:49-05:002022-08-25T05:26:18-04:00I built a bed for my son. he wanted a place to lock up his...<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/10f701e88788606d70088fcdad96d568/tumblr_o03mhdanNB1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>I built a bed for my son. he wanted a place to lock up his treasures so i built a ‘safe’ into the left of the foot. bookshelf below. #knottypine #carpentry #weirdceiling #pleasesleepthroughthenight</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39700392015-12-27T18:54:22-05:002022-05-13T02:57:53-04:00I’m building a bed for my son. #carpentry #knottypine...<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/daee67e5c5796008eed6881a6eea5daf/tumblr_o01jqmjePl1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>I’m building a bed for my son. #carpentry #knottypine #weirdceiling #spiritlevel</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39700402015-12-27T10:15:48-05:002023-12-10T12:11:48-05:00modular origami pinwheel dodecahedra, monkey’s fist...<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/dc32c7bce2971a48fa466b5286617873/tumblr_o00vqcK1z61rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>modular origami pinwheel dodecahedra, monkey’s fist #binoculars #xmassweater #eggnogassistedfolding #origami #complimentarycolors</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39700412015-12-24T16:24:12-05:002023-12-10T14:32:56-05:00taking out old fence posts Indiana Jones style #indianajones...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/_sIUjIODNd/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-12-24T21:24:09+00:00">Dec 24, 2015 at 1:24pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>taking out old fence posts Indiana Jones style #indianajones #xmaseve #warmdecember</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39700422015-12-23T22:16:58-05:002023-12-10T14:32:56-05:00I know I’m late to the party but #monumentvalleygame is...<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/73419b6467b841b2176345d2be0779ea/tumblr_nzuega0k6M1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>I know I’m late to the party but #monumentvalleygame is easily the most beautiful and ingenious game i’ve played on my tablet. #ustwo</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39700432015-12-23T09:11:36-05:002023-12-10T14:32:57-05:00Morning game of Set. #homeschool<img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/cc22374330454bacf0f48e71f8e88e53/tumblr_nzte3c2Yrf1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Morning game of Set. #homeschool</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39700442015-12-17T13:00:35-05:002023-12-10T12:00:23-05:00#starwars #hotairballons #darthvader #abq<img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/bbe82a694610d599086ac9fb1d9e73f4/tumblr_nzikoz8xpI1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>#starwars #hotairballons #darthvader #abq</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39700452015-12-17T12:58:51-05:002023-12-10T11:52:25-05:00#starwars #hotairballons #abq #darthvader #yoda<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/788c9da86b833c5e847fcf40c34fcfc3/tumblr_nzikm387S01rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>#starwars #hotairballons #abq #darthvader #yoda</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39700462015-12-16T10:27:35-05:002023-12-10T11:58:54-05:00A silent wood stove fan that generates its own power directly...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/_W5H_uuDNS/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-12-16T15:27:18+00:00">Dec 16, 2015 at 7:27am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>A silent wood stove fan that generates its own power directly from the heat of the stove! by #alcona #100cubicfeetperminute #verysmart #earlypresenttoself</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39621022015-12-12T15:18:27-05:002023-10-29T23:02:00-04:00Throw your children as hard as you can. they’ll love it....<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/_NHQcxuDIz/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-12-12T20:18:23+00:00">Dec 12, 2015 at 12:18pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Throw your children as hard as you can. they’ll love it. #warmdecember #treeswing</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39619042015-12-12T12:38:39-05:002023-12-10T12:25:28-05:00Modular origami cube and candles made from beeswax and old...<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/e4e2e5adcb4cbe9fc613fbb3867a7045/tumblr_nz9acf1ame1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Modular origami cube and candles made from beeswax and old crayons. #origami #beeswax #candle</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39596622015-12-10T14:48:26-05:002023-12-10T12:09:24-05:00Getting ahead on firewood… 7 cords… mostly beech,...<img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/dcc1df925223e88fc79c12522ca8c56f/tumblr_nz5r0qgN4f1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Getting ahead on firewood… 7 cords… mostly beech, gets us through 2018, i hope.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39525852015-12-06T15:22:36-05:002023-12-10T11:53:28-05:00Sepp’s longest whip yet. maybe too long. 14ft...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-9q9nQuDOD/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-12-06T20:22:33+00:00">Dec 6, 2015 at 12:22pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Sepp’s longest whip yet. maybe too long. 14ft shot-loaded 12 plait paracord #bullwhip #homeschool</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39496272015-12-04T10:34:27-05:002023-12-10T11:50:05-05:00Modular origami: dimpled dodecahedron. 90 pieces.
#origami...<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/29f9e1d7d2785ca7a145666d190a1329/tumblr_nyub9f5fTc1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Modular origami: dimpled dodecahedron. 90 pieces.<br>
#origami #homeschool (from Beginner’s Book of Modular Origami Polyhedra: The Platonic Solids by Gurkewitz and Arnstein)</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39475292015-12-03T08:43:20-05:002023-12-10T14:26:44-05:00dec3 snow from boy’s room 2 #trebuchet<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-1O38vuDGm/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-12-03T13:43:11+00:00">Dec 3, 2015 at 5:43am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>dec3 snow from boy’s room 2 #trebuchet</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39475302015-12-03T08:41:01-05:002024-03-05T20:25:42-05:00dec3 snow from boy’s room 1<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-1OnbxODGG/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-12-03T13:40:55+00:00">Dec 3, 2015 at 5:40am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>dec3 snow from boy’s room 1</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39461252015-12-02T15:58:12-05:002023-12-10T11:44:09-05:00just now in the studio, enjoying mixing analog these days....<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-zb264ODN3/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-12-02T20:58:09+00:00">Dec 2, 2015 at 12:58pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>just now in the studio, enjoying mixing analog these days. #gearhead #music #atwork</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39440292015-12-01T13:47:53-05:002024-03-21T07:04:43-04:00modular origami: 40 modules #homeschool #origami #dodecahedron<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/b2995e47c91453a9b455e63fd0f76afb/tumblr_nyp07t7XeE1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>modular origami: 40 modules #homeschool #origami #dodecahedron</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39423832015-11-30T18:18:43-05:002022-04-17T07:00:13-04:00here’s a bit of the first track i made featuring the...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-uiWUGuDFF/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-30T23:18:40+00:00">Nov 30, 2015 at 3:18pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>here’s a bit of the first track i made featuring the guitar we defretted. #fretless #sgguitar</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39323212015-11-23T20:09:18-05:002022-05-25T09:32:03-04:00Designing a building tonight… i LOVE Sketchup, such an...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-ctcAZuDIY/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-24T01:09:14+00:00">Nov 23, 2015 at 5:09pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Designing a building tonight… i LOVE Sketchup, such an intuitive, smooth program. #sketchup #architecture</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39281692015-11-21T15:58:06-05:002023-12-10T14:47:07-05:00Hey! My brother Mikey (bass) just finished his first full...<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/adb14a729413143c3c039c26cf636b57/tumblr_ny6nkuqV2h1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Hey! My brother Mikey (bass) just finished his first full length album (which I mastered). I’m proud of him! listen to it at <a href="http://www.theflotillas.com" target="_blank">www.theflotillas.com</a></p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39281702015-11-20T08:30:19-05:002023-12-10T11:52:19-05:00morning chess #chess #homeschool<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/d9987a2dc56c97608066cf5cbb879216/tumblr_ny486jarss1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>morning chess #chess #homeschool</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39281712015-11-19T17:22:45-05:002023-12-10T11:51:49-05:00still getting stronger! big thanks to #p90x #tonyhorton and our...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-SHMyRuDDo/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-19T22:22:42+00:00">Nov 19, 2015 at 2:22pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>still getting stronger! big thanks to #p90x #tonyhorton and our drummer Sean Dixon for the motivation.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39281722015-11-17T09:33:17-05:002023-12-10T12:54:16-05:00first pond ice. great sounds and air bubbles captured under...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-MH4hIODNn/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-17T14:33:13+00:00">Nov 17, 2015 at 6:33am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>first pond ice. great sounds and air bubbles captured under #blackice</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39281732015-11-16T15:58:23-05:002022-04-17T07:10:09-04:00Sepp dropping in. #williamstown #skatepark<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-KPJ0wuDHC/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-16T20:58:16+00:00">Nov 16, 2015 at 12:58pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Sepp dropping in. #williamstown #skatepark</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39281742015-11-15T09:22:25-05:002022-04-17T07:10:13-04:00i just defretted Nick Oddy’s old SG. #waterlox...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/-G9DPyODDP/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-15T14:22:22+00:00">Nov 15, 2015 at 6:22am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>i just defretted Nick Oddy’s old SG. #waterlox #fretlessguitar</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39281752015-11-14T09:06:34-05:002022-04-17T07:10:17-04:00first snow of the year this morning. #homestead #trebuchet<img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/4b9b9843e5fb8de0c78b5e42868d00c3/tumblr_nxt5uyBG9U1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>first snow of the year this morning. #homestead #trebuchet</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39281762015-11-13T16:18:20-05:002022-04-17T07:10:21-04:00The best fish? #Albuquerque #weirdfishes<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/044b689265943986fe87a23680739ffd/tumblr_nxrv6kiatK1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>The best fish? #Albuquerque #weirdfishes</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39281772015-11-11T19:28:53-05:002022-04-17T07:10:27-04:00Who’s Listening?
#foundaudio<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="6" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/99vRotODLS/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-12T00:28:50+00:00">Nov 11, 2015 at 4:28pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Who’s Listening?<br>
#foundaudio</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39233912015-11-10T18:13:47-05:002023-12-10T14:19:21-05:00reverb appreciation lessons. #homeschool<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="5" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://instagram.com/p/97B0NhuDNh/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-10T23:13:07+00:00">Nov 10, 2015 at 3:13pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>reverb appreciation lessons. #homeschool</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39215502015-11-09T16:04:11-05:002023-12-10T14:20:18-05:00a useful mutation in the puzzle section<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="5" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://instagram.com/p/94OQmauDO0/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-09T21:04:08+00:00">Nov 9, 2015 at 1:04pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>a useful mutation in the puzzle section</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39185592015-11-07T14:18:46-05:002023-12-10T11:52:38-05:00i used the indian summer to reshingle a gazebo. #cedarsmellsgood...<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/22977070f3050f14035701261a2228fe/tumblr_nxglna0bg31rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>i used the indian summer to reshingle a gazebo. #cedarsmellsgood #perfectroofingweather</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39161342015-11-05T20:43:15-05:002023-12-10T12:31:42-05:00Molly and Ray. #Albuquerque Biopark<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/de71630e949b6e1522c6d8d347e5bcfd/tumblr_nxde43CdPu1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Molly and Ray. #Albuquerque Biopark</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39122072015-11-03T17:45:02-05:002023-12-10T11:53:28-05:00here are some crystals of pure yellow pigment i recrystallized...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="5" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://instagram.com/p/9o9CFIODAg/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-03T22:45:00+00:00">Nov 3, 2015 at 2:45pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>here are some crystals of pure yellow pigment i recrystallized from a colored pencil.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39122082015-11-03T17:41:32-05:002022-04-17T07:15:06-04:00here are some crystals of pure red pigment i recrystallized from...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="5" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://instagram.com/p/9o8oc9ODP2/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-03T22:41:30+00:00">Nov 3, 2015 at 2:41pm PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>here are some crystals of pure red pigment i recrystallized from a colored pencil.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088642015-11-01T08:11:25-05:002022-04-17T07:15:11-04:00Sepp’s latest whip. A nylon snake whip with a...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="5" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://instagram.com/p/9ixyjcODJP/" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A video posted by Zammuto (@zammutosound)</a> on <time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime="2015-11-01T13:11:19+00:00">Nov 1, 2015 at 5:11am PST</time></p>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Sepp’s latest whip. A nylon snake whip with a turk’s head knot. #homeschool</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088652015-10-29T16:40:29-04:002022-04-17T07:15:14-04:00work in progress<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="5" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>work in progress</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088662015-10-28T16:38:52-04:002022-04-17T07:15:17-04:00Molly, Sepp and Asa under Delicate Arch, Arches National Park,...<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/5076876901543962d1bf3b843197ade4/tumblr_nwy6osb9Aa1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Molly, Sepp and Asa under Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, UT.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088672015-10-28T16:25:12-04:002022-04-17T07:15:20-04:00My son Cy at Delicate Arch, Arches National Park.<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/18bc5ca1bd8111148c60e66f61e87c04/tumblr_nwy620HrO11rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>My son Cy at Delicate Arch, Arches National Park.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088682015-10-27T17:35:05-04:002023-12-10T13:51:56-05:00Albuquerque, hot air balloon fiesta.<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/0fe5138bb5a0eee0bd88994239c38e42/tumblr_nwwemhOJQm1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>Albuquerque, hot air balloon fiesta.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088692015-10-26T19:36:48-04:002022-04-17T07:15:30-04:00We culled our laying hens today after four years and thousands...<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/1a21238ab9e2f46f0f4cf94fab9d90fd/tumblr_nwupldnksQ1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>We culled our laying hens today after four years and thousands of eggs. Hard job. It brings life into sharp focus.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088702015-10-25T17:51:51-04:002023-12-10T13:15:31-05:00today’s work. 2 octaves+ 4" pvc tuned with help...<img src="//40.media.tumblr.com/c12885e03e700f88dfd90c458923d853/tumblr_nwsq2f6ioK1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>today’s work. 2 octaves+ 4" pvc tuned with help from @tonalenergy great app!</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088712015-10-24T22:21:36-04:002022-05-30T09:44:02-04:00Molly in Albuquerque. We took a family trip to the Southwest to...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="5" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Molly in Albuquerque. We took a family trip to the Southwest to celebrate Asa’s recovery from Hodgkins disease. Hot Air Balloon Festival was incredible!</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088722015-10-23T17:14:39-04:002022-04-17T07:20:41-04:00a new invention i’ve been working on.<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/fee186e0c4f4928eaf3c5bad152dcf32/tumblr_nwoz0fAmDb1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>a new invention i’ve been working on.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088732015-10-22T14:03:54-04:002023-12-10T12:13:26-05:00Nick: “What are you making?”
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Nick: “What are you making?”<br>
Asa: “Sauerkraut.”</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088742015-10-20T15:55:53-04:002022-04-17T07:20:44-04:00This happened on the same night Molly dug up the fertility...<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/61957ed7476f3a44ed3c9163a883faf9/tumblr_nwjbd5I35Z1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>This happened on the same night Molly dug up the fertility potato.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088752015-10-19T22:43:30-04:002022-04-17T07:20:47-04:00here’s another view of the purple ‘fertility...<img src="//36.media.tumblr.com/c4ef1a8cff21384a3b6848c6ea29ad85/tumblr_nwhzkiBKCJ1rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br><p>here’s another view of the purple ‘fertility goddess’ potato that Molly grew this year.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/39088762015-10-19T22:36:58-04:002022-04-17T07:20:49-04:00Photo<img src="//41.media.tumblr.com/3484027a14d233f17d09b7ea78cb3cf4/tumblr_nwhz9mr3631rqvpbvo1_500.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/38819652015-10-04T10:12:18-04:002022-04-17T07:20:52-04:00Sepp’s been into bullwhips. he made this one out of rope,...<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="5" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>Sepp’s been into bullwhips. he made this one out of rope, ball-chain, and hockey tape.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/38817712015-10-03T22:27:33-04:002022-04-17T07:20:54-04:00i turned 40 today.<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="5" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 400px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div>
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<script async defer src="//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js"></script><br><br><p>i turned 40 today.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32499752014-10-24T23:27:13-04:002022-04-17T07:20:58-04:00Track 11: Your Time <p><em>Anchor</em> Blog Series: Entry #11</p>
<p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/11-your-time" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/11-your-time</a></p>
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<p>This is the last track on the LP and it is about death (as last tracks often are). I certainly don’t mean it to be depressing. In fact, death’s inevitability has always filled me with wonder in a way that enriches my day to day. Thinking about it always brings me to the realization that I don’t know much of anything. The most basic facts about what is really going on here are a total mystery. As Alan Watts said, “Something unknown is doing we don’t know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to.” </p>
<p> <br> Lyrics:<br><br> sooner later gonna meet your maker <br> oh yes sir, gonna meet her<br><br> what you do between now and then<br> gonna make it easy, gonna make it hard<br><br> everything you’ve seen, everyone you’ve met<br> some you can’t remember, some you can’t forget<br><br> forever days or forever nights<br> will it fade to black or will it fade to white<br><br> sooner later gonna be you time<br> maybe not today, but someday<br> maybe not tomorrow, but someday<br><br> you could look at it all your life<br> and never understand it, never understand<br><br> sooner later gonna be your time<br><br> sooner later gonna meet your maker <br> oh yes sir, gonna meet her<br><br> forever days or forever nights<br> will it fade to black or will it fade to white<br><br> what you are, what you believe<br> what will you take, what will you give</p>
<p>I recorded the lyrics at home and then recorded Daniela’s harmony in Toronto on my visit there in February. She has an amazing ear for harmony and we were able to hone in on a nice development pretty quickly. I used the PCM81 to post process the vocals and push them back in space at the end of each stanza. I met Daniela through my wife’s sister, who was a schoolmate of hers. I heard a demo she made in college and was blown away, and it’s taken a while for the collaboration to come about, but I’m so happy to have her contribution on this record. She and her husband Dan Goldman have a band called Snowblink. Check out their record ‘Long Live’ (to start), it’s incredible.</p>
<p><br> The instrumental part of the track started with the main keyboard loop, which I improvised on the Nord with that clicky vintage synth sample from ‘Need Some Sun’. I played it through a ping pong delay and reverb with a long pre-delay. Then I filtered it in various ways using the midi sync feature of the Electrix Filter Factory. The background drone is based on the original Mellotron glass harmonica samples from the vast Nord collection. A pitched down version of these worked well for the baseline. The kick was filtered through the Vermona Retroverb to give it a bit of warmth and depth. The violin parts were multi-tracked by Gene Back during his visit last fall. I lined them up and low-pass filtered them together through the Filter Factory like the main key part.<br><br> There is an instrumental bonus track, called ‘Codebreaker’, that I’ll share tomorrow, (sort of an afterlife.)<br><br> The East Coast Tour begins Sunday Night, October 26<sup>th</sup> in NYC:</p>
<p><a href="http://zammutosound.com/shows" target="_blank"><span>New York - Philly - DC - Durham - Atlanta - Asheville - Nashville - Louisville - Cincinnati - Columbus - Buffalo - Boston - North Adams, MA </span></a></p>
<p>Please spread the word.<br><br> Yours,<br><br> Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32481812014-10-23T22:34:00-04:002023-12-10T12:24:23-05:00Track 10: Sinker<p><em>Anchor</em> Blog Series: Entry #10</p>
<p>Sinker</p>
<p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/zammuto-sinker" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/zammuto-sinker</a></p>
<p><br><iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/98578920&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br><br> This was the first track we made while working on Anchor. Sean Dixon and I recorded the drums on New Years Eve nearly 2 years ago. 2012 was a tremendous year for the new band as we played more than 100 shows and really bonded over the trials and tribulations of covering all those miles. Sean and I had a lot of ideas we’d tossed around while on the road together. I wanted more space and through-lines on Anchor so we focused on very groove oriented drum patterns with a lot of subtle detail in our sessions. It was recorded with 6 microphones (as described before) and as Sean played I moved various implements around the kit to change the sound in subtle ways. For example, we put a splash cymbal on the snare drum (both right side up and upside down) for the first section of the track, and I moved a spring drum around on the top of the hi-hat as he played. There was also a large tangle of little wooden nut shells resting on the floor-tom which you can hear moving around a bit. I post processed the drums through the Kush Electra, and then added more and more stage reverb on an aux as the track developed, using the PCM81.<br><br> Next came the electric guitar, which defined the form of the track. The tuning on my Strat is DADDAD with unison strings in the middle and very thick strings to maintain definition at drop tunings. This tuning is very strange, I know, but it is great for big stacked fifths and huge barred ninths and tenths which are the majority of chords in this track. Once again I was going after a ‘partly cloudy’ kind of feel, where subtle key shifts change the attitude of the song in hard to define ways… similar to what I often hear in Phillip Glass’s music (listen to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YU3XIAgn9o" target="_blank">Einstein on the Beach</a> and watch <a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/27800" target="_blank">Koyaanisqatsi</a> if you never have). I used an auto-volume swell patch from the Pod-HD500 that feeds delay and distortion and recorded it through my little Fender Blues Jr. amp with a bit of spring reverb. Turning up the gain created incredible feedback even at low volumes. I recorded everything twice (with an Audix I5 mic) and put one take hard left and the other hard right. <br><br> The bass in this track is a Moog Slim Phatty patch with a slow attack. I manually adjusted the cutoff frequency,drive and resonance as the track progressed to make it more and more gnarly. Once again I recorded everything twice with slightly different performances and panned hard right and left.<br><br> The vocals were recorded dry and then re-recorded through the Blues Jr. amp. Sending vocals through a guitar amp is a great way to add grit and texture (just watch the sibilants). I also discovered a great trick for getting beautiful long reverb tails with a lot of dark character. I digitally sped up the entire vocal take by an octave, so that it sounded like a ‘chipmunk’ and recorded it through the amp with heavy spring reverb. Then I took the resulting recording and slowed it back down again by the same amount, which meant that the vocals were back to normal but the reverb tail was twice as long. Then I used the same process except I went two octaves up and down, so the reverb tails we’re four times longer. I also sent the lyrics in reverse through the process and got a really sweet reverse reverb that swells into the first word of every line. Since I lost some of the high end (above 5k) or so with this process’ I took the high end of the vocals (using a steep high pass filter) to replace it.</p>
<p>I named the track ‘Sinker’ early on because of the repeated sinking melody that was stuck in my head while working on the chords. The vocal melody is simply a pattern of descending notes that end in different places… like leaves falling out of a tree from different heights. It was a useful way to unify the lyrical flow while writing non-rhyming prose.</p>
