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Music

Two Songs for June

Print This Post June 25, 2019 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

In June, I have produced and engineered two songs—for two completely different projects. Sweet Poison with Vapour Sea Vapour Sea is a collaboration project between me and Sudipto. While we waited for the guys in Dark Project to finish recording (and I wonder if it would ever be finished), Shounak pitched in a seed idea … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music Tagged: blue moon, Rueben, sweet poison, vapour sea

The story behind the acoustic cover of “Arriving Somewhere…”

Print This Post July 30, 2018 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

The idea of playing a cover of “Arriving Somewhere but Not Here” by the venerable Porcupine Tree was by our very own Shounak Roy. Fresh off a college gig where he had played some of the introductory keyboards and most of the guitar parts for the same song, he suggested that we try it out … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music Tagged: Acoustic, Dark Project, Music Production, Porcupine Tree

Dark Project show with a new lineup

Print This Post April 7, 2018 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

A new lineup Our last show with Korak was in November, post which he left to pursue his post-doc. After the show, I was out of Bangalore to enjoy my yearly, month-long vacation. Once I was back in Bangalore, we were frantically looking for a drummer. Sudipto did most of the work in connecting with people … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music Tagged: blueFROG, Dark Project, live show

I played a show after four-and-a-half years

Print This Post September 15, 2017 by Sauvik Biswas 1 Comment

A few months ago, Korak introduced us to a new guitarist, Shounak, and a new bassist, Sricharan. This rekindled our desire to play shows again. Our opportunity came via blueFROG Bangalore, who agreed to host us. We had to settle for a Thursday due to non-availability of weekend slots. I had to carry a lot of equipments. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music Tagged: blueFROG, Dark Project, live show

My guitar needed some love (and some new strings)

Print This Post August 12, 2017 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

The last show that I had played was about four years ago. Back when I was regularly playing on stage, I used to change my strings once a month. Ever since I stopped playing on stage, I did not change my strings. The four-year old strings had become rusty and had lost almost all of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music Tagged: changing strings, guitar

Kick and Snare processing using side-chained noise gates

Print This Post June 11, 2015 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

I was working on mixing our (I don’t know what this new project will be named) new song. This time around, I wanted a very open palette – very much like a well ventilated soundfield where instrument separation was of prime importance. This meant that I couldn’t use much of my go-to reverb designs. That … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music Tagged: kick drum, Reaper, snare

Listening habits: Finite resource for infinite music

Print This Post January 31, 2015 by Sauvik Biswas 2 Comments

Music as a disposable commodity When mp3s invaded the collective consciousness of our society, it gave birth to something no one had foreseen before. The availability of infinite music at the disposal of one’s fingertips. The key word here is “disposal”. Indeed, an instance of a file can be classified disposable commodity – the loss … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music Tagged: acquired taste, listening habits, physical audio medium

Listening habits: Sound quality vs. convenience of portability

Print This Post January 14, 2015 by Sauvik Biswas 1 Comment

Long ago I had written why I prefer listening to whole albums. My approach to listening hasn’t changed much. However, I am from a lesser group of the population. The majority consumes music in a very different way. Convenience of portability The idea of revisiting this topic stems from my listening to lectures by Andrew … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music Tagged: codecs, compression, listening habits

An experiment in electronic / ambient music.

Print This Post September 17, 2014 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

I have very limited means and even limited talent when it comes to music. I can’t play that well, I can’t play fast. Sometimes I fail to even play something in time (but I have improved a lot in the last five years). All I have are a guitar,  the computer and some software (Reaper, Reason 5, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music Tagged: Electronica, Project IWZ

Duality music video: Third time lucky?

Print This Post September 7, 2014 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

About two months ago I had mailed a copy of Duality video DVD to MTV Indies, which they never received. I had to mail a second copy. It turns out that even the second copy of Duality video DVD was misplaced. The above picture shows my third attempt at mailing the DVD to the correspondent … [Read more…]

Posted in: Music Tagged: misplaced document, Video
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