I mentioned a noise album and here it is:
[NAB058] Beytah – Menufracturing out now as a free download on Naboa.

The concept involves a dog eat dog world overrun with rampant technology. Global human system breakdown ensues, culminating in a zombie apocalypse that leaves the world dominated by robot animals.
Or something along those lines.

Naboa Music NAB058 – Beytah – Menufracturing

One channel, mono, and bit reduced to one, just like my DV Warpflute Split Album with Uncivilized. Breakcore & noise that is not for the faint of heart.
I had fun making it, digging thru old sample stashes and recording my circuit bent Casiotone CT-660. I ran the whole album thru some rack gear to add a little verb, eq and exciter.  Next on the list to be released is my dubstep album Megafauna. Stay Tuned

Oh and by the way, for those unacquainted with what Naboa is all about, I’ve created an informative video:

I’ve been spending my free time lately looking at the stars, studying topo maps of mars, and reading alien abductee reports. I’ve also been making a lot of music.

With a new dubstep and noise album in the works, I’ve decided to go for an early 2011 trifecta by releasing an album focused on aliens and chip music. The new album is online today as a free download:

Digital Vomit Records DVR076 – Beytah – Phobos Monolith

Download my of lo-fi 8bit tunage made in lsdj tracker on a gameboy!  This five track release spans a variety of genres like dubstep, electro, dnb, breakcore and gabber hardcore. Its also available on a limited run of 50 3″ cds. I will be selling them and handing them out at some upcoming shows.

Here are a few tracks from the album that I tossed on youtube with different types of sound visualizations.  The first one is the tracker itself playing the tune, next is the waveforms played back in soundforge at different zoom levels, and third is spectrum bars from windows media player:

My friend Solypsis has a new album out on Terminal 11′s label Sunwarped Records. He asked me to do a remix for the release, and it also features remixes by Meat Beat Manifesto, Terminal 11, Rev777 and Dapose.

This album is full of hard beats and noise-laden rhythms. It is available exclusively from the Solypsis bandcamp page.  The album costs $6 to download and is well worth it, but you can also preview it for free:
SUN 003 – Solypsis – Boiling Ambergris

So it’s been a while since I tended to my site and I want to update you on some new material out now and coming up soon. Check it out:

Megafauna EP – dubstep concept album about extinct giant beasts

That’s right, I’ve been wrapping up a new album that should be out by the end of the year. It will have some awesome cover art of a bionic giant sloth battling a dinosaur. Think back to battlebeasts and dinoriders.

Here’s a music video I threw together to promote the new album:

…and here’s a couple tracks on soundcloud from the new album:

Beytah – Smilodon populator by BEAT LEAF RECORDS

Beytah – Titanis walleri by beytah

Lady Gagging – The Remix

This is a compilation of Lady Gaga remixes free to download on Digital Vomit Records HERE

Here’s a music video for my track on the compilation:

Well, that’s it for now. I’m working on some new music videos and have a few compilations with my tracks that will be out soon. Check back here for updates on the new album and more!

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The video was created using LightWave, SpeedEdit, FinalCut Pro, Flash and Photoshop. Erica and I worked together to green-screen the chicken and pick out stills for the stop-motion animation. Erica was responsible for visuals generated entirely from waveforms of the audio using a flash template that resembles the oscilloscope in my mp3 player. She processed the waveform readouts with the suite of plugins available in FinalCut. Features like the kaleidoscope plugin that would normally be too experimental to use worked perfect with the style we were going for.

I was responsible for the background video, 3d animation, and final comp. The background video is comprised of Digital Juice animations I own. In order to stray from the generic nature these libraries have in their raw form, I reduced their opacity and keyed them in a process I call “quadding”. This basically consists of me flipping four versions of the video plate so they are symmetrical in all four corners. The whole music video is “quadded” with a few exceptions. The result is a complex image with a  vortex in the center.

I composited Erica’s effects, the awesome chicken, and my animated 3d objects over the background. Objects often appear chameleon-like since the surfacing matches the background videos. Object morphing is controlled by the audio signal of Evan’s track using LightWave’s audio channel envelope modifier. There’s tessellations, dodecahedrons, and oodles of compositing.

Soundtrack MP3 Download:

Beytah – Mercurial Densification
(Right click to save mp3)

This album is definitely on the harsher and louder end of the musical spectrum. My tracks use a bent Casio CT-660, and my friend Victor’s circuit bent Speak and Math. Uncivilized used a Gameboy with Nanloloop. I created the album artwork. If you want to download and listen to it, you can click HERE or on the image below to open the download page in a new window.

This is post #1
It gives an introduction to the new site. I briefly go over what I use in the creation of the site and its various contents. I intend to write more in-depth posts about my techniques and tools in the future, but this is a start.

Here’s a few of the core applications I use for media production:

I work with Adobe for all my graphic and web design. Most of the time I use Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver. I use Newtek SpeedEdit for editing video, and LightWave 3D for animation and compositing. For audio production I primarily use Ableton Live, various plugins and hardware.

Along with this blog section, I have integrated my flash portfolio and flash audio pages, which can be reached using the top right navigation. The portfolio page was built last year and acts as an overview of my current projects. it includes graphics, a demo reel, and my resume.  The audio page was launched back in 2002 at beytah.com and has evolved over time to include easter eggs, games and other randomness. Check it out and you’ll see what I mean. There’s music videos, downloads, links, and an image gallery.

I use wordpress as the CMS for this site, and I found that problems adapting it into a portfolio were easy to solve. There are various plugins available for wordpress and a codex of information that is invaluable. Web design has an active  community of people online sharing their knowledge for free. You can google any question you have about a topic like wordpress and get a valid answer. There’s a wealth of knowledge online to tap into. That’s one of the things I love about web design.

The sliding contact form at the bottom of the page uses  JQuery and the wordpress plugin Secure Form Mailer. Other wordpress plugins used in this site include Kimili Flash Embed for easy embedding of flash elements, Favicon Manager for, well, managing favicons, Sociable for social linking thumbnails, and Login LockDown for security.

The nifty MP3 player and oscilloscope at the bottom of the page is coded in actionscript 3 using two tutorials. The player is from Paul at ClockPopMedia, and here is the link to that tutorial. The oscilloscope is from Lee Brimelow’s tutorials at gotoAndLearn. That video tutorial is located here.