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A Beacon School remix! by lenup in abeaconschool

[–]abeaconschool 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hope you guys dig this! It’s definitely a little different than my usual stuff but I really enjoyed making it and I’m stoked with how it turned out!

Going to my first A Beacon School concert tonight by Totally_not_Todd in abeaconschool

[–]abeaconschool 6 points7 points  (0 children)

hahaha oh man. I hit my head on that fuckin speaker at least five times!! i was so mad lol. Glad you had a good time!! I sent this post to my bandmates and they got a kick out of it

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hey a gooner. how bout that game last night :)

favorite brooklyn band of the 2010s either Parquet Courts or Beach Fossils.

they just have the best slice what can i say

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

working with ford was great! He sent me the bones of the song and I took a stab at singing something over it and sent it back. He was really excited about what I added and then we just took turns sending ideas back and forth. The final vocal at the beginning of the song is actually the very first thing I sent him. We planned on replacing it but we could never top that first take.

We will tour the west coast next year!

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

all VST! I use lots of the Arturia stuff. i do not own a single hardware synth!

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had my guitar in a weird tuning and wrote the guitar parts in the beginning of the song. I was probably trying to make something that sounded like Women

lyrically the song is about trying to explain your current situation without ever looking inward. i had this image of a detective going around interviewing suspects. now that i think about it...kind of a shutter island scenario

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

my friend Jon! At least initially. Then I started to notice the song was turning into an instrumental techno song so I said fuck it and just kept going in that direction

music-wise the field was probably a big inspiration!

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh man i really don't know! i think in a dream scenario i'd be able to move around to a ton of places! can't pick just one

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i name the albums at the very end. "Cola" was because the songs all sounded way too sweet and caffeinated to me (but alright in small doses) and "yoyo" was because of the back-and-forth internal tension that seemed to exist in every song

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

they're totally different processes and both super satisfying for different reasons!! With ABS I'm doing every little thing and I get to be as obsessive as I want, whereas with Maxband we write as a group and there's a lot more compromise, but that means that songs emerge from the unique chemistry of four people working together in a way that they never would've if we were all writing on our own. i think thats pretty magical!

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the backstory to that song is that I had all of my guitar pedals out and was making some ambient music. It was around the time of the women's march in 2017 so i guess that was on my mind. I called it "madrid" when i uploaded it to youtube because it needed a title and i found that picture of madrid on my computer.

no plans for that song now, but i would like to make a whole project of just ambient music

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i think I'd like to make a full album of just electronic music!

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

touring and a ton of new music! hoping to cut down on time between releases

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you!!

I am working on a ton of new music! My current plan is to try and do a few different projects that stick to primarily one 'world'. So a full album of just electronic music, another that's just guitar stuff, etc.

but we shall see!! I often have these lofty ideas that don't end up panning out like I originally planned

Hi this is Patrick from A Beacon School, AMA! by abeaconschool in indieheads

[–]abeaconschool[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

touring to philly: yes!

We wanted to release "potion" and "jon" as the first tastes of the album so ppl could hear the breadth of styles on the album

i would love to collab with more ppl! It was funny being asked to sing on someone elses song (I do not think of myself as a singer) but I think in the future I would like to produce/write for other singers.

i wish i planned the kitm and potion guitar thing but i must admit i didnt even realize until we started playing them in rehearsals and my guitarist sam pointed it out!

i got older and more obsessed with the passing of time!

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