<p>When you’re home, just wind on water<br> just do your job and let it go<br> you made your feelings known<br> and what else can you do or say<br><br> when you call<br> we’ll talk about your pets<br> a play of light and shadow fair and generous<br> it underplays, it overplays<br> keep it simple<br> you’ve fallen down this hole before <br> you always want a thousand more<br> we all become our opposites in time<br><br> you’re the anchor<br> the sinker on my line<br> you hold me to the river bed<br> a time to wait expressionless<br> don’t care anymore<br> there is no sleep there is no pleasure<br> I always want a thousand more<br><br> when your home<br> don’t blame the lack of oxygen<br> don’t blame the sugar<br> don’t blame the yeast<br><br> It’s hard to talk about these lyrics. They are very important to me and I want to leave them open to interpretation so I won’t say much about them. Except, there is a deep satisfaction that comes from a long term relationship that has withstood bumps and bruises through the years. Such a relationship requires a conscious resignation to be contained by it, and this makes truly wonderful things possible in the long run. The best things in life, really.<br><br> Tomorrow is the final track on the record, Your Time. (Then a weird little bonus track after that)<br><br> yours,<br><br> Nick</p>
<p><a href="http://zammutosound.com/shows" target="_blank">Upcoming shows: (starting Oct. 26th: This Weekend!) <span>New York - Philly - DC - Durham - Atlanta - Asheville - Nashville - Louisville - Cincinnati - Columbus - Buffalo - Boston - North Adams, MA </span></a></p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32448872014-10-22T11:20:53-04:002022-04-17T07:21:04-04:00Track 9: Stop Counting<p><em>Anchor</em> Blog Series: Entry 9 <br><br><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/10-stop-counting" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/10-stop-counting</a></p>
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<p>You might recognize bits of this track in the music I made for the ‘<a href="http://vimeo.com/72741759" target="_blank">Bass Projector</a>’ video:</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/72741759" target="_blank">Bass Projector</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5011949" target="_blank">Nick zammuto</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p><br> Years ago, I was traveling through the South and stopped to camp in Pensacola, FL. It was early summer and I remember floating in the water, which felt like amniotic fluid, with small waves coming in at random intervals, washing my body in and out against the white sand in the shallow water. It put me in a strange kind of trance. While floating in the ocean, it becomes easier to feel the latent energy of the world as a kind of ‘sound’. Each ripple in the ocean having an untraceable source, you can’t know much about it specifically, but generally speaking, while floating there, about every 45 seconds a small jelly fish would bite me and wake me up. And THEN, as I was passively being washed and stung, I looked up and saw five F-18 military jets rolling and diving directly above me, showering down huge thunderous engine noises. (Apparently the Blue Angels, the naval stunt squad, trains out of Pensacola). It was a very peculiar set of sensations: The deep chaos of the ocean meeting the land, invertebrates injecting me with venom, and a military-industrial complex show of force all at the same time. As I worked on this track I could not shake this warm floating/stinging/spinning/rumbling sensation from my mind.<br><br> Given the reality that there is an element of life that is truly out of our control, I wanted to try and make a track that had no discernable ‘one’, to conjure that existential feeling of being lost, but being ok with it. I think this track has the potential to be very disconcerting, since no one likes feeling lost, but there is a key to hearing it that I hope you will discover over time.</p>
<p>The track is in a three count and a four count simultaneously: the polyrhythm, ‘four over three’. Our drummer, Sean Dixon, and I really bond over polyrhythms. There’s an innate syncopation that creates a sensation of space by including unvoiced nodes. By naturally placing silence where there ‘should’ be sound, the brain fills it in with whatever it has to fill it: latent thoughts, subconscious emotions, judgments, mental activity of all kinds. It happens on a surprisingly microscopic scale. Some rhythms are good at suppressing thoughts and feelings, others are good at enhancing them. I find polyrhythms fall in the latter category. They become a kind of mirror.</p>
<p>I had Sean improvise in 4 over 3 while tweaking effects in real time on the PCM81. We used the same three mic recording technique that we used in track 1… Kick through the Vermona Retroverb and overheads through the stereo effects chain: PCM81>Electrix Filterfactory (notch filter)>Butler Spring Reverb. I spent several days going through the recordings from this session and pulled out all of the ultra-fine moments and saved them as stand-alone sounds that I could rearrange easily. The notch filter on the Electrix Filter-Factory does particularly delicious things with open cymbal sounds.</p>
<p>This main synth sound is the Moog Slim Phatty using a theramin as a cv control for the filter cutoff frequency. I played notes on a keyboard with my left hand and used my right hand to operate the pitch antenna of the theramin (which was a gift that the fine folks at Moog gave me when I helped them out at the Solid Sound festival in North Adams, MA a few years back). Moog is one of those companies that is very generous with artists, and they have a really wonderful sense of how to make synths expressive in a deep analog way. Moogs can a get a bit silly sounding since it’s a bit too easy to get the bleeps and bloops that made people pigeonhole early synths as too ‘non-human’. But, I’ve found that, if treated right, analog synths have this deep emotional oceanic quality that works precisely because of the lack of human touch in the sound… like the deep math within baroque music there’s a spiritual lift when the music seems to be moving by force of nature rather than by human intention. There’s an incredible feeling of infinity while turning the knobs of a good synth. Using a theramin instead of a knob heightens this feeling further as your body literally becomes a part of the circuitry.<br> <br> The low clicky intro (which really gets my <a href="http://www.asmrlab.com/common-asmr-triggers/" target="_blank">ASMR</a> going) also came from the Slim Phatty, playing ultra-low frequency sawtooth waves and filtering the result through an auto-pan pedal.<br><br> The original synth improv had a loose timing to it, so that some measures were randomly 10, 11 or 12 beats long. There was a pleasant unpredictability to the timing of chord changes so instead of quantizing, I built the track around them. I reinforced the changes with a Nord Clavinet patch and some low bass notes from Mikey. Nick Oddy brought his Fulltone Tube Tape Echo (the real deal) up to the studio in January and we spent a wonderful evening playing with it. He played guitar while I moved the slider and knobs to change the tape speed and echo feedback. There is no other sound like it. We also did another session last fall of all ‘horror soundtrack’ type sounds that I used to create the background atmosphere of this track. <br> <br> The vocals came last. I sent them at double and quadruple speed through the ‘Butler’ spring reverb and pitched the resulting reverb tails back down to the original speed to get the big long decays on ‘Morning’. I’ll explain this technique in greater detail when we get to ‘Sinker’, since I use it there as well. Here are the lyrics:<br><br><br> Morning,<br> Morning,<br> You don’t need the medicine,<br> To see the grid lines.<br> <br> Trying to sleep in a house with odd angles,<br> Please stop thinking,<br> Morning,<br> Morning,<br> You don’t the medicine,<br> To make amends.<br> <br> Bent edge,<br> Admit you’re powerless,<br> To your compulsions.<br> <br> Morning,<br> Take a walk outside,<br> Morning,<br> Brain bleach genuine,<br> Wake up,<br> With x’s on your hands,<br> <br> Morning,<br> Brain bleach genuine,<br> Morning,<br> You don’t need the medicine.<br> <br> Thanks for reading: tomorrow track 10: Sinker <br><br> Yours,<br> <br> Nick</p>
<p><a href="http://zammutosound.com/shows" target="_blank">Upcoming shows: (starting Oct. 26) <span>New York - Philly - DC - Durham - Atlanta - Asheville - Nashville - Louisville - Cincinnati - Columbus - Buffalo - Boston - North Adams, MA </span></a></p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32427992014-10-21T11:34:09-04:002022-10-05T10:29:10-04:00Track 8: IO<p>Anchor Blog Series: Entry #8</p>
<p>IO</p>
<p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/09-io" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/09-io</a></p>
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<p>I wanted to YELL on one track on this record. Yelling is really not my thing and that’s part of the reason I had to go for it. One of my favorite records is Tom Waits ‘Bone Machine’ because of the huge range of textures he gets out of his voice (and other instruments). I’m no Tom Waits, obviously, but I like the idea that I’m not defined by the sound of my voice and I can get different textures out of it without sounding disingenuous (I hope). I’ve found being alone in a car is the perfect place to explore what happens when I raise my voice, and it took a while running various errands, but I found this spot where I can get a good kind of high growl out of my otherwise limited voice. Now that I know where this spot is I can get back to it pretty easily, so it was time to try it out in a track. I recorded it clean, and then sent it hot through the tubes on the ‘Butler’ to get a bit of distortion. I doubled the voice here and there, which gets nice and thick when forced through vacuum tubes, without the cold harshness of pedal type distortion. I added a bit of slap back type delay as well.</p>
<p>The song is about growing up half in the eighties and half in the nineties and the awkward transition from hair-metal to grunge which corresponded to the transition from middle school to high school for me. We used a hybrid electronic/acoustic drum kit to shift the texture through the decades. It’s about Reaganomics and how I felt, back then, that our educational system tends to narrow the scope of our lives, while launching us into careers that will inhibit self-actualization in the long run. This forces an extraordinary amount of ‘unlearning’ to happen later on to get back on track.</p>
<p>Lyrics:</p>
<p>Set, I’m gonna fit right in when I put on my good clothes,<br> All I gotta do is pick six digits then I’ll live among the innermost,<br> Another cannonball, waiting for the axe to fall on the shit catapult,<br> people say I ain’t got no soul, but who knows.<br><br> Set, stagflating on the inside, another sunny day,<br> Gonna press the button over and over and I can’t wait for the eighties to be over again,<br> If I don’t give it up, how they gonna trickle down, I put my shit on the catapult,<br> My face is just a stepping stone, could go to Canada, could go to Mexico.<br><br> Oooh, another hot night cinematic, brand new fully-automatic soul<br><br> my muscle truck is just a metaphor<br><br> Set, invisible hands gonna pull all the money out,<br> Gonna take every red cent, why you gotta be so reticent,<br> People say you gotta learn to love the smell when you run the shit catapult,<br> People say I ain’t got no soul, but who knows,<br> My face is just a stepping stone, could go to Canada, could go to Mexico.</p>
<p>Now that I’ve started looking for them, I see ‘shit catapults’ everywhere. One thing our culture excels at is the acceleration of shit. This track gave us the once in a lifetime opportunity to build a giant catapult, so I designed and built one last August. It’s a trebuchet, actually, which is much more efficient than a catapult at slinging shit. I’ll write about this project more later. Here’s the video:</p>
<p><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETMhibbH2bA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETMhibbH2bA</a></span></p>
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<p>I designed the trebuchet to hold 1000 pounds of counterweight, which can send a 10 pound object over 400 feet. </p>
<p>Voyager I recently became the first man-made object to leave the solar system. On their way past the outer planets in the late 70’s the Voyagers recorded the ‘<a href="http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/galileo/sounds.cfm" target="_blank">sound</a>’ of the planets and moons they past, in the form of radio waves given off by their magnetospheres. Dorky, I know, but they actually sound really amazing, all phased out and alien. I got my hands on one of these recordings a while back, and that’s how this track got started. I took the sound and put it through a volume envelope generator built into the Acid DAW, sort of like an extreme tremolo, to get a pulsing sound that sort of reminds me of a panting dog in front of a military airport. (the sound that opens this track)<br><br> I got in the habit of sketching out kick/hat/snare patterns for Sean with our Yamaha DTX-12, the very useful little drum pad/sampler that lives among Sean’s drums in our live show. It’s great because we can load any sound we want on it and Sean can gracefully incorporate it into his playing. I was immediately drawn to the 80’s sounding ‘gated’ snare that came preloaded on the DTX-12 because it was so dated and goofy, it made me smile. For some reason it worked really well with the Voyager sound, so I ran with it. Then Sean came up last August and recorded the same pattern on acoustic drums. So, I had two distinct drum kits playing the same beat, one electronic and kinda 80’s and one acoustic and kinda 90’s. Having two drum-kits to use in different sections of the track spawned the theme for the lyrics.<br><br> Gene Back, our amazing guitar/keyboard player from our first tours, came up with Sean last August and we recorded his violin while tweaking real-time effects. This is where those crazy fiddle breaks come from. Then, Nick Oddy came up in January and we recorded his electric guitar through an Eventide pitch-factor/delay effect. Both of these were amazing sessions that yielded a lot more than can fit in this track. </p>
<p>Thanks for reading! Next up ‘Sinker’.</p>
<p>Nick</p>
<p><a href="http://zammutosound.com/shows" target="_blank">Upcoming shows: (starting Oct. 26) <span>New York - Philly - DC - Durham - Atlanta - Asheville - Nashville - Louisville - Cincinnati - Columbus - Buffalo - Boston - North Adams, MA </span></a></p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32399732014-10-19T13:42:00-04:002022-04-17T07:30:38-04:00Track 7: Electric Ant<p><span><em>Anchor</em> Blog Series: Entry #7</span></p>
<p><span>Electric Ant</span></p>
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<p>I think ‘genre’ is a very superficial concept. From my perspective, music is about the details and those trump any category that can be applied to a track or an artist. There is a certain spirit of playfulness and subversiveness that is universal in good art, no matter where it comes from or what it sounds like. I want to make records that ignore artificial boundaries and attempt to reveal a unity that is under the surface. Life is short, and I’ll be damned if I get stuck in one place (creatively speaking) for too long, there is too much to try and learn. I hate the idea of becoming or maintaining a brand. Its clear from the reviews of ‘Anchor’ that at this point in my career I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t. Every review of the album began with a paragraph about ‘The Books’. Many people don’t want me to change, but if I don’t others will complain that my approach is stale. There’s no way to win this game and so I intend to ignore it and focus on thinking freely, following my internal compass and working with people I admire and respect. That is, I’d rather be damned if i do. </p>
<p>Electric Ant (lyrics):</p>
<p>I met her on an airplane,<br> 50,000 feet high,<br> Complained about the champagne,<br> She had a sparkling whine,<br> We talked about the plan of the city,<br> And how she could have done it better,<br> She was so profanely pretty,<br> You could tell she was a money getter,<br> <br> She told me, “Buy low, sell high,<br> This valley got made by raining money from the sky.”<br> She said, “Buy low, sell high,<br> Even if the thought of spending your life here makes you wanna die.”<br> <br> It’s gonna be alright if we keep sub rosa,<br> It’s gonna be alright if we keep sub rosa,<br> It’s gonna be alright, underneath a hung rose all night,<br> Don’t wanna be alright, underneath a hung rose.<br> <br> I met him on a bullet train<br> He was the ammunition<br> You could feel the room shift,<br> When he made decisions,<br> You could see his head split open,<br> Half man, half man,<br> He had no use for the real estate,<br> He was the middle man.<br> <br> “Buy low, sell high,<br> This valley got made by raining money from the sky.”<br> “Buy low, sell high,<br> Even if the thought of spending your life here makes you wanna die.”<br> <br> It’s gonna be alright if we keep sub rosa,<br> It’s gonna be alright if we keep sub rosa,<br> Don’t wanna be alright, underneath a hung rose all night,<br> Don’t wanna be alright, underneath a hung rose.<br> </p>
<p>Obviously, this song is about my disillusionment with the cancerous obsession our culture has with making money at all costs. In the verses, the game was to start with a sort of cliche image of overly confident business people in transit and then abstract it to reflect human systems as a geophysical force. That is to say, zoom into a self-involved individual and zoom out to reveal the ant army. But then, the chorus is in a completely different key, sort of ruing the fact that we are generally so reticent about what really satisfies us. <br><br> To be honest, it was kind of a nightmare working on this track. It was an exhausting process of tweaking and second-guessing and I almost killed the track several times, but somehow it survived. I have a feeling this track will split the audience between those who really like it and those who really don’t, and to be honest I kind of like it when that happens, so I’ll always take that risk and release it. In fact, one thing I am really proud of with ‘The Books’ and ‘Zammuto’ is that our audience is filled with ‘individuals’. We are able to largely avoid the ugly <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank">groupthink</a> that plagues mass art consumption. People respond to different moments in the show in very different ways, and I remember looking out into the audience to see little pockets of laughter or a single person in tears, like little sparks going off. It feels very open-ended and makes me think that music should be ‘spongy’ in a way that it’s absorptive because it’s mostly empty space. It’s been one of the greatest privileges of my life to be able to travel around the world and play concerts. It’s funny, but I often remember the travel better than the shows. I get emotional when I’m traveling. I love people watching, and being in a foreign place always gives me fresh eyes to notice patterns. People’s motivations are very, very consistent from place to place, despite the cosmetic differences between local cultures. People thirst for opportunities, watch out for their own, and then spend vast amounts of time and energy looking for escapes, both large and small. I think we’re all kind of in it and above it at the same time, and ordinary moments can be very dramatic when you take a certain perspective. <br><br> Technically speaking, The idea for the main groove in this track came from the same initial session as track 4. I was playing around with TR808 samples running through outboard gear (mostly the Vermona Retroverb and Lexicon PCM81) which I could tweak in real time to create a lot of different but related textures. I’ve noticed, in my hearing, that when bass notes go really low I can’t hear the pitch very clearly. I think I must have narrow ear canals or something, but the bass kick on this track is right on the threshold for me, which created an underlying feeling of uncertainty of where the floor is. Also, finding the right vocal effect was key to making this track work, and I needed to find a vocal sound that produced a feeling of heightened presence and alienation at the same time. Usually I record vocals dry and then apply effects later, but in this case I recorded the vocals through the effects in real time and committed to the wet sound from the beginning. In this case it’s a classic lexicon gated reverb with different amounts of pre-delay on the verses and a chorus/delay on the chorus. The bass in the choruses is from the DSI Polyevolver.</p>
<p>Tomorrow, I0.</p>
<p>Yours,<br><br> Nick</p>
<p><a href="http://zammutosound.com/shows" target="_blank">Upcoming shows: (starting Oct. 26) <span>New York - Philly - DC - Durham - Atlanta - Asheville - Nashville - Louisville - Cincinnati - Columbus - Buffalo - Boston - North Adams, MA </span></a></p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32394002014-10-18T21:58:02-04:002023-12-10T11:47:18-05:00Track 6: Don't Be a Tool<p>Anchor Blog Series: Entry #6</p>
<p>Don’t Be a Tool (Instrumental)</p>
<p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/07-dont-be-a-tool" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/07-dont-be-a-tool</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/content.sitezoogle.com/u/54176/3c3f97099b40323905d711dc42188824c31b70aa/original/zammuto-studio-real-1.jpg?1397703497" target="_blank">Here’s a picture of the studio</a> my brother, Mikey, took in February and carefully labeled. I set it up so that I stand while I work, which I find keeps my mind more active and less stuck in loops. I started hanging stuff from the ceiling last year so that I can reach all of the knobs in the whole setup while standing in the center of the stereo field. The main compressor/EQ/preamps are located right above my head so I can do detailed trim work with my head in the sweet-spot between my monitors. The drum kit is in the same space, 180 degrees from this shot. </p>
<p>Once again, the guiding principal while working on Anchor was ‘less-is-more’. These days, given the ease of multi-track production, it’s way too easy to throw a million sounds and ideas into a track. I consciously wanted to open the tracks up and let them breath by removing unnecessary layers. By limiting the number of active layers to just three or four, I could focus more attention on what I truly love about sound: nuance, clarity, and peripheral detail. I think it takes an adjustment of expectations to appreciate this approach, but for me it’s the difference between listening ‘to’ music and listening ‘through’ music: the first being passive consumption, and the second being more of an active investment of concentration. Over the last few years, especially being the father of three very energetic boys, I want music to help me stay centered and focused. Given the frenetic pace and shortening attention span of our culture, being more centered and focused seems more and more important.</p>
<p>Don’t Be a Tool </p>
<p>This track was an exercise in using a mono synth to maximum effect in a single take. The main synth sound in this track is the Moog Slim Phatty, recorded through the Vermona Retroverb and Lexicon PCM81. I wrote the line entirely with midi and set the low pass filter envelope to be extremely velocity sensitive. This means that the harder a key is struck, the brighter the note will be. I carefully entered in velocity data for each note so that texture changes and gains complexity as the track develops. The Slim Phatty is a mono synth, meaning it can only play one note a time, but I made it my mission with this track to jump around octaves as much as possible to transcend the mono-ness, which yielded some very strange non-idiomatic riffs. I was particularly impressed by the Slim for its ability to give huge bass notes and piercingly clean high-notes in a single patch. A digital or virtual synth would have trouble here. The second layer of synth is the Polyevolver, which I improvised over the Moog layer, using the same ‘fifths’ patch from ‘Good Graces’ but with a quick attack time, and medium release. <br> Until recently I’ve shied away from reverb. All of the Books tracks were bone dry (with a few exceptions). Being stuck ‘in the box’ gave me access only to the most rudimentary digital reverbs, and they rubbed me the wrong way since they tended to obscure the fine detail of the samples I was working with. But recently I’ve had a reverb epiphany. I feel like a lot of the technical methods I’ve learned over the last year involve using reverb as compositional tool, and as a way to create space, either a realistic one or a super-natural one. I recently heard a <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/02/19/279628642/one-mans-quest-to-find-the-sonic-wonders-of-the-world" target="_blank">great interview with a sound recordist</a> that experimented with firing guns inside of anechoic chambers. The sound is shocking, in a very unimpressive way… it makes you realize that reflected sound plays a huge (and largely subliminal) role in creating the context of a sound. Mushing sound out in space and time, either as reverb or delay, is a FINE art that I haven’t fully appreciated until recently.<br> <br> The drums came from a brush session I had recorded with Sean last summer for another track. We recorded it at a much faster tempo and I pitched it down about 7 semitones which gives it THAT sound… dark and loose. I pitched individual brush hits slightly differently to give each one its own timbre. I applied a wet Lexicon stage reverb and recorded it to a different stereo track so I could lift it here and there to change the space of the drum track. Towards the end, I applied a circular pan, which makes the drums move left to right and forward to back simultaneously. There are other details in there too, like a bit of scratch rhythm and a sweet orchestral sample I got from the end of a song on an old record. <br> <br> The rumbling sound at the end came from very low notes played on the Slim through the Electrix Filter Factory and massive amounts of reverb. The airplane like sound at the end comes from a recording that voyager II made of the ionosphere of Jupiter’s innermost moon, Io. More on this later…<br> <br>Yours,</p>
<p>Nick</p>
<p><a href="http://zammutosound.com/shows" target="_blank">Upcoming shows: (starting Oct. 26) <span>New York - Philly - DC - Durham - Atlanta - Asheville - Nashville - Louisville - Cincinnati - Columbus - Buffalo - Boston - North Adams, MA </span></a></p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32386842014-10-17T23:02:00-04:002022-04-17T07:25:50-04:00Track 5: Need Some Sun<p><em>Anchor</em><span> Blog Series: Entry #5</span></p>
<p><span>Need Some Sun</span></p>
<p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/zammuto-need-some-sun" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/zammuto-need-some-sun</a></p>
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<p>Track Notes:</p>
