RedHerring

All About RedHerring

RedHerring is Michael Grandner.

Michael is a clinical psychology doctoral student in San Diego. For more information about him, visit his site.

RedHerring began as a diversion in 1998, when Michael got ahold of the Acid Music software from Sonic Foundry. After experimenting with various samples and playing with arrangements, he found that this program was as much fun as it was distracting, and he upgraded to Acid Pro.

Since then, a few years of experience has revealed a definite style, molded from Michael's eclectic background and love of all types of music.

These songs are all evocations of how I feel about specific events and situations. Like any emotional response, these songs bring together lots of elemnts that would not normally perhaps be associated together.

But such is the way with emotions. Often they work together to create a unified seascape, although they themselves vary so much. These songs precisely attempt to recreate these individualized impressions. Often, these songs bring together sounds that are unexpected, yet fluid in their composition.

Sometimes these combinations result in a driving, unified sound, and sometimes individual, separate tangents spin off, just as in real situations. And sometimes the result is sublime and sometimes awkward. Just as in real situations. This music was created to convey all that.

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Side Notes:
This is the fourth incarnation of the RedHerring website. Each of the previous versions, like this one, came about at the time of a new album release. In addition to graduate work in psychology -- classes, research, clinical work and teaching, Michael creates this music, writes and plays songs for numerous other instruments, designs websites through Red Nucleus (no relation), does graphic design work, writes poetry, and more. All of the RedHerring songs are still made with ACID, but you may notice a greater amount of editing and manipulation (and sometimes original creation) of sounds in other programs. The interface of ACID is such that the loops and samples are displayed in a visual representation, and in some ways the songs can evoke powerful and strong imagery, partially based on the visual aspect of the songs' arrangements. The samples for these songs are found in many places, but most of them were obtained through Sonic Foundry.