#the madeleines

[biggeth]

WIP of Automaton, as of 24 May. One of the great challenges for me with regards to my recordings this year has been sorting out what to do with my voice. My whole life I’ve received negative feedback on my singing voice almost exclusively. Until quite recently, I’ve been encouraged by listeners to let others be the primary/sole vocalist in all my work, which makes obvious sense when my collaborators’ talents are considered but still made me feel bad. Only in the past several months have I gotten any positive singing feedback from anyone except my partner, but even that has been couched in “we never knew you were actually good”. When said about something as personal as the voice, and my voice being a quality I have learned to be exceptionally sensitive and guarded about, those compliments I only took as, at best, condescending. I’ve had a lifelong habit of shirking what I perceive to be mainstream measures of success. Instead, I seek different ways to define myself, by which I could possibly be among the very best, unlike the standards presented to me. This is not a strength. I despise this quality, even, and it has had negative, material consequences in my life. However, until I unlearn this vile tendency, it is part of me, and I must understand myself accurately. Inspired by vocalists like Sue Tompkins of Life Without Buildings, Tim Darcy of Ought, and Isaac Wood of Black Country, New Road (and many others), I resolved to find my own lane in which my voice could succeed. “Shouty” I had been called when I still sang with my high school band. I stopped singing in that group after a couple of years. “Have the other singers sing more” was the thought offered upon hearing my college group, for which I was bandleader, sole songwriter, producer, engineer, nearly every credit possible. How deflating for months of work representing the height of my technical and artistic achievement to be chewed up and spat out as “less You would make this better”. That record was the purest distillation of my creative voice possible, and someone told me they’d rather have less of my actual voice on it. Crushing. If I couldn’t succeed at singing Well, I’d just make my own rubric. Get expressive, intense, own my own Shoutiness and just talk and shout and monologue. Sometimes I took that too far. But it felt good to lean into my identity in such a bold way, and sometimes receive positive feedback from people who Got It. Automaton (finally the real subject of the post) is lyrically about lots of things. The production choice to double-track my vocals is the relevant quality, though. Double-tracking vocals isn’t new or experimental. There’s a great history of artists using this as a signature sound, like Phoebe Bridgers and Elliott Smith, to pick just two serial offenders. But for me, it was a step into the great wide open. It’s my attempt to reel myself back in to more traditional singing, but push for a new aesthetic I had never tried. I haven’t settled on the choice yet, but making that choice at all is an act of reclamation of my voice lost.

#independent music #indie music #indie folk #singer songwriter #Michael Richardson #the madeleines #diy music #singing #phoebe bridgers #elliott smith #ought #ought band #bcnr #black country new road #automaton #wip

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie – Albert Bierstadt (detail) // Lofoten Island – Lev Lagorio // Rosenlaui – François Diday // Mount Elbrus in the Clouds – Nikolai Yaroshenko // Storm in the Mountains – Hermann Ottomar Herzog // Sierra Nevada – Albert Bierstadt // Rocky Mountain Landscape – Albert Bierstadt // Inkpot Gods – The Amazing Devil

#between this and my thoroughfare edit i guess i'm entering my dramatic landscape era #albert bierstadt #hermann herzog #rocky mountains #landscape painting #landscape #inkpot gods #ruin #ruin album #ruin the amazing devil #the amazing devil ruin #ruin tad #the amazing devil #tad #madeleine hyland #joey batey #art #art history #lyrics #lyric art

[queeraspirates]

new behind the scenes pics from director Fernando Frías on the set of OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH season two

#our flag means death #ofmd #taika waititi #rhys darby #david jenkins #vico ortiz #madeleine sami #joel fry #samon kayo #leslie jones #nat faxon #ofmd season 2 #ruibo qian #con o'neill

[saltpepperbeard]

The absolute SCREAM I scrumpt 😭💕

#OFMD #OFMD Season 2 #Vico Ortiz #Madeleine Sami #Con O’Neill #CON DANCING WITH THEM HAS ME SOBBING BTW #IF U EVEN CARE #they’re all treating us so so much already holy MOLY

[brotherconstant]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2x04 | “I Want You More Than Anything in the World”

#iwtvedit #iwtv #interview with the vampire #iwtv spoilers #vampterview #claudia #claudia iwtv #spark in the dark #madeleine #madeleine iwtv #beegifs #delainey hayles #roxane duran #claudeleine

[celluloidbroomcloset]

Can we just mention Archie for a moment? Archie who was so steeped in violence and death that she thought there was no such thing as hope, and then she heard Jim telling Pinocchio to Fang and fell in love? Archie who took exactly 1.5 seconds of badassery to jump right into Stede's crew and be embraced by them? Archie who never stopped laughing and smiling once she was on board the Revenge? Archie who fell right into her polycule with Jim and Olu and is gonna be fucking thrilled to have Zheng there too? Archie who is definitely the chaos child and adopted Stede as her dad within a few days?

I just...I really like Archie.

