Simon Hartcher - Audiophile

My Time

2008-09-25T22:40:00.001+10:00

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Lyrics

It wont be forever
It wont be too long either
This time
My time

With passion waiting dormant
Slowly comes to life
My soul
My fight

I wont fade this time
You cant play my mind

I'm feeling strong already
I'll take on your pride
Your guile
You hide

I wont fade this time
You cant play my mind

Green

2008-06-28T15:40:00.005+10:00

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Its not what I wanted
To be in this room
Full of preachers
Who don't want to know

Where are the animate?
Their justice is good.

Stare at the hourglass
Frozen and bored
Yield to hegemony
My eyes to the floor

Dead on the tracks
Aimless, bitterness
Green.
Wonderless, emptiness.

Yield to hegemony
Their justice is torn
Facing your enemy
Stuck on the shore

Dead on the tracks
Aimless, bitterness
Green.
Wonderless, emptiness.

Right Time

2007-10-16T18:30:00.000+10:00

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Where I am cold and lonesome
Where are you?
I hope you're okay
Stop there
Stay where you are
Don't be fooled
You don't know where you're heading to

Looking for the right time
To commit the right crime
You better watch yourself
Coz sometimes you'll open an old wound

My head hurts
I've got needles in my brain
Please stop this torture
Well I guess that you were right
I guess I was wrong

Looking for the right time
To commit the right crime
You better watch yourself
Coz sometimes you'll open an old wound

Leave Everything Behind

2007-08-05T22:07:00.000+10:00

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Just a demo that had more effort involved than usual. Some off notes and timing issues.

Lyrics

Where do we go from here
The road ahead is clear
It seems like so long
Since we've been home

We've got to be strong
If we make it through
All I know right now
You must leave everything behind

After all is finished
We'll be hard as stone
Jump in and take on the world
They won't know what hit 'em

We've got to be strong
If we make it through
All I know right now
You must leave everything behind

Its getting darker now
The sun makes a silhouette
Buildings all in black
Time to settle down

Dying Slowly

2007-06-26T20:44:00.000+10:00

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When you're by yourself
Its like theres no one else
Cars go screaming by
No one at the wheel

Justice in your mind
If you think hard you'll find
Things will disappear
Like they're just not here

Paper lines the streets
Clogging up the drains
What the headlines said
The world is truly dead

You killed it in one blow
Polluted it like snow
On a living hill
The grass will slowly die

Stop to look and see
The world is dying slowly
Where will we all be
When we're all alone

Dreamt We Were Friends

2007-05-21T14:05:00.000+10:00

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I had a dream a while ago that I was friends with a person I've known for years. Unfortunately we've never really got along for some reason or another. So it has inspired a song.

Recorded using a desktop mic in one take, as usual. There is a terrible cut and paste at the end, which comes through as a volume swell. I was using Audacity and I couldn't find the right tools to get it how I wanted.

Lyrics

Verse

We were somewhere familiar
It was like you lived next door
Couldn't help but just sit and chat
In this dream I had

We were getting along so well
Hows it going? Im doing swell
The reality's much farther
From this dream but I could not tell

Chorus

If only it stayed this way
It will be all over
I hope that one day
Maybe it will be like this

Verse 2

We were sitting on the grass
Picking shapes out of the clouds
Just because it was not real
Does not mean I didn't feel it

Chorus 2

If only it stayed this way
It will be all over
I hope that one day
Maybe it will be like this

Can you see me
I wanna try to make it real
Just like that night
That I dreamt we were friends

Coda

I dreamt that we were friends
How could you be so cold
Ice in my bed
Daemons in my head

I dreamt that we were friends
I cant see the reason
That we failed

Caught Between The Start And The End

2007-03-28T01:17:00.000+10:00

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I couldn't sleep and all I could think of was the title. So I decided to expand, and write a song. Just a demo recorded live using the desktop mic, with some harmonies overdubbed.

Lyrics

I'm caught between the start and end of something
I can't believe this situations happening
As I can see the ends have started fraying
And I am
And I am again..
I'm caught between the start and the end

I don't really know how I got in
It seems there's this rut that I'm stuck in
You keep telling me to get out there
But I am
But I am again..
I'm caught between the start and the end

Overload

2007-03-20T11:29:00.001+11:00

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This is another song I wrote before I moved to Sydney. I'm not sure if its complete, but I really like it.

I recorded it really late one evening using my computer desktop mic. It doesn't sound too bad, considering!

I know a lot of people who tend to overload themselves with work, emotions, homework, whatever! I do it too, and that's what its about.

In Loving Memory Of

2007-03-19T13:05:00.000+11:00

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This is a song I wrote just before I moved to Sydney. Its only a demo recording, but I thought I would upload it anyway :)

It was recorded live in my lounge room using two SM57s. I only have one boom mic stand, so I had one mic on a stand at my mouth with a pop filter in front of it. The other microphone, funnily enough, was sitting in an empty tissue box, about a foot from the guitar, aimed at where the neck meets the body.

The song itself is about two people I've known in my life that have died suddenly. They were both unexpected deaths, and both very young. I didn't know them very well, but I did feel overwhelming sadness on both occasions.

Online CV

2007-03-15T15:07:00.000+11:00

I have been a music enthusiast since a young age. At the age of 5, I remember listening to Under The Bridge by The Red Hot Chili Peppers almost every night with my elder brother, and falling in love with it. My brother was a major influence in the music I listened to, and he introduced me to my still favourite artist Radiohead around the time of The Bends.

When a close childhood friend started playing the guitar, he would come over often to record things he'd come up with on Cool Edit. It was then, that I knew I had a desire to work in music, and I decided to take up the guitar, at 17 years.

I studied both music business and technology at TAFE in Newcastle, NSW, Australia and learned a lot of things about how the music industry works.

My major goal is to become the House Engineer for a reputable studio and record and mix music, helping bands get their music out there.

I own the following recording equipment:

2x Shure SM57
1x Rode K2
1x Digidesign Mbox2
1x Presonus Firepod
1x Presonus CompPre

I own the following music equipment:

Fender Stratocaster (Fat Strat)
Cole Clarke Culprit II (Thinline Telecaster copy)
Cort Acoustic
Alvarez 4 string bass
WASP 180watt valve head and 4 speaker staggered cab
Peavy Rage 15watt

I own the following effects pedals:

Marshall Shredmaster
Boss DD-6 Delay
Boss OD-2 Overdrive/Distortion
No brand tuning pedal

I am familiar with the following musical practices:

16+ Channel mixing desks (Mackie, Onyx)
PA systems
Microphone placement
Acoustics
Digital Mixers (Such as Yamaha 02R)

I am experienced in the use of:

Protools
Cubase SX
Ableton Live
Reason
Adobe Audition
Cakewalk Sonar

And also a basic knowledge of:

Digital Performer
Logic Pro