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Yes that's right. Another album for 2023! The 2nd installment of my Æombiance series, "Universal Gravity". This is one of my albums that you can legitimately fall asleep to and I won’t be insulted. Lol In almost every one of my previous works, there’s always been these types of ambient pieces. as either background noise, segue or ambient drone. So, you may recognize some of these soundscapes. The album comes out on December 15th and highlights the more ambient and atmospheric side of my creative output and quite honestly, the kinda stuff I've been listening to more and more on a regular basis. PRE-ORDER ON BANDCAMP FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY, AMAZON, ETC 
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Hey it’s Geoff again! Hopefully you’re still in the Halloween mood because I have one more creepy video for you! It’s a video for the tune “May I Be Excused?” from my latest album ‘Random Acts Of Awkward’…you know the album you’ve been binge listening to since it came out last week! Once again, I used AI in the making of this video. Within the software I use to edit my videos, there's now an option to manipulate content with AI. Not really, sure how it all works, but once you put in a few descriptions or keywords, it will render your video with some terrifying results. Throughout the song, there’s an old audio clip of my Dad telling my Sister and I a "Dad Joke” when we were kids. So, within my mind’s eye, I envisioned people sitting at a dinner table, conversing. All the while, we hear sounds of eating, slurping and just plain weird stuff. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this music video for “May I Be Excused?” G E O F F B A R O N E  The music video for “A Zombie Scissor Fight” is now on YouTube! Taken from my latest release "Random Acts Of Awkward", I wanted to have visuals that complimented the erratic & cacophonic sounds of the album. I dabbled a bit into the realm of AI in the creation of this video, which garnered some pretty twisted and terrifying visuals...it’s basically nightmare fuel. I hope you enjoy! G E O F F B A R O N E   "Random Acts Of Awkward" an experimental, noise album by Geoff Barone is out!
The album was mastered by Michael Zucker at Differential Productions and recorded entirely on a Yamaha 4 Track Cassette Recorder. Using mainly my voice, a microphone & guitar pedals, this is the kind of stuff I create when I don’t feel like playing actual instruments. Part I of my Æombiance series, which highlights my more noisy, avant-garde experiments with audio and sounds. The album is not for the faint of heart and quite admittedly ... .unlistenable. I’ve always been drawn to sound. Sound not only as a source of comfort, but as a production and songwriting tool. If you’re familiar with my previous releases, I’ve actually been using these sounds as segues and background filler for many years, so you may recognize some of these pieces. …alas, if you haven’t listened to my work thus far, you’re definitely NOT gonna wanna listen to this stuff. LOL As mentioned, this album may be totally unlistenable by regular folk, I find this “music” inspiring & soothing. When I was young, my Mom told me that I’d fall asleep whenever she’d start vacuuming. So it was fitting that I open the album with a clip of a 5 year old me going nuts whilst my Mom vacuumed the living room in the background. Plus since this album was made only using my voice, it was a good exercise in creating stuff with limited resources. I hope you enjoy this slight departure but won't be offended if it's not your cup of tea. G E O F F B A R O N E  I have a new album coming out on 10.20.23 called RANDOM ACTS OF AWKWARD Recorded entirely on Yamaha 4 Track tape recorder using only my voice, a microphone and some guitar pedals, the album highlights my more noisy, avant-garde experiments with audio. I’ve actually been using these sounds as segues and background filler for many years, so you may recognize some of these pieces. …alas, if you haven’t listened to my work thus far, you’re definitely NOT gonna wanna listen to this stuff. LOL You can pre-order the album now on Bandcamp and Apple Music and get/hear the track "A Zombie Scissor Fight" immediately. Had a great rehearsal with our rockin’ teenage combo over the weekend. We added 2 more tunes to the set and things are starting to sound pretty rad. It's great to hear these songs taking shape and turning into their own entities. The one thing I told the guys I really didn't want to do was recreate the studio versions of the music, but have them evolve naturally and organically. After practice Ryan and I moved and reconfigured the drum set. Looks dope & clean AF. Gonna move the amps and everything else into place so we can do some video stuffs down there soon. Plans for a live show or two this fall in the Western New York area. Join the MAILING LIST to keep up to date! Well it's finally happening. I'm getting out of my comfort zone and playing live again with actual humans. It's been over 5 years that I've performed in this capacity, so this rehearsal is a bit rough around the edges...but we'll get there. With the help of extraordinarily talented Ryan Gaines on drums and Pike Matthews on bass, this whole experience was something I subconsciously needed. I've spent so long cooped up in my bedroom, hyper-focused on my extravagant studio experiments that I'd forgot what it was like to play music with other people. The give and take, the ebb and flow of performing live...it escaped me. Plans are in the works to play a few live shows this fall in the Buffalo, NY area, so join my MAILING LIST to find out when  Here's another random piano improvisation because remember folks, PLAYING PIANO IS EASY!!. Unfortunately these days, I don't have the energy or time to play as much as I'd like. It's a double edge sword though. The longer I stay away from the instrument, the more music will build up in my brain; so when I do sit down, the music just flows and I come up with a bunch of new ideas.... ...but knowing that I won't ever have time to fully bring all these new ideas to fruition, I purposely won't play for extended periods of time. This makes me sad. I already have hundreds of voice memos on my iPhone that I know I'll never get to...and this also makes me sad. Anyway, sorry about the pity party. Hope you enjoy Playing Piano Is Easy (Part 2) G  Sorry you haven't seen a new upload in awhile. I recently changed locations for my day job which requires a longer commute, so my allotted time for "music" has been dramatically reduced. The extra time I have had, has been spent working on backend, mundand stuff that I shan't bore you with. Anyway, sorry for the rant as I'm sure you have problems of your own, so here's a quick piano improv for you to enjoy... ... and also for me to remind myself that playing piano is still easy.
This is an improv jam from a few months ago with my cousin, Ryan Gaines. We've played together since our teenage years and have been in several bands together, so it's easy for us to not only improvise together but we have a certain "Musical Telepathy" that only happens when you play with someone for a long time. I plan on getting everything mic'd up and sounding nice but this is just the camera audio, so be forewarned. (Note: Ryan is wearing my flannel that I left in his car like 3 years ago...he hasn't given it back yet. He wears it all the time too!)
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Who the F**K is Geoff Barone?
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