Well, hello there. I realize it’s been a while since I updated so I thought I’d say hi.

After releasing three albums last year, I’ve been trying to take 2010 a little easier. This mostly involves playing a lot of video games and regular trips to Busch Gardens. But I do have a number of creative projects going on behind the scenes that should bear fruit later this year and into 2011.

First and foremost right now, I’m working on a documentary film project that I promise you will absolutely love once it’s done. It brings together a great number of things I hold dear to my heart: found footage, large VHS camcorders, vintage EPCOT Center, and legally warning an audience not to try what they’re about to see. I’ll have more to say about it and to show later in the summer.

Marc and I are in the early stages of a new lo-fi is sci-fi record. Writing songs, throwing ideas around, etc. Don’t hold your breath or anything, but there is a new lo-fi is sci-fi website up and you can keep in touch with us on Facebook as well.

As far as my solo stuff goes, I’m still working on soundtrack music for Brent Chesanek’s latest films (Brethren Arise, touring film festivals now, and the upcoming A Film About Legends). That music will be released when Legends is complete, so possibly sometime later in the year. And I have the songs ready to go for a new vocal record, but it’s up in the air right now whether those will become lo-fi is sci-fi songs or not. So, we’ll see.

So, in the meantime, if you’d like to play some Rock Band or Red Dead Redemption or something with me online, feel free to say hi on Xbox Live. My gamertag is Mayor Feedback.

Hope you’re well. Have a nice summer!

I’ve made a film. It is called Tretet. And I suppose it needs some sort of explanation.

After I released I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor, I started toying with the idea of playing my instrumental music live. The biggest problem was not the actual performance of the music as much as it was making it interesting to watch; me quietly noodling with synths and knobs may not make for the most riveting experience for an audience. So I began work on a video presentation to go along with the music.

I immediately decided to experiment with footage that I’d loved for a long time: some six reels of amateur 16mm film shot by P. Medicus (first name unknown) at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. Much of it is relatively unremarkable, but some of the images he captured feel completely otherworldly. It doesn’t look or feel like 1939, it feels like another planet in the distant future.

I began work on this project one year ago this month, and what started as a multimedia presentation for a live show ended up becoming a bit of an obsession of mine. It is now, in my mind, a science fiction film about the last days of a crumbling civilization, with I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor as its soundtrack. A long form music video, a short feature, whatever you’d like to classify it as. It means what you want and it gives what you take away from it. I’m releasing it online for all who’d like to watch it, and, in a limited quantity, on DVD.

Here is the trailer:

In the Store now are three new items available for pre-order: Preludes and The Dark Glow of the Mountains on CD for the first time and Tretet on DVD. You can pre-order all three together for only $14.99 (over half off). All will be released on April 27.

Watch Tretet now right here online. Please note that, despite being shot over 80 years ago, the film is intended for adult audiences and is not safe for work.