Clock Progress & New Mix

Due to a few weeks of sickness and hectic work schedule it's been a while since I have posted much on here.  But I have been hard at work and some serious progress has been made creatively:

For the clocks, I'm using a special material that is made for outdoor signing which means that the clocks will be super durable!  I've also found a carpenter that has done a simply amazing job cutting them to size and drilling the holes for the mechanisms to go through!  Very excited about that!  The first run of clocks are almost complete and that means that *fingerscrossed* they will be up in an etsy store by the end of next week!

We've also had another Insurrection come and go.  This time I made a point of getting a recording of my first set of the night.  There are some small volume issues (due to what I'm hearing come through the club system being different than what was getting recorded) but I think I've fixed them fairly well and I hope that you enjoy it!

Insurrection Set - April 26th by Dj Gabriel Night on Mixcloud

Insurrection Dates / New Mix Pt.2

Its been a rough week and I needed something loud to listen to when I got home - so I threw this quick little mix together!  I'm still getting all the kinks out of the recording process but I hope you enjoy!

Also the next Insurrection is on March 15th!  If you're in the area come and check us out!

Track List:
(Artist - Song - Album)
Converter - Death Time - Firebloom
Diezel Xzaust - Gimme Noise - Death Certificate
Hezzel - Plastic Blood - Randomize Before Use
Mend - Test Landing - Mend
S.A.M - Black Rubber Dance - Synthetic Adrenaline Music
Memmaker - Deception - How to Enlist in a Robot Uprising
Go Fight - Turn It Up (Safety Remix) - Turn It Up
Reaper - Dirty Cash [Studio-X Hard Dance Rmx] - Neo-Futurism
Hätz - Fucking Bass - OIL Sample 2013
Kompressor - Kompressor Does Not Dance - World Domination

Feb Heavy Mix by Noah G. Hirka on Mixcloud

February DJ Mix

Spent most of the morning working on a new mix!  There are a few sloppy transitions and some sound wonkiness but I am very excited to share so here we go:

Track List:
(artist - song - album)
r.roo - We Will Never See People - Mgnovenie
ohgr - Pepper - Devils In My Details
ad.ver.sary - No Exit - Bone Music
Hezzel - Jalapenos - Randomize Before Use
Skinny Puppy - Blue Serge - The Process
Haujobb - Time is Elastic - Eye Over You
Modeselektor - This - Monkeytown
Front Line Assembly - All You Do - Complete Total Terror
Architect - Attack Ships On Fire - Consume, Adapt, Create
ivardensphere - Source of Uncertainty - Bloodwater
einsturzende neubauten - zampano - Silence is Sexy
:10: - Industrial Is Dead - Industrial is Dead EP
iszoloscope - The Sum of Us All (Rose Red Flechette Remix) - Oil Sample 2013
S.A.M - Trapperfieber - Synthetic Adrenaline Music
:wumpscut: - Soylent Green (Brain Leisure Remix) - Music for a Slaughtering Tribe
Spoek Mathambo - Control - Mshini Wam
Adult. - Tonight, We Fall - The Way Things Fall

February Morning Mix by Noah G. Hirka on Mixcloud

Clocks!

I've completed 2 more clocks today - very excited about the project and I have many ideas floating around in my head.  The 2 new clocks are still drying so the clock mechanism isn't shown in these pictures.

In progress.

Clocks & Poetry

I made this!  I plan on making more!  I will likely be selling them - more on that soon.

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Would you drink a wine

with the terroir of

discarded shells?

Bombs.

Young

dying at the hands

of their enemy,

while 

unseen invited

slave masters

drink of their

chardonnay

mentioning

fruity nose

and not

bitter tears.

---

I was born a liar.

and every day I grow to be an older

better

liar.

and every time I talk

from birth screams

to “excuse me”

to “pardon me”

none of this is

any part of me

and every day I get better

at being weaker

and sadder

and less myself

and more everyone

else

because

Im a liar

and like you breathe

i say “excuse me”

“pardon me”

just so you can’t see

how far gone I am

and how little I care

You’ll see me

the way you want to see me

you’ll see me as

a shell

less myself and

more everyone else

because Im

a liar

a tired out worn

down liar

the kind that screams

inside and Im weaker

and outside

where you’re smiling

Im cutting

like Maldoror

a smile

so you forget

how much a liar

I really am

Balloons are fun.

I've turned a year older as of yesterday.

