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2012 Recordings

David Skerkowski: Listed Chronology of Recordings from 2012

Nov 25, 2012 1:26 PM

By early 2012 I was finally starting to master home recording, but my noisy downtown location was getting on my nerves. I took a bed in a shelter in May, determined to move, and worked on my songs in a storage space. In one month, I compiled an impressive live set.

The tranquility of my new Strathcona home, stumbled on in June, while a soothing change, impeded loud singing, limiting my music projects mostly to unobtrusive track recordings. For rehearsals I explored outside locations.

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GB #	Title/Link	Other Titles	Date Recorded	Location Recorded	Previously Shared?
180	Tumble		Nov 25, 2012	Strathcona	No
176	Spellbound		Oct 28, 2012	Strathcona	No
177	Heartstrings		Oct 25, 2012	Strathcona	No
174	Hairball		Oct 19, 2012	Strathcona	No
179	Everything		EST: Oct 16, 2012	Strathcona	No
171	Flounder		EST: Apr 28, 2012	Gastown	No
170	Magic		Apr 14, 2012	Gastown	No
169	Hot		Mar 31, 2012	Gastown	No
168	Together		Mar 23, 2012	Gastown	No
167	Rules		Mar 15, 2012	Gastown	No
166	Mayhem		Mar 10, 2012	Gastown	No
164	Meat Hooks	Wrath	Mar 7, 2012	Gastown	No
165	Orbit	Trippy	Feb 27, 2012	Gastown	No
163	Grumble		Feb 17, 2012	Gastown	No
162	Impressions	Lazy	Feb 11, 2012 7:50 PM	Gastown	No
160	Rugged		Feb 11, 2012 1:28 PM	Gastown	No
161	Class		EST: Feb 5, 2012	Gastown	No
159	Business	Psych	Jan 22, 2012	Gastown	No
158	Candy Hearts	Pretty	Jan 15, 2012	Gastown	No

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2011 Slideshow Chronology

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Dec 23, 2011 6:13 PM

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Spiderman (1967 animated) soundtrack missing from March, but that's just a cover tune. These are my post dates, according to YouTube.

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Listed Chronology of Recordings from 2011

David Skerkowski: Listed Chronology of Recordings from 2011

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I left out my Spiderman soundtrack recordings from March.

GB #	Title/Link	Other Titles	Date Recorded	Location Recorded	Previously Shared?
157	Stultified		Dec 23, 2011	Gastown	No
156	Conflict		Dec 18, 2011	Gastown	No
154	Nonplussed		Dec 4, 2011	Gastown	Yes
152	Stagger - Remix		Dec 2, 2011	Gastown	No
151	Stress		Nov 28, 2011	Gastown	No
150	Assault		Nov 24, 2011	Gastown	Yes
149	Ram		Nov 20, 2011	Gastown	No
147	Special		EST: Nov 15, 2011	Gastown	No
146	Linger		Nov 11, 2011	Gastown	No
145	Plow		EST: Nov 7, 2011	Gastown	No
144	Blazon		Nov 2, 2011	Gastown	No
143	Meantime		Oct 29, 2011	Gastown	No
142	Arise		Oct 29, 2011	Gastown	Yes
83	Mistaken		Oct 24, 2011	Gastown	Yes
35	Whiner		Oct 10, 2011	Gastown	No
134	Ectomorph		Oct 2, 2011	Gastown	Yes
138	Spoils		Sep 21, 2011	Gastown	Yes
140	Innocent		EST: Aug 26, 2011	Gastown	No
136	I Got My Cheque		Aug 24, 2011	Gastown	No
139	Free		Aug 14, 2011	Gastown	Yes
137	Foothead		Aug 5, 2011	Gastown	Yes
135	Godspeed		Jul 30, 2011	Gastown	Yes
133	Orcastra		Jul 15, 2011	Gastown	Yes
53	Unabused (final)		May 18, 2011	Gastown	Yes
126	Simple		May 17, 2011	Gastown	No
131	Laura-Li		May 17, 2011	Gastown	No
130	I'll Wait for Your Love		May 17, 2011	Gastown	No
132	Casual		May 17, 2011	Gastown	No
?	Visions		EST: Apr 23, 2011	Gastown	No
125	Wild		Apr 16, 2011	Gastown	No
124	Fantasies		Apr 12, 2011	Gastown	Yes
123	Pathetic		Apr 10, 2011	Gastown	No
122	Rusty		Apr 10, 2011	Gastown	Yes
121	Chair		Mar 31, 2011	Gastown	Yes
120	Telepathy		Mar 28, 2011	Gastown	Yes
117	Outside		Mar 25, 2011	Gastown	Yes
65	All My Money		Mar 23, 2011	Gastown	Yes
113	Shabby		Mar 12, 2011	Gastown	No
115	Control		Mar 10, 2011	Gastown	Yes
114	Shambles		Mar 9, 2011	Gastown	No
72	The Meanest Joke		Mar 2, 2011	Gastown	No
37	Justice		Feb 27, 2011	Gastown	No
86	Babydoll		Feb 23, 2011	Gastown	No
75	Mambo Fever		Feb 21, 2011	Gastown	Yes
25	Leg It Up 2		Feb 20, 2011	Gastown	Yes
28	Harmony		Feb 19, 2011	Gastown	Yes
100	Energy		Feb 16, 2011	Gastown	No
85	Heretic	Gutless	Feb 16, 2011	Gastown	No
22	Space:2009		Feb 16, 2011	Gastown	Yes
110	Sunny Skies	Pure	Feb 8, 2011	Gastown	Yes
104	Homeless		Feb 1, 2011	Gastown	No
60	Cheer		Jan 30, 2011	Gastown	Yes
63	Ugly		Jan 25, 2011	Gastown	Yes
103	Musician		Jan 24, 2011	Gastown	Yes
102	Practice		Jan 20, 2011	Gastown	No
83	Mistaken		Jan 19, 2011	Gastown	Yes
69	Aggression-Depression		Jan 9, 2011	Gastown	Yes
99	Sanctuary		Jan 9, 2011	Gastown	Unknown
80	Conviction		Jan 9, 2011	Gastown	Yes

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Having endured the hardships of homelessness for a month, I entered my new accommodations at a downtown hotel in January 2011 with optimism. At first I felt secure, based on a previous problem-free residence there, but this time I stood out, and the street below my window was like an echo chamber for the unwelcome words of visitors to the nearby taverns.

