HP9

Hollow Point Nine is a music project. It is the fruition of several years developing and then refining the sound of Somnium Seven. HP9 is dead-set against rehash, derivative, canned-music. You will not find that here.

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An RX-7 channel stripped of PCB components to be replaced.

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Reconstruction Time

So after appearing at hearings and standing before judges more times than I care to think about the crisis is over. For now....

What comes now is repairing the damage and reconstructing what is left. To that end I have begun on refurbishing Old Rex (my TOA RX-7 Mixing console) once again. Yes the cranky old bastard is back with me and working again. I'm back at stripping down the channels and replacing the old components on the PCBs with nice new parts. 

With Rex back in operation I have wired up the remaining instruments and equipment so I can resume producing music & noise. And being gainfully unemployed now I actually have time for this.

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And so it goes...

So if anybody is still wondering here is what happened. I tried to change jobs and in the midst of it all I was brutally assaulted by no less than 5 thugs who beat me unconscious several times with rocks. I kept getting up. that was where I fucked up. They stole one american dollar from me with my wallet along with every shred of identification I owned. after multiple hospitalizations for my cracked and separated ribs, the loss of both of my jobs, my former employer lying in contest to my claim, $4500 in medical bills and 3 months without an income I am two steps from total homelessness. I went to the eviction hearing today but the landlord fucked up his paperwork and the judge threw it out of court. So I have a roof over my head until he files another eviction from scratch again. I have had to sell most of my music gear to pay the utilities. 

I have applies for many types of assistance and been declined by most of them except the Delaware Victims Compensations Program which will pay my medical bills. Thank God for that!

As for Hp9 it is the same fate as me. I am near critical mass as far as survival and Hp9 goes down with the ship if I can't manage to get back on my feet. I have been trying. I have also spent every cent I can't afford to spend on phone interviews and face-to-face interviews in cities such as New York and Jersey City with no success. Finally Child support took my license from me so now I can't go anywhere. Don't ask me how this helps them in wholesale consumption of most of my income? especially when I have no income...

But I am still alive and just as I did when the IRS raped me for 6 months for no provable reason of all of my income I will survive. I am a cockroach with a synthesizer and I will continue to make horrible noises until I am dead. 

This may happen soon but I will upload those noises as I am able to. And in anticipation of being completely destitute I will upload my works from previous decade so at the very least my son will be able to listen to them at some mature point in his life and understand why the fuck I couldn't be there for him for most of his life. 

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Vocalists and Aggravation

So I'm searching for a vocalist for HP9. I have been looking for a long time now and this is the result of my efforts so far. I find one very talented young lady and she says she is very interested. Though she keeps emailing to say she is still interested she hasn't made an effort to actually do anything for almost 2 months now. WTF?

Two other people have contacted me through the website. I responded to them and then never heard anything back again. Did I say something wrong? Maybe I didn't compliment their demos enough? I don't know...

I'm finding this rather aggravating. If you really have no intention of working on this project don't bother contacting me. Why waste your time and mine. 

I really wish I could find somebody who actually wants to accomplish something! Is there anybody out there at all trying to actually do something? Anyone?

Hollowman

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This is the 1st part of a two-part composition. Composing, sequencing, mixing and mastering performed entirely on hardware. Instruments: Casio CZ-1 Casio VZ-1 Kawai K3 Emu MP-7

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Doing the right thing

How do I know when I am doing the right thing with music? It is simple. When I finish a new composition I email all the people closest to me and ask them what they think. This is a very short list of people btw.... And shorter now that mom passed away.

Most of the time none of them ever reply at all. And when they eventually do, weeks later, they pretend like I didn't send my last message and have no idea what I'm talking about. Then they say they'll have to get back to me after they find the time to check it out.

And this is great! It is this that tells me I am doing the right thing. If what I do leaves people at a loss for words than I'm happy. Or if it is just so overpoweringly abrasive and alien to them that they don't know what to think, this is also good. 

I don't want what I do to be easily digestible. I want to make strong stuff that requires a chaser after the shot. Why? Because very few have the balls to do that these days....

Hollowman

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Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals ... If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’

- George Orwell

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Hello 2012

Did anybody make silly New Years resolutions? I didn't. But on the 1st I woke up, or managed to fall off the couch, and found something was different. I don't know what it is. When I went outside the world around me felt changed. As though some subtle power had removed a layer of obscurity and now everything was clearer and less resistive. Almost like a cloud had lifted....

Massive hangover not withstanding, I had a good day on 01/01/2012. I think it is a good sign of things to come!

Hollowman

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スマイレージ 「ぁまのじゃく」 (MV) (by smileagechannel)

This is the best and most cheerful New Years song I can imagine! Happy 2012!!!!

Hollowman

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HP9.Hollowman

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Cool reviews and interviews.

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Portrait of Decay

This composition was more of an experiment than usual. Many HP9 compositions are experiments in sounds, synthesis and recording. This time it was also an experiment in doing everything without the benefit of DAW software on the computer.

Enjoy!

Hollowman

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Use of tumblr. for HP9 blogging

Perhaps this is better suited for the website development blog but since it isn't working too good it has to go here. The other blogs available under the Feedback section of the HP9 site are running on custom software within the site. This blog however, is provided by tumblr. It saves a great deal of painful work involving user registration and security settings that there simply isn't time for. The need to have this publicly open blog had been expressed and so here it is. I hope some people actually use it now. 

The other blogs are in a quasi-completed stage. They are technically functional but look so bad they are barely usable. This is being worked on and should be rectified shortly. 

Enjoy the blogs!

Hollowman

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Public Audience Blog Now Open

After much fussing and cursing and poking at the keyboard this blog is now online. It will be ugly to look at until a set of style rules is created for it. Anybody with an account with tumblr. may submit postings and questions here. Please keep language subdued for the more sensitive among us. HP9 reserves the right to deny postings deemed unfit for display on hollowpoint9.com. 

And lets try to keep the drama out of here too!

Thanks

Hollowman