A preview of the work in progress... the best way to get your music into a film, is to compose the music AND direct the film yourself.
The soundtrack is a melting of BTM's bands... DRUM ARMY into an ORGY OF NOISE morphed into a new realm. All created on a pile of outsider spring & junk instruments.
Photos & Videos Shot by Sheri Hausey & Bill T Miller @ Headroom Studios - Allston/Boston - 4.11.10 Co-Produced by Tippi Cat !
...all of the plans for this short film are in an embryonic flux of fragments of non-plot via a mental storyboard being decrypted here at the laboratory that seems give way to an abstract visual smorgasbord of close-ups of assorted vibrations melting into the vortex via ear drum stimulations.
The one and only Rat Bastard of Laundry Room Squelchers (from Florida) tours from town to town with different local people curating each of the shows. Rat takes an entourage of hot noise babes and one or two acts with him for the tour and plays last after an almost non-stop barrage of a dozen or so local artists.
Killer line-up. Each act did sets of 15 minutes or less. The tongue in cheek rule is... NO DRONING! NO LAPTOPS! NO MIXERS!
I played the INC 2008 Boston/Cambridge show and was invited to play an Orgy Of Noise set at INC 2010 by curator Nathan Trites, but since I am still in studio hermit mode I decided not to play this one. My plan was to just go to the show as spectator fan. I didn't even bring any of my cameras since the post production of shooting pics eats up so much time.
Bill T Miller on RADIO SQUELCH AMP
When I arrived RAT immediately asks me if I was playing under another name, since he didn't see Orgy Of Noise on the line-up. Once I told him I wasn't on the bill he insists "Well then, YOU'RE PLAYING with THE SQUELCHERS, we are down one man anyway." So he shows me one of three Peavey guitar amps that had been modified to have an AM/FM RADIO jacked in for uber SQUELCH all on wheels and long extension cords for a roller derby, bumper car, mosh pit, quad, freak-out sorta effect, while Rat wails away on his strat.
Squelchers' PEAVEYS CABS with AM/FM RADIO & WHEELS. & Rat Bastard's Strat & Fender Amp.
RAT BASTARD & BILL T MILLER INC 2010 (after show)
INC 2010 iPhone Photos by NATHAN TRITES (all four photos above)
FLASHBACK to April 24th... TWO YEARS AGO when I did a full on BTM = ORGY OF NOISE solo blast at the International Noise Conference 2008 at MIT Cambridge, MA that was curated by Jessica Rylan (who also co-hosted the 2010 INC @ MIT.)
After doing workshop and Orgy Of Noise performance in the afternoon at CYBERARTS, later that Saturday night (April 25th) I did a guest appearance with AXEMUNKEE at MAGIC ROOM - Sound Museum (N. Beacon) in ALLSTON, on my ELECTRO RACQUET GUITAR for ONE SONG ONLY (BlasFamous - the song I remixed.)
Bill T Miller's Orgy of Noise performing @ Microsoft Startup Labs as part of Cyberarts Festival - Maker Revolution - Willoughby & Baltic. With very special guests Jimmie Rodgers and Derek Hoffend. The VIDEO (above) was shot by Ben Parsons.
cool rainy day at the flea = all sellers in the parking garage !
I wanted THIS BOX of KNOBS for my ZONKULATOR RIG ...but $250.00 = no dice.
ACTUALLY BROKE DOWN an BOUGHT TWO THINGS in HARD COLD CASH... Walter Carlos - Switched on Bach LP in fair condition = .50 cent. My Dad turned me on to this album when it came out in 1969, igniting my lust for MOOG SYNTHS. Shortly after that he brought home a SINE WAVE GENERATOR OSCILLATOR from his chemistry lab for me to tweak.
+ VGA to VGA cable = $1 - just what I needed for free dual input CRT computer monitor I just scored for FREE on Craigslist. Oh wait, it cost four bux (with dollar off flyer)to get in, so total cash spent = $5.50... and well worth it.
I ran into a ton of people at the FLEA including Jessica Rylan & Nathan Trites (flower electronics wizards) - Monte McGuire (soundman to the stars) - Larry Dersch (best drummer and dude around) - Fred Owsley (from Noise Night bending workshops) - Mike and Linda Bullock (master improvers) - Max Lord (buchla synth & percussion ninja) - Andy Ihnatko (photographer who shoots amazing mit flea pix) and met a dude who saw me and Orgy Of Noise at Multimedia Circus gig in 2009... plus nodded at Zerfalt & Asha and even caught a glimpse Adam Rosen (my fave Mac Guru of Vintage Mac Museum.) If you dig around my BTM PHOTOGRAPHY SITE you will find pix I have snapped over the years of most of these people.
