New Album Release: Paroxysm

It only took four years, but I've finally put out another record. You can check it out and purchase in two ways: either CDBaby (for those who still prefer a physical CD) and digital distribution (iTunes and others). Other avenues of digital distribution will follow shortly. Hope you'll give it a listen! This one features a good bit of fretless guitar and other surprises. I was particularly pleased with the production quality. Enjoy!!!

SD appears on GtrOblq compilation

GtrOblq represents a confluence of forces within the world of avant guitar and experimental string music. From the wreckage of the Kronosonic movement, GtrOblq aims to focus the popular imagination upon the obscure universe of creative sound production, recording, and performance. The artists profiled at GtrOblq are among the finest composers, improvisers, loopers, microtonalists, noisicians, soundscapers, sound designers, fretless guitarists, and synthetic guitar wranglers.

"The Unraveling Begins" is a seminal compilation produced by fourteen of these varied, talented artists.

Number of Tracks: 14
Disc Duration: 43:27:02
UPC/EAN Code: 7202178000180

Shane's track, Bimbo Spam, is a collaboration with Aliensporebomb, who contributed all the bass tracks and a few guitars bits too. Preview it on myspace.

Available now at CDBaby.com!

Under the Stairs appears on The Word Nerds

Under the Stairs (featuring the percussion talents of Alberto Vargas in the now defunct 1993 band Celestial Icons) appeared recently on The Word Nerds' podcast on episode 99, Rhetoric, part 2–Tropes and Schemes. This is a repeat performance, as the tune has already appeared once on their podcast back in 2006.

Thanks for the play!

Pendahl featured on Downtempo podcast

Shane's tune Pendahl was featured on Downtempo #18 recently. Thanks to DJ Cary for the play! You can also download this podcast via iTunes or get the mp3 version here.

"Peach's Lullaby" appears on Quiet Study Area

The tune Peach's Lullaby from the CD Cantaloupe Napalm appeared on the Quiet Study Area podcast in the episode Starting a New Grading Period.

"Poisoned" appears on Multiple Sclerosis Blog podcast

Am I Not Poisoned from the upcoming album Transduction Euphony appeared on the MSB podcast in episode msb-099 on January 4, 2007.

Recent podcast appearances

Some of the tunes have been featured on several podcasts over the last few months.

We weren't aware, but East Wind Blows West was featured on the BareFT podcast episode 58.

Our friend, Chef Mark Tafoya, has made great use of Coffee Bean on several of his podcasts. The tune appeared on two November episodes: 66 (The Wines of Rioja, Part 2) and 64 (Cranberry Time!) of the ReMARKable Palate podcast. Mark also featured the same tune back in October.

He also featured Coffee Bean on his personal blog, Remarkably Mark, in episode 33: Tapas Crawl in Spain of November 5, 2006. Thanks for all the support Mark!

Don't Want To Go appeared on Mad Money Machine's MMM-045: Should I Risk Exposure of October 31, 2006.

Holiday Greetings from SD

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and <insert your observed winter solstice holiday here>!.

Feline Demise was updated with a remix/remaster featuring MORE BASS. Enjoy. Also, we've completely updated the main site, as well as myspace (much bug squashing there and here on the blog--some missing images and other browser formatting errors should be addressed now).

We've added two new pages. One will be used to update all places on the Internet where we'll host tunes for listening and download. The other lists all the professional services we offer, including inexpensive, high-quality mastering for your 2-track mixes.

Transduction Euphony is coming along and will hopefully be shipped for manufacture by mid-January.

"Under the Stairs" appears on The Word Nerds

Shane's tune Under the Stairs from Celestial Icons' 1993 album Timid Blue Planet (featuring drummer Alberto Vargas) appeared on The Word Nerds podcast episode 81 (Prepositions).

Thanks to Dave Shepherd et al. for using the tune on their show!

SD featured on sufferingfromsanity.com

Coffee Bean was featured on The Suffering from Sanity podcast in the first half of Episode SFS-034 on December 1, 2006.

The theme? Coffee and tea. Hence the title, “Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea.”

Thanks to Bryce Allen for including us in this array of talented musicians.

MP3.com Deja vu

Good news for us musicians! Store and share your music projects with MP3.com once again. Deja vu!

MP3.com reopens servers, accepts files - Yahoo! News: "The site, acquired by San Francisco-based CNET Networks Inc. in 2003, has recently undergone a redesign. Relaunched officially on Tuesday, the site now offers up to 100 megabytes of storage space for audio tracks and unlimited space for videos, free of charge."

Now on iCompositions

You can check out SD's new site now on iCompositions! Come on over and vote for Shane's music...

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Web Presence updated!

Be sure to check the changes to all the sites on the web, starting with sonicdeviant.com. My Space has been updated as well. The changes are in anticipation of finishing my next CD, Transduction Euphony.

I'm working hard on the next CD, but grad school takes precedence most of the time. I've posted some of the tunes from the forthcoming project at the sites listed above. Also, check out the awesome video Leo Alves Vieira put together for Mutation p53.

Now on myspace.com

Be sure to check out:

http://www.myspace.com/sonicdeviant

Two new songs are on there from the upcoming album! Have fun...

New Songs Added on Download.com

I’ve added a few new songs to CNET for download: http://music.download.com/sonicdeviant

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More to come as my new album is finished...tentatively titled Transduction Euphony.

Enjoy.