Start the reactor. I used to be in a band. We almost never played music together, but we existed in concept and the idea held a considerable amount of water. We called ourselves Quaid? - a reference to our hometown (your current locale) hero, Randy Quaid. He's not of Plymouth origin, or New Hampshire for that matter, but he did record a pilot for a failed television series, "The Brothers Poland" (or something dull like that) here - and we think we saw him eating a doughnut once.
Recordings were often unintentionally lo-fi, as they were input via laptop microphone using a pretty rudimentary, but free, audio editing program known as Audacity. Thanks to the internet we were able to share our recorded data with each other via email and such, prompting one another to add accompaniment to the shared track, thus enabling us to retain a significant amount of slothfulness for whatever was leftover. Most of the tracks on the myspace page are composed and performed by my other two friends in the band, in fact, I think the only tracks in which I contribute anything at all is on the track "Nermal", in which I sing and play bass (and my cousin guest appears on guitar) - that track is completely improvised. The other being my half drunken rendition of Hank Williams' (first generation) "So Lonsome I Could Cry", in which Jack crashes a symbol and I perform the rest. Everything else is everyone else.
Two other affiliated projects, Pseudomatter and Lullaby, were birthed during Quaids? lifespan. Pseudomatter was my site, intended to purge myself of song ideas and the like - nothing very formal in the least. Lullaby is, well, uh, immersive, to be as off-termed and vague as possible. Mind you, all of these projects have reached abandoned warehouse status - people get married; people have kids; people go to California and cut trail.
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