{"id":401,"date":"2010-04-01T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=401"},"modified":"2015-03-23T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:05:31","slug":"i-need-more-green-than-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/401","title":{"rendered":"Symbion Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>I Need More Green Than Grey<\/h6>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-401-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/nashvillereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/02\/Symbion-Project-I-Need-More-Green-Than-Grey.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/02\/Symbion-Project-I-Need-More-Green-Than-Grey.mp3\">\/nashvillereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/02\/Symbion-Project-I-Need-More-Green-Than-Grey.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h6><a title=\"Spring 2010 Contributors\" href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/693\">Symbion Project<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>is the electronic music endeavor of Kasson Crooker, formerly of the blippy synthop band Freezepop and electronic rock band Splashdown.\u00a0 Symbion Project has had songs in a number of music videogames including tracks via RockBand Network for play in Rock Band 2 for the Xbox360.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.symbionproject.com\/\">www.symbionproject.com<\/a> &#8211; <em>Zachary Greenberg<\/em><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greenberg:\u00a0 The OED defines &#8220;symbion&#8221; as &#8220;either of two organisms living in symbiosis.&#8221; \u00a0What are the organisms you&#8217;re trying to fuse musically?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crooker:\u00a0 The word symbion can embody any sort of alignment or mutual partnership between two entities, either of which could be physical, spiritual, chemical, mechanical, or otherwise. Sometimes the relationship is mutually beneficial, other times strained and demanding. \u00a0Originally, the symbiotic relationship was between me and the electronic equipment I make music with, but over the years it&#8217;s come to represent my artistic relationships with other humans, relationships with the songs themselves, relationships with the people who enjoy the music I make. \u00a0All these relationships are energy which feeds back into the self-sustaining system of the music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greenberg: What instruments were used and what electronic accents were added in &#8220;I Need More Green Than Grey&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crooker: Drum programming was all done within Reason4 with additional editing and processing in Digital Performer, which is my software of choice for audio editing, mixing, and production.\u00a0 The primary synth featured, which can be heard as the massive bass stabs throughout, are from a Moog Voyager. \u00a0I&#8217;m a huge fan of Moog analog synths, mostly vintage, and have a substantial collection. \u00a0On top of the beats and synths are real strings arranged and played by Simon Swarbrick. \u00a0Interestingly, he plays all the individual parts, and when he puts them all together it sounds like a full chamber group&#8230; amazing what you can do with overdubbing these days! \u00a0Lastly, the vocals are a combination of my own with background vocals by Melissa R Kaplan, who I used to be in the band Splashdown with. \u00a0It\u2019s a fascinating process\u2014making music with two good friends who are 3000 miles away from where I live, and in opposite directions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Go\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-430\" href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/401\/symbion-project-i-need-more-green-than-grey\">here<\/a> to download &#8220;I Need More Green Than Grey&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Need More Green Than Grey Symbion Project is the electronic music endeavor of Kasson Crooker, formerly of the blippy synthop band Freezepop and electronic rock band Splashdown.\u00a0 Symbion Project has had songs in a number of music videogames including tracks via RockBand Network for play in Rock Band 2 for the Xbox360.\u00a0www.symbionproject.com &#8211; Zachary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[32],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-6t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11497,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/11497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}