Hope to make it to the next FLEA in MAY... might even grab a table and bring a pile of stuff to the party.
A preview of the work in progress... the best way to get your music into a film, is to compose the music AND direct the film yourself.
The soundtrack is a melting of BTM's bands... DRUM ARMY into an ORGY OF NOISE morphed into a new realm. All created on a pile of outsider spring & junk instruments.
Witness a glimpse of the BTM process as it unfolds...
Home to BTM's bands OBE, KINGS OF FEEDBACK, DRUM ARMY, KING OF SLACK, SLACKBANGERS, ORGY OF NOISE and tons of OTHER bands produced by Bill T Miller. BTM's semi-private project studio has opened it's doors at various locations to record and/or remix many bands, including: Melt-Banana, Axemunkee, Grief, Disrupt, Dropdead, Noosebomb, Glenn Jones, One Of Us, Roger Miller's no man, Xyxyl, The Slaves, Prime Movers, Bentmen, Powerman 5000, Saturnalia, Plainfield, All The Queen's Men, Rich Gilbert, Reeves Gabrels, Malcolm Travis, Reg Bloor, Deftly-D, Ajda the Turkish Queen,Reverend Ivan Stang - Subgenius, Wisteriax, Twink, and many more.
Headroom in the 80s-90s was based around an analog Fostex E-16 tape recorder & a Ramsa 20 input console. By the late 90s switched over to a Pro Tools rig on a Macintosh computer. Although BTM continued to freelance out of many other larger studios with 24 track 2-inch or 16 track - 1-inch machines and huge consoles and tracking rooms stocked with various microphones. Headroom was always designed to be BTM's playground and the gear is a hodge podge of McGuvered together bits to create an unique real. Co-producer TIPPI CAT is even spotted in the Headroom Tour video. This video was shot in 2003, so the set-up has morphed a bit. Still centered around Digidesign Pro Tools for audio and Final Cut Pro for video and stuffed with piles of toys and hand built outsider BTM instruments. This version of the studio is still located in the same space in ALLSTON ROCK CITY - Boston - usa.
The soundtrack for this video is BTM solo in his band ORGY OF NOISE with part of the song SNAP CRACKLE & POP from the PLAGUE CD. It features a circuit bent Tablebeast SK-1 keyboard and a circuit bent Uliasz Guttar toy guitar and a Waterhed bent Talking Teacher.
Bill T Miller (BTM) tweaking in his Headroom Studios (Boston) back in 2003. This vintage Arp Odyssey Synthesizer (from 1974) was purchased by BTM in 1976 (used) and is one of the original WHITE PANEL MODELS. Fun fact... ARP stands for Alan R. Pearlman the mastermind of ARP.
This BTM Orgy Of Noise clip appears on the Orgy Of Noise 2004 DVD, but has never been on YouTube until now.... SEE MORE from the OON DVD.
Tweaking out in Headroom Studios (Boston-Allston) in 2003 on my CIRCUIT BENT HOTKEYZ that was bent by WATERHED. This BTM Orgy Of Noise clip appears on the Orgy Of Noise 2004 DVD, but has never been on YouTube until now.... SEE MORE from the OON DVD.
Piles of BTM THRILLS to unleash.... after a winter of hibernation and NOT MUCH POSTING on THIS billtmiller.blogspot or TWEETING or FACEBOOKING or MYSPACING or going to the zillions of GIGS around Boston, I was able to get a lot more DONE.
Rebuilt and expanded the BTM Outsider Spring Junk Rigs into a massive instrument and working on composing a piece for a new album and dvd. Plus, still have plans for a BTM REMIX of the Orgy Of Noise song Zonkular Fibers for Connexion Bizarre compilation.
Also, back in pre-production for the brand new season of live BTMTV webcasting on... http://btmtelevision.com - Hint look for a new broadcast when the moon is full.
Almost a hundred BTM VIDEOS are online: http://youtube.com/btmtv and eighteen (studio & live) BTM ALBUMS at: http://mp3orgy.com .... so there is more than enough already online to entertain you !!!
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