<p>I must have been a baby when first heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVGotpIxkGU" target="_blank">Dave Brubeck’s ‘Take Five’</a>. I can’t remember not having that groove in my head. It was the best-selling jazz single of all time, which is counter-intuitive on a number of levels. The most salient feature of the song is its odd time signature, 5/4. In fact, the whole record (‘Time Out’ - from 1959) is in odd meters, and is definitely worth a listen. As a kid, I knew that the flow of the song was very different than anything else I had heard, but it wasn’t until my prog-y ‘Rush-y’ freshman in high-school days (admit it, we all had them) that I figured out how it worked.<br> <br> I don’t know why 5/4 isn’t more popular, but I love it because it’s EVIL! It has a disconcerting cosmic quality, like that falling feeling you get when you look up into a clear sky at night. Pentagons don’t stack well and they take up space in an uncomfortable way… they aren’t square enough and they’re not circle enough. They are irrational… in fact, my second favorite irrational number is buried within them… the golden ratio (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio" target="_blank">phi</a>) is the relationship between a pentagons diagonal and its edge. I think it’s the touch of evil that ‘easy listening’ has always needed that helps explain the popularity of ‘Take Five’.<br> <br> I’ll spare you the lecture on the golden ratio’s strong sway on the structure of the living world, but suffice it to say, I like working in 5/4 because it conjures existential drama. My dad used to tell me that it is the WILL that comes first, and logic and reason are a distant second. And, furthermore, he’d say one should be weary that logic and reason are usually just backhanded ways of justifying what the WILL has mandated in the first place. I love my dad. (like I love pentagons ;)<br> <br> I often sing spontaneous nonsense words over tracks in progress to find interesting vocal rhythms and melodies without having to worry about singing specific words. Sometimes the patterns of consonants and vowels that come from these nonsense lyrics leads to interesting word combinations that feel right in the track even if they make no sense, and have the power to precipitate a larger idea. Jeff Tweedy told me one time (when I was visiting the ‘Loft’ on a Books tour) that ‘good lyrics settle on a song like dust on furniture’. I’ll never forget that advice. In this case, none of my vocal takes sounded that interesting so I reversed them against the track and to my amazement the reverse melody actually worked much better… and this is how I got the transition to the bridge and chorus. I re-recorded them in forward time and the rest followed naturally. Here are the lyrics:<br> <br> Don’t you always say I need some sun,<br> Need some daylight, set the high-beams on,<br> Driving out,<br> Driving out,<br> Going to California<br> Gonna see the teacher,<br> The charismatic leader.<br> <br> Three days Northeast/Southwest,<br> Where the time and space is,<br> Starving body, starving soul, starving head,<br> Pay no mind, the road erases.<br> <br> gonna sit, sit, sit…<br> <br> Driving out,<br> Driving out,<br> Stay awake in these cornfields,<br> Stay awake in these cornfields,<br> <br> Moonlight,<br> Heaps coals,<br> Of fire on my head,<br> Stay awake for days,<br> And move things with our minds.<br> <br> Inner monologue says I need a crutch,<br> To keep from tripping on the crooked cross,<br> Where the continent divides.<br> Whoever painted this double line,<br> Left the piss-mark of the true pioneer’s son.<br> <br> Gonna see the teacher,<br> The charismatic leader,<br> Stay awake in these cornfields,<br> Stay awake in these cornfields,<br> <br> Moonlight,<br> Heaps coals,<br> Of fire on my head.<br> <br>I think this song is about me (and probably many others) when I was in my twenties. Making the transition from an environment of ‘higher education’ to a world of mundane rat races was soul crushing. It’s really a story for another time, but in my twenties I found myself in a place where I couldn’t imagine a future, and was frantically searching for someone to tell me what to do to fix my life. That person didn’t exist, but the search for them did lift me out of my predicament. Generally, I feel like if you don’t deal with your existential shit in your twenties you’ll probably end up taking it out on the other people in your life until it becomes a midlife crisis later on. At any rate, I was determined to get my crisis over with so I decided to drop everything and hike the Appalachian Trail in 2001. I walked from Maine to Georgia in 129 days, and after that my internal compass was much stronger. This song became about that moment of dropping everything and ‘lighting out’ for a new frontier.</p>
<p><span>Sound-wise, one thing you should never do, I’ve been taught, is hard-pan bass (because it will throw the needle out of the groove). I started the instrumental part of ‘Need Some Sun’ by ignoring this advice. The bass-line consists of synth bass on the left and picked electric bass on the right. The synth is one of those classic Nord samples with a nice clicky attack, and the bass is Mikey’s prized Kramer from the 70’s with the aluminum neck and flat-wound strings, picked and record direct through the Tech 21 Sans-Amp. I find the wide bass effect to be exceedingly enveloping (almost uncomfortably so). I used midi to automate the synth side and ran it through a lot of different effects at different octaves to get most of the supporting textures. Then i slowed it down by 1/2 and offset it to create a cannon through certain sections. I also used the Ipad synth ‘Sunrizer’ which is incredible and can’t recommend highly enough, especially if you’re on a budget. I put my Ipad in an Alesis dock (with midi in/out) and trigger Sunrizer with the Nord etc. The kick drum came from an old Korg sample I had from somewhere. There is a bit of acoustic guitar and acoustic hi-hat/ride in there, too.</span></p>
<p>Ok, tomorrow is Track 6 - Don’t Be a Tool: a short instrumental that starts side B.</p>
<p>As always, please help us keep this thing alive: </p>
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<p> <br> Yours,<br> <br> Nick </p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32368842014-10-16T22:50:56-04:002023-12-10T11:50:07-05:00Track 4: Henry Lee<p><em>Anchor</em><span> Blog Series: Entry #4</span></p>
<p><span>Henry Lee</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/04-henry-lee" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/04-henry-lee</a></span></p>
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<p>A (somewhat unrelated) note about ‘The Sample’ class:</p>
<p>Last fall, I taught a course at Williams College about sampling called ‘The Sample’. Although listed under ‘Art’, it was a multimedia class focused on sampling and appropriations in 5 categories:</p>
<p>1) Audio 2) Video 3) Still Image 4) Text 5) Objects </p>
<p>I set up the classwork as follows: Assignment 1: produce three <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/blackout-poetry" target="_blank">'blackout' poems</a>. Assignment 2: write a 3 page paper about a sample based work of your choice (to help develop a language to talk about samples and how they can be used). Assignment 3: sample collections: collect at least 20 high-quality samples from 3 of the 5 categories and compile them in a ‘class library’ (stored in the classroom and digitally online) so that everyone in the class has access to all of the samples collected. (there were 13 people in class so this resulted in a library with about 800 decent samples) Assignment 4: Create a compelling work of art, music or text based on the samples in the collection. Assignment 5: Create a sample based work of art in the medium of your choice using any sample from inside or outside the library. I brought in my enormous collection of thrift store videos and vinyl from my ‘Books’ days to sweeten the pot, and provided a turntable for the class to use. I also limited the use of the internet as a sample collection tool, since I find there is a lot more character in physical sources, as everything on the internet has already been pre-curated and digitized. The class was tutorial style, so we had one 3 hour full class session per week on Monday nights, and another 1 hour meeting in 4 small groups during the week.</p>
<p>We talked a lot about what makes a sample good (and bad) and came up with a list of words that describe the hallmarks of good sample based work: Alchemy, Subversion, Perspective Shift, Re-contextualization, Serendipity, Synchronicity, Transcendence, Emergence, Zeitgeist etc. All of this was intuitive while working on ‘The Books’ and I came to trust the feeling of ‘not forcing’ the compositions, and rather just letting the sounds find each other as if I wasn’t there. Samples, within the space of a mind, have a certain freedom to tumble around and orbit each other and form unexpected relationships that make more ‘sense’ than the conscious mind ever could. I think this is the essence of creativity and it feels ‘right’ when the self disappears in the process. This was the take home message of the class, and I think we all made progress getting there. I’ll probably always think in ‘samples’ because of my work in The Books. I may try to do an online version of this class someday (anyone interested?).</p>
<p>Although my process has changed (and will continue to change) I’ll always be sampling in some way. In the case of Henry Lee, it was an exercise in re-contextualizing an old song and giving it a new sonic framework.</p>
<p>Henry Lee</p>
<p>I like working in pentatonic while sketching out structures for songs since it provides a relatively ‘uncolored’ and ‘uncluttered’ set of harmonics that are easily moved in big chunks. Later on I can add ‘white notes’ to easily change key and mood in organic ways. This is how ‘dark and light’ work in this track (and many others on the record). I’ve started thinking of it as a ‘partly cloudy’ approach to song writing, where there are periods of bright and gloom, and it’s easy to transition between them. As i wrote earlier, this album was about finding a darker more enveloping sound world and pulling out all unnecessary sounds, leaving cleaner relationships between lines.<br> <br> The music and structure of the track was more or less complete before I started working on the lyrics. I tried and failed miserably for several days trying to find good words and melodies for the track, and started to feel desperate and defeated. The 4/4 frustration started to set in. So, I started to look to the public domain for inspiration. I turned to THE SOURCE of modern American songs, which is Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music, a 4 LP compilation of songs recorded in the late 1920’s. And there it was: The first track on the first record. A ‘murder ballad’ from 1929 called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoEG8SRiNn8&list=RDDoEG8SRiNn8" target="_blank">'Henry Lee' by Dick Justice</a>, based on the Scottish folk standard ‘Young Hunting’. I love how murder, death, revenge, and scorn were such strong themes in traditional music, and the sentiment fit perfectly with the music I was working on… something unexpectedly dark and graphic was just what was needed. I tossed the original melody, reworked the lyrics quite a lot, and changed the sentiment so it had more of a ‘good riddance, he deserved it’ kind of vibe, rather than a ‘woman scorn’ story. Here’s my version of the lyrics:</p>
<p>She leaned against the wall,<br> He came in for a kiss,<br> In her hands she held a pen knife,<br> Stuck between his ribs,<br> <br> Some of you take him by his cold white hands,<br> And some of you take him by his feet,<br> And throw him in the deep, deep well where,<br> He should be,<br> Henry lee<br> <br> Come down, come down now,<br> Alight upon my knee,<br> A man who kills his own true love would,<br> Kill a little bird like me,<br> <br> If I had my bend and bow, now,<br> If I had my arrow and my string,<br> I’d shoot you through your soul and your yearnings,<br> Would be in vain,<br> Be in vain,<br> <br> Lie there, lie there, lie there,<br> ‘til the flesh melts off of your bones,<br> The shallows don’t know you anymore,<br> Now the crabs crawl out of your skull,<br> <br> Some of you take him by his cold white hands,<br> And some of you take him by his feet,<br> And throw him in the deep, deep well where,<br> He should be,<br> Henry Lee.<br> <br> I recorded it in my low register and panned two different takes hard left and right to create a large hollow space within the track for the bubbling details of the other sounds to roil. I recorded Daniela singing the melody an octave above me on my trip to Toronto in February and kept her voice centered and heavily awash in reverb to make it into a kind of female ghost floating between two clear male voices. I hope this falls under the category of ‘good sampling’, as it felt right to extend the tradition of a celebrated folk song into a new light. Of course, I’m not the first to try it with this song: here’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KLiIUhKGrc" target="_blank">Nick Cave and PJ Harvey’s version</a>.<br> <br>The bass part and rhythm of this track came from the ‘gear’ experiments I was doing in Sept/Oct to familiarize myself with all of the new capabilities of the studio. Having the <a href="http://trashaudio.com/2010/01/roland-tr-808-sample-pack/" target="_blank">Surachai TR808</a> samples gave me some juicy vintage sounding electronica rhythms to send through the new gear, so I set up a simple thumpy kick pattern and sent it to the FMR Really Nice Compressor’s sidechain input. This is the only low cost analog compressor that has a sidechain input (that i’m aware of) and it’s in stereo to boot. So useful. Side-chaining (or ducking) compression is a common way to get a kick drum and bass to work together without low end dissonance or ‘woofiness’. Basically, the kick drum signal tells the compressor to drop the sound of the bassline whenever the kick drum is there, which gives a nice clean kick sound and heavy bass at the same time. This has been around a long time in high-end mixing/mastering but bands like Daft Punk and many others started the trend of using it as a compositional tool, and now you hear it everywhere in pop music. It’s interesting because it’s a subtractive technique that allows you to cut into a ‘wall of sound’ in a rhythmic way. The bass in this song came from Polyevolver played through the compressor sidechained to the 808 kick. I also applied it to some higher synth notes and took that recording and shifted it against the original rhythm to provide a subtle counterpoint. <br> <br> The strummed-harpy synth sound that comes in in measure 3 is also Polyevolver sent through the ‘Butler’ springs, as well as the PE ‘mellotron flute’ sounds in the rest of the track, which I noodled in pentatonic and perfected digitally. I also set up a dark drone using the ‘flute’ sound through an ‘infinite’ reverb patch on the Lexicon pcm81. The drums were recorded similarly to track 3 (Hegemony) and post processed in various ways to achieve a range of drum textures that all interlock. Again Sean Dixon proved his creativity during these sessions. It took us a while to get beyond my original bad ideas for the drums, and finally he hit upon a few amazing poly-rhythms. Somewhat like in the track ‘Shape of Things to Come’, he managed to play two syncopated patterns of different lengths against each other while having left and right hand switch roles now and then. I’ve always been a big fan of the Police, especially Stewart Copeland’s adventuresome playing, and I often hear parallels in Sean’s approach. I also love the bold mixes on police records, with the hi-hat way out in front.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading, tomorrow Track 5: Need Some Sun.</p>
<p>And please help us keep going:</p>
<p>1). Check out our webstore: (<a href="http://zammutosound.com/physical-store" target="_blank">zammuto/thebooks/soundsculpture</a>) </p>
<p>2). Come to a show: (here are two great reviews from our recent west coast run: <a href="http://www.truebluemagazine.com/live-review-zammuto-portland/" target="_blank">Portland</a>,<a href="http://lamusicblog.com/2014/09/review/show-review-zammuto-the-satellite/" target="_blank">LA</a>) </p>
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<p>Yours,</p>
<p>Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32350382014-10-15T22:17:46-04:002023-12-10T13:36:30-05:00Track 3: Hegemony<p><em>Anchor</em> Blog Series: Entry #3</p>
<p>Hegemony:<br><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/sets/zammuto-lp2/s-LZ1CQ" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/sets/zammuto-lp2/s-LZ1CQ</a><br><iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/144063891&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe> <br> This one began with the drums, of course. I was determined to have at least one track on the album feature Sean Dixon’s monstrous abilities in an unabashed way. Sometimes I feel like bands, in an effort to maintain ‘coolness’, end up becoming the sum of their inhibitions. We have no claim to coolness, and thus we fearlessly tackle the unrecommended. </p>
<p>I asked Sean what a punk beat would sound like in 3/4 (instead of 4/4) and he said “Oh, like this…” and I pressed record. Then after a while exploring the double-time beat he said, “But the really cool thing is that you can go here…” and he proceeded to drop into a 3/4 break without missing a beat. It was a MOMENT. I’d never heard a 3/4 breakbeat, and I don’t know why!? They sound great, especially after a 3/4 punk freakout. <br> <br> After we recorded the drums I got stuck for a while…Where could one possible go from here? Louder? If we did distorted guitars and picked bass it could get unwieldy, so punk instrumentation was out. I sat on it for a couple months while working on other stuff, and it finally hit me that the drums are so vertical and busy that I needed the other elements to be more horizontal, spacious and minimalistic to ground the drums. Daniela Gesundheit was traveling to a wedding nearby and was available to stop by the studio in August 2013 and I thought her voice could work wonders on this track. I scrambled to write a melody worthy of her voice. I ended up using the automatic harmony generators in the TC Helicon Voice-live 2 (the vocal processor I used a lot on the first Zammuto record) to sketch out a 4 part harmony. She’s got a great ear for harmony and we were able to record the 4 layers in an afternoon. It was a hot day and we needed to keep the door to the studio open, which explains all the bird sounds buried in this track. <br> <br><em><strong>Hegemony</strong></em>. I don’t know why this word popped into my head, but it’s one that I truly love. I have a passionate interest in things that are ubiquitous but go largely unnoticed… the giant forces in our lives that hold the fabric of everything together but fall so completely into the background that we don’t see them. This covers everything from the laws of physics to corporate dominance to politics to dynamics in intimate relationships. It’s EVERYWHERE once you start looking for it. (Here’s a great example of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo" target="_blank">'situational blindness'</a>). Also, the fact that the word ‘Hegemony’ has two widely accepted pronunciations seems important, in a strangely poetic way. So the lyrics became (in a pseudo-palindromic form):<br><br> Try to make it look like an accident,<br> Cold wind blows all around a magic ball,<br> When you looked down,<br> You made it look just like you’d gone away,<br> But I can feel it all,<br> Yeah, you looked down,<br> You made it look just like you’d gone away,<br> I can feel it all,<br> <br> Hegemony x42 (3 x 14)<br> <br>Repeat verse 1<br> <br> Sometimes I think of language as an uninvited guest in an otherwise perfect mind. So, It’s a great exercise to concentrate so intensely on the sound of a word that the meaning of it disappears. It illustrates an important property of language. Repeating a word many times has a way of undoing it’s meaning. The sound of the word becomes more and more abstract as the signifier becomes divorced from the signified. I think hegemonies arise by the reverse process: an abstraction is repeated to the point where it becomes accepted as fact. ‘Consent is manufactured’. Things we never needed before become necessities. This is how tools, in the form of objects and people, are made. Personally, I want to use tools without becoming a tool. But, it’s hard to find a perspective that unveils the hegemony most of the time. Usually it requires taking several steps back, and outside of one’s comfort zone. But hard work is rewarding.<br> <br> After mixing the harmonies (both Daniela’s and mine) I sent the vocals through the Vermona Retroverb all together to unify them into a mono track and give them a bit of vintage spring flavor. Then I started looking for supporting elements and once again I found them within the Nord Electro 3. Another great thing about Nord is that they provide a vast library of vintage keyboard samples that you can download directly to the keyboard, including the original Mellotron and Chamberlain tapes, and classic patches from early synthesizers. I spent several days going through them all and compiled my favorites in a library of my own. They come in very handy. I processed most of them through the outboard gear as I tracked them. Then Mikey, my brother, came in and recorded the slinky bass line that pulls it all together. The crazy distorted organ sound at the beginning and end of the track is the Farfisa organ from the Nord, through its onboard amp-modeler and a Moog Cluster-Flux, which the kind folks at Moog let me borrow while it was in the prototype phase. </p>
<p>For those of you who are interested in the technical aspects of drum recording: We recorded the drums with 5 microphones: D6 on the kick, two 414’s for overheads in ‘<a href="http://www.hometracked.com/2007/05/12/recorderman-overhead-drum-mic-technique/" target="_blank">recorderman</a>' configuration as close as possible, and e604 on the snare top, an Audix I5 on the snare bottom (sort of pointed towards the kick point) and an e604 on the big floor tom recorded through a UA 710d preamp with a touch of '1176' compression on the takes. (plus an art tube pre on the tom). I wanted stereo drums as quickly as possible (since they are easier to work with) so I roughly EQ'd them using Izotope alloy. One AMAZING trick I discovered is that if you record snare top and bottom, EQ them so they sound as alike as possible and pan them hard right and left, the snare becomes incredibly vivid (without a volume boost!). The overheads are panned hard as well, the kick in the center, and the tom a bit to the right, then bounced it all to stereo. This sounded ok, but too 'clean'. So I sent it OUTBOARD. I sent a stereo analog signal through the R.K Butler tube spring reverb, only used a tiny touch of reverb, but drove the tubes pretty hard to distort the transients a touch. Then I used the VLA2 compressor, set to a slow attack and fast release to bring out a lot of detail in the ringing of the drums that you couldn't hear in the digital mix. Finally, I used the Kush Electra EQ to find the sweet-spots in the drum sound and lift them. The sweepable mids on the Electra are very unique, and if you eq the left and right slightly differently you can widen the stereo image in a very compelling way. The mind behind this EQ is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KushAudio" target="_blank">Gregory Scott</a>, and he has an extremely useful web presence that I’ve learned a lot of tricks from. <br> <br> OK! Tomorrow: Track 4 – Our version of an old murder ballad called ‘Henry Lee’.</p>
<p>remember:</p>
<p>1). Pick up something from our online store where you’ll find:(<a href="http://zammutosound.com/physical-store" target="_blank">zammuto/thebooks/soundsculpture</a>) </p>
<p>2). Come to a show: (here are two great reviews from our recent west coast run: <a href="http://www.truebluemagazine.com/live-review-zammuto-portland/" target="_blank">Portland</a>,<a href="http://lamusicblog.com/2014/09/review/show-review-zammuto-the-satellite/" target="_blank">LA</a>) </p>
<p>3). Most importantly! SPREAD THE WORD. We need to grow a bit more to survive. Share this post, tweet, facebook, whatever. If all of you turned just one person on to our music, we’d be golden, totally independent and in the black.</p>
<p>Starting on Oct 26 we’ll be heading through New York - Philly - DC - Durham - Atlanta - Asheville - Nashville - Louisville - Cincinnati - Columbus - Buffalo - Boston - North Adams, MA (a special home town finale). We hope to see you out there.</p>
<p>yours,<br><br>Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32333712014-10-15T00:06:08-04:002024-03-06T06:06:46-05:00Track 2: Great Equator<p><em>Anchor</em> Blog Series: Entry # 2</p>
<p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/sets/zammuto-lp2/s-LZ1CQ" target="_blank">Great Equator:</a><br><br><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/sets/zammuto-lp2/s-LZ1CQ" target="_blank"> https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/sets/zammuto-lp2/s-LZ1CQ</a></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/144045675&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><br><br> Here’s the video I made for the song using electron and light microscopes (I used to be an analytical chemist in an art conservation lab years ago, and it was nice to revisit the old scopes in the lab.)</p>
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<p>I’ll write more about the making of the video later.</p>
<p>A general note:</p>
<p>I feel like I need to be alone to do my best work, especially given the endless looping and trial and error that goes into producing this kind of music. I feel like some people HAVE music in them and it pours out of them complete and perfect, and all you need to do is press record. I am not one of those people. I’m introverted and self-conscious, and moments of FLOW come few and far between. I think I’m more of a scientist at my core, and I’ve set up my studio so that it feels like a microscope for sound. I love detail and I love clarity of texture. For me it’s the fine detail that carries the emotional weight of a track and my ears are always traveling to the periphery and the spaces between sounds to find meaning. For me, the unintentional quality of the ‘edges’ of sound provides an organic support for the more intentional central elements of the track, so one can find deep sound and deep structure simultaneously.</p>
<p>Notes on Great Equator:</p>
<p>When I was in middle school, I started going to the public library in the town where I grew up to borrow vinyl records. They had a good collection. I was pretty voracious about trying new music. It was my first exposure to Bach, Kraftwerk, Ornett Coleman, Weather Report etc. and I also listened to all the sound effects records in the collection (that had little snippets of airplanes and applause etc.). There was no automatic return on my parents turntable, so at the end of each side the music would end and the needle would spiral in and slide into the circular ‘locked-groove’ at the center. I would always wait for that sound and listen to the thump and crackle of that run-out groove, each like a fingerprint for that record. It made me realize that ‘silence’ isn’t silence. It’s just the taste of your own tounge.</p>
<p>That little loop of silence seemed like a gift. A little negative space to work in. It wasn’t long before I tried purposefully scratching across it. Using thumb-tacks, razor blades, sand paper etc, I started making marks there to see what they sounded like. The thumb tack produced a nice bassy thump. The razor blade produced a quick snap. The sand paper sounded like a maraca. If I scratched inward the sound would appear on the left speaker of the stereo. Scratching outward made it sound more on the right. Using a protractor I measured out different angles that corresponded to rhythms. Working at 90 or 45 degrees was in 4/4. Other integer divisions of 360 produced other time signatures. <br><br> I finally perfected the technique last year with the ‘Scratch Edition’ which includes a template for 5 different time signatures with divisions for 8ths, 16ths, and triplets. Here’s a video I made about it.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/72615472" target="_blank">Scratch Edition</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5011949" target="_blank">Nick zammuto</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>I’ve made hundreds of these loops and recorded all of the loops and compiled them into a collection. maybe someday i’ll make them public. Last year I took some electron microscope images of the scratches at a local college which you can view here: <a href="http://zammutosound.com/galleries/147175/electron-micrographs-of-record-scratches" target="_blank">http://zammutosound.com/galleries/147175/electron-micrographs-of-record-scratches</a>.</p>
