Dan Deacon ULTIMATE_REALITY

So we've finished up in Baltimore recording and mixing the drums for Ultimate Reality! Everything sounds sick and ill and killer and I posted an excerpt in the player. There is one fourteen minute piece, and one twelve minute piece. The twelve minute piece is not so drum heavy, while the fourteen minute one is really drum heavy. In fact, the fourteen minute one is just really fucking heavy! The live drums (especcially the cymbals) really help achieve the driving sound. We kept the sound really dry (not very much room sound), and recorded in a small dead room. Whatever! Just listen to it!

The two drummers are Kevin O'Meara (Video Hippos, Butt Stomach) and Jeremy Hyman (Ponytail). It was great working with both these guys. They are fucking awesome drummers. Perfect for this project. They have always been the drummer for this piece, to my knowledge. It was performed live a number of times. When I saw it, it was really really loud. It was perfect. It's the score to a movie, so it seems like the visuals supercede the music unless you blast it really really loud!


Here's an actual clip from the film, by Jimmy Joe Roche. This is the first section, I believe. We recorded drums for sections two and three!


The Ultimate Reality DVD is scheduled to be released by Carpark.

The DVD release show is hopefully (and probably) going to be in the Museum of Natural History in NYC sometime early next year, with the video being played along with a performance of the score under the huge fucking whale!