#ofmd #ofmd season 2 #archie ofmd #gif #our flag means death #madeleine sami #i really liked that we got more different female characters this season #and none of them are interchangeable #they're as immediately and clearly developed as the male characters #also as a fairly tattooed queer woman #i particularly enjoy seeing her onscreen

[brian-kinney-apologist]

what it means to be an iwtv girlie (gender neutral) these days

#we've been fed soo good #we just keep winning guys #interview with the vampire #iwtv #iwtv amc #vampire armand #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #claudia #daniel molloy #santiago #madeleine #loustat #loumand #lesmand #danlou #claudeliene #armandaniel #loumaniel #nickistat

[loumandiel]

You can take it in for me, yes? You do alterations?

#iwtv #iwtv spoilers #interview with the vampire #iwtvedit #claudia de pointe du lac #madeleine #*

[fishbloc]

and even when we lost ourselves to something in between the words we shared are all still there to show us where we'd been i'll go wherever you go

#grian #mumbo jumbo #hermitcraft #waffle duo #waffleduo #grumbo #hermitblr #咸鱼.jpg #ashes to ashes au #the song lyrics are from madeleine by good kid #happy valentines dayyy i was actually gonna draw a two panel thing where grian says 'i'll go' and mumbo says 'wherever you go' instead #but i realllllly wanted to make a set like this to complete my trifecta of favourite duos dancing

[cosmicwhoreo]

So... Is this canon?

We power-scaling our cookies today boys! meme under the cut

#I thought it would be funny #cookie run kingdom #cookie run #crk #captain caviar cookie #madeleine cookie #financier cookie #oyster cookie #meme redraw #Caviar was a good sport about it tho and checked up on them afterward! #i'll try and draw that later-

[avoidghost]

I play two gacha games religiously...

#argenti #honkai star rail #hsr #cookie run kingdom #madeleine cookie #original art #im late for this meme but listen...argenti hard to draw...

[biggeth]

A working demo of my song google street view. Inspired most directly by caroline and Drop Nineteens.

This one is fairly “Michaelized”, my word for my songs that are pretty spoken-word, stream of consciousness, aiming for emotional rawness and intensity. 7/10 Michaelized, I suppose, at it doesn’t get too loud or yelly.

gsv’s guitar parts are in line with the Eno quote about change through repetition. I played a two-voice hemiola extending for a long time until they realign, then start the whole phrase over again. 12 repetitions specifically, as the parts are phrased in groups of three and four respectively. Then I doubled that guitar part while standing in my room facing backwards, away from the microphone. These main acoustic guitar tracks are named in my session “frontward” and “backward” accordingly. Then there is a texture of three E-bowed acoustic guitars. One of these is a doubling for most of the song of the three-note hemiola. The two other E-bow tracks are more impressionistic. I round out the guitars with a down-tuned acoustic guitar (Perhaps as low as B? After recording I promptly forgot.) That is my bass substitute, chosen for a more acoustic aesthetic than my electric bass (on long term loan from a friend) would allow. Each guitar (and pseudo-bass) part was recorded in my bedroom, standing at different points around my room while keeping the microphone in the same place. I intended to capture the entire sound of my living space. Sometimes the guitar sounds a bit out of tune. Currently there are a couple of mistakes in the vocal editing! Worry not- that’s at the top of my fix-list for next time.

In the second half there are sampled horns. Bonus points for guessing the sample’s source! There’s also a simple sine wave synthesizer which I treat like a church organ, meshing quite well into the pure tones of the E-bow guitars.

google street view will released in an official capacity at some point this year. As always, you can email me to chat or to buy the track.

#the madeleines #the old man the boat #michael richardson #google street view #michaelized #reaper #daw #indie music #sampling #eno #brian eno #hemiola #ebow #e-bow #synthesizer #music #alternative music #spoken word #demo #demos #music theory #song diary #diary #caroline #drop nineteens

[thecollectibles]

Art by Madeleine Bellwoar

#art #traditional art #Illustration #painting #Madeleine Bellwoar

[queeraspirates]

new behind the scenes pics from OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH season two

#our flag means death #ofmd #taika waititi #david jenkins #leslie jones #vico oritz #madeleine sami #ofmd season 2

[saltpepperbeard]

I ain't stressing today The OFMD S2 Cast and Crew dancing on Leslie Jones' Tiktok

#OFMD #OFMD Season 2 #OFMD Cast and Crew #OFMD S2 #Edit #ofmdedit #ofmdgifs #ofmd gifs #ofmdsource #ofmdblog #ofmdaily #and now comes the SWATH of names lol here we go here we go #Madeleine Sami #Nathan Foad #Vico Ortiz #Con O'Neill #Samba Schutte #David Fane #Samson Kayo #Matthew Maher #Rhys Darby #Taika Waititi #Leslie Jones #... #ANYWAY #SOMEONE COME SEDATE ME LMAO

[brotherconstant]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1x01 In Throes of Increasing Wonder… 2x02 Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death 2x04 I Want You More Than Anything In The World

#iwtvedit #iwtv #interview with the vampire #loustat #claudeleine #louis de pointe du lac #claudia #claudia iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #madeleine iwtv #vampterview #beegifs