Shows & News
June 8, 2010
More live loudness this Saturday, June 12th in Berkeley. The Worship of Silence is playing at Blake's on telegraph.
April 4, 2010
Come out and enjoy our loudness. The Worship of Silence plays with the some of the best in Bay Area doom... on a MONDAY! So DOOOOOOM.
January 19, 2010 Rock the Retox
WE HAVE SHOW!
October 11, 2009 Show at Kimo's
We have a show Tuesday, October 13th.
1351 Polk St, San Francisco. Shows starts at 9pm.
Also, new podcast from Morphonix. This one highlites a very tough month for us. See podcast.
September 18, 2009 The Analog Side of Burning Man
I recieved a lamenate pass that granted me special access to the Man on fire. <Insert story of how I came across said pass here> I assembled some video footage of the experience...
August 28, 2009 Morphonix July Video Log
Our second installment documenting the creation of a uniquely musical game.
July 29, 2009 Morphonix July Video Log
Watch the creative process at Morphonix™ as we develop our latest game, Every Body has a Brain. I had alot of fun editing this footage. Hopefully this gives friends and family a better idea of what I'm doing. This is the first installment of our podcast.
May 30, 2009 WOS LIVE at the Stork Club.
killthatcat.com put a video together from our last show:
April 3, 2009 Aquarius Records Reviews WOS
Aquarius Records reviewed my bands new album, In the Early Hours. Here's what they had to say:
"Debut full length from these East Bay doomlords, who once featured our very own Andee behind the kit! It's three tracks 43 minutes, of slow building, brooding, emotional, classic epic doom, the emotion mostly due to the vocals, way up in the mix, a cool sort of John Garcia (Kyuss) / Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) hybrid, moaning and mewling during the slow post rocky parts and howling and wailing during the churning chug of the more doomy parts.
Surprisingly catchy and hooky, Worship Of Silence minus the vocals might slip into something more sludgey and ultra dooooooom, but the vocals transform this into something much more accessible, this sounds like a slight, but it's totally not, it really wouldn't be that weird to hear this stuff on some super progressive alternative / metal radio station. It's the Soundgarden vibe, it's hard to avoid, but fuck it, why bother, we all love Soundgarden, so imagine Cornell and company trading in their Zep worshipping grunge, for sprawling epic downtuned doomscapes, with cool swirling riffage, wild tribal drumming, long expanses of shimmery drift, a definite prog element too, as during lots of the slow brooding tribal parts, the band definitely dip into Tool territory, which makes for an awesomely hooky, catchy, but still crushing and epic post-doom. And it's not just the vocals, the riffs and the arrangements are awesome, well crafted, channeling the sound of old school classic doom, but twisting it into something much more modern and polished, eminently headbangable, but definitely a little progged out and catchy as fuck. We're definitely digging this big time."
--Aquarius Records
Last week, I had the honor to do some audio forensics work for Yale Law school's criminal defense project. Every term, Yale law students have an opportunity to work on real life criminal cases for people that lack the resources to have legal representation.
This terms case involves East Haven Latino business owners claiming that East Haven police are profiling members of the Latino community.
The allegations come after the arrest of Father James Manship, a pastor of a predominantly Hispanic parish.
Last week, Father Manship released a video that was recording just moments before he was led away in handcuffs. The priest claims it proves he didn't interfere with police but was just trying to document what he calls the harassment of Latino businesses.
I cleaned up the audio and provided the transcript for the video that is being used to demonstrate the pastor's wrongful arrest. Read the New York Times Article.
February 16, 2009 Interview with Jeff Rona
While bouncing around LA, I got a chance to talk to film composer Jeff Rona at his studio in Santa Monica.
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Jeff was a student of photography, art and music in college. He quit school to pursue music as his life's work and has been enormously successful. Jeff's feature film work includes contributions to Traffic, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001), The Mothman Prophecies (2002), Exit Wounds (2001), Mary Lambert's The In Crowd (2000), and numerous others. Right now Jeff is composing music Sony's widely anticipated God of War III. Jeff also was a leading figure in making Midi world wide phenomenon.
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Jeff agreed to have an interview style discussion with me for my Blog. Read the interview.
January 21, 2009
It's been 18 months since we stepped into Ear Hammer studios to record this album and finally we have a packaged product. The album is called In the Early Hours. It contains three 15 minute songs, "Drugs", "The Paler Parts of You", and "Trying to Breath through your eyes". You can preview the songs in the audio player above or at our web site, theworshipofsilence.com.
You can also buy the album directly from me for $10 w/Free shipping for a limited time. You'll get a three panel digi pack featuring art work from amazing Icelander, Alda Rose.
Album Credits:
Joseph Hutton (Vox), Paul Walker (Bass, Cello, & Synth), Sanjeev Brar (Drums), Joshua Baker (Guitar), Salvador Raya (Engineer), Bj Rigny (Mastering Engineer), Melissa LaChance (Layout), Alda Rose (Art).
January 20, 2009
My time at ECDA has come to an end. Class 65, Thanks for all the memories.
January 15, 2009
New blog entry about the Oakland riots and John Saleda.
January 5, 2009
This week I'll be at the Macworld Expo helping out the John Lennon Educational School Bus. The entire bus is right there in the Main Hall in the Moscone Center North. They were setting up on this huge 500 sq foot stage when I swung by earlier today. It looks like they're setting up for quite a show.
December 8, 2008
I'll be showing off my music & post reel at the Apple Store theater in San Francisco this Thursday around 6pm. Come out! We'll grab food afterwards and cry about the economy.
November 8, 2008
My band is opening for the one and only Black Cobra Saturday, Dec 6 @ the Stork Club. Hope you guys can make it.