<p>this became the idea for the Great Equator video.<br><br> My very favorite of the rhythms I scratched is the one that opens this track. It’s in a quick 9/8. As a composer, I get very frustrated with 4/4 because of its ubiquity and its squareness. By pure repetition, our ears have become hard-wired for the tension and release of 4/4, and every genre of it has idioms, tropes, and conventions that, as a composer, are very difficult to transcend. Not so with 9/8. In fact, all of the tropes of 4/4 work to 9/8’s advantage because it feels like there’s a tiny space where the one should be, refreshing expectations every time around.<br><br> 9/8 also suggests some wonderful polyrhythms. You’ll find it’s as easy to count this track in sixes as in nines, which creates a very natural 2 over 3 relationship… the three feels waltzy, while the two feels marchy… a great contradiction. So the opening seconds of the track are clean illustration of how the gears of 9/8 intermesh, with the final gear coming in as the snare sound about halfway through the first verse. The kick, hi-hat, and snare sounds are sampled directly from a tr-808, a classic vintage drum machine, by Surachai in Asheville, NC, who generously made them available for download here. I also treated the scratched rhythm in a few different ways with the Lexicon PCM81 so I could change the texture of it here and there throughout the track.<br><br> Next came the chord progression for the verse/chorus structure which is where the primary idea for the key change between verse and chorus was born along with the 3 measure figure of the verses (a 27 beat loop that makes perfect sense, who knew). The main synth sound comes from the Polyevolver, which has a unique built-in distortion circuit and really comes to life when squashed a bit by a compressor… in this case it’s the ART Pro VLA2 (the best kept secret in cheap analog compressors along with the FMR RNC). Mikey (my brother) improvised the bass line very early on in the process, which wonderfully counteracts the stiff staccato of the electronic drums. Sean Dixon recorded drums over the loop with some amazing performances, but after working with them they didn’t fit with the clean metronomic style of the rhythm, so I’m saving those recordings for another track. The great thing about drums and percussion is that they are un-pitched and therefore unconstrained by key or scale (and to a large degree, tempo) so they are easily transplanted to other tracks. Sean’s playing is so creative that it often happens that new ideas are sparked, and the original context for the recordings are left behind.<br><br> After settling on the chord structure, I needed a WRENCH to throw in the works in the form of a bridge/breakdown/outro. I wanted something bright, vertical, and extremely syncopated to counter the long horizontal decay tails of the verse/choruses. The solution came from the Nord Electro 3, the red keyboard that we (and countless others) tour with. It has great emulations of classic organs with harmonics that can be fine-tuned with virtual drawbars, and in this case I found the punch I was looking for in a ‘Vox’ organ sound with a bit of room reverb on it. I wrote the notes out in MIDI (within the Acid DAW) always striving for the gnarliest, most unexpected places to place the hits. I’m a terrible keyboard player, so MIDI is a good friend of mine when working on key parts. Then I recorded the same part with a heavy hall reverb on it and placed it in a separate layer below the Vox-room recording. Using Acid’s built in volume envelopes I pulled up the hall reverb sound between random notes to give that sense of space expanding and contracting. Also, you’ll notice that the kick and snare sounds switch roles now and then, to further shift the gears in these sections. It became one of my favorite moments on the record. I feel like whenever a radical texture can enter a composition in an unexpected but strangely perfect way, it becomes a MOMENT that is unforgettable. It’s a somewhat risky way of writing since it usually doesn’t work out, but so worth it when it does. I suppose this is true in any medium… if you can get a crazy idea to work, its pure gold.<br><br> Next I added guitar during the second and third verses, to help push the development forward. I did a session with my Fender Stratocaster recorded ‘direct’ through a Sans Amp and Vermona Retroverb. Guitar riffs, like 4/4, are another ubiquitous thing that is almost too stale and worn out to attempt, but I landed on a unique riff by capo-ing up high so that fingers land on the 3<sup>rd</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> of the root simultaneously, creating a dissonance that works in unexpected ways against the chords. It’s as if the 3<sup>rd</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> are duking it out for dominance as the riff decays. It creates a cloud of uncertainty in the mood of the track, which is extended by the key change in choruses. In January, Nick Oddy, our guitarist and keyboard player extraordinaire, came up and we recorded the hanging washed-out guitar chords that support the verses. Synth pads would have felt cheesy, but these guitar chords felt just right to subtly fill the spaces in the track. They were recorded through an Electro-Harmonix Freeze pedal > a volume pedal > an eventide ‘space’ pedal with a randomized volume mod.<br><br> All that was left was the lyrics, which are the hardest part of the process for me. The words that come naturally to my head are truly insipid, and I hate myself for it. I need to employ massive amounts of self-trickery to deceive my non-verbal brain into writing worthwhile songs. Outright theft works well, as in the first track. This one was more slippery. While working on the lyrics for this track I became obsessed with reading the wiki <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Trope" target="_blank">tvtropes.org</a>. As they say on their front page “<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Trope" target="_blank">Tropes</a> are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations.” It’s literally a catalog of all of the tricks and conventions of fiction writing, backed by thousands of examples. Right off, I got a few great lines from it. The kind of lines that invoke an entire world in just a few words. That was enough to get me started. I also re-read a book we have here at home called ‘<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Home-Planet-Kevin-Kelley/dp/0201151979" target="_blank">The Home Planet</a>’ which is made entirely of quotes from people who have left earth to live in space. Eventually the song coalesced:<br><br> Oh, my love<br> It’s been more than fun.<br> We’ve been around the sun,<br> The moves we made were radical.<br> Gravity is only a theory,<br> In need of revisions.<br> And we’ll keep on rising to better see,<br> Where we’re from.<br> Why have become,<br> So afraid of change,<br> Why can’t deserts handle rain.<br> <br> Slower now,<br> We go around the sun.<br> Now life’s a kind of condensation,<br> A certain type of rust.<br> Bad vibrations shake the coins across the table,<br> Oh, here it comes.<br> I try to hold the reins,<br> With these folded paper hands,<br> And plan on shifting sands.<br> <br> Oh, Great Equator,<br> City of sound.<br> All we have in a single frame,<br> For the first time.<br> Oh, my loves, I wish you could see,<br> What I’ve seen.<br> Or should I spend my days,<br> In empty pyramids,<br> And do what the echo-chamber says.<br> <br> I recorded the song in two vocal layers in tight harmony throughout, with no clear lead voice, like a mutant Simon and Garfunkle (we used to call ourselves ‘Simon and Glitchfunkle’ back in the Books days). I also recorded at low volume in my lowest register so that the vocal stayed within the ‘pocket’ of the track instead of soaring out on top. I carefully matched the volume of the two voices and sent them both through the gentle analog distortion circuit of the Vermona Retroverb, which sonically glued them together into more of a single sound, and mixed them mono in the center of the track. I recorded a thick spring reverb of the vocals to another stereo track, and lifted them more and more in the mix as track develops. I love the way ‘ducked’ reverb blossoms in the space between lines, so I left a lot of space in this song to leave the tails exposed.<br><br> Thanks for reading, everyone. Tomorrow: 3) Hegemony. </p>
<p>And (sorry to repeat myself but for the good of my children I must) please remember there are three ways you can help keep this crazy thing alive: </p>
<p>1). Pick up something from our online store where you’ll find:(<a href="http://zammutosound.com/physical-store" target="_blank">zammuto/thebooks/soundsculpture</a>) </p>
<p>2). Come to a show: (here are two great reviews from our recent west coast run: <a href="http://www.truebluemagazine.com/live-review-zammuto-portland/" target="_blank">Portland</a>,<a href="http://lamusicblog.com/2014/09/review/show-review-zammuto-the-satellite/" target="_blank">LA</a>) </p>
<p>3). Most importantly! SPREAD THE WORD. We need to grow a bit more to survive. Share this post, tweet, facebook, whatever. If all of you turned just one person on to our music, we’d be golden, totally independent and in the black.</p>
<p>Starting on Oct 26 we’ll be heading through New York - Philly - DC - Durham - Atlanta - Asheville - Nashville - Louisville - Cincinnati - Columbus - Buffalo - Boston - North Adams, MA (a special home town finale). We hope to see you out there.</p>
<p>yours,<br><br> Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/32309952014-10-13T22:20:17-04:002022-04-17T07:26:15-04:00Track 1: Good Graces<p><em>Anchor</em> Blog Series (My notes on the tracks from our new record <em>Anchor</em>, one per day for 12 days)</p>
<p>Good Graces: </p>
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<p><br> Last April, as part of the tremendous <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zammuto-lp-2" target="_blank">Indiegogo campaign</a> that funded ‘Anchor’, I wrote down my creative/technical notes for each track and shared them with our backers along with previews to the tracks. I wrote it all down while it was still fresh in my mind and many people suggested I make these writings available to everyone, after the release. So, I’m going to post one per day for the next 12 days. (Please forgive the number of emails from me during this time). Creative notes are towards the top and technical/production notes are towards the end.</p>
<p>General notes on <em>Anchor</em>:</p>
<p>With this record, I set out to make something more internal, darker, a bit slower and more enveloping with locked-in grooves and fewer moving parts. It was a conscious effort to take a step back and focus on the essentials as I developed a new set of studio techniques, especially drum recording, analog synth programming, and lyric writing. After our first record, I was craving more space in the music and deeper emotional resonance with the voice and lyrics. So for this record, I consciously tried to pull anything unnecessary out of the mix, so the lines could interact more clearly, stand on their own and leave space for each other. I worked on ‘Anchor’ from November through early April in my little studio cabin at our home in Vermont (as seen on the cover of the record). It’s a winter record, to be sure, and now that it’s getting colder I’m hoping you all will take some time to relax into it. I try to make records that are ‘growers’: a bit jarring or unexpected at first but make perfect ‘sense’ over time. It may take a few times through to figure out how it all fits together, but I promise, I’ve put all the same concentration and detail into this record as all of my others, albeit in a different sphere. I don’t intend to repeat myself much in the years I have left making music, there is simply too much ground to cover. So please enjoy this record for what it is and expect something completely different next time around. Expectation leads to disappointment, as they say. </p>
<p>1). Good Graces:</p>
<p>I’ve always been a huge fan of Gillian Welch. Her lyrics are incredible and timeless, and I know she’s spent countless hours poring over the songs of the ‘Old Weird America’ for inspiration. (If you’ve never heard her start with <em>Time (The Revelator)</em>. Following her lead, I found a great collection of songs here: <a href="http://toneway.com/songs" target="_blank">toneway.com/songs</a> and I read through them all. I kept finding repeated images and a kind of surprising raw lustfulness in the words of these songs, the kind of thoughts you think when you meet someone you know you must HAVE, and wrote a new song based on the themes that struck me: (lyrics)<br> <br> When I first saw my love,<br> She had her shoes in her hands,<br> Bare feet on the floor, ooh yes,<br> I’ve got to get inside her world.<br> <br> I’ve got to get inside,<br> Get inside,<br> Get inside her,<br> Good graces.<br> <br> I wish I was a cherry tree,<br> And every time she past she’d take a few of me,<br> Got to be inside her flower,<br> Old Man, you’re gonna lose your daughter.<br> <br> I’ve got to get inside,<br> Get inside,<br> Get inside her,<br> Good graces.<br> <br> Give me roses while I live,<br> I live if it’s me that you adore,<br> Useless are the flowers that you give,<br> When on earth we meet no more.<br> <br> The last verse was taken pretty directly from the traditional song ‘Give Me the Roses’ and was clearly in a different voice. Last February, I made a special trip to Toronto to visit my dear friend Daniela Gesundheit (her real name!) and her excellent husband Dan Goldman, who are the band Snowblink. Daniela ended up singing on four songs on this record, and we recorded the final verse of this song on that trip, in their apartment in Chinatown. <br> <br> The concept for the melody of the verses was to twist the scale as much as possible by ending each line on an odd note, and double the voice with subtle piano notes to reinforce the twists. It’s not major, it’s not minor, it’s not blues: it shifts between the three without commitment, allowing light and dark to shift unexpectedly in small moments. I sang it in my high quiet feminine voice, since it felt right to twist the gender of it as well (although my wife has complained that it’s not sexy enough). Oh well. Unfortunately, for her and my music career, being sexy has never really been on my radar. I treated the vocal with a great patch from a classic lexicon pcm81 (early digital unit) that has chorus on the left and delay on the right, which makes it wide and mysterious. Daniela’s voice went through the ‘Butler’ spring reverb (see below) to pull into the space of the ambient synth. <br> <br> Because of the unexpected success of our fundraiser, I was able to raid ebay for some great old gear and improve the studio’s capabilities 1000%. Over the course of July-Oct, I assembled an incredible stereo effects chain (for surprisingly little money) consisting of:</p>
<ul>
<li>A vintage ‘Lexicon’ pcm81 reverb/multieffects unit (classic 80’s/early 90’s sound)</li>
<li>A vintage stereo 12 spring reverb (‘R.K. Butler’ Real Tube) (classic 70’s sound)</li>
<li>An ‘FF’ Electrix Filter-Factory, multimode analog filter with LFO sync</li>
<li>A ‘Vermona’ Retroverb Lancet (a mono multimode filter attached to a spring reverb)</li>
<li>An FMR ‘RNC’ (Really Nice Compressor) capable of analog side chaining</li>
<li>A Kush Electra Stereo EQ rack unit, (a very unique way to boost transients)</li>
<li>A ‘PE’ DSI Polyevolver hybrid synth (recently discontinued) with four note polyphony</li>
</ul><p><br> This allowed me to work almost entirely ‘outboard’ (computer free) while tracking this record. This was a new experience for me, with a steep learning curve, but SO much more satisfying than being stuck ‘in the box’ doing endless computer work, trying to use lifeless DSP effects. In fact, I didn’t realize how much time I spent fighting my gear until I had the ‘real’ thing. Computers, it turns out, only emulate.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, I do a LOT of sketch work, and I wait patiently for good ideas to find each other before I try to make them work together in a composition. When working on the tracks, I feel like there is an obvious ‘next step’ in the compositional process, which is almost always the ‘wrong step’, and I abhor that tendency to do what ‘makes sense’. The counterbalance to this inhibition is that I want the music to feel right, and have a strong inner logic, especially on repeated listens. I don’t care if the music is a bit disorienting on the first listen, as long as listening naturally goes deeper with every play. I think this tendency probably limits the size of the audience quite a lot, but the QUALITY of the audience is greatly improved (as you all illustrate, perfectly). It takes a long time to make these tracks, and the stories of making them become complicated, so forgive my long windedness.<br><br> Long before the lyrics began taking shape, the track started with an improvisation I did on the PE through the outboard stereo effects chain. (Here it is for download: it’s kind of glitchy and boring but maybe you can remix it:<a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/pe-cr-improv-cc/s-XNT72" target="_blank"> https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/pe-cr-improv-cc/s-XNT72</a>). This improvisation was completely erased from the final version of the track, but served as the skeleton around which the drums were performed. Sean Dixon came up in August and improvised the drums over the synth loop while I tweaked effects in real time as he played. Just three microphones, kick plus 2 overheads, the kick going through the vermona and the overheads going through the lexicon/FF. Playing with the synth loop is how he came up with the idea to leave the kick off the one. So great! I love Sean, both as a player and as a human being. Being a drummer/ninja vigilante, means Sean knows all about the ‘one’ and when to avoid it.<br><br> I improvised the bass-line on the PE a couple weeks later while listening through Sean’s session, along with the hook from the Slim Phatty (a Moog mono synth I’ve had for a few years (zebra butt) recorded through the Vermona. I also started humming the melody of the chorus at this point, but unfortunately the words that popped into my head were ‘you’ve got to dig inside your cold feces’, which I knew had to change, so I left the track behind for a bit. Eventually, ‘Cold Feces’ became ‘Good Graces’ and then I was back on track.<br><br> A few weeks later I was doing a series of very ambient improvisations in the pentatonic scale (always useful and easily transplanted) with a simple PE patch I created using two analog triangle waves tuned a fifth apart through the FF into a fully wet ‘R.K Butler’ spring reverb. You’ll all be familiar with spring reverbs from surf era guitar. Many modern guitar amps still have a genuine spring reverb, recognizable by their sproinginess when faced with bright transients (percussive sounds). In a spring reverb, the echo sound is made by physically passing the sound through a metal spring and recording what comes out the other side. It’s a wonderful, dense and idiosyncratic sound that can really transport a person in time and space, without any of the trappings of ‘reality’ (i.e. the cool familiarity of sounds bouncing off objects in real spaces). The R.K Butler is a stereo spring reverb, with six springs on each side, fed by vacuum tubes (which can be beautifully overdriven) and followed by a simple fixed three band eq. When I went back to listen to these sessions it occurred to me they might work with the song. Indeed, they did, sort of, except the scale differed by one note, which actually provided a subtle key change that sparked the idea for the vocal melody. <br><br> The watery voices at the beginning of this track came from sending Diane Rehm’s Friday News Round-up (one of my favorite shows) through the FF with an LFO on a strongly resonant band filter, creating a sort of Charley Brown wah-wah adult sound. This is how I imagine NPR sounds to my three sons. Then, by further pushing them back in space using the Lexicon ‘Medium Hall’ algorithm, (a beautifully realistic digital reverb that lexicon invented in the eighties), I got them to ‘dissolve’ into the background synth.</p>
<p>As an aside, I’ve started mastering within the timeline of the tracks. I use Sony’s (formerly Sonic Foundry’s) Acid as my primary DAW (all of The Books and Zammuto records were made with it), and for this record I put Izotope Ozone on the master bus, so I could really play with how the track saturates against the ceiling of digital space. I’ve done a lot of mastering for other people over the last few years, and for my own work I got very tired of trying to imagine how the master would sound, since it leads to too much guess work. This way I can fold mastering into the compositional process. It smoothed out the process since I didn’t have to bounce new versions every time I wanted to change the master.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading. Tomorrow: Track 2: Great Equator. And please remember there are three ways you can help keep this crazy thing alive:</p>
<p>1). Pick up something from our online store where you’ll find:(<a href="http://zammutosound.com/physical-store" target="_blank">zammuto/thebooks/soundsculpture</a>) </p>
<p>2). Come to a show: (here are two great reviews from our recent west coast run: <a href="http://www.truebluemagazine.com/live-review-zammuto-portland/" target="_blank">Portland</a>, <a href="http://lamusicblog.com/2014/09/review/show-review-zammuto-the-satellite/" target="_blank">LA</a>) </p>
<p>3). Most importantly! SPREAD THE WORD. We need to grow a bit more to survive. Share this email, tweet, facebook, whatever. If all of you turned just one person on to our music, we’d be golden, totally independent and in the black.</p>
<p>Tour Dates: Starting Oct 26 we’ll be Touring through New York - Philly - DC - Durham - Atlanta - Asheville - Nashville - Louisville - Cincinnati - Columbus - Buffalo - Boston - North Adams, MA (a special home town finale). We hope to see you out there.</p>
<p>More tomorrow,<br><br> Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/31534922014-08-24T21:09:34-04:002022-04-17T07:26:17-04:00Io video<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/104103034" width="400" height="224" frameborder="0" title="Io video" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe><br><br><p>Io video</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/17970052013-08-21T00:50:46-04:002022-05-26T08:58:27-04:00Bass Projector<p>Here’s a new video about my ‘Bass Projector’, it uses a flexible mirror attached to a speaker to project images of low frequency sounds using lasers.</p>
<p>Available for 3 more days as part of our Indiegogo campaign:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zammuto-lp-2" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zammuto-lp-2" target="_blank">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zammuto-lp-2</a></p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/72741759" width="500"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/72741759" target="_blank">Bass Projector</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5011949" target="_blank">Nick zammuto</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/17970062013-08-19T00:19:46-04:002023-12-10T11:52:45-05:00Here’s a new video about my method of scratching rhythms into the ‘locked groove’...<p>Here’s a new video about my method of scratching rhythms into the ‘locked groove’ of vinyl records. I’ve been using this method of beat making since my early days making music on ‘Books’ tracks like ‘Smells Like Content’ and ‘Vogt Dig for Kloppervok’ and many others.</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/72615472" width="500"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/72615472" target="_blank">Scratch Edition</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5011949" target="_blank">Nick zammuto</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>.</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/17970072013-07-31T09:27:58-04:002022-05-20T04:51:01-04:00New Track - Need Some Sun<p>Hello Everyone,</p>
<p>Wow, this fundraiser is going way better than we thought it would! This changes everything for us, and we can’t thank you enough for your support and generosity in keeping us going.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zammuto-lp-2" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zammuto-lp-2" target="_blank">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/zammuto-lp-2</a></p>
<p>Here’s a new track called ‘Need Some Sun’ which you can hear and download here:</p>
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<p>And don’t forget to say ‘Rabbit Rabbit’ tomorrow!</p>
<p>yours,</p>
<p>Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/17970082013-03-28T14:59:17-04:002023-12-10T13:47:27-05:00Zammuto Tour Starts Tonight<div class="regular">
<p>Hey All, </p>
<p>Our first show is tonight in Northampton, MA at the Iron Horse. Full tour dates below:<img src="//media.tumblr.com/63bd0c5587727b5851b7f9f2b0845b6a/tumblr_inline_mkdvzocn7a1qz4rgp.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
<p>03/28/13 Thu Northampton MA Iron Horse Music Hall<br>03/29/13 Fri Hamden CT Spaceland Ballroom<br>03/30/13 Sat Middletown CT Eclectic House<br>03/31/13 Sun Montreal QC Il Motore<br>04/01/13 Mon Toronto ON The Garrison<br>04/03/13 Wed Grand Rapids MI Ladies Literary Club<br>04/04/13 Thu Evanston IL SPACE<br>04/05/13 Fri Iowa City IA Mission Creek Festival <br>04/06/13 Sat Minneapolis MN 7th Street Entry<br>04/07/13 Sun Northfield MN Carleton College<br>04/08/13 Mon Grinnell IA Grinnell College<br>04/10/13 Wed Cleveland OH Beachland Ballroom<br>04/12/13 Fri Columbus OH Wexner Center<br>04/14/13 Sun Red Hook NY Bard College<br><br></p>
<p>Some new surprises in store… Can’t wait to play!</p>
<p>Nick</p>
</div>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/4314162013-03-28T09:59:17-04:002023-12-10T13:26:57-05:00Zammuto Tour Starts Tonight<div class="regular">
<p>Hey All, </p>
<p>Our first show is tonight in Northampton, MA at the Iron Horse. Full tour dates below:<img src="//media.tumblr.com/63bd0c5587727b5851b7f9f2b0845b6a/tumblr_inline_mkdvzocn7a1qz4rgp.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
<p>03/28/13 Thu Northampton MA Iron Horse Music Hall<br>03/29/13 Fri Hamden CT Spaceland Ballroom<br>03/30/13 Sat Middletown CT Eclectic House<br>03/31/13 Sun Montreal QC Il Motore<br>04/01/13 Mon Toronto ON The Garrison<br>04/03/13 Wed Grand Rapids MI Ladies Literary Club<br>04/04/13 Thu Evanston IL SPACE<br>04/05/13 Fri Iowa City IA Mission Creek Festival <br>04/06/13 Sat Minneapolis MN 7th Street Entry<br>04/07/13 Sun Northfield MN Carleton College<br>04/08/13 Mon Grinnell IA Grinnell College<br>04/10/13 Wed Cleveland OH Beachland Ballroom<br>04/12/13 Fri Columbus OH Wexner Center<br>04/14/13 Sun Red Hook NY Bard College<br><br></p>
<p>Some new surprises in store… Can’t wait to play!</p>
<p>Nick</p>
</div>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/4314142012-11-26T03:54:24-05:002023-12-10T13:43:15-05:00Cyber Monday Sale and Euro Tour<p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me3nwmkkdl1r87snp.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" />Hey All,</p>
<p><a href="http://shop.temporaryresidence.com/trr207" target="_blank">Amazing deal on the Books Box today only.</a></p>
<p>And don’t forget, our European Tour begins this Friday in London:</p>
<p>Nov. 30 London, UK. <a href="https://birdonthewire.ticketabc.com/events/zammuto/" target="_blank">Birthdays</a><br>Dec. 1 Utrecht, NL <a href="http://www.leguesswho.nl/festival/pagina/titel/titel/tickets" target="_blank">Le Guess Who Festival<br></a>Dec. 2 Brussels, BEL <a href="http://www.botanique.be/en/activity/autumn-falls-02122012" target="_blank">Autumn Falls Festival, Le Botanique<br></a>Dec. 3 Amsterdam, NL <a href="http://www.viagogo.co.uk/Concert-Tickets/Alternative-and-Indie/Zammuto-Tickets/E-481504?AffiliateID=369&PCID=WCITY" target="_blank">Paradiso</a><br>Dec. 4 Berlin, DE <a href="http://www.eventim.de/tickets.html?affiliate=WCI&fun=evdetail&doc=evdetailb&key=800852%242339572" target="_blank">Kantine am Berghain<br></a>Dec. 5 Hannover, DE<a href="http://www.songkick.com/concerts/14233324-zammuto-at-feinkost-lampe" target="_blank"> Feinkostlampe<br></a>Dec. 6 Schorndorf, DE <a href="http://www.myspace.com/clubmanufaktur/shows" target="_blank">Manufaktur<br></a>Dec. 7 <a href="http://www.justbecause.ch/shows_703E323735373E.html" target="_blank">St. Gallen, CH Palace<br></a>Dec. 8 Rennes, FR <a href="http://plateforme.fnacspectacles.com/place-spectacle/manifestation//place-spectacle/manifestation/Pop-rock-Folk-34-EME-TRANS-MUSICALES---PASS-3-J-TRAN3.htm/?_lang=en&zanpid=1704172430819755008" target="_blank">Transmusicales Festival</a></p>
<p>Can’t wait…</p>
<p>See you soon!</p>
<p>Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/4314152012-11-15T04:33:00-05:002022-07-11T00:54:24-04:00Europe Tour Starts in Two Weeks<p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdjda3A2vT1r87snp.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><img src="//media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdjd9p6mkz1r87snp.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" />Hey All,</p>
<p>After playing about 70 shows in North America this year, it’s time to cross the ocean. Here are our European dates:</p>
<p>Nov. 30 London, UK. <a href="https://birdonthewire.ticketabc.com/events/zammuto/" target="_blank">Birthdays</a><br>Dec. 1 Utrecht, NL <a href="http://www.leguesswho.nl/festival/pagina/titel/titel/tickets" target="_blank">Le Guess Who Festival<br></a>Dec. 2 Brussels, BEL <a href="http://www.botanique.be/en/activity/autumn-falls-02122012" target="_blank">Autumn Falls Festival, Le Botanique<br></a>Dec. 3 Amsterdam, NL <a href="http://www.viagogo.co.uk/Concert-Tickets/Alternative-and-Indie/Zammuto-Tickets/E-481504?AffiliateID=369&PCID=WCITY" target="_blank">Paradiso</a><br>Dec. 4 Berlin, DE <a href="http://www.eventim.de/tickets.html?affiliate=WCI&fun=evdetail&doc=evdetailb&key=800852%242339572" target="_blank">Kantine am Berghain<br></a>Dec. 5 Hannover, DE<a href="http://www.songkick.com/concerts/14233324-zammuto-at-feinkost-lampe" target="_blank"> Feinkostlampe<br></a>Dec. 6 Schorndorf, DE <a href="http://www.myspace.com/clubmanufaktur/shows" target="_blank">Manufaktur<br></a>Dec. 7 <a href="http://www.justbecause.ch/shows_703E323735373E.html" target="_blank">St. Gallen, CH Palace<br></a>Dec. 8 Rennes, FR <a href="http://plateforme.fnacspectacles.com/place-spectacle/manifestation//place-spectacle/manifestation/Pop-rock-Folk-34-EME-TRANS-MUSICALES---PASS-3-J-TRAN3.htm/?_lang=en&zanpid=1704172430819755008" target="_blank">Transmusicales Festival</a></p>
