State of the Device, 2009
Originally published at The Null Device Blog. You can comment here or there.
Interesting year.
We played some shows. We played some really, really fun shows. The band is working together pretty damn well these days, and I’m really pleased with that.
We took a few breaks for various reasons. Chuck got married. Elizabeth got married. I tried desperately to finish up “Recursions” - and in fact, did.
That was the other big deal. We released Recursions, which on the surface seems like “just another remix album” but it’s one where we decided to kind of dive into the wide world of “new media” - fully electronic distribution, multiple formats, etc etc. Rather DIY, but it’s the first album we’ve ever had that recouped its production costs in a matter of weeks.
Also worked with a large number of very talented people this year. Some of the usual co-conspirators were involved for remixes and randombess - Mr. Shwadchuck, Dan “Shred, Dan, Shred!” Clark, Matt Fanale, and some new ones - Ryan from Stripmall Architecture, Shawn and I-Li from Bloodwire, and the cats from Claire Voyant. I also finally managed to wrangle the talented Raya Merenkov into the studio to record things in a Arabic and classical Greek (because she happens to speak those languages). I’m really excited that we’ve gotten to work with these people.
Things continue on our next release. We’ve got about 6 tracks in the can, 3 more nearly done, and plenty of ideas. We’ve already booked a few shows for 2010, and we’re trying to put together a tour for mid-year.
It’s been a good year. 2010 looks pretty excellent already.
Happy new year from Null Device.