FLOTATION WALLS: Archive

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May 2nd

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Feb 26th

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Net sculpture

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Aug 18th

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Aug 16th

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Bathroom Vocals

Hear what this whole song sounds like at our OBELISK release show at Carabar TOMORROW for FREE!!! RSVP»»

Jul 21st

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New videos page

We’ll be adding videos from our recording work as we go. See them here.

Jul 11th

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She Saw Me

In research for our upcoming album, some of us have been looking to the pioneers of early electronic music and inventions in hopes we can make some innovations of our own. This is a very early example of speech synthesis: VODER. Carlos

Jul 2nd

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Jun 23rd

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Mar 1st

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Jan 15th

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Jan 10th

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Jan 6th

Here’s a song I wish I wrote. At around the 2:55 mark it makes me leave my body and go to a much nicer place. Sad music can save you from hell sometimes. Hopefully it does something for you. Carlos

Jan 4th

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Friday, December 17th at 9pm you can hear 3 Flotation Walls songs played live in-studio on Columbus’ CD101 fm (or at cd101.com if you live anywhere else in the World). New songs are coming along. There’s one that will no doubt be called something other than I’m Glad I’ve Got My Friends to Help Me Clean Up All This Mess that has these really intense drum things happening....

Dec 17th

Dec 9th

I thought I’d give you an update on “the next album” or “albums”. Let me preface by saying that not one note has been recorded other than demos and home service demos which are basically me and a guitar or a piano tracking my ideas as soon as they come. I am tentative about even addressing this because it may be another instance of me speaking too soon about something...

Nov 6th

SURVEY: We’re getting close to starting work on another record. We’ve decided we want to try to make it ourselves. We have much of the gear that we need, but we thought it might be interesting to see what we might be able to drum up from friends of the band. Call it crowdsourcing. So, DO YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW HAVE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: - Practical and/or interesting instruments...

Oct 21st

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Watch

I can’t get over this song. Skip to 47:54. Or watch the whole thing if you speak Hindi and have an hour and a half to kill. -Luke

Oct 15th

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Recently It’s been a bit of a rough patch for a few of us personally (family stuff), but this makes things a little better. I’m aware that this kid is an internet sensation, but barring a ukulele sweatshop scenario, everything about this is genuinely sweet. This song (not necessarily this version) is one of the most beautiful of the last century and the sad thing about it is, if...

Oct 15th

Oct 11th

Mandolin Instructor

Can you help me? Can you help me tune my mandolin? Ok. Good. Are you a dentist? Do you think I might have gingivitis? I have dental insurance. Do you have dental floss? Do you have a toothpick? I think there’s still a piece of butterfly caught in my teeth. No? Ok. Thanks for the help with the mandolin.

Oct 9th

Sep 25th

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Woodpeckers from Space

This song recently sparked a conversation between some friends and I about how little personality Woody Woodpecker actually had. I am a pretty big fan of Italo disco stuff in general, most of it better than this. I swear there will be Flotation Walls news someday soon. Until then you will have to make due with this. Videokids is a great band name. Carlos

Sep 24th

Sidekicks, a poem by Ronald Koertge

They were never handsome and often came with a hormone imbalance manifested by corpulence, a yodel of a voice or ears big as kidneys. But each was brave. More than once a sidekick has thrown himself in front of our hero in order to receive the bullet or blow meant for that perfect face and body. Thankfully, heroes never die in movies and leave the sidekick alone. He would not stand for it....

Sep 17th

Sep 12th

James Turrell

I often find visual art to be equally inspiring or more inspiring than music. Recently, I’ve been really into James Turrell. These are low-res pictures, I encourage you to seek out better sources for his work, particularly his installations, environments and architecture, as he is brilliant. For instance, I didn’t put up his amazing work in the Roden Crater, because low-res g00gle...

Sep 9th

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Aug 20th

Aug 10th

Some Inspiration

These are from an 80s British TV show called Dramarama. This is what friendship is. Carlos

Aug 9th

STARPARK/Waifs, Strays and Orphans

I’ve stumbled onto something kind of strange and good in my last few days of writing. In my mind it’s like this late 70s synth-organic jazz thing that sounds like walking home at night after a long day through a park and the stars are much closer, almost eye level. It’s got the dummy name “STARPARK” just for mood until I write some lyrics for it. I think it’s...