<p>We are also playing a very special one-off performance in NYC on January 26th where we plan to debut new material in the works… and maybe even some live sculpture:</p>
<p>Jan. 26 New york, <a href="http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/zammuto-jan-26th-2012/" target="_blank">NY Le Poisson Rouge</a></p>
<p>We had such a great time opening for <a href="http://www.ultraista.co.uk/ultraista/ultraista.html" target="_blank">Ultraista</a> at LPR, we are honored to be invited back to headline.</p>
<p>On a more personal note, I’d like to thank everyone who came out to support us on our epic fall tour, thus far. We were so heartened by the warm (and sometimes deafening) response to the new band, we are charged up to get started right away on a new record. You all are an inspiring group of people, and it’s been a pleasure to get to know you better on the road. As I’ve done before, I plan on opening up our studio process by releasing work in progress along the way, so please stay tuned. I also plan on finishing the Books Blog Series; i’m glad there is so much curiosity… bear with me, i’ve got a lot on my plate.</p>
<p>Lastly, my deep thanks to the band… Mikey, Gene and Sean. What a year! You guys destroy every night. My family and I can’t thank you enough for your selfless dedication and extraordinary talent while giving birth to this new project. I look forward to years of productive music making and further hilarious adventures on tour. You’ve brought this thing to life in a way that goes beyond anything I could have dreamed and hoped.</p>
<p>much love,</p>
<p>Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/4314182012-10-29T05:46:23-04:002022-05-14T13:25:46-04:00West Coast Tour Starts Today<p>Hey Everyone,</p>
<p>The west coast leg of our fall tour starts today in Phoenix, AZ. We’ll work our way up to Vancouver over the next week and a half, then fly to the Walker in Minneapolis for a very special one off. Then Europe in December: The band has become quite the well oiled killing machine, and we’re honored to have the amazing AU opening for us on all these dates. Can’t wait to play for you.</p>
<p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcnspi6onm1qasnx6.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
<p><img src="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/USER2/Desktop/425795_352949888132829_270599650_n.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></p>
<p>10-29 Phoenix, AZ - <a href="http://www.crescentphx.com/" target="_blank">The Crescent Ballroom</a> (w/ AU)<br>10-30 San Diego, CA - <a href="http://www.sodabarmusic.com/" target="_blank">Soda Bar</a> (w/ AU)<br>10-31 Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters (w/AU)<br>11-01 Los Angeles, CA - <a href="http://www.bootlegtheater.org/" target="_blank">Bootleg Theater</a> (w/ AU)<br>11-02 Santa Cruz, CA - <a href="http://www.thecrepeplace.com/" target="_blank">The Crepe Place</a> (w/ AU)<br>11-03 San Francisco, CA - <a href="http://www.independentsf.com/" target="_blank">The Independent</a> (w/ AU)<br>11-05 Portland, OR - <a href="http://www.dougfirlounge.com/" target="_blank">Doug Fir Lounge</a> (w/ AU)<br>11-06 Vancouver, British Columbia - <a href="http://www.biltmorecabaret.com/" target="_blank">The Biltmore Cabaret</a> (w/ AU)<br>11-07 Seattle, WA - <a href="http://www.neumos.com/" target="_blank">Barboza</a> (w/ AU)</p>
<p>11-10 Minneapolis, MN - <a href="http://www.walkerart.org/" target="_blank">Walker Art Center</a> (w/ Eluvium)<br><br>11-30 London, UK. Birthdays<br>12-01 Utrecht, NL Le Guess Who Festival<br>12-02 Brussels, BE Autumn Falls Festival, Le Botanique<br>12-03 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso<br>12-04 Berlin, DE Kantine am Berghain<br>12-05 Hannover, DE Feinkostlampe<br>12-06 Schorndorf, DE Manufaktur<br>12-07 St. Gallen, CH Palace<br>12-08 Rennes, FR Transmusicales Festival</p>
<p>We will be carrying large format home screenprinted posters of Zebra Faces and Butts, as well as the BOOKS BOX, and new shirts etc…</p>
<p>See you there! </p>
<p>Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/4314172012-09-25T16:13:29-04:002022-08-13T06:22:01-04:00ON TOUR NOW
Hey All,
We are beginning the second leg of our immense fall tour tomorrow down in DC....<h3>ON TOUR NOW</h3>
<p>Hey All,</p>
<p>We are beginning the second leg of our immense fall tour tomorrow down in DC. So far the shows have been EXTREMELY fun, and the band is getting scary tight. See our remaining tour dates below:</p>
<p>Also here’s a short (15 min) documentary about the band and our creative process made by our friend Matt Day as hosted on Pitchfork TV:</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/raJa45rwJcw" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>09-26 Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>09-27 Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg Park (w/ Givers, Gotye)<br>09-28 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>09-29 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-01 Nashville, TN - The Basement <br>10-02 Little Rock, AR - Stickyz Rock’n’Roll Chicken Shack<br>10-03 Denton, TX - Dan’s Silverleaf (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-04 Austin, TX - The Mohawk (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-05 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald’s (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-06 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-08 St Louis, MO - Luminary Center for the Arts (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-09 Chicago, IL - Schubas (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-10 Cincinnati, OH - MOTR Pub (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-11 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-12 Ithaca, NY - The Haunt (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-13 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse (w/ Lymbyc Systym)</p>
<p>10-29 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom (w/ AU)<br>10-30 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar (w/ AU)<br>11-01 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour (w/ AU)<br>11-02 Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Place (w/ AU)<br>11-03 San Francisco, CA - The Independent (w/ AU)<br>11-05 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge (w/ AU)<br>11-06 Seattle, WA - Barboza (w/ AU)<br>11-07 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Biltmore Cabaret (w/ AU)<br>11-10 Minneapolis, MN - Walker Art Center (w/ Eluvium)</p>
<div>11-30 London, UK. Birthdays</div>
<div>12-01 Utrecht, NL Le Guess Who Festival</div>
<div>12-02 Brussels, BE Autumn Falls Festival, Le Botanique</div>
<div>12-03 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso</div>
<div>12-04 Berlin, DE Kantine am Berghain</div>
<div>12-05 Hannover, DE Feinkostlampe</div>
<div>12-06 Schorndorf, DE Manufaktur</div>
<div>12-07 St. Gallen, CH Palace</div>
<div>12-08 Rennes, FR Transmusicales Festival</div>
<div></div>
<div>Come out and support us on our maiden voyage and I promise years of music to come, See you out there!</div>
<div></div>
<div>Nick</div>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/2061582012-08-28T15:53:47-04:002022-04-17T07:31:53-04:00Live in Athens, GA (tour starts next week)<p>Hey All.</p>
<p>Wonder what the new band sounds like live? Here’s 5 songs from our recent performance in Athens, Georgia. It was a very spirited night, have a listen. We’ll be embarking on a massive North American tour next week, so please help spread the word and drag all your friends to the show. We promise a memorable night filled with amazing performances and hilarous videos (synched in classic Books style). We’ve done everything we can to keep ticket prices low… and with our recent rehearsals we were able to add a bunch of new songs including some ‘Books’ favorites. You’ll recoginze Gene and Mikey from the last Books tour and if you haven’t seen Sean Dixon play the drums you are in for a special night! Dates below…</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F2235300&show_artwork=true" width="100%"></iframe></p>
<p>09-05 Charlottesville, VA - The Southern<br>09-06 Richmond, VA - The Camel (w/ Marionette)<br>09-07 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival (w/ Built to Spill, Jesus and Mary Chain)<br>09-08 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle<br>09-09 Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light<br>09-10 Atlanta, GA - The Earl<br>09-11 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder<br>09-12 Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree<br><br>09-14 Kansas City, MO - Richard Berkley Riverfront Park (w/ Chairlift, Gotye)<br>09-15 Bloomington, IN - The Bishop<br>09-16 Cleveland, OH - Jacobs Pavilion (w/ Chairlift, Gotye)<br>09-17 Columbus, OH - LC Pavilion (w/ Chairlift, Gotye)<br>09-18 Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre (w/ Chairlift, Gotye)<br>09-19 Hamilton, Ontario - Casbah Lounge<br>09-20 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheatre (w/ Chairlift, Gotye)<br>09-21 Montreal, Quebec - Jacques Cartier Pier (w/ Chairlift, Gotye)<br>09-22 Burlington, VT - Signal Kitchen<br>09-26 Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>09-27 Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg Park (w/ Chairlift, Gotye)<br>09-28 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>09-29 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-01 Nashville, TN - The Basement <br>10-02 Little Rock, AR - Stickyz Rock’n’Roll Chicken Shack<br>10-03 Denton, TX - Dan’s Silverleaf (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-04 Austin, TX - The Mohawk (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-05 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald’s (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-06 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-08 St Louis, MO - Luminary Center for the Arts (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-09 Chicago, IL - Schubas (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-10 Cincinnati, OH - MOTR Pub (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-11 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-12 Ithaca, NY - The Haunt (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br>10-13 Northampton, MA - Iron Horse (w/ Lymbyc Systym)<br><br>10-29 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom (w/ AU)<br>10-30 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar (w/ AU)<br>11-01 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour (w/ AU)<br>11-02 Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Place (w/ AU)<br>11-03 San Francisco, CA - The Independent (w/ AU)<br>11-05 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge (w/ AU)<br>11-06 Seattle, WA - Barboza (w/ AU)<br>11-07 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Biltmore Cabaret (w/ AU)<br>11-10 Minneapolis, MN - Walker Art Center (w/ Eluvium)</p>
<p>Please support us on our very first headline tour, and keep this thing going. Can’t wait to play for you all.</p>
<p>Yours truly,</p>
<p>Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/2061592012-08-02T08:38:11-04:002024-03-22T05:01:23-04:00Twigs and Yarn - Mastering <p>Hey Everyone,</p>
<p>I recently had the chance to master a beautiful record that I think you might enjoy…</p>
<p>It’s a Texas band called Twigs and Yarn (Stephen Orsak and Lauren McMurray) and this is their first release.</p>
<p>You can hear it on their Japanese label ‘Flau’ here:</p>
<p><a href="http://flau.jp/releases/28.html" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://flau.jp/releases/28.html" target="_blank">http://flau.jp/releases/28.html</a></p>
<p>I fell in love with it while working on it,</p>
<p>Hope to see you out on tour this <a href="http://www.zammutosound.com/" target="_blank">fall</a>!</p>
<p>Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/1957992012-07-14T05:03:27-04:002023-12-10T14:36:01-05:00The Books Box - "A Dot In Time" <p>Hey Everyone!</p>
<p>Here’s my walk-through of the Books Box… strictly limited to 1000 copies.</p>
<p>Watch me drink my second beer ever!</p>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="331" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/45590423" width="500"></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/45590423" target="_blank">The Books - The Box</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5011949" target="_blank">Nick zammuto</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>release July 24, 2012. Order while supplies last <a href="http://temporaryresidence.com/descriptions/trr207.php" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://temporaryresidence.com/descriptions/trr207.php" target="_blank">http://temporaryresidence.com/descriptions/trr207.php</a> temporaryresidence.com / zammutosound.com</p>
<p>Much Love and Thanks for all your support over the years!</p>
<p>Hope to see you this fall at a show,</p>
<p>Nick Zammuto</p>
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<p>Thank you all for the tremendous support so far. We’ve loved our time on the road with Explosions in the Sky and are gearing up for our first big headline run this fall. Hope to see you all at a show… The band has really gelled over the spring and we can’t wait to play for you.</p>
<p>If you live in the Western Mass / Albany area we are playing a show in Hudson, New York tomorrow night at Club Helsinki:</p>
<p>06-29 Hudson, NY - Club Helsinki</p>
<p>The rest of the tour starts in early september and covers most of North America:</p>
<p>And please remember, the future of the band depends a lot on how these first shows go, so please spread the word and drag your friends along. I promise you an amazing show filled with incredible musicianship and hilarious videos. If you’ve not seen our drummer Sean Dixon play, you are in for a real treat. He’s like a ninja behind a drum kit. The live set will include songs from the new record, a bunch of Books tracks, and the crowd favorite ‘The Greatest Autoharp Solo of All Time’ which can only be seen live…</p>
<p><br>09-05 Charlottesville, VA - The Southern<br>09-06 Richmond, VA - The Camel<br>09-07 Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival<br>09-09 Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light<br>09-10 Atlanta, GA - The Earl<br>09-11 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder<br>09-12 Birmingham, AL - The Bottletree<br>09-14 Kansas City, MO - Richard Berkley Riverfront Park *<br>09-15 Bloomington, IN - The Bishop<br>09-16 Cleveland, OH - Jacobs Pavilion *<br>09-17 Columbus, OH - LC Pavilion *<br>09-18 Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre *<br>09-19 Hamilton, Ontario - Casbah Lounge<br>09-20 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheatre *<br>09-21 Montreal, Quebec - Jacques Cartier Pier *<br>09-22 Burlington, VT - Signal Kitchen<br>09-26 Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall<br>09-27 Brooklyn, NY - Williamsburg Park *<br>09-28 Boston, MA - Museum of Fine Arts<br>09-29 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s<br>10-01 Nashville, TN - The Basement<br>10-03 Denton, TX - Dan’s Silverleaf<br>10-04 Austin, TX - The Mohawk<br>10-05 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald’s<br>10-06 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon<br>10-08 St Louis, MO - Luminary Center for the Arts<br>10-09 Chicago, IL - Schubas<br>10-10 Cincinnati, OH - MOTR Pub<br>10-11 Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum<br>10-12 Ithaca, NY - The Haunt<br>10-13 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street Nightclub</p>
<p>10-29 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom<br>10-30 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar<br>11-01 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour<br>11-02 Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Place<br>11-03 San Francisco, CA - The Independent<br>11-05 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge<br>11-06 Seattle, WA - Barboza<br>11-07 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Biltmore Cabaret<br>11-10 Minneapolis, MN - Walker Art Center !</p>
<p>^ with Explosions in the Sky<br>* with Gotye<br>! with Eluvium</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Nick</p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/638192012-05-23T06:01:00-04:002024-01-06T03:44:06-05:00The Track - 'Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again'<p>Blog entry 3:</p>
<p>While building up my collection of acoustic samples, I had become quite obsessed with using EQ as a sound sculpting tool and ended up buying a used 31 band equalizer to play with. The sound of my refrigerator in North Adams was particularly complex, and I remember spending one long evening trying to isolate all of the various drone notes in that sound, from the low machine rumble, through the stack of harmonics produced by the compressor, to the high buzz of electrical system and the hiss of the freon. For the first time I fully realized that what the brain perceives as single sound was actually made of dozens of related sounds over a broad spectrum and it was a life changing epiphany for me. By using EQ to break sounds apart, my ear slowly learned how to do the same thing organically, and over time I found I could mentally suppress all but a tiny window of hearing on a particular sound. It became somewhat of a meditation practice. I would go out in a public place and listen to sound stratify into it’s component layers. I felt a little guilty destroying the unity of sound, shredding it mentally into little slices, but I had reached a point of no return, in a sense. What evolution had created over eons to produce a fluid sensation of vibrations in air (i.e. hearing), I was undoing by conscious effort, turning each nerve ending in the snail of my ear into an independent organism. I had learned about Fourier transforms in chemistry, for spectrum analysis in identifying compounds, and final made the connection that hearing is a perfect realization of this principal, born out over countless millennia of creatures competing for that sensory edge. AND, in fact, hearing had nothing to do with objective reality, as I had previously assumed: Hearing is a tool for survival, with a long history of idiosyncratic adaptations. Sensation itself is colored in this way. Not transparent. And, so then, what could be transparent or objective? It was all unraveling.</p>
<p>Moving to New York City felt like a further assault on my faltering grasp of wholeness. So many people living in parallel, all thirsting for opportunity, made me worry all the time. It made sense for me to go there, and as an artist I was <em>supposed</em> to go there. I had won an art fellowship from college when I graduated, just enough to live on for 6 months or so. I moved in with Julie during the early part of 2000, and tried to continue my work, albeit in miniature, given the space limitations. At the time I was working on a project called ‘Noisy Filing Cabinet’. I had installed two twelve inch subwoofers inside of a metal filing cabinet: one in the top drawer, one in the bottom. Any sound that I played through them became radically distorted by physically rattling the Cabinet. Somehow the concept fit with my newfound environment, being stuck in a tiny apartment in a very loud place. It also became a metaphor for my continuing realization that hearing itself is radically colored, both by the mechanics of it, and the myriad preconceptions of the person attached to it. There was nothing subtle about the Filing Cabinet. I only have the audio portion as it appeared from my computer, so there are no filing cabinet sounds here, just the ’dry’ input audio. You’ll have to imagine what the cabinet did to these sounds. Here‘s a few sections of it:</p>
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<p>Notice here that many of these sounds also appear in ‘The Books’ first track, ‘Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again’. I started work on that track just a few weeks after these Cabinet tracks, having met Paul in the weeks between. I had a broken mandolin and an awful guitar that I sampled many of those acoustic notes from, and EQing them to create maximum impact in the Cabinet. Around then I spent a day sampling golf and tennis on television, which is where that crow and club/racket swats originally came from. I hadn’t owned a TV in years, but was drawn to it whenever there was one in the room. I always loved golf and tennis on TV because of the amount of ’silence’ in them. Because the players need to concentrate, presumably, the crowd noise is at a minimum during game play, so it makes for very dynamic sampling with a lot of unintended sounds accidentally making their way onto broadcast television. There aren’t that many unintended moments on TV so they seemed extraordinarily special to me.</p>
<p>When Paul came to the apartment that first time to play that cello/piano duet with Julie, I was quite taken by the sound of the cello. I had never been up close to a cello being played before and I was blown away by the warmth and richness of the sound. I loved the way it filled up the entire spectrum of sound with harmonics stretching all the way up to the hiss of bow hair on the strings, and longed to dig my EQ into it. Also I loved the gentle attack and laziness of the string response, since it seemed an incredible counterpoint to the tight angular sounds I’d been working with.</p>
<p>Soon after that, Paul invited Julie and me for dinner at his apartment on the other side of the building. During dinner I noticed a large rack, mounted to the wall, full of many dozens of minidisks. By now this format is quite outdated, but at the time it was the go-to medium for rewritable digital audio. I asked Paul about them and he said that they were his ‘reference materials’. He was in his mid 30’s and had recently been through a tough divorce. He had been going through a long period of general malaise, and one of his only comforts was watching films. According to him, he watched about 750 movies in the year leading up to when I met him. During then he got into the habit of sampling audio from films. Whenever there was a scene where the music or dialogue was particularly moving or unique in a way worthy of saving, he would hit record. Apart from that he also had a collection of rarities, like Shooby Taylor (the great scatting postman), and samples of speech from many famous historical figures. He didn’t have a computer, so his sample collection was entirely stored on these minidisks, and he would randomly listen through them whenever he was in need of inspiration.</p>
<p>I immediately saw a parallel between Paul’s collection and mine. His being more archival and mine being more of the present moment, it seemed a natural idea to bring the two collections together to see what would happen. He let me borrow a small collection of English words he had cut out of a record about pronouncing proper American English, along with a film about deaf children in France. I loved the way these sounded through the Cabinet, so I incorporated them into a couple sections of that project, before debuting it at a small show at the knitting factory in New York City, opening for Cex and Kid 606. (I had made some inroads with Carpark records in those early days). The next day Paul came banging on our door, apparently very offended by my use of his samples, accusing me of stealing them. I thought they were a gift, but apparently they were not. The idea of ‘owning’ samples seemed crazy, but I could see he was mad and I had to respect his point of view. I was still quite curious to explore his collections so I figured I could turn lemons into lemonade if we started a real project together. Since I had this fellowship money, and thought it a wise investment, I offered him $2000 dollars to buy a computer to organize his samples onto a more useful form. He took it, and thus ‘The Books’ were born, although it would be several more months before we gave it a name.</p>
<p>We set up his computer to run all of the same software I had, so that we could swap files efficiently. We started making basic cello recordings in my apartment, consisting of open notes and odd sounds that I could easily cut and rearrange. Meanwhile Paul started feeding me sounds from his collection. Within a few days I was putting the finishing touches on our first track:</p>
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<p>I remember thinking at the time that electronica seemed overly cool and ’in the box’ sounding. Although I loved Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Daft Punk and the like, I wanted to work with the same tools in a way that was warmer, more human and more irrational. I loved the contradiction that digital music, which was a paradigm of the grid and microscopic control, could be made to sound a bit sloppy, like a collage with rough edges, tape and glue all over it. Both Paul’s and my work up until this point had sounded very esoteric in a way that was off-putting to most folks, and we both wanted to make a record that was more accessible, so at least our families wouldn’t be so ashamed to have to listen to it. Working with rough cut acoustic samples rather than synths, and spoken word far outside of the hip-hop break-beat context immediately felt like fertile ground.</p>
<p>The opening theme was a guitar part I recorded with Julie’s metronome running in the background. I looped and layered it with itself into a sort of cannon, which sets the tone and tempo. I threw the broken mandolin, guitar, golf and tennis sounds from the ‘Cabinet’ against the guitar loop with a kind of reckless abandon until a listenable rhythm emerged. Later I added a corresponding set of elemental cello sounds from our recent recording sessions. Around that time I sampled a daytime court show from TV, where a woman selling vacation tickets was being harassed by a man unsatisfied by his accommodations. She went on this jaw-dropping motor-mouthed rant about how she had lost her job and had a heart condition, and it turned out to be a great stand-in for a free-jazz like instrumental solo. If you listen carefully you’ll hear my voice slightly ahead, doubling the text, which I recorded by speaking each phrase as a loop until I ran out of breath. I isolated each ‘out of breath’ phrase and reassembled them to match the original so that it sounded as if I was constantly running out of breath throughout the entire rant. Then, behind her voice is a rhythm created by zipping my fingernail across one of those crackerjacks box style holograms, with the ridged prisms on the front surface. A sample from Kurosawa’s ‘Seven Samurai’ (one of my favorite films) ends her rant succinctly.</p>
<p>The cello solo in the next section was created by wiggling the playback cursor over a cello recording in the timeline of Soundforge, to give it that wiggle effect. “Myself, April, Tammy, and Brad” were the plaintiffs in the next case on that daytime court show. Then there’s a sample of a film (Goddard, I believe), in Russian, where a man professes his love to a prostitute and has a heart attack mid sentence, instantaneously dying (as an echo of the previous heart condition). Then there is a sample of a Japanese fellow reading stock reports, which we selected purely for rhythmic reasons, not knowing until much later what he was actually talking about.</p>
<p>The hootenanny breakdown in the next section is just a digitally sped up cello/guitar improvisation that Paul and I recorded in the living room. Paul was able to create a chordal wash of cello textures that slow fades in until the next section, where the heavy Cabinet kick drives a loop consisting of a stretched out Dutch sample: an homage to Paul’s native language. The final sample is from the late great cellist Pablo Casals:</p>
<p>“Rainbow, rainbow, rainbow, all the music is a rainbow”</p>
<p>To me, it seemed the perfect way to end… a spectrum broken into it’s component colors, and presented as a pattern that reveals a deeper and more mysterious structure.</p>
<p>Next track: ‘Contempt’</p>
<p>Thanks for reading,</p>
<p>Nick </p>
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<p>Since my illness caused me to lose a semester at school, it would have been awkward to graduate after a fall semester, so I opted to skip the fall semester of ‘98, to balance it out. I was 23, and up until that time I had only lived either at home or in a dorm. It was time for me to get my own place. I was tired of living ‘on the hill’ as it were. I grew up in Andover, MA, a somewhat snooty middle class suburb of Boston, and although I didn’t attend the famed academy there, even the public school felt a little stilted. From Andover High I went straight to Williams College, in Williamstown, MA, which in many ways was a smaller microcosm of Andover, albeit more rural. Don’t get me wrong, my parents gave me the gift of an amazing childhood, but I started to feel very out of place in those towns. I craved a more ‘real’ place, where the struggle for survival was a bit closer to the surface. North Adams MA, a dilapidated mill-town gutted by outsourcing in the ‘70s, was very much the other side of the tracks from Williamstown, and I knew that was where I wanted to set up shop:<span></span></p>
