Audio engineering

https://eaglesshadow.bandcamp.com/

https://alternatehistory.bandcamp.com/album/curated-improvisations-and-constructions

Some of my audio-engineering that I did on my own musical compositions from the past are in the link above. I did some audio engineering and musical collaboration with the artist below from 2012-18, which eventually got completed as this project:

https://diagram-1-theta-waves-and-somatic-dialog.bandcamp.com/album/2012-2018?fbclid=IwAR1SLSGLRYjDX_pdWk4pHOdLgGx2q4OBCkesURvahfVm-fMA30WkzTW17Fc

I didn't notice as I wasn't fully fluent at the time of collaborating on the collaborative project as an "audio engineer artist" ("remastering" really record production art, and to use an analogy "relensing" recorded material from 2012-2017, in autumn of 2018 or so) but there is/was possibly some hyper-language content in the other musician-producers work, I didn't notice it as a content-aspect when I was doing the engineering in terms of analog craft formalism processes for sound, I am not interested in hyperlanguage myself, but have learned about the art movement "lettrism". I was overall approach wise "trying to keep it healthy" as regards soundmateriality, form, and augmentation of relaxational and emotional content, through various analog processes and methodologies for sound, and to get things to be more universally relaxing/have an audience-reciprocal "emotionalism" effect, for example using the Tubetech "MP1A" valve preamplifier for harmonic processing and equalisation with the thermionic culture pullet equaliser, with results similar to the Pultec me5 equaliser.

I feel a lot of it is a success in these regards, hopefully the hyper-language and my lack of perception of it, hasn't been something that has distracted from that if and where it is there, as content, regardless I feel it is excellent music and I enjoyed working on it!

However this artist is now thankfully a dad, and lives in Germany with his partner. So I hope that any ongoing musical activities are fruitful, but moreso that life is fruitful. As a music-fan to some extent, if making music, from this artist i'd be interested to see content maintaining a high level of sophistication, by ongoingly integrating a "Low complexity art" approach, and hopefully successfully resulting in works placed in the advertising industry, t.v and media advertising, meta-rational integrations would be interesting.

His project "ACTIVE PRESCENCE" released by the independent internet label "Business casual" is a high quality one in many ways musical craftsmanship wise. I did a bit of mastering on the first album in 2018-19 or so, and some stuff i've done engineering on in the past could concievably crop somewhere in curated songs. We, in business, share 50/50 the publishing rights-holdership on any stuff i've worked on in the u.k. This is mediated in the U.K through "The Performing Rights Society" P.R.S. It's a small amount of money usually, a few pounds every quarter :) but it's amazing that this even exists, because of what is possible .

(Later my homestudio got an analog dynamics processor and prism lyra 1 converters, but I Had to sell a lot of equipment to fund studying, and now have a motu 2408mk3 and a high-end valve compressor, I no longer have the tubetech but have a lot of archives of recordings and compositions that I have made with it that I will make available at some time in the future)

Previously I was not aware that the vision problem in one eye that I have that was diagnosed by an nhs optician, had neurological aspects and also that the medical name for it is ambylopia, I learned that in 2022.

I learned to be a mastering engineer for my own earlier musical work in 2014-2017 before I learned that my ambylopia had a neurological aspect.

Here is some music I also made in my early twenties and then nearly 10 years later on remastered in about 2015-2017:

https://fur-archive.bandcamp.com/album/blonde-e-p

This used to be a remix compiliation of my own compositions but I have curated a lot out of it:

https://fur-archive.bandcamp.com/album/remix-compilation-vol-1-remastered

Fur "Bandcamp"

"Eagle shadow" Bandcamp

My portfolio is here below:

https://dennisokeeffe.bandcamp.com/album/portfolio-1

Collaborations I was involved in the "interproduction" of:

A collaboration below titled; "diagram 1" where i was the recordist on some of the material but also more significantly to my creative process the audio production "relenser" and then mixing engineer on the overall project! you could maybe say I "directed" this album!

I was the audio mastering engineer also on the results of that process, finishing the album with a mastering process in the analog domain.

"Diagram 1" Bandcamp

A collaboration below involving audio mastering that I have done:

"Active Prescence"

Below some work for "Futureproof" on some audio-engineering and music composition for a promotional video regarding their work for "The Eden Project" (on renewable energy).

"The Eden Project"

Here is a music documentary that I did the audio engineering on in 2015, it was released in 2017, called "The Unseen", by director Gus Sutherland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWM6ULXnc0

https://www.okayplayer.com/video/the-unseen-a-detroit-beat-tape-documentary.html

Edit 2022: "the unseen" was available to buy from whsmith!

https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/the-unseen-a-detroit-beat-tape/0191515011640.html

Also a time out article on the unseen below:

https://www.timeout.com/detroit/things-to-do/film-the-unseen-a-film-by-gus-sutherland

https://loveturl.vhx.tv/checkout/the-unseen-a-detroit-beat-tape/purchase

Equipment wise on this one I used a windows 7 computer, the tubetech mp1a, a thermionic culture pullet equaliser that I had just managed to own, at this point, and a borrowed roland re:201 tape delay/preamplifier, I had to use the converters on an akai z8 sampler for analog to digital conversion at this point (they are really great sounding, good in useability on the midrange, sound transparent to me), but owned a higher end prism lyra set of converters by 2018 or so, using this slightly on work for the "diagram 1" musical project above.

I've no high end converters at the moment (apart from a motu 2408 mk3) but could rent some (as well as a few other high end bits of equipment, or studio time) if there was a commissioned project with enough return on investment/a viable profit margin, I'll only do this stuff for an amount of cash that's fair for my time at this point in life/my career in the creative industries, it would have to be at least minimum wage for the time spent! Mastering of an album could get completed in a day or so of time.

"The Unseen Documentary" Youtube channel.

"Moon landing" (2017) ambient piece audio engineered with tubetech mp1a, thermionic culture pullet, possibly glensound 660 used here also, no deliberate hyperlanguage, although I was becoming fluent at this point, this one is by me artistically, and illustrates the concept of representing my theory of mind describing perceptions of complicated plans within society over decades of time, long term events and influence engineering.