Fuchsia session

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Worked on an infomercial today, amazing American voice over artist.
The Fuchsia band first album session tomorrow- thanks to Stan for the extra equipment. It’ll be the first madtheory PT session.
Working on some new music, and reworking some old pieces too.
Ken is working on a concept album of guest vocalists.
I have some pics of Cashel Horgan the Shaggy Shiek VJ doing his thing at Cartoon. Great sound by Ber of PRoC fame.
Thomas Dolby is touring, but only one European gig, in London. Maybe some promoter might bring him to Ireland…

Cartoon

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Cartoon album launch tonight! I mastered it.
Look out for Animal Rescue, Network 2 April 27th. Tomás did post production sound.
Check out the mastering page for new info on supplying a master to us.
The Fuchsia band have booked a few sessions for their album.
We might be moving the studio to a beautiful location soon…
Yamaha MLA7 8 channel mic pre added to gear list.
Selling on ebay is great!

Live album launch

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Roaring Forties album launch today, two venues, two PAs, nice weather. See you there!

I recorded this in the Savoy on an Alesis 24 track. I took direct outs from FOH mic pre amps, and had the Sony ECM 717 at FOH for audience and PA. This is a great little mic! Mixed in Pro Tools with NS10M speakers, thanks to Rupert for PT guidance 🙂 I mastered it in Cubase so I could use the True Tape plugin.

Latest stuff

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•New service: band photography.
•Colm O’Sullivan on electronic music in Cork, Evening Echo Sept. 8th article here.
Email Colm to suggest artists for the compilation.
•Liz: Complete track with real cellos by Adrian Curtin.
A review of the premiére of Liz in May 2004, where it formed the musical part of a modern art and ballet performance.
Images from the performance.
•Who can it Be Now? The classic Men at Work track, madtheory style.
•madtheory live: rehearsals in progress (pics soon). VJ Cashel Horgan is on board for cool visuals.
•Radioplay: Tune in to An Taobh Tuathail on R na G, Cian plays madtheory tracks. Monday – Sunday 23.00 – 01.00.

madtheory press release

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M.A.D. theory or Mutual Assured Destruction was a cold war theory stating that should one superpower attack the other, both would be annihilated. It ensured that a peaceful balance was maintained.

Do we feel that this reflects the two members of the band? Two sine waves wildly out of sync, merging to form one harmonious line; each element of their personalities bringing something new and different to the other, bringing order to chaos?

No, we just thought it was a cool name, but it does evoke our formative years- the late seventies and early eighties, when nuclear war was a cloud that hung over our heads. As kids back then, we tried to imagine the future: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Leon Theremin, Kraftwerk, Moog synths, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, the Linn LM1 drum computer, Thomas Dolby, The Buggles, Tron, the BBC Acorn, Pong, 2000ad Futureshock.

madtheory recreates that futuristic vision from the past. The sound is retro futurism: music that acknowledges the past and moves forward into the future.

Personnel: Ken Hayes, Tomás Mulcahy.

Media activity

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•Radioplay: Tune in to An Taobh Tuathail on R na G, Cian has been playing madtheory tracks. Monday – Sunday 22.00 – 24.00.
femmepop is Margaret O’Sullivan, produced by Tomás.
•A review of the Accidental Tourist album, produced by Tomás, appeared in the Evening Echo Thu. Jan. 27th.
“I found that Tomás was challenging for me in that he brought out the best in the stuff” said Ray. “He was good and affirming as well.” Don O’Mahony on the album itself: “Good songs with high production values”.
•Full article here.
•Tomás’s studio diary is here.
•Album available in Virgin and The Living Tradition.

•Free download– complete songs! Tomás recently remixed two songs by his old band Grand.
Scroll down to the bottom of the mp3 page.

•The Stanley Super 800 EP is due in April, mixed by Tomás. See their site for tour details.

Current Projects

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•madtheory live: Rehearsals in progress.
•It will be live sequencing, mixing, and a little keyboard and Theremin playing too.
-The two Kawai sequencers are synchronised and we’re setting up songs at the rate of one per day.
-Gonna keep it simple, otherwise I’ll never do it, so no video.

•The Stanley Super 800 album has been released, and the band is on tour.
Tomás mixed it, and even played some synth on it.

•Accidental Tourist–
-The album is set for release in August.
•The website is live- look out for Tomás’s studio diary and pics.

The truth is finally known!

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Barney seems innocent and sweet but in fact he is Satan.

It’s all very simple:
1. Start with the given: CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR.
2. Change all U’s to V’s (which is proper Latin anyway):
CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR
3. Extract all Roman Numerals: C V V L D I V
4. Convert into Arabic values: 100 5 5 50 500 1 5
5. Add all the numbers: 666

Thus, Barney is Satan.

Making Love

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You all know the old saying that home cooked food tastes better, because it’s created with love.
To test this theory, scientists contracted a chef to cook two separate meals with the same ingredients. While cooking the first one, he thought only about negative things and all the stuff that makes him angry, and cursed and sweared at the food. While cooking the second meal, he thought about positive things and all the stuff that makes him happy, and whispered sweet nothings to the food. As a control, a second chef also cooked a meal with the same ingredients.

These three meals were then served to three separate groups, A B and a control group C.

Results:
group A:
80% thought the meal tasted “off”.
10% thought it was OK.
10% thought it was excellent.
Group B:
79% thought the meal was fabulous.
12% thought it was very good.
9% said it was fine.
Group C (control):
45% thought it was good.
50% thought it was OK.
5% excellent.

These results show that the old saying is now a viable scientific theory.

Scientists now believe that, by having the chef cook two meals in the same manner and carrying out a molecular measurement on each one, the molecular difference will be love in the form of matter. They are hoping that they will be able to duplicate this difference molecule in large quantities and then spread the love across the globe.