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<p>This was my first apartment there. It was a building with four apartments and only two were usable. I moved in the early summer of 1998, into a sprawling two bedroom with extremely warped floors… so much so that if I spilled water in the kitchen it would flow all the way into the second bedroom at alarming speed. The rent was $280 per month. I had just bought my first computer (a Gateway P166). Up until then I had only used campus computers, and happily lived without email. A friend of mine had recently introduced me to the music of Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher), Richard D. James (Aphex Twin), Boards of Canada, Tortoise, and Oval. The extent of my musical experience before then was tooling around with a bass guitar (starting late in high school) and listening to rock, mostly Rush at first, and then later Primus, Fugazi, NIN etc.</p>
<p>When I first heard ‘Electronica’ it changed me. It was like being given permission to make the music in my head. It was music that completely swapped foreground for background. The inhumanly fast drum beats of ‘Feed Me Weird Things’ and ‘Boy/Girl Mix’ took the lead while chords and melodies carried the rhythm. DSP replaced instrumental swagger. Vocals were completely forgotten and not missed. ‘Millions Now Living Will Never Die‘ was the sound of band recorded, fetishistically deconstructed and reassembled, essentially using the studio as if it were an omnicient member of the band. ‘Systemisch’ was just the sound of broken cds… the original music flattened and re-inflated using glitches as percussion. It was subversion bordering on perversion. I was a moth to the flame.</p>
<p>Although I always loved music, instruments tripped me up, and band dynamics seemed an impossible hurdle for my introverted self. When I realized that you could make records without having a band, at home, in a manner akin to building with legos, I was immediately hooked. I won a small painting prize, and with the cash I bought a sampler/effects unit called the Ensonique ASR-X and got Cakewalk for my computer, a couple midi cables, two cheap condenser mics, and I was ready. The summer of 1998 was one of the best of my life. I worked without speaking to anyone for days at a time. By design, there were no distractions, and I was completely absorbed and in love with sound. That first summer I made three records. Here are some of the tracks:</p>
<p>The first record was a 70 minute long bass guitar improvisation made by playing my bass through two independent loopers, and then post processing with radical EQ changes. This idea came from a series of late night ’concerts’ I did on weekends in our dorm, where my friends would come and immediately fall asleep.</p>
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<p>The second record was 60 minutes and made entirely of the sound of vinyl records, scratched in rhythmic patterns, recorded into the sampler and sequenced using midi. It‘s practically unlistenable! (I still use this process today as seen in <a href="http://vimeo.com/nakedmusicians/nickzammuto" target="_blank">Matt Days video</a>):</p>
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<p>The third record was a much more varied, songy approach, with pseudo verses and choruses. I switched from Cakewalk to Sonic Foundry’s ‘Sound Forge’ and ‘Acid’ around this time, which were better at dealing with a lot of samples. (The first track is a section of the ‘record scratch‘ tracks above, rerecorded through PVC pipes with controlled feedback):</p>
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<p>This last track came directly out of the Clinton impeachment hearings and was my first foray into spoken word sampling.</p>
<p>Around then I started building simple contraptions to re-record sound through. One of the first was a three foot diameter ¼” steel plate with a miniature subwoofer installed directly at it’s center. I recorded simple tones and samples through it, based on the natural resonances of the plate, and then sequenced those recordings into a set of three tracks called the Plate EP. Here’s a track:</p>
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<p>By the end of the summer I was out of money and needed a job. Because of my connections in both art and chemistry I had previously volunteered at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, and got to know James Martin, who was head of the analytical department there. Jamie was (and still is) king of the microscopes, and he hired me to help out at the lab, preparing slides and running infrared and electron microscope scans. Mostly we were identifying materials used in famous works of art for the purposes of restoration or dating and authentication. For example, certain pigments became commercially available at specific points in history, so if you identified ‘titanium white’ as a pigment, you knew the painting was made after 1920 or so, and the information could be used to root out fakes.</p>
<p>Somehow, the combination of doing microscope work by day carried over to the way I would work on music at night. Around that time I got my first stereo tape recorder (a Sony DAT, with a stereo condenser mic). The first recording I made with it was a walk around North Adams, during an evening outdoor market. I walked in and out of all the buildings, through crowds and down alleys, and along busy roads, and when I got home I immediately got in bed, turned out the lights and listened to the recording. It was a deeply spiritual experience (for lack of a better word). Since I had never experienced audio of that fidelity before, it was as if time itself was somehow physically captured on to tape. Every detail was present in a hyper-real kind of way, even more so than experiencing it first hand. In the recording, every building had it’s own sound, and space would shift and open up as I would pass through a doorway into the crowd outside. Sounds were arranged in 360 degrees, with volume and color of reverberation describing distance and direction… an incredible amount of information captured in such a short period of time, as if a single second could expand to fill an hour. I remember thinking that it would take months to describe everything contained in the recording… again I had that feeling of brightness from when I was sick; that nothing is ordinary. And now I had the ability to capture it and build with it.</p>
<p>I started making a lot of recordings and cutting out the moments with the clearest brightness. I would never make a recording with the intention of capturing anything in particular… it was more about just having an open net to catch what would drift by. I liked to be physically moving while recording, and to be able to change course quickly if need be. I would then bring the recordings home and pore over them, trying to hear what was actually there rather than trying to reconstruct the narrative around the sounds. There were always moments that went beyond all expectations… maybe just one sound in a hundred or a thousand, but enough to make it a positive gamble. Like the sound of stepping on a pine cone, or a car driving over a loose manhole cover, or a knife cutting through an apple, or the drone of a certain air-conditioner. All ordinary things with spectacular sounds, useful in music if placed in the right context: a comfortable pocket that could bring out their transcendent qualities. This is how my sample library began, and I would always have it handy while working on tracks so I could quickly audition a lot of unexpected combinations to see what worked. And I found I could hardly predict what would work, it was mostly trial and error. It was a good feeling to divide work into two parts. First: open ended enrichment of the library, and then alternately: intensely focused compositional work. The two activities refreshed each other and kept me engaged.</p>
<p>I met Julie Wolfe at the conservation lab in late 1999, just as I was re-entering school for my last semester. She was working in the objects department and we started seeing each other often, connesting over our mutual love of art and science. My final classes were all art classes except for a great class on geo-chemistry and mineralogy, a subject I still love (rocks). I finished up an art thesis based on the ‘sound sculptures’ I had been making. Here’s a video of some of them.</p>
<p>Later that year, Julie ended up getting a job in the conservation department of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, and moved down there. I would visit her often in the apartment I would eventually move into in Inwood just north of Washington Heights. I was not a fan of the city. It put me on edge to be there. The first 24 hours were always exhilarating, like a sugar rush of stimulation, followed by a strong feeling of sensory exhaustion and existential dread. Yet I loved my time with Julie, getting to know the city together, and taking advantage of her citywide art pass that she had as a Guggenheim job perk.</p>
<p>After graduating Jamie put me on a project to examine common pigments in colored pencils, to determine which were archival quality. I received 212 colored pencils each with the manufacturers names scraped off of them. I cut the tip off of each one, ground it into a fine powder, extracted the pigments with a series of solvents, and allowed the solvents to slowly evaporate, leaving beautiful crystals of pure pigment behind. Each crystal had it’s own inner logic which helped with identification, along with their infrared fingerprint which we collected by rolling a fraction of a milligram of the pigment out on a tiny diamond window and carefully aiming an infrared laser through the area we wished to study, using a specialized microscope. The results lead to somewhat of an exposé of the crappy pigments used in the colored pencil industry, and the introduction of archival grade pencils by several manufacturers.</p>
<p>After the pencil tip project was over I moved in with Julie. She allowed me to set up my studio desk in our tiny living room next to a baby grand piano left by the previous tenant. Julie played piano since she was young and would play it often. Julie’s sister, Lisa, a concert violinist, lived across the courtyard in the same building. She was good friends with a cello player named Paul de Jong. Julie knew a duet for cello and piano and invited Paul over to play it, and that’s how I met him.</p>
<p>I’ll continue here in the next entry…</p>
<p>Thanks for reading!</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p> </p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/1690812012-05-16T10:35:00-04:002023-12-10T11:41:00-05:00Enjoy Your Worries: Part 1<p>It’s been about 12 years since ‘The Books’ began, and less than a year since we ended. Now that it’s over it’s time for me to jot down as much as I can about the project, the places it lived, and it’s odd life, before I forget it. As sad as I am that it’s over, it was an amazing thing to be a part of, and I’m grateful to everyone for their support and unbelievable kindness through the years. For those of you who are interested in the back-story, here it is… feel free to ask questions, I’ll try to answer them.</p>
<p>In order to revisit the beginning of ‘The Books’ I’ve got to summon some pretty worn memories. Like anyone, there have been so many phases and places I’ve been through since then, that my cursory memories of that time have become somewhat cartoonish. I think a great quality of music, like with smell, is it’s ability to conjure up deep-seated memories from the more unworn parts of the mind; places where the acidity of everyday thought has not melted and reformed them into oversimplified pictures. So I think the best place for me to start is by listening to the first track ‘The Books’ made (well before we had a name):</p>
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<p>It’s been almost two years since I remastered this track and I haven’t listened to it again until now. And, once again, my memory of the sound of this track is flat compared to the re-experience. Something about the un-glossy crackle of the surface of sound that snaps me back into the feeling of those days in the spring of 2000, in ‘upstate Manhattan’. We lived at 30 Seaman Avenue, Apt. 4H, just north of 200<sup>th</sup> St (Dykman Ave) on the A. I was living with my girlfriend, Julie Wolfe, and I had only lived in the city for a short time, having recently moved down from North Adams, MA where I lived during college. Julie and I met at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center; she was (and still is) an ‘objects’ conservator, and I worked in the ‘analytical’ department, mostly doing microscope work and identifying pigments and binders in paintings, for the purpose of helping to restore them, or rooting out fakes.</p>
<p>I studied chemistry in school, with the original intention of having a career as a biochemist. When I realized that biochemistry, in practice, consisted of mixing one extremely dilute clear solution with another, I quickly hopped over to organic chemistry, which was more my speed with its colors and smells and occasional ether fires. I was drawn to organic chemistry also for the pictures: 3d diagrams of molecules smashing together extremely quickly in microscopic space in vast numbers. Which leads to my first (of many) digressions… (bear with me).</p>
<p>In 1996 I got a summer job in a lab that studied liquid crystals, a branch of materials science that studied compounds that are both ordered and fluid at the same time. A contradiction really… a rule breaking state of matter that had properties of both solid and liquid, the most famous application being the LCD (liquid crystal display) you’re likely looking at now. Mostly my job was synthesis… taking two molecules and intentionally making a third, then purifying the desired compound away from all the junk I created by accident (a necessary inefficiency in chemistry, as in life, is the unintended consequences). When we had a candidate for a material that would show liquid crystalline properties we would throw it under a polarized light microscope and heat it up until it melted. When most crystals melt they go totally dark under the microscope (like water), but liquid crystals do this:</p>
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<p>That’s right! Fuckin’ amazingly beautiful! And the pattern moves and flows as the temperature changes. Which leads me to digression 2:</p>
<p>Art. What a stupid word. Sounds like a painful turd. When I was a kid I would try to paint like Bob Ross. It took me until my first year in college to realize that Art gets a lot more complicated when neurotic self-consciousness gets involved. Pretty becomes ugly and vice versa. Your mind becomes a battle ground for conflicting belief systems, and you tighten a tourniquet around the part of your spine that connects your brain to your body. Every thought becomes a high stakes experiment. Language becomes pure manipulation. Everything becomes relative. For or against. In parallel with my study of chemistry I took a lot of art classes at school. I always thought visually, and being in the studio alone at night was relaxing, so kept taking classes despite the impending existential nightmare. I remember going out to dinner with a teacher of mine, named Sheila Pepe. I attempted to take solace in chemistry. “There’s Truth in chemistry“, I would argue, “Chemistry is real, stuff is real. It‘s made of chemicals.” She would look at me, roll her eyes in a loving way, and say “Nick, chemistry is just another way of looking at things.” A chink in the armor. This feeling tore me up; that my view of science and it’s values were naïve, and my innocence was becoming a hindrance to my education. I think the biochemical term for this is ’denatured’. I was becoming denatured. Then digression number 3:</p>
<p>I got cancer. In the winter of 1997 I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease… a relatively rare form of lymph cancer that was slow growing, but required immediate treatment. I was 22 at the time. I dropped out of school for the spring and moved back home to the Boston area to start radiation therapy to my neck and chest. This news made me numb and stupidly idealistic at first… I felt fine, and was actually in good shape at the time, so it all felt a little abstract, except it derailed me, narrative wise. I expected a straight shot through school into a lab job, but all of a sudden there was this time to sit and notice stuff. Given my shift in perspective on mortality, noticing stuff became somewhat of a consuming job. Then there was the radiation. Imagine the worst sunburn of your life on both the outside and inside of your body. That’s what it was like. Beyond that I lost my sense of taste. Eating candy, which I always enjoyed, became like chewing asprin. I couldn’t swallow anyway, so my attention shifted to walking, listening to music, and making stuff… mostly painting with an airbrush I bought leading up to the treatment. I was making terrible abstractions of the natural world, mostly, and listening to ’The Police’ box set and Primus.</p>
<p>It was the first time in my life (that I could remember) that I was not in school in March, April and May. In this liminal place, sitting on the side of the tracks as it were, noticing stuff was getting easier. Like listening to a bell ring to silence, it was not as if the bell was getting quieter, it was as if the background was getting louder and overwhelming the tone of the bell. Everything became brighter and more mysterious; ordinary things became strange and scary. The namable parts of things were overtaken by the phenomenon of them, everything having a history that was ultimately untraceable. As the fatigue from the radiation kicked in, those days sprawled into each other in a dreamlike way. My relationship to my body was interrupted in a way that made me look at myself like a specimen. I was disembodied. Again, denatured. Like a fried egg.</p>
<p>Going back to school that fall, I had what most people with a life-threatening illness have: an overdeveloped sense of urgency: as if life was running out and everything had to be done to the utmost. Since medical technology had given me a ‘second chance’ it somehow meant that I had to do something ’important’ and fast. I threw myself into a chemistry thesis, working long hours in the lab, trying to succeed at making a molecule that, it turns out, was quite difficult to make. I quickly became exhausted and frustrated and short on temper and friends. Things were already losing their brightness, dampened by my own designs for them. My chemistry professor pulled me aside one day and said that I was the type of scientist that would have been better off in the 1800’s when the frontier was more open, and being ’mad’ was still a useful trait for a scientist. I felt embarrassed by this, but I knew she was right. I was never going to be satisfied working under florescent lights, striving for research money, publications, tenure or any of the necessary trappings of being a modern scientist. I quit my chemistry thesis right then. Feeling defeated, I started spending all my time in the art building.</p>
<p>For my first project I shaved my entire body, divided it into sections and took Elmer’s glue casts of every square inch of skin. It was a trick I had learned as a boy, and somehow I had no choice but to take it to its logical extreme. All the peeling felt apt given my recent experience with radiation burns. In fact, I developed an obsession with peeling of all kinds. Removing the surface. Having tried and failed as a chemist completed what cancer had started, which was essentially a flipping of foreground and background. The periphery seemed a whole lot more enticing than the center. The great thing about innocence is that it gives you a place to rest. This place was gone, and still is gone. But Art, for all it’s stupidity and pretense, feels like a genuine frontier (at it’s best). A place where being restless is valuable.</p>
<p>It’s at this point I moved to North Adams, MA and lived on my own for the first time. I’ll continue the story from here, moving to NYC, meeting Paul, and making that first track in the next entry…</p>
<p>Thanks for reading,</p>
<p>Nick</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zammutosound.com" target="_blank">(Please attend our upcoming shows in June: 17 Houston, TX*, 18 Mobile, AL*, 19 Tampa, FL*, 20 Miami FL*, 6/21 Athens, GA*, 22 Charlottesville, VA*, 23 Baltimore MD, 25 Morgantown, WV*, 26 Tue Chicago, IL*, 27 Nashville, TN*, 29 Hudson, NY, *with Explosions in the Sky)</a></p>
<p>(Please support our family and music by buying or donating <a href="http://www.zammutosound.com/physicalstore.cfm" target="_blank">here</a>)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zammutosound.com" target="_blank">zammutosound.com</a>, <a href="http://zammutosound.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">zammutosound.tumblr.com</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/zammuto</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/zammutosound" target="_blank">twitter.com/zammutosound</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/zammutosound" target="_blank">facebook.com/zammutosound</a></p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/1690262012-05-15T11:25:12-04:002023-12-10T12:57:04-05:00'Books' Box and new blog.<p>Hello Everyone!</p>
<p>Big news for ‘The Books’. We are releasing an extensive limited-edition box set of all our releases plus a lot of bonus materials, both visual and auditory towards the end of the summer. I can’t reveal any details until we get the first demo copies in a few weeks, but I am very excited about this. It will be the perfect way to wrap up a project that I lived and breathed for the first 10 years of my career.</p>
<p>Leading up to the release I’ll be doing an extensive series of blog posts <a href="http://zammutosound.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, where I’ll attempt to remember where and how all of ‘The Books’ tracks were made, and fill in all the detail I can surrounding the recording process and strange trajectory of the project. I’ve been threatening to do this for a while and now the time has come… I need to do it now or risk forgetting it all if I wait any longer. I apologize in advance for blog entries that sprawl and ramble. Once again, the blog is located <a href="http://zammutosound.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, and I will post occasional notes on ‘The Books’ blog, but I’ll be primarily writing at <a href="http://zammutosound.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">zammutosound.tumblr.com</a>.</p>
<p>The first post will be tomorrow… covering the track ‘Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again’ and the story leading up to ‘The Books’ early days.</p>
<p><span>Yours, </span></p>
<p><span><span>Nick Zammuto</span></span></p>
<p><span></span></p>zammutotag:zammutosound.com,2005:Post/17970092012-05-04T13:38:32-04:002023-12-10T11:59:13-05:00WXPN 2 Live Session<p>Hey All,</p>
<p>Today at 3PM eastern on <a href="http://www.xpn2.org" target="_blank">www.xpn2.org</a>, an hour long live session with the new band with interviews in between. The host is the great Eric Schuman.</p>
<p>We stopped by the ‘World Cafe’ studio at XPN Philly on Monday and recorded five songs… (if my memory serves me) Shape of Things to Come, Too Late to Topologize, Zebra Butt, F U C3PO, and our version of the Paul Simon’s ‘50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.</p>
<p>It will be archived, as well (i think…)</p>
<p>enjoy!</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>Today at 3PM eastern on <a href="http://www.xpn2.org" target="_blank">www.xpn2.org</a>, an hour long live session with the new band with interviews in between. The host is the great Eric Schuman.</p>
<p>We stopped by the ‘World Cafe’ studio at XPN Philly on Monday and recorded five songs… (if my memory serves me) Shape of Things to Come, Too Late to Topologize, Zebra Butt, F U C3PO, and our version of the Paul Simon’s ‘50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.</p>
<p>It will be archived, as well (i think…)</p>
<p>enjoy!</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/stream-zammutos-bubbly-self-titled-full-length" target="_blank">http://www.spin.com/articles/stream-zammutos-bubbly-self-titled-full-length</a></p>
<p>As David Bevan writes:</p>
<p>“The long-awaited debut from Books co-conspirator Nick Zammuto’s new project</p>
<p>Early last summer, after his adored found-sound pop collage outfit the Books ended, co-founder Nick Zammuto began sharing new songs meant for a new band he supposed would become a “three or four-piece” via his personal blog. Since then, he’s assembled that band for a spate of live dates (below) as well as a full-length recording, due next Tuesday via Temporary Residence. Though it’s a less conceptual and far more direct effort than anything we’ve heard from him yet, it still brims with the same implacable energy that garnered his previous work such a following. SPIN is premiering the full record exclusively here.”</p>
<p>Also, Molly and I are just finishing packing up the first shipment of Hand Screen-printed LP’s so if you ordered one, THANK YOU and they’re on their way.</p>
<p>It is a limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered and they look like this, as they are drying on our house (just need to trim and fold):</p>
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<p>Please help us out in this early phase and <a href="http://www.zammutosound.com/physicalstore.cfm" target="_blank">order one</a> before the tour starts next week.</p>
<p>Love,</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>Hey Everyone,</p>
<p>Here’s another track from the new ‘Zammuto’ album being released on April 3. It’s one of the last tracks I made for the record, and this is the first time I’ve posted it anywhere. It features Sean Dixon on drums, who is playing a 6/8 clave pattern double time with his right hand and halftime with his left. It’s a mind bending thing to watch. Gene Back made the string part by multitracking his violin, then placing the samples on a Nord keyboard. I’ll post a video of it soon. Thank for listening!</p>
<p>You can preorder the record here: we’ll send it out next week:</p>
<p><a href="http://temporaryresidence.com/zammuto/" target="_blank">http://temporaryresidence.com/zammuto/</a></p>
<p>Also, here are the dates for our tour with ‘Explosions in the Sky’ in April, plus a few of our own shows. We just finished another round of rehearsals and the band is killing… don’t miss it.</p>
<p>04-05 Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater * 04-06 Grand Junction, CO – Mesa Theater & Club * 04-07 Salt Lake City, UT – In the Venue * 04-08 Missoula, MT – Wilma Theater * 04-10 Seattle, WA – Moore Theater * 04-11 Eugene, OR – McDonald Theater * 04-12 Reno, NV – Knitting Factory * 04-15 Davis, CA – Mondavi Center * 04-16 San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts Theater * 04-17 San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts Theater * 04-18 Pomona, CA – Glasshouse * 04-19 San Diego, CA – Soda Bar 04-20 Visalla, CA – The Cellar Door 04-22 Flagstaff, AZ – Orpheum Theater * 04-24 San Antonio, TX – Backstage Live * 04-30 Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands 05-01 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY – Bard College</p>
<p>* with Explosions in the Sky</p>
<p>Best!</p>
<p>Nick z</p>
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<p><a href="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38479222&show_artwork=true">https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38479222&show_artwork=true</a></p>
<p>‘Too Late To Topologize’ (Album Version) from our upcoming self-titled debut LP ‘Zammuto’ Release Date: April 3rd on Temporary Residence.</p>
<p>Pre-order now (limited edition colored vinyl and CD): <a href="http://temporaryresidence.com/descriptions/trr209.php" target="_blank">http://temporaryresidence.com/descriptions/trr209.php</a><a href="http://temporaryresidence.com/descriptions/trr209.php" target="_blank"> or Home-Screen-Printed Deluxe edition: </a><a href="http://zammutosound.com/physicalstore.cfm" target="_blank">http://zammutosound.com/physicalstore.cfm</a></p>
<p>One month until release!</p>
<p>love,</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/36680432" target="_blank">ECSTATIC MUSIC FESTIVAL – NICK ZAMMUTO AND JASON TREUTING (with Janus, Daisy Press, and Grey McMurray)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/stevetaylor3000" target="_blank">steve taylor</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>I’ve been in love with <a href="http://sopercussion.com" target="_blank">So Percussion</a> since their incredible record <a href="http://bangonacan.org/store/product/92" target="_blank">‘Amid the Noise’</a> came out in 2006. So I jumped at the chance to work with Jason Treuting. We’ll be doing a few new laser and video based tracks at the show, as well as the crazy 3/2 drum thing that he’s teaching me in this video. Right now I’m working on a video called ‘The Greatest Autoharp Solo of All Time’ which we will also debut at the show.</p>
