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About Me

random live tracks and such:
Since Jason Corder decided that becoming a weather man was farcely over-rated, he coined the ambiguously fitted moniker " offthesky " which was in reality birthed in transit of his experimenting with converting chaos theories (especially those relating to weather systems*) into musical forms. And really its just an apropos title summating this atmospheric and acoustic communal project emanating from his studio in Kentucky ergo USA. Sounds pretentious I know, but offthesky is truly a humble handle that reflects both Jason's mild manered nature and his "in-the-clouds" mind-set when relating to others. His musical miasmatic manifestations are loosely inspired by chaos theory mathematics, dark foreboding jazz, and various natural susbstances...
affiliate groups :
social system (pheek colab)
color cassette
zen savauge (olde dub proj)
aeris ash (minimal noise proj)
shelter's end (danny kretzfeldt colab)
works :
most recent work here
'03 - studies of form in transit (autoplate)
'04 - cold distances (databloem)
'05 - gently down the stream (databloem)
'05 - caustic light sketches (autoplate EP)
'06 - it is impossible to say just what i mean (stilll)
'07 - the geist cycles (databloem)
'07 - du soleil ep (atmoworks)
'07 - excerpt from extract (con-v)
'07 - form creek (12k.term)
'07 - cumulae movement (autoplate)
'07 - rare decay movement (resting bell)
(complete discography available via offthesky.com/work )links :
12/term. - label
testube - label
Stilll Records
Crown Dozen
Iermoc
Tesselate
Dosage Design
Bleeders Anonymous
Fat-cat
matt g
modsquare
Fractal Spin
Angry Ape
Better Propaganda
UBU - some weird and wild schtiff
Better Propaganda
Pheek Phorum
Free Sound Project
cute overload - dig

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/18/2006
Band Website: offthesky.com
Band Members: jason corder
special thanks to these artists and musicians who have allowed me to use colaborative recordings of their time and talent:
colin campbell, clint colburn, andrew english, jordan munson, anna hess, mikale degraff, chris worland, matt corder, lindy mourn, lina tharsing, sarah miller, ticean bennet, pheek, matt yarington, chuck moreland, mike matone, jason zavala, philip high, dewitt shnider
Influences: benoit mandelbrot, jackson pollock, yoko ono, ryan mcginess, andy goldsworthy, david lynch, t.s. elliot, edgar allen poe, van gogh, angelo badelamenti, darren ARONOFSKY, the brother's quay, lewis carol, h.r. geiger, jim o'rourke, mousseux, bruce lee, shigeru miyamoto,vivaldi, miles davis, metroid, jesus, myself...
Sounds Like: MAYBE ALL OF THESE; MAYBE NONE OF THESE - BUT HERE ARE SOME GOOD BANDS
tortoise, jim o'rourke, slow dive, kevin shields, amute, desormais, sigour ros, fennesz, spielerei, tim hecker, opium, vladislav delay, sogur, joshua treble, her space holiday, do make say think, montag, vitamins for you, danny elfman, panda bear, animal collective, namelessnumberheadman, lucine, twine, john williams, pole, jan jelinek, deadbeat, mike shannon, orb, susumu yokota, guitar, eyes and arms of smoke, loscil, sebastien tellier, tape, term label artists, beige,
Record Label: stilll
databloem
autoplate
12k/term

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

blame it one the rain..

okay, okay i know i'm riding this atmospherics train straight down the crap shoot but i, for the purpose of feeling a purpose have to get this off my lobes. it has occourred to me in the past couple y...
Posted by offthesky on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:36:00 PST

aural sex toys - best headphones ever

Sony MDR-EX70LP Earbud Headphones($30) - these are absolutely amazing for the price! they have super high detail for audiophiliac listening; super amazing stereo field for mixing; great ba...
Posted by offthesky on Tue, 08 May 2007 05:45:00 PST

wanted: romanesque digital production orgies

well in my spare time i love to participate in various remix projects that labels, artists, and collectives put on every once in a while - usually they'll have a weird concept to work inside of, a str...
Posted by offthesky on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:54:00 PST

we're all on the same page-length

wow i'm so excited to find other artists who are on the same page or have already tredded down these roads of thought i'm on. i just found a link to an american composer from alaska who creating...
Posted by offthesky on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:52:00 PST

you've got the brains, i've got the geek... lets make lots of music?

so i just found this amazing link to a company that sell special sensors that allow you to turn all kinds of physicalities into midi data such as temperature & humidity, body movements, ligh...
Posted by offthesky on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:46:00 PST

uber nerd prod technique 12 ,or, reroute your dreams

okay since i've evolved over from bigger, more expressionisticly limited daw programs such as cubase sx to ableton 6, because of its simplicity and unlimited creative potential - it has become one of ...
Posted by offthesky on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:30:00 PST

random blahblah: weather patterns, evolution, and composition

in theory numbers are the dry language of everything physical. in that case music serves as a sculpture built out of complex relationships of numerical patterns. natural order and fractal mathem...
Posted by offthesky on Mon, 07 May 2007 03:43:00 PST

earth orbits in the key of C#

In 1978 Hans Cousto, a Swiss mathematician and musicologist discovered the natural law of the "Cosmic Octave" as the link between different kinds of perodically occurring natural phenomena, such as th...
Posted by offthesky on Mon, 07 May 2007 10:55:00 PST

the sound (karma) machine

i'm very excited to announce a new non-profit organization call the sound machine. it is comprised of a group of artists who are contributing their video and audio skills - i.e. songs, videos, e...
Posted by offthesky on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:08:00 PST

making happy(crappy?) textures - multiband effects processing

okay so maybe this is old hat for sum, but if not, here's an idea to get the most out of texturizing any drum loop, melody line, or field recording - take it and split it up into 3 or four different f...
Posted by offthesky on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:47:00 PST