November 5, 2008
Yes we did. Now let's go change the world!
November 2, 2008
New youtube video that shows off my Wii Remote Lightsaber. Check it out.
October 15, 2008
I made a patch in Max MSP that turns your nintendo wii remote into a Star Wars foley tool. I call it the Max MSWii Saber. Download it for free here.
October 2, 2008
Question: Do you know what's better than going to this year's AES convention in San Francisco?
Answer: Going to this year's AES convention in San Francisco for free! I volunteered today and now I have a free pass for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Best paper of the day:
SPATIALIZED ADDITIVE SYNTHESIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SOUNDS Presented by Charles Vernon
It's been a while since I've read a white paper, which is why I'm going to try to interpret this paper in my own words. Hopefully this will slow the atrophy of my physics education from my brain. Here I go...
This paper is rad. It presents a way to combine additive synthesis and 3D positional information at the level of audio generation. (Think dynamic audio for video games.)
The novel thing about this research is that it describes how the additive synthesis is done in the frequencies domain after a short-time Fourier Transform (STFT) is applied (not at all like analog modular synths which are manipulated in the time domain). I could be wrong, but I think the 3D spatial information is created when amplitude changes are applied in the frequency domain. --But that couldn't be right, because then all the amplitude differences would do in the frequency domain is eq... Oh man! I really don't know what I'm talking about. But I hope my enthusiasm for this kind of stuff compensates for my lack of understanding. (Think Sarah Palin.)
September 24, 2008
Part 1 of the Jack Douglas interview we did in July has been posted on youtube.
September 13, 2008
Today I had the honor to mix front of house for a stage rehearsal with mastering engineer Goerge Borden and former XTC drummer Prairie Prince. The honor was shared by Erik Hammermaster who mixed monitors in Expression College's Meyer Hall. It was also our honor to grab Subway sandwiches for everyone. I feel honored by these honorable words about my honorable day.
September 1, 2008
New blog featuring the best group of audio nerds I'll ever know.
August 15, 2008
Looks like I'll be interning at Ursa Minor as I finish up my degree at Ex'pression. Robin, the chief creative officer, designed Ursa Minor's tracking room using the same binder of specs that I got during John Styork's seminar held in the bay last April. The control room is set up much like the Alan Parson's studio at Ex'pression. -Lot's of bad ass outboard gear working to get the most pristine signal to the 192 A/D converters. Ursa Minor also has facilities for video editing, web design, and green screening. It's an all in one media house. Here's an excerpt from Ursa minor's about page:
"The purpose of Ursa Minor is to leverage the maximum range and reach of media and technology to propel human potentials, and to create a better world."
Welcome to Marine county.
August 12, 2008
Added a blog entry about my week in Costa Rica.
August 2, 2008
Wrote music for one of DWF's dvd extras segments last night. Today I'll be packing for my trip to Costa Rica. I'm looking forward to taking lot's of pictures and recording lots of sounds -some of which will be featured here I'm sure.
July 28, 2008
This morning we did a video shoot with producer/ engineer Jack Douglas of John Lennon, New York Dolls, and The Who fame. The interview was for Bill Turner's online audio school wikiaudio.com. The same bunch of guys from the SSL 6k video were working on it. John Saleda conducted the interview beautifully. I'll be editing the footage over the next week or so.
July 23, 2008
Just finished mixing and mastering my band's Long Song. Thanks to Eric Hammermaster, Angela Don, and Andrew Buresch for helping me out during the tracking session at Ex'pression College. And thank you Paul, Joe, and Josh for doing three takes of this 27 minute song! You can listen to a very efficient 80kbps, 17 minute version of the song in the player.
July 22, 2008
To inaugurate this eternal work in progress called sanjeevbrar.com, I would like to explain how I arrived here in self promotional audio web land.
When I was 16, I used to make compilation tapes of my favorite rock bands. These tapes are to blame for what you see here. I used to listen to those tapes every night before going to bed. Blame the tapes!
July 21, 2008
This website desperately wants to be populated by words, color, and music.
So here's a story I wrote a while back about a very rich man:
Edgar Bronfman is the son of Edgar Miles Bronfman and the grandson of Samuel Bronfman, one of the most wealthy and influential Jewish families in Canada. The Bronfman family gained its fortune through the Seagram Company, an alcohol distilling company that was once the largest alcohol distiller in the world. The famous Seagram Tower located at 375 Park Avenue in New York City is the family’s former business headquarters. Edgar Jr. attended The Collegiate Prep School which is probably the most prestigious private school in Manhattan and also happens to be the oldest school in the United States. Mr. Bronfam is now the CEO of Warner Music Group. He's the man in charge of supplying acoustical art to the masses.
I wonder what Edgar Jr. was up to during the summer of love when he was a teenager. Was he listening to Sgt. Pepper's on his parents' RCA LP player? Was he playing in his first garage band? Has he ever even been in a garage? I do suspect that Edgar Jr. has the resources to build the most elegant and equitable subscription based music service the world has ever seen. But he probably won’t. Why? Because Edgar Jr. isn’t culturally or technologically connected to the reality of today’s record industry. Like the CEO of Wonder Bread, Edgar Jr. is on a yacht blasting Hotel California, masturbating to Japanese fetish magazines while drinking 900 year old wine from Middle Earth. In other words, Edgar Jr. lives in a totally different world than most the artists his corporation and its affiliates represent -a world even further removed from the one that most consumers live in. Edgar lives in a world where music is a commodity no different than wheat, gas, and cars. Unfortunately, the workers at the heart of Edgar’s industry have yet to receive the health benefits and pension plans enjoyed by their counterparts at the Ford motor company.
July 20, 2008
Is this thing on?
