"Glass Shard Teeth" appears on Pirates' Week

The jazzy tune Glass Shard Teeth recently appeared on the Pirates' Week podcast in the episode for Pirates Week 10/14/07.

Thanks to Ragnar Daneskjold located in the Fook'n Ionosphere!

"The Dream" appears on iSPINIT Premium Podcast

SD's rock tune The Dream from the album Transduction Euphony recently appeared on the incredible iSPINIT Rock Podcast in episode 005.

Host Daniela Baldean stated:

I'm going to leave you with Sonic Deviant, which is actually Shane Hendricks. I was very intrigued when I heard Shane for the first time; he is fresh and very current. He plays all sorts of music, including jazz, rock--very experimental. So enjoy.

Thank you Daniela and iSPINIT for the play!

SD appears on Help Andy Buy A Mac

Glass Shard Teeth from the album Transduction Euphony appeard on Relax Podcast #22 from HelpAndyBuyAMac, which also features the podcast X-Pat Radio. SD appeard on X-Pat previously.

Thanks for the play, Andy!

"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.

New "Sunday Jam" video posted

Shane has posted a new video entitled Miscellaneous Sunday Jam on youtube.com. This is just a little guitar improv in one take, complete with errors, bleeps, and bloops. Hope you enjoy it.

String Skipping and Theme/Variations

I posted my first video on youtube.com; it's a sputtering, quasi-instructional-promotional video describing how I used string skipping and the baroque method of theme and variations to create the tune It's A Little Sickness from Transduction Euphony.

The tablature is a little tough to read on this compressed version of the video, so I'm including links here to the tablature:

Theme

Variation 1

Variation 2

Variation 3

Hope you enjoy it and get something out of it. You can check out the recorded version of It's A Little Sickness on myspace.

Now...coming to you from San Antonio!

Sonic Deviant's Quarter Note Laboratory has relocated to San Antonio, TX (ahem...home of the 2007 NBA champs). I'll post up some new pics of the studio soon, which doesn't look a whole bunch different than the previous incarnation. I'll also be throwing some miscellaneous pics of San Antonio up as well...what a great city.

Now available on iTunes Music Store

Transduction Euphony is now available via the iTunes Music Store (iTMS). Click here to open iTunes and listen. Future Sonic Deviant releases on iTunes can be found here.

Project Studio Network mention!

Thanks to Big Al Wagner and Mike Bolan over at the Project Studio Network (PSN) podcast, which is part of the awesome Home Recording Network.

They mentioned the release of Transduction Euphony on Show#62, and they graciously posted some SD links on their web site.

Stay tuned to PSN for your chance to win a free Transduction Euphony CD!

Transduction Euphony RELEASED!

SD's new album,Transduction Euphony, is finally out after 4 years of toil and tribulation. You can get your copy on CD by visiting CDBaby.com. It will be available in the coming weeks on several online outlets for paid download, including iTunes.

Transduction Euphony is a record featuring 24 mostly instrumental tracks at a total run time of approximately 1 hour that will appeal to the rock, jazz, and avant-garde music enthusiast. If you enjoy guitar playing, music, and art from the likes of Frank Zappa, Steve Vai, John Scofield, BMR3000, Neil Haverstick, Dan Stearns, Marco Oppedisano, Ken Rubenstein, Infinite Ego, and other experimentally minded artists, you'll probably enjoy this record.

Featuring special guests artists DAVID SLACK (aka BMR3000 on bass) and SCOTT SIMMERMAN (on keys) on the jazz number, Glass Shard Teeth.

Additionally, the Sonic Deviant Official Web Site has been updated heavily. New scores have been added, as well as a new Press and Praise page, featuring encomia from many of Shane's influences.

SD appears on MusicWorld podcast

"Sing Me My Breakfast" appeared on MusicWorld's podcast MW22 from Jan 30, 2007. Thanks for the play guys!

Named to "Critically Overlooked" on iCompositions

jdwyer05's "Criminally Overlooked" Music Recommendations on iCompositions, featuring special guest contributor becwil, named Sonic Deviant to the list of "Critically Overlooked." This list was sent out via the iCompositions Newsletter dated February 3, 2007, and it appeared in the forums of the website. becwil begins by saying:

I love to listen to music. I love to share my enthusiasm with other people. So, when Julian approached me to write my take on The Criminally Overlooked, I immediately thought about the artists here whom I have found and love that perhaps are a bit under the radar. Because I especially like the more edgy side of musical exploration, I will, today, list some of those artists I personally keep my ears on. This is not an all inclusive list, for I want to keep this brief, nor is it in any order other than as I read down my iTunes iComp playlist. I leave it up to you as to how far you explore each of these artist's catalogs.

Later, he talks specifically about the music of Sonic Deviant:

There's some Zappa influence, admittedly so, and sonicdeviant plays to the beat of his own drummer, all puns intended. In-your-face. Crappy Products knocks your teeth out. While I Frade Errpains is a bit more friendly. A bit.

Thanks jdwyer05 and becwil for the mentions. If you visit my page there, you can browse my list of favorite artists on iCompositions. There are many talented folks over there!

Cafepress stuff UPDATED!

Lot's of cool new stuff; the site and product choices were completely updated. Show your support and get some snappy SD apparel and other nicknacks.

Official Sonic Deviant Merchandise : CafePress.com

"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.

SD "opens" for BMR3000

BMR3000's show at the Pizza Kitchen in Knoxville:

BMR3000
November, 25 2006
at
The Pizza Kitchen
9411 S Northshore Dr
Knoxville, Tennessee 37922

The music of SONIC DEVIANT will be played before the show.

Thanks to Dave Slack for featuring my tunes as his opening act. Dave told me he played four tunes, including Feline Demise off the upcoming album, Transduction Euphony.

I wish I could have been there to see the show! For those who haven't checked out BMR3000, do it NOW!

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!

Download Mozart's scores--FREE!

Mozart's entire musical score now free on Internet:

"Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available from Monday for the first time free on the Internet.

The International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg, Austria has put a scholarly edition of the bound volumes of Mozart's more than 600 works on a Web site."

Here's the link:

http://www.mozarteum.at/

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.