Aug 1st

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Jul 30th

dublab.com I’ve been listening to it enough lately that I feel like I ought to direct more attention to it. Dublab had a great deal to do with me kind of growing a brain a couple years back, so it’s got a special place in my heart. It’s an internet radio station out in Los Angeles. Deejays (and sometimes bands) record sets periodically, contributing to a collection of current...

Jul 21st

Art Rock

I bought a copy of Uncut Magazine today because it had a cover story on the making of David Bowie’s Station to Station. It came with a free CD callled TransitionTransmission: 14 tracks from the New Heroes of Art Rock. This piqued my interest as that is the genre we are most often lumped in with and I’ve largely ignored stuff with this label from the last 10 years or so. I’ve...

Jul 16th

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We are making new music

In addition to some semi fruitful “jams” we’ve been working up demos and in some cases things that sound like whole new songs. A lot of people have been asking about a new album, but right now we are just throwing around ideas and sewing seeds. It’s musical playtime and experiment time. It’s fun and freeing in a way not to have a concept or agenda like with...

Jul 8th

Flotation Walls Fundraiser Garage Sale

9am to 5pm on Saturday, June 19th! PROBLEM: We need to buy a trailer so we can keep touring! SOLUTION: Garage Sale! We’ll be selling all kinds of crazy stuff - music gear, furniture, records, clothes, baked goods, our record, ourselves, etc. It’s also going to be mega super fun hangout time - we’re gonna set up speakers and DJ, probably play some songs, get sunburned. Come...

Jun 11th

HOT DVD DEAL!

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Jun 9th

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Watch

From our set last Saturday at ACRN’s Lobsterfest in Athens, OH.

Jun 8th

New Walls!

We are happy to announce our Flotation Walls torso has sprouted two new heads! Leslie Dowler (keyboards, vocals) and Andrea Gleghorn (guitar, vocals, synth). Leslie (left) is a pianist, organist and vocalist with a huge range, originally from West Virginia. She got a bachelors in Organ performance. Leslie played in a band called Fokushima in Athens, Ohio. Andrea (right) is a singer with a lovely...

May 26th

Beethoven’s 9th stretched to 24 hours. Play it loud.

May 26th

Contact

Sometimes inspiration is right under your nose. Pat and I had a conversation this week and 3-2-1 Contact was a reference point. It’s such a vivid descriptor, a feeling unto itself. I credit this show for shaping my little mind in big ways. Also the dated future aesthetic is something that’s always in my brain and likely in other Flotation Walls’ brains. Carlos

May 14th

Now that it’s warm out I’m going to start using my handheld recorder to do some field recording. I’m hoping to contribute some textural things to new recordings and our live show. Settling in for a bit means I can set up a proper workstation and dive into Pro Tools for a while. Also falling very much back in love with some of the music from The Three Caballeros. There’s...

Apr 27th

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Apr 8th

Detroit Flotation Walls fan Karen Timmermann made this lovely stop-motion video and used an excerpt from “The Flickering Projection” as a soundtrack. Czech it! Carlos Stop motion from Karen Timmermann on Vimeo.

Apr 2nd

Mar 25th

Newm

Actual Updates: We are home, writing new Flotation Walls music. Everything’s in tiny baby stages but prospects are strange and exciting. There was a purpose and a certain set of parameters to the sound of NATURE and in a way, it’s nice to be free from any particular vision. That’s not to say we won’t end up with a conceptual work, we don’t have any intention of...

Mar 17th

Feb 16th

PAT CAMPBELL

So in our madness of this last month, we forgot to do a proper introduction to our newest member, Pat Campbell. Photo by Brannon Jennings. Pat is actually a founding member of the band who has recently rejoined and we couldn’t be happier. He plays trumpet, electronics, keyboards and sings. He does electronic music by himself and was the singer of the band The Secret Safe. Pat also sang...

Feb 2nd