"Lighting new cigarettes,

pouring more

drinks.

It has been a beautiful

fight.

Still

is."

Charles Bukowski

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Insurrection went very well - lots of new faces out on the dance floor.  Thats always a good sign and something that makes me quite hopeful for the future of the event.

Its fair to mention that I don't write down my set lists while Im playing and that this may have a few inaccuracies - This list is based off memory and the history that Traktor keeps - however, because I use a 4 track mixer its very hard to tell what order I actually played things in AND because I like to loop things and play just certain parts of songs it makes it even harder to nail down an actual list.  Next time I will likely record the live set + try to keep a physical list as I go.  ANYWAY, heres a quick set list:

Song - Artist - Album

Industrial is Dead - :10: - Industrial is Dead EP

Dresden - Ad.ver.sary - A Bright Cut Across Velvet Sky

The Sum of Us All (Rose Red Flechette Remix) - Iszoloscope - OIL Sample 2013

Control - Spoek Mathambo - Mshini Wam

HiLO - ohGr - SunnyPsyOp

Battery Drain - Prometheus Burning - nBoyde raRepi

This Machine - Faderhead - The World of Faderhead

Major Disfunction - Soman - Noistyle

Die Clubnummer - Modeselektor - Monkeytown

1st Jhāna (Dimension of Space) - Worms of the Earth

Jesus Christ Superstar (Random Logic Mix) - Laibach - Anthems

Sent to Destroy - Combichrist - Frost EP (Sent to Destroy)

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Here's a, random, quick photo of my studio as of late.  Now with 100% more t-rex.

Also - If you like Witch House check out River Bones:

http://riverbones.bandcamp.com/album/mort

Insurrection!

So once a month (or so) I help put on a dance party at the Monkey House in Winooski, VT with a group of my good friends.  I will likely be posting my set lists for the nights here from now on as well!  If you're in the Burlington area you should come out and say hello!

Check out the Page

https://www.facebook.com/InsurrectionDJs
Visual awesomeness is provided by these mind blowing people:
https://www.facebook.com/retinalexploitcoop

"Insurrection is Vermont's Goth/Industrial/EBM dance night with DJs Gabriel Night, Tyrant, and The Goat. Visual stimulus is manufactured by The Retinal Exploitation Cooperative.

Friday, January 31
The Monkey House
30 Main Street
Winooski, VT
10PM - 2AM
$5 - 18+"

A Bench

I don't normally do more than one figure in a drawing so I thought I would have some fun tonight.  So here is a work in progress after about an hour.

2014!

First couple of paintings for the year - Still defining my digital style - Enjoy

"They all started out with bad directions

And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear

One for every year he's away she said, such 

A crumbling beauty, but there's 

Nothing wrong with her that

$100 won't fix, she has that razor sadness 

That only gets worse

With the clang and the thunder of the 

Southern Pacific going by

As the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet

Till you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin

And you spill out 

Over the side to anyone who'll listen

And I've seen it 

All through the yellow windows 

Of the evening train"

-Tom Waits "Ninth & Hennepin

Only Beginnings.

Welcome!

This blog is an attempt to create a focal point for many of my creative endeavors.  Over the years I have worked on a grandiose number of projects in an absurd number of mediums.  However, not once have I attempted to create a place for my own works outside of these projects - well thats going to change in 2014! We're bare bones right now but I'm hoping to be adding to this new home quite regularly!

I wouldn't say that I was expecting for the first post on this blog to be a poem.  Nor would I ever call myself a writer or a poet but it was what popped into place the quickest.

a clock tick

tick

ticks

out its own beat

the neighbors argue

over everything important

the children run up

the stairs

creak

thump

the pipes clear 

air

rushing past the windows

and you’ll miss it

you’ll miss it when

you’re gone from this place

you’ll miss it if you sleep

and you

you will miss it if you dream

of a quiet that will never come

of a place not here

where the sun rises perpetually

and the stars rotate on your

very

unwelcome command

you wouldn’t realize till

tick

ticks

tock

springs rotting

smell of fresh moss

wet grass

and

rain

then you would notice

the sounds

but not before

and not later still

because that is our way

we are trained to wait

still

as a bat overwhelmed

as an expected metaphor

keep going

you might miss it if your

too

damn

loud

or too ready

to be angry about the sound

of peoples voices

of the verses of that pop song

because soon it will be over

and soon

there will be no sounds

and there will be no music

being made by the very

ground

that we have built houses on