<p>Also, I’m working with The Janus trio on a new video based song called ‘The Fig and the Finger’. I’ll post samples of all of these works in progress later this week.</p>
<p>Thanks for taking a look!</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>FEB 3: <a href="http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=691">Mass Moca, North Adams, MA</a> (Western Mass, our home town venue)</p>
<p>FEB 4: <a href="http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/Zammuto/Achante-LiveMusic-Film.aspx">92YTribeca, New York, NY</a> (Downtown)</p>
<p>FEB 6: <a href="http://www.brightonmusichall.com/">Brighton Music Hall, Allston, MA</a> (Boston Area)</p>
<p>Don’t miss your chance to say you were there from the beginning! We’ll be playing mostly tracks from the upcoming Zammuto LP (out April 3 on Temporary Residence), along with some ‘Books’ songs, plus a few surprises. Before the set we will be screening ‘<a href="http://vimeo.com/26044978">Achante</a>‘, a short film about Haitian Vodou that we scored last year.</p>
<p>We will also be at SXSW in Austin in March, for the whole week, playing everyday.</p>
<p>‘Zammuto’ (the band) is a four piece rock set up: Nick Zammuto (yours truly on vocals, guitars), Gene Back (also from the Books, on electric guitar, organ, keys), Sean Dixon (Drums), and Mikey Zammuto (aka Mikeybass, on Bass). We just finished our second week of rehearsals and we’re all feeling giddy with excitement. As Mikey says, ” This will be Epic.”</p>
<p>Happily, the project has picked up a lot of momentum in the last few weeks:</p>
<p>The track F U C-3PO was named best new track on Pitchfork, you can listen to the Make Mine EP <a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/sets/zammuto-makemine-ep">here</a>:</p>
<p>And Prefix magazine just named us among the <a href="http://www.prefixmag.com/features/lists/most-anticipated-albums-2012/60782/">years most anticipated albums</a>! (no pressure).</p>
<p>Also Matt Day made a short film about my life and artistic process which you can <a href="http://vimeo.com/nakedmusicians/nickzammuto">watch here</a>: (Incredibly, it’s been viewed more than 20K times in the last week!)</p>
<p>Sorry if you live outside of the Northeast, we will be coming to your area by the fall if all goes as we hope…</p>
<p>Yours, Nick</p>
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<p>Here’s a short documentary Matt Day made about my process and life at home and in the studio. We spent a day together last summer shooting this video, and hopefully he’ll be documenting the time leading up to the debut ‘Zammuto’ concert on Feb. 3 at Mass Moca. (more on this soon)</p><div class="embed-vimeo" style="text-align:center;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/34991226" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/34991226" target="_blank">A Day With Nick Zammuto</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/nakedmusicians" target="_blank">Matt Day</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>If you prefer YouTube here’s a link…<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NOE-By9AJc&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NOE-By9AJc&feature=youtube_gdata_player</a></p>
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<p>I just posted a new photo album here: <a href="http://zammutosound.com/photos.cfm" target="_blank">http://zammutosound.com/photos.cfm</a></p>
<p>These are all pictures from our little homestead in Vermont this year. The small building with the woodshed attached is my studio where ‘The Way Out’ and the new album were written/recorded/mixed/mastered… My wife, Molly, is the pregnant gardener in all these photos, and this year the farm was incredibly productive. Thanks to Molly, and her uncanny ability to grow things, we all ate like kings this year. Also pictured are my boys Sepp, Asa and the newest one Cy, who was born in October. As you’ll see, they play hard, and crash often. The new band appears here and there, too.</p>
<p>Best wishes for the new year from our family to yours.</p>
<p>Nick Zammuto</p>
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<p>I’m happy to announce that the new band is playing it’s first shows in early February! You can get tickets here:</p>
<p>FEB 3: <a href="http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=691" target="_blank">Mass Moca, North Adams, MA</a></p>
<p>FEB 4: <a href="http://www.92y.org/Tribeca/Event/Zammuto/Achante-LiveMusic-Film.aspx" target="_blank">92YTribeca, New York, NY</a></p>
<p>FEB 6: <a href="http://www.brightonmusichall.com/" target="_blank">Brighton Music Hall, Allston, MA</a></p>
<p>We had our first rehearsals in November, and it made us all quite giddy. It’s coming together better than we had ever hoped. Please don’t miss your chance to see these first shows: my brother Mikey has used the word ‘Epic’ more than once to describe what’s about to happen…</p>
<p>Here’s a (somewhat goofy) photo of the new band:</p>
<p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwih9tUuFE1qasnx6.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" /></p>
<p>From left to right that’s my brother Mikey (Bass), Sean Dixon (NYC, Drums), yours truly (vocals, guitars) and Gene Back (From Brooklyn, who you’ll recognize from the Books, Guitar and Keys). And yes that is a bonfire, made of branches from the great ice storm of 2008. We lit it up last sunday:</p>
<p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwihliJ6RR1qasnx6.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" /></p>
<p>The new show will focus mainly on the tracks I’ve been writing over the last year, with some classic and never before played ‘Books’ songs thrown in, plus a couple surprises. The show will have some video synched with the performance (as the books show did) although the band is so fun to watch, the video component will be more contained to short bursts and set peices, to allow eyes to be on the band most of the time. (Sean is one of the best drummers you will ever see.) I’m working on video now, based on the vast collection of stills and vhs i’ve put together over the years, along with a few commisions, and i’m not sure how much i’ll have done by February… but I think the show will fly either way.</p>
<p>And, before the show we will be screening ‘Achante’, the short film about Haitian Vodou that I scored this year. Here’s the trailer</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/26044978" target="_blank">Achantè Extended Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5312695" target="_blank">Mazibel</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/" target="_blank">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>Really hope to see you there!</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>My old friend Manish from London runs a 7” Label called <a href="http://www.makeminerecords.com/site/" target="_blank">Make Mine</a>, and we decided to release three of the songs from the upcoming LP this December, gearing up for the full length release next year. (about 10 years ago ’The Books’ were his labels <a href="http://makemine.bigcartel.com/product/the-books" target="_blank">first release</a>!)</p>
<p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvji5qr8ef1qasnx6.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" /></p>
<p>Side A will be <a href="https://soundcloud.com/makeminerecords/sets/zammuto-idiom-wind" target="_blank">Idiom Wind</a></p>
<p>Side B will be <a href="https://soundcloud.com/makeminerecords/sets/zammuto-idiom-wind" target="_blank">F U C-3PO</a></p>
<p>And the bonus ‘digital only’ will be <a href="https://soundcloud.com/makeminerecords/sets/zammuto-idiom-wind" target="_blank">Weird Ceiling.</a></p>
<p>In fact <a href="http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/12834-weird-ceiling/" target="_blank">Pitchfork was kind enough to post ‘Weird Ceiling’ today</a>.</p>
<p>These are reworked ‘finished’ versions of the demo tracks I’ve posted in the past, so have a listen for the changes…</p>
<p>Once the EP is available for sale I’ll repost</p>
<p>And thanks for the slew of recent orders from <a href="http://www.zammutosound.com/physicalstore.cfm" target="_blank">the store</a>, you all, it is extremely helpful in getting this project off the ground… and remember you can preorder a <a href="http://www.zammutosound.com/physicalstore.cfm" target="_blank">Home Printed LP</a> to further help the project along. (design coming soon)</p>
<p>Also, I finished two more tracks recently, called ‘Zebra Butt’ and ‘The Shape of Things to Come’, as well as revisited/improved/mastered a lot of the older songs, so stay tuned…</p>
<p>Thanks! </p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<h3>Hey All,</h3>
<p>This is more on the personal side of my blog posts, but I wanted to share with you the birth of our third son, Cy:</p>
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<p>He was born here at home in Vermont, in a big tub in our living room, on October 23. Molly’s water broke at around 4:30pm that day, and her contractions started in earnest around 6 pm. The boys, Sepp (5yo) and Asa (2yo), were busy messily painting their halloween costumes, so we let them finish. I put them to bed at around 7pm, as usual, and then went downstairs to set up the tub:</p>
<p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltn5awZdJN1qasnx6.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" /></p>
<p>By then our incredible midwives, Tanya and Lucinda, were arriving and we started filling the tub. Also, Molly’s Mom, her sister, and our dear friend Libby were here to help. We got a nice fire going in the woodstove and had the house up to 80 degrees pretty quickly. We quickly ran out of hot water, so we put every pot we had on the stove to heat more. By 9pm Molly’s contractions were getting very intense and she decided to take a stroll outside. It was a particularly clear and dark night, with the Milkyway crystal clear and Jupiter brighter than I’ve ever seen it. (i’ve always loved stargazing so it felt particularly meaningful to see the sky so clear.) By the end of our walk around the house, with frequent stops for contractions, Molly was ready to get in the tub. By then it was full of hot water and ready to go, and we got in around 10pm. From here her labor progressed very quickly and intensely, and she gave birth to Cy at 10:22pm, catching him herself and scooping him up to the surface of the water. With barely a sound he looked up at her as if to say “Hi, Mom.” It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. Here’s a picture of them just two hours after he was born:</p>
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<p>They are both remarkably healthy, happy and seemingly unfazed. </p>
<p>This was our second homebirth. Asa was also born at home, up in his bedroom. After Sepp’s birth in a hospital, Molly was adamant that we have our children at home. Sepp’s hospital birth, although it wasn’t traumatic per se, was offensive to Molly on a number of levels. Her own birth experience and studies of midwifery and the birthing process has lead her to the realization that birth is not a risk-frought medical procedure as we are lead to believe by well meaning yet fearful OBGYN’s. It is a natural rite of passage for both mother and child; a sacred time to be experienced as fully as possible. From my limited perspective, it took me a while to see the truth in this, but having just witnessed what I can only describe as perfect, we highly recommend homebirth. Be sure to find an experienced and warmhearted midwife. As someone once said, “Locals are born in the hospital, ‘natives’ are born at home.” </p>
<p>Thanks for reading, Nick</p>
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Here’s a working version of the fourth track from the new record. I’m sorry, Timbaland, but it had to be done. Dropping that syllable just drives me crazy, I needed to stick one back in to restore balance to the world <img src="//s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt=";)" /></p>
<p>Free download available for 48hrs here:</p>
<p>https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1193548365/95a1ed6a89df516fcb8a57900d72c254</p>
<p>I made this track with a Korg Electribe (S) and a TC-Helicon Voice Live 2, and its made to be performed live 100%, so please come see our first shows in November. Special thanks to Sean Dixon for the acoustic drums, really looking forward to working more with him, he’s an extremely inventive player, and will Kill live.</p>
<p>Also i’m proud to say that my dream of composing, mixing and mastering all within one program was finally realized with this track. It is directly exported from the timeline of Sony’s Acid without post-sweetening. I’ll post more about the studio soon…</p>
<p>Thanks,<br>
Nick</p>
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<p>Just finished this afternoon. Pretty different, again, from Yay and Groan Man. I’m trying to carve out as much new territory as I can early on in the process, and stretch out a bit. This is more of a songy song this time, and yes, Dylan references are as irresistable to me as ever. and I’ve been loving playing the drums recently, I’m really into 3 over 4 polyrhythms, they are so wonderfully ambiguous and spacious. Please download and repost, since this will only be available for 48hrs. https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1171175787/4d4f9ac1572171efd82d082acd82f132 And extra thanks to Gene Back for his multitrack fiddle on this song. If any of you need a fiddle session, Gene is extremely capable and highly creative. You can contact him here: gene.back@gmail.com. So glad he’s in my band! For those of you who have requested a studio tour, I’ll try to blog about it soon… Thanks for listening! More soon, Nick</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/26277297">Theremins make you poop</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5011949">Nick zammuto</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>My son Asa playing with a Moog Etherwave Theramin, Thanks Jason from Moog! See you in Asheville soon…</p>
<p>Love, Nick</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/26044978">Achantè Extended Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5312695">Mazibel</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>It’s a 35 minute, image and music driven look at the vibrant, and often misrepresented, religion of Vodou (or Voodoo), native to Haiti. It’s directed by Emily McMehen, and also produced by Emily along with cinematographer Geoffrey Sautner (Mazibel Films). Last year, they invited me to score the film, and after seeing some of the early footage I was immediately enchanted. </p>
<p>You can read Emily and Geoffrey’s description of the film <a href="http://www.mazibel.com/achante/">‘here’</a>, but to summarize: </p>
<p>The team arrived in Haiti just weeks before the devastating earthquake of January 12th, 2010, to begin researching the film. After the earthquake struck, they resisted the urge to document the devastation and relief efforts (or lackthereof), and instead spent time getting to know people within the Vodou community in Port-au-Prince and the surrounding countryside. As they gained the trust of the local Vodouisants, Emily and Geoffrey invited them to contribute something to the film (as they write):<br><br>
‘In some cases the Vodouisants contributed stories of the Lwa (Vodou deities), but more often the participants preferred to be ‘mounted’ by the spirit they chose. In other words, they preferred to be possessed on camera… The concept of spiritual possession, perceived by most other religious groups as being dark or demonic in nature, or naive, is in fact a key component of the Haitian identity that draws Vodou’s practitioners together. Its theatrical elements are directed towards connecting strangers and resolving conflicts among friends and family, as demonstrated by elaborate handshakes and expressions of love. The possessed person will often seek out and confront another person with whom they have conflict, and the spirit reaches out and resolves the conflict uninhibited by pride or willfulness. (The film) invites us into the peristyle and treats us as familiars…’</p>
<p>As the composer I was awestruck by these images of ‘possession’. They are EXTREMELY intense, but instead of being dark or scary, I found a palpable sense of humanity and joy: a truly honest expression of deep-seated emotion (which, unfortunately, seems excedingly rare in our culture). You can imagine the challenge of writing music for these scenes! After a lot of trial and error I found a few threads that could unify the soundtrack… first were the incredible audio recordings (made by Erik Southey) of the singing and drumming that take place during the rituals, which I could use to recreate a pulsating rhythmic atmosphere. Second is the odd, and sometimes conflicted relationship of Christian and African influences in the music, where tight polyrhythms can give way to hymn like chords, which helps describe the syncretic origins of Vodou. And the third is the ‘otherworldliness’ of the possessions, which i was able to reflect using tweaked synthesizers and grooveboxes. It makes for a very odd mix, but somehow it works. </p>
<p>The film will be in shown in festivals worldwide this year, so please seek it out. Also, we plan on releasing the soundtrack as an LP on Temporary Residence (our label), along with some of the amazing field recordings and songs they recorded on location.</p>
<p>I’ll write more about that when it’s ready…</p>
<p>Thank you all for your interest!</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>Thanks so much for the great response to YAY! Here’s a ‘working version’ the second track: ‘Groan Man, Don’t Cry’ from the new project. It will be available for 48 hrs here:</p>
<p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/zammuto-groan-man-dont-cry">https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/zammuto-groan-man-dont-cry</a></p>
<p>and here: <a href="https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1163002003/61a92b22cdc821b47747b139cbb67bab">https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1163002003/61a92b22cdc821b47747b139cbb67bab</a></p>
<p>The organ theme in this track originally came from a soundtrack I did for a film about Haitian Voodoo, called Achante - Lives of the Saints, by Emily McMehen and Geoffrey Sautner of Mazibel films. It will be appearing in film festivals worldwide this year, with a soundtrack release to follow soon after… i’ll blog about this more in a couple days</p>
<p>Please feel free to repost the mp3 and otherwise share. Can’t wait to take the new band out… more music very soon, lots in the works,</p>
<p> Thanks!</p>
<p>Nick</p>
<p>zammutosound.com zammuto.wordpress.com twitter.com/zammutosound soundcloud.com/zammuto</p>
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<p>Here’s the wonderful text the Daytrotter folks wrote for our session. Warms my heart… hope to stop by their studio again soon…</p>
<p>from Daytrotter.com:</p>
<p>The lemon of pink is a phrase that The Books brought new to me and it’s one that only makes any sense when we’re listening to the group’s glistening art. The songs that Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto pin together are not so much pieces of music as they are pieces of weather, bits of sails flapping on slightly bumpy seawaters, and easels covered with thick, confident and meaningful paint. Every small part of these songs depict full days, full years and feel like a rush of sunshine, an onslaught of life and the lively discussions that come out of the air when guards are let down and there’s nothing to be afraid of any more. The lemon of pink feels like it’s a sound, as if we’re to hear it as the souring of the soft and the innocent, as if we’re witnessing that which is bound to happen, that which we can’t avoid. It can either be accepted or fought and most choose to fight – some for brief moments and others for the rest of their lives. The Books bring us to the wisdom from within the storm. All around are the flailing rifts and the off-shoots of what come from preparations and dreams. Used at the end of the song “Smells Like Content,” is an audio clip from some unknown source, a slice of a monologue or an aside, where a young man says, “Expectation leads to disappointment. If you expect something big, huge and exciting…,” and then trails off, with more than a touch of sadness and weariness in his worn out voice. It’s an overriding feeling that passes throughout The Books – where there are any number of beautiful combinations and places to put the appropriate punctuation points, but there are still only a very few number of ways that the circumstances can ultimately lead. There are these sensations of being overcome with the enormity of decisions and what they might lead to, as well as this scary ambiguity of not knowing if we’re having an epiphany or if we’re just really tired or really drunk, or both. We’re there in the moment, but more often, outside of it and around it, only able to string together our thoughts long after the origin of them and at that time, they’re somewhat crumbled and sticky, yellowed and slightly out of breath, but still tender as a shoot and a night.</p>
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<p>Hey All,</p>
<p>This will go live tomorrow, leading up to our giant free show in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park tomorrow (Friday) night.</p>
<p>We stopped by the Daytrotter studios during our fall tour to record a few tracks. Strangely, it was one of our first ‘real’ recording studio experiences, since we make all our music at home. It was a blast, the session had a great feel. Along with Paul and me, you’ll hear Gene Back throughout, my brother Mikey Zammuto on Classy Penguin, and our tour manager extraordinaire Brendon Downey on drums during Smells Like Content.</p>
<p>Enjoy,</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>I can’t tell you how much fun I’ve been having in the studio recently. I’m just finishing the first tracks of the new project and wanted to share the very first one with you. It’s called ‘Yay’ and you can download it here:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.yousendit.com/download/dkJvWGJIQzNGOFR2Wmc9PQ">https://www.yousendit.com/download/dkJvWGJIQzNGOFR2Wmc9PQ</a> or <a href="https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/zammuto-yay" target="_new">https://soundcloud.com/zammuto/zammuto-yay</a></p>
<p>It will be a three or four piece band, hopefully playing shows by the end of the year… </p>
<p>I’ll only be posting this for 48 hours, then after that I’m counting on you to distribute it to your friends and loved ones however you can. I’ll be working on the new record throughout the summer (and for however long it takes), and whenever I have a ‘working draft’ of a new track, I’ll post it for a couple days. These won’t be ‘finished’ versions, when I have a solid albums worth I’ll revisit all the tracks to pull album together as a whole. Hope you like it! And be sure to download your copy now, since you won’t be able to get it from me after Saturday.</p>
<p>Thank you all so much for your support over the years.</p>
<p>Yours,</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>Nick here. Sorry for the recent lull in my posts, but you can expect a flurry of activity over the summer, as I’ve been very busy in the studio:</p>
<p><img src="//media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lm0jp2cBHE1qasnx6.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="image" /></p>
<p> Firstly, I’m going to start writing about all of the tracks on our first three records, as I did with ‘The Way Out’. As some of you may have noticed, I had a chance to remaster and redesign the records for our move to Temporary Residence, and revisiting those sounds really brought me back to the headspace I was in while working on those records. A lot of great, and hilarious and/or difficult moments that I’ll try to recount as I write about the tracks. </p>
<p>Also, I just put together a new website that archives my past work, and will be the central home of my new work:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zammutosound.com/" target="_blank">www.zammutosound.com</a></p>
<p>I recently posted a huge amount of <a title="rare and lost" href="http://www.zammutosound.com/music.cfm" target="_blank">rare and ‘lost’ audio</a> from my archives. Mostly it’s the music I made before <em>the Books</em> existed, and the <a title="zammuto soundtracks" href="http://www.zammutosound.com/soundtrack.cfm" target="_blank">soundtrack</a> work I’ve done over the years for various productions since then. </p>
<p>And I’m just about to announce the birth of my new band, which will be focused on live percussion, keys, guitars, vocals, samples and video. I’ll be producing it here in my studio over the summer, rehearsing the band and blogging about it heavily. I’m just finishing the first tracks which I’ll share with you soon… here are all the related sites:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zammutosound.com/" target="_blank">www.zammutosound.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.soundcloud.com/zammuto" target="_blank">www.soundcloud.com/zammuto</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.zammuto.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">www.zammuto.wordpress.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.twitter.com/zammutosound" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/zammutosound</a></p>
<p>Thanks in advance for visiting!</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>Since signing on with Jeremy deVine at Temporary Residence for our most recent record, <em>The Way Out</em>, we decided to rerelease all of our old records with TRL, starting this month with our first record, <em><a href="http://temporaryresidence.com/" target="_blank">Thought For Food</a></em>.</p>
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<p>Here’s the upstairs. One caveat before I start: not to overstate it, but I hate friggin’ drywall. So you’ll notice most everything is finished with knotty pine tongue and groove from our local saw mill. I love the warmth and ease of working with pine and it’s also the cheapest, and most readily available wood, which is an amazing combination.<span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></p>
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<a href="http://zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/interior-upstairs-1.jpg"><img src="//zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/interior-upstairs-1.jpg?w=500&h=667" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="667" width="500" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Asa and Mikey on stairs</p>
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<p>Heading upstairs…</p>
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<a href="http://zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/interior-upstairs-2.jpg"><img src="//zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/interior-upstairs-2.jpg?w=500&h=374" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="374" width="500" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Balcony Landing</p>
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<p><a href="http://zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/interior-upstairs-3.jpg"></a>At the top of the stairs is the landing where the original loft was. To the left (north) and right (south) is new construction that I completed in 2008.</p>
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<a href="http://zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/interior-upstairs-3.jpg"><img src="//zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/interior-upstairs-3.jpg?w=500&h=667" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="667" width="500" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Semi Vaulted Doorway to Boys Room</p>
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<p>To the south is the entrance to boy’s room. There were a lot of super funky angles introduced into the design when I transected the original roof with the new one. To make things even odder, I tilted the ridge of the new roof 10 degrees upwards towards the south, to take advantage of solar gain, and deflect the north winds up and over the house. This gives the upstairs a very unique feel as it literally steps up towards the south in a gradient from cold to warm. I essentially built glorified California style dormers into the existing roof, and finished the joints leaving as much of the existing rafters as I could, which created the oddly shaped cathedrals to either side.</p>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Here’s the veiw from Molly’s studio southwards to the boy’s room.</div>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Why two doors? We figured some day they would want their privacy, so we can easily build a wall when the time comes. For now we love it as one big sunny room, about 12×28 feet.</div>