My recordings grew more complex as I worked with drum samples. I continued to inadvertently rewrite old songs, though with less frequency. The growing number of blindly reconstructed past works drove me to a creative frenzy in a frantic search for new songs. Shrouded behind incessant street noise, my diligent and lengthy recordings from this year mark my transition, I think, from a voice of the past to one of the future.

The area around my building was also desirable for productions whose security interferes with pedestrian traffic. And in my room the only insulation I had from the alternating drunks and circus performers from Thursday night to Sunday morning, week after week, was achieved by wearing earplugs, as in my video for Control.

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2010 Slideshow Chronology

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Nov 30, 2010 11:02 AM

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One video missing: my original 2010 post of Unabused, the short version, which I still have at home. Since I updated this chronology, my YouTube channel has been obviously attacked and radically harmed. The dates in my 2010 chronology list, however, were copied directly from my YouTube channel before this happened.

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Listed Chronology of Recordings from 2010

David Skerkowski: 2010 Recordings

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Where 'EST:' appears in the below chart, the recording date is taken from my original music file. A few songs are missing.

GB #	Title/Link	Other Titles	Date Recorded	Location Recorded	Previously Shared?
78	Easy		Nov 30, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
97	Morning Shorelines		Nov 28, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
94	Bonkers		Nov 25, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
96	Uneven		Nov 24, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
95	Survival		Nov 24, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
92	Forgiveness		Nov 17, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
91	Fool		Nov 16, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
90	Prone		Nov 14, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
87	Decent		Nov 12, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
88	Canopy	Friendship	Nov 12, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
84	Underachiever		Nov 10, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
79	Selfish		Nov 7, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
76	Widen		Nov 5, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
68	Soliloquay		Nov 2, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
64	Doors of Love		Nov 2, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
56	Tunnel Vision		Oct 31, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
61	Untoward	Beast	Oct 31, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
62	Satellite Sam		Oct 31, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
66	More Sold Out		Oct 31, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
58	Dun		Oct 8, 2010	E 8th Avenue	No
57	Crybaby	Sweet Little People	Oct 5, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
53	Unabused (Short Version)		Sep 27, 2010	E 8th Avenue	No
?	Tricks		Sep 15, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Unknown
47	Loose		Sep 3, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
46	Vanquished		Aug 29, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
45	Gr. Moose		Aug 25, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
44	Juice		Aug 22, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
43	Gran		Aug 16, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
42	Dignity		Aug 13, 2010	E 8th Avenue	No
41	Fortune		Aug 11, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
40	Busybody	Ms Busybody	Aug 7, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
29	Wallet		July 25, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
33	Whore		Jul 21, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
32	Goddess		Jul 16, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
31	Ransom		Jul 11, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
30	Mixed Feelings		Jul 9, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
23	Friend in Need	Friendly	EST: Jul 4, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
27	Preteen Queen		EST: Jul 2, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
25	Leg It Up		Jun 27, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
24	Bird of Prey	Bird	EST: June 24, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
21	Tenseness		Jun 20, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
0	Size		Jun 14, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
?	Lucky Lech		Jun 9, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
19	Puzzles		May 29, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
18	Smile		May 8, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
0	Sentimental S.D.		Apr 29, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
14	Faraway Places		Apr 5, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
13	Frenetic		Mar 28, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
9	Forgotten	Leaden Children	Mar 10, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes
2	Respect		Mar 8, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Unknown
6	Clouds		Mar 7, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Unknown
5	Lifeless	Gutless	Feb 18, 2010	E 8th Avenue	Yes

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In the first months of 2010, falling into a pattern from a previous year and responding to taunts that I never shared anything good online, I began compiling original songs in my YouTube account, many of which turned out to have appeared in my previous account, closed by me in November 2007, and had fallen into the wrong hands. After a struggle to reestablish my ownership of these past works, I was free to add to the sorry list, inadvertently rewriting scores of old songs. Miraculously, each reconstructed work was inspired by similar or identical conditions to those which first gave rise to it.

More and more my memory was restored with each relived, rewritten work, and I sought ways to alter my course from the year I was reliving. I recalled that I had formerly been afraid to face homelessness for longer than a week. By December 2010, I decided that I would 'go the distance' of a month in a shelter and find a new home. I would seek my destiny beyond the hillside apartment that had so faithfully thwarted pedestrians from going out of their way to shout insults at my window, my formidable cache of baseball sized stones hardly touched on the patio. December 2010 was also the time of my last short public performance.

These 'double-digit' recordings are my most primitive. I took a naive and somewhat hasty approach to my music for my first hundred projects. Lacking money for cherry cough drops, my sinuses were noticeably affected. I held the microphone too close and 'popped' my consonants. I deliberately mispronounced vowels. But even if poorly recorded and hastily vocalized, these songs are well composed.

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