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<dd class="wp-caption-dd">Low Bay Windows in Boys Room </dd>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">I got the octagons and the large bay windows also from salvage. Oftentimes McMansion builders change their minds on windows midstream, and unload them through a restore, lucky us. Here’s Sepp’s bed on the west: (you can see the chimney from the sun-room stove here, and the angle of the gambrel which is at 5 degrees, so the roof is slightly tortioned. For the life of me I can’t figure out why tortioned roofs are not more common, I find the subtle curve to be quite pleasant.)</div>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">and Asa’s bed to the east:</div>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">The view from Asa’s bed:</div>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">The skylights are standard Andersens which I retrofitted to the metal roof. The roof is framed by 2×10’s which I dense packed with blown in cellulose insulation (essentially chopped up newspapers). If you buy more than 20 bags of the stuff you get a free blower rental. Every boys dream. There is also a thermal break of 1/2inch polyisocyanurate sheets under the tongue and groove. The room performs really well, never too hot, never too cold.</div>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Here’s what our bedroom looked like when we moved in…</div>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Here’s how we renovated it:</div>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Just to the left, which you can’t see, is a claw foot tub and sink on a stone pad, which I plumbed directly above the bathroom downstairs in 2006.</div>
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<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">The next big project (if you all keep buying our records and coming to our shows) is to build a full production studio/rehearsal space on the site of the original farmhouse. I really hope i can do this sooner rather than later, I can’t wait to start building again…</div>
<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">I’ll happily try to answer any questions, should you have them.</div>
<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Thanks for reading.</div>
<div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter" style="text-align:left;">Nick</div>
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<p> Looking north into Molly’s studio you can see how these angles play themselves out. The shelves are structurally integral to holding the extra snow load created by the roof valleys above. No two rafters are the same length in this design, which is probably why people don’t usually build this way, but since the labor was free I didn’t mind the extra time it took, and I got very good at compound miter cuts. I learned the hard way that good carpenters spend very little time measuring, it’s usually much more effective simply to hold the piece where it needs to be and mark the cut in place. I got the curved windows from that same salvage yard at a super discount. This is the view of our little pond out of the curved window. Molly tries to keep it shoveled for skating.</p>
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<p>Nick here… for all practical purposes it’s a drop D tuning, except the whole guitar is tuned down a half step to c#. the tuning i usually play in is c# g# c# c# g# c#. the middle two c#’s are tuned in unison with the same gauge string on both. weird i know, but super resonant, and makes for interesting close harmonies through the midrange</p>
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<p>Nick here, again. Thanks for all of interest in my last post about our home. At your request, here are some pictures of the inside of the house I took last winter. I’ll show you the downstairs tonight and the upstairs tomorrow. (Please excuse the kid clutter in most of these pictures:)<strong></strong></p>
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<p>Usually we enter the house through the sunroom. The planting bed under the windows and the mudroom area by the door are thinset with Vermont slate, and the floors are local maple from the saw mill at the bottom of our hill. I got the six 4’x6’ windows from a salvage yard in Brattleboro; they are old double paned sliding glass doors, I think. We use the planting bed to start seeds ahead of the growing season. By March this year, Molly had hundreds of seedlings of all kinds ready to go, and tomatoes by mid summer. There is built-in storage for shoes, growing supplies and tools underneath.</p>
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<p>Here’s my brother Mikey juggling. You can’t really see it clearly but the thermometer on the center post reads 85 degrees at around 10am in February, That’s all from the heat of the sun.</p>
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<p>On cold winter nights (below 10F) we start a fire in the little cast-iron stove you see here, which is just enough to keep the plants alive without using too much firewood. The entrance to the rest of the house is the last door on the left. The wall on the left was originally an exterior wall, which is conveniently well insulated from the sunroom, so we can open windows during warm hours and close them at night, which makes this a ‘partitioned’ passive solar design. </p>
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<p>This picture is taken from the living room looking towards the kitchen/dining room. I installed this woodstove during our second year in the house, to replace the gas/pellet stoves that were cluttering our living space. The new stove is on an insulated slate pad with a railing I soldered together from copper plumbing parts. It stays surprisingly cool when the fire is going. </p>
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<p>Here’s a ‘before’ picture taken from roughly the same spot, before we moved in, There was all kinds of messed up flow so it took us a while to figure out how to reorganize the space. Originally there was a ladder up to the loft on the second floor, so the first big job was to tear out the pantry and part of the ceiling to put in this staircase:</p>
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<p>I designed the stairs to ‘float’ by using the ballisters to suspend the weight from the floor joists above. The routered shelves behind the stairs helped replace the storage lost from removing the pantry. That’s my boy Asa on the stairs.</p>
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<p>The stairs lead to the loft area, where the ladder used to be. We use the area under the cathedral ceiling to dry our clothes. Between the heat of the woodstove and the breeze of the ceiling fan (which I replaced with a high efficiency industrial type) the clothes dry in a couple hours. It also helps keep the humidity up in the winter. The long indoor rise of the chimney radiates a lot of heat which increases it’s efficiency.</p>
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<p>Here’s a picture of Molly taken from the loft. Apart from Molly and the boys, and the Books, our woodstove is my pride and joy. It’s a Hearthstone stove, and it is our homes sole heating source on most days. It’s made of soapstone which stores and re-radiates heat in a very gentle way, so it doesn’t overheat the area right around it, and stays warm for several hours after the fire dies so I can get a full night’s sleep without having to stoke it in the middle of the night. We burn 3-4 cords per year, which I harvest from our land or fallen trees along the dirt roads around our town.</p>
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<p>Here’s another view of the kitchen. There’s enough wood storage to the left of the stove for 4-5 days of fires. The open plan of the house lets us cook while we keep an eye on the boys.</p>
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<p>Here’s a view of the living room from the kitchen. </p>
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<p>There’s a nice view of the mountains to the east. Sunrise is beautiful, which we rarely miss, since the boys are both early birds.</p>
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<p>Tomorrow I’ll show you the upstairs…</p>
<p>until then,</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>Nick here. I originally wrote this for <a href="http://www.imposemagazine.com/features/the-books-nick-zammuto-builds-a-home" target="_blank"><strong>Impose Magazine</strong></a>, as part of their friends with benefits section. It’s the condensed story of how my wife, Molly, and I built our home in Vermont… I’d like to write about it more, since it was one of the big projects I tackled during the break between The Way Out and Lost and Safe. And I have a lot to say about the relationship between music and architecture. Here’s an introduction:</p>
<p>In early 2006, when my wife was pregnant with our first son, she experienced an irrepressible nesting instinct. We were living in a rented house in North Adams, Massachusetts, and I was touring heavily with the Books. Molly, being the tenacious woman that she is, set out to find the perfect spot to raise our family. I was on our first European tour, somewhere around Bristol, UK, I think, when I got an email from Molly with this picture attached:</p>
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<p>Winter 2005</p>
<p>My first impression was that it looked like an uninsulated shack in a giant field of slush. I worried that the pregnancy had affected her judgment. I raised my concerns as gently as possible…</p>
<p>“Don’t worry” she said, “I dug through the slush and found good things, the land is good.”</p>
<p>“It looks like it needs a ‘bit’ of work,” I said.</p>
<p>“Well, We have a couple of months before the baby comes.”</p>
<p>“I better buy a chop-saw as soon as I get home.”</p>
<p>I had never used a chop-saw, but I sort of knew that I needed one. Like most young couples we had fantasized about building our dream house from scratch. Leave it to my wife to actually force it upon me. Actually I was psyched, our mortgage payment on sixteen acres of beautiful high meadows (plus a semi-livable shack) was quite a bit less than the rent on Molly’s semi-livable studio apartment in Brooklyn. And I love building stuff, at least with legos, which at the time was the extent of my handiness. By the time Sepp was born, we had added a staircase, skylights, and renovated the attic into a bedroom complete with a salvaged claw-foot tub and sink. I have the image of Molly working the chop-saw when she was 8 months pregnant etched into my mind… it’s probably part of the reason one of Sepp’s first words was ‘excavator’.</p>
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<p>Winter 2006</p>
<p>When Molly was pregnant with our second son, it was clear that we needed a lot more space. I started learning about residential construction through the internet and books like Scot Simpson’s classic <em>The Complete Book of Framing</em>. The feng shui of the shack was all messed up, so we started thinking of designs that would reorient the house better with respect to the land. It was around then that I discovered Christopher Alexander’s “A Pattern Language” which is one of my favorite books. It lists some 250 patterns that compose the elements of a livable design from the smallest scale (doorknobs) to the largest scale (cities). Eventually we settled on a partitioned passive solar design, that would allow us to conserve fuel and give Molly a place to start seeds to extend our growing season. We heat entirely with firewood wood that we harvest from our land, which I store next to my studio, that I built from the shell of an old tractor garage.</p>
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<p>Summer 2010 from southwest</p>
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<p>Summer 2010 from southeast</p>
<p>The large greenhouse windows face south, so that the room heats up to around 90° F even during the middle of winter, which keeps the bedroom above it warm through the night. Molly’s studio is on the north side with machine/tool storage below. Most of the wood and windows I hauled from a salvage yard in Brattleboro VT called ReNew, and a liquidation sale from a Home Depot that was forced to close after being out-competed by the locally owned hardware store across the street. Even on a musician’s salary, we haven’t needed to borrow anything for the additions.</p>
<p> <a href="http://zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/3-5.jpg"><img src="//zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/3-5.jpg?w=500&h=360" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="360" width="500" /></a><a href="http://zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/3-4.jpg"></a></p>
<p>Summer 2010 from northeast</p>
<p>We have a ‘No Contractor’ rule. If we can’t do it ourselves than we don’t do it. This keeps things cheap and practical, and extraordinarily satisfying. Our second son, Asa, was actually born at home in the new bedroom.</p>
<p><a href="http://zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/3-6.jpg"><img src="//zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/3-6.jpg?w=500&h=375" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="375" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>“Tractor” Studio, where <em>The Way Out</em> was made. Summer 2010.</p>
<p>Molly’s instincts have proven to be very sharp. I’m good for the tasks that require stupid brute force, but she’s got a green thumb that is almost eerie; today she pulled a 15 pound watermelon out of the garden and we’re at 2,000 feet elevation in Vermont. We got 7 gallons of wild blueberries out of the meadow this year, and we’ve scarcely bought a vegetable since May. My next task is to build a root cellar so that we can store all of the potatoes, beets and carrots that she’s about to harvest.</p>
<p> <a href="http://zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/3-7.jpg"><img src="//zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/3-7.jpg?w=500&h=375" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="375" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>Veggie garden and chicken house. Summer 2010.</p>
<p><a href="http://zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/3-8.jpg"><img src="//zammuto.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/3-8.jpg?w=500&h=375" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="375" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>Watermelon 2010</p>
<p>Recently I’ve been dreaming about building a full production studio on the site of the original farmhouse which burned down several decades ago… Someday.</p>
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<p>Thanks for reading!</p>
<p>If you all are interested, i’ll write about the design of the interior next.</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>Our friend Zach Miskin just released a cello record today:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0040GCSW8?ie=UTF8&parent=B0040GW0X0" target="_blank"><strong>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0040GCSW8?ie=UTF8&parent=B0040GW0X0</strong></a></p>
<p>Both Paul and I made tracks for the record, as well as Todd Reynolds and Padma Newsom/Bryce Desner, our good friends from Clogs/The National, and others.</p>
<p>Check it out if you love the Cello! We do. Incidentally, Zach was the fellow who introduced us to Gene, our new multi-instrumentalist who you will see on tour with us this fall. They were good friends in college, and Zach brought Gene up to record the tracks for this record in my studio here in Readsboro, where I met Gene for the first time. And, Zach made us an amazing dinner when we were in Paris during the spring; so nice to have a home cooked meal on tour.</p>
<p>best,</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>A couple months back Jacob Ganz from NPR came up to talk to us. He stopped by at both of our home studios to see how we work, and sat down for a family dinner at our place where Sepp (now 4) treated us to his scatalogical a capella version of the All Things Considered themesong.</p>
<p>It was a pleasure to talk to Jacob. He had good questions and insight into the music and I’m looking forward to hearing it on the radio this weekend. It will be archived on npr.org and you can check local schedules <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/stations/schedule/index.php?prgId=2" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a> if you want to catch it live.</p>
<p>Off to ATP in Monticello, NY in a few hours. Can’t wait, maybe we’ll see you there.</p>
<p>best,</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>Hey Kendra, It’s actually the medium itself that creates the difference. The bass response of vinyl, especially in the extreme low end, is greater than on a cd which clips against it’s 16 bit capacity. The sound under the third hum was pretty bassy and distorted to begin with, and neither medium is particularly good at reproducing sounds like that. Good ears…</p>
<p>thanks for writing.</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>Along with Group Auto I and Chain of Missing Links, this track forms the third in the trilogy of hypno-themed tracks that bookend the record. There was such an avalanche of great voices from thrift shop tapes that it was clear early on that we had to spread them out over several tracks. Thinking in reverse, we knew that the final sample on the record would be:</p>
<p>“and it feels so good, so relaxed and so at ease, and you’re becoming the world and everyone in it”</p>
<p>This, of course, is a deep manipulation of the original tape… at some point Paul took on the singular mission of turning a weight-loss record into a weight-gain record. Despite it’s overt silliness, it is a strangely apt concept. The real subliminal voices out there do exactly this, chanting the mantra ‘more’. Not to pontificate too much, but it really seems that our culture is in the midst of a pathetic consumeristic trance. </p>
<p>Yet conversely, this sample also represents a hopeful kind of zeitgeist. I think of music as a survival instinct. There is so much noise all the time, so much conflicting and emotionally pointed information coming from all directions, we need a strategy for dealing with it so it doesn’t drive us crazy. Unprocessed noise is a drag on the mind: it either overwhelms to the point of numbness, or it corners you into becoming jaded and apathetic. Neither are ok. Sampling is a good practice for dealing with the noise: Find a quiet spot, pop in a random tape and simply sit and listen. Whether or not you agree with the material is not important, just try to hear what they are saying and save it if it resonates and otherwise let it go forever. Over time the fragments can be reconstructed into a world that is worth inhabiting. </p>
<p>Part of the attraction to these hypno-tapes is their innocent positivity. “Free we are from complexity.” They seem so certain that there is a pure state to return to, and we really want to believe them, and they honestly want to help us by offering guidance. As I was saying yesterday, most of us are guarded against this kind of straightforward manipulation, so we need to find a back way around. We need to scramble the words in order to disarm the bullshitometers, and somehow the essence of their voices still come through, despite our tampering. </p>
<p>The music for this track was made largely through PVC pipes with small speakers mounted to the ends of them. As part of a documentary we scored about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2" target="_blank"><strong>Biophere 2</strong></a> project (hopefully out this year), I recorded a lot of little clicks and pops through this series of pipes that I cut to a root, a fifth and an octave. I also recorded bursts of noise and vinyl artifacts, as well, all of which you can hear in the opening minutes of the track. There are some sweet ”sung scales” from Paul’s library, and a beautiful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harmonica" target="_blank"><strong>glass harmonica</strong></a> note used here and there. The Hammond Organ also returns strongly in this track.</p>
<p>So that’s the end. I’m glad to have gotten it all out while it’s still fresh in my head. now I can move onto new work. I’m sorry if it is a bit TMI, but I needed to do it for some reason. For those of you who’ve requested that I write about tracks from the old records, I will at some point. I’m going to take a few days off from writing for now. If there’s something you want me to write about in the weeks to come, let me know.</p>
<p>Thanks again, everyone. It’s a pleasure and an honor. </p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>This track came out of a simple concept that we discovered a few years ago. During the Lemon of Pink era, every so often we would get a review in a foreign language, like Japanese or Italian, and it seemed so exotic, of course, we would want to know what it said. In fact, sometimes we get reviews in English that look like a foreign language as well. We needed a translator so that’s when we discovered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_translation" target="_blank"><strong>freetranslation.com.</strong></a> Of course there are a lot of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_translation" target="_blank"><strong>machine translators</strong></a> out there and they’re always getting <a href="http://translate.google.com/" target="_blank"><strong>better</strong></a>, but sometimes better isn’t better… The mediocre translators often give the most poetic results, and we loved the foreign reviews because the translator made our record sound twice as interesting.</p>
<p>Machines are dumb, but sometimes they do brilliant things because they can’t help themselves. They don’t talk themselves out of anything, and so they just go for it. No judgement whatsoever. Taking advantage of machines in these moments is a great way to overcome the self-consciousness problem that Drew brought up in London (see post of July 21). </p>
<p>I think part of what we’re trying to do with the Books is to break the back of language, to bend it until it snaps and then examine the pieces to see what of it’s essence remains. Poets and songwriters have been in business so long, trying to say things in just the perfect way that they’ve crowded out the front door to meaning which is all tightly locked up by cliches. Essentially we’re looking for the back way around. So it’s really heartening to find a site like freetranslation.com that so egolessly shreds language like it’s making a vat of sauerkraut out of your precious word cabbages. </p>
<p>For this track we took a very well known folk song (which we’ve been advised not to name) and using free translation software, we translated the text into, for example, German, then into Italian, then into French, then into Swedish and then back into English. The results were spectacular. All of the imagery became completely warped, sentence structure was geniusly scrambled, errant nouns would inexplicably enter into strange situations… it became a machine free association on the original lyrics to the point that the ‘cover’ became a new original. Who wrote the song became completely unclear at this point… it became some mass collaboration of linguists, programmers and songsmiths. Both Paul and I translated an retranslated these lyrics so many times that new characters began to emerge and we made a collection of the best moments in our texts. I then set them to the music the best I could, adding conjunctions and fixing the rhythm of the sentences where necessary to make a smooth vocal line.</p>
<p>The “And I see” chorus became the keystone of the musical structure early on and we improvised a bit around it in London. Paul found that sample on an old folk guitar instructional record, and cut it from two instances of the same lyric over two different chords. That set the key and tempo of the track. The trick was figuring out a way to move off of those two chords, so the bass does the job of reframing the two chords so that the song move in a more interesting way. The alpenhorn solo at the end came straight off a Swiss record that Paul found, documenting the customs of a small town. The wind sound at the very end I made on one of Nigel’s very special vintage synthesizers by tweaking the frequency knob of a filtered white noise source. analog wind…. </p>
<p>Tomorrow the last track on the record, Group Auto 2</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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<p>Hip Hop the genre is largely credited to the Bronx block parties of the late seventies where, by popular demand, percussion loops were isolated and looped as a rhythmic bed for prototypical emcees. The origins of the term are<a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/29389/What-is-the-origin-of-the-term-Hip-Hop" target="_blank"><strong> fuzzy</strong></a>. I always assumed, apparently wrongly, that it had something to do with a variant on the genre bebop which inspired the improvised stylings of beat poetry, focusing on the rhythm and flow of language, but this is largely a false conflation caused by the hip in hipsters, i think. BTW, how many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?…<a href="http://thetragicallyunhip.com/2009/04/25/how-many-hipsters-does-it-take-to-screw-a-lightbulb/#comments" target="_blank"><strong>phsht, you <em>don’t</em> know?</strong></a>!</p>
<p>The source material for this track predates “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapper's_Delight" target="_blank"><strong>A Rapper’s Delight</strong></a>” by at least two decades and represents such a cosmic fluke, such a bizarrely anachronistic coincidence that we had to make a track out of it, even if it meant we had to suspend our “no breakbeat” policy briefly.</p>
<p>In the late fifties a group associated with an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_Christianity" target="_blank"><strong>Esoteric Christian</strong></a> sect released a record for children that had four stories on it, two on side A and two on side B, all read by our very unlikely emcee. The stories were about a humming bird, a duck family, a kitty, and most importantly a “little green grasshopper named Hip Hop”. What are the chances of this? It’s downright <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mysticism" target="_blank"><strong>mystical</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Paul gave me a copy of the record, which he found God-knows-where, and I busily set to work cutting out all of the useful nouns, adjectives and verbs from the four stories to recreate a story of Hip Hop, sans grasshopper. While rearranging the pieces I was particularly struck by Hip Hop’s tendency towards getting into trouble and the strange relationship he had to “flowers”. </p>
<p>Once the narrative had formed I started on the music, which had to be kind of a “Peter and The Wolf” mini-epic with outlandish breaks. Usually I avoid straight 4/4, but the ‘almost but not quite Hip Hop’ reference required a pseudo breakbeat skeleton. In fact, I borrowed Prefuse 73 as a temporary scratch track to help find the natural tempo of the narrator. I used Paul’s vast collection of percussion fragments and horn hits to create the basic rhythm with fills where needed. At some point Paul came up with the idea of sorting all of his short percussion and voice samples simply by duration and laying them back to back from shortest to longest. It resulted in a dizzying string of irrational yet compelling rhythms where it felt like anything could happen. I re-edited this “shorts-string” into some of the preposterous breaks that occur throughout the track. I had a particularly good time imagining what Skip Hop and Slide Hop sound like. </p>
<p>In London, Drew encouraged me to make some recordings of Nigel’s ‘magical’ acoustic guitar using an <a href="http://www.ebow.com/home.php" target="_blank"><strong>EBow</strong></a>. It was the fist time I ever used an ebow and I immediately fell in love. Infinite sustain…a dream fulfilled. Those recordings became the basis for the chords and melodies between the narrative sections. Sony’s (formerly Sonic Foundry’s) sequencing program Acid is particularly good for repitching notes quickly in the timeline. In fact, I use Acid (the program) for almost all of my sequencing. </p>
<p>Finally I had Mike Bell from <a href="http://www.lymbycsystym.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Lymbyc Systym</strong></a>come up and play some real drums in the studio. We recorded them with stereo overhead 414’s, and I later massaged them into place to give everything a more natural flow. Thanks Mike! If you’ve never seen Lymbyc Systym play, go! Amazing.</p>
<p>Tomorrow – Free Translator.</p>
<p>yours,</p>
<p>Nick</p>
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