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| It's so easy making drony music. Anyway, I like this drone I did on the Modcan a fair bit. Lots of subtle intermodulation and interior harmonics. |
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| In the spirit of circuit bending, I made my 'own' VST synth (it's a paulysynth) by hacking an existing VST synth and grafting on a f*uc*ed up all-pass filter and two waveshapers in an out of control manner. Then I played 'Ave Maria' through it. The VST is available for download in the files section. |
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| I really like this one. Sounds like a bunch of orcs headin to Mordor for a picnic. |
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| A lot of guitar sampling. This is one of the few peices here that I've spent more than a few hours on, and I like the sound of it. |
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| If you fill a MIDI channel to it's max, you can get MIDI drop-out where your synth drops messages, and interprets messages in novel ways. So I set up a crazy patch with Numerology, an OS X modular step sequencer of trully inspired design to overdrive an Alesis Andromeda, and then back into Logic with a Space Designer convoluting reverb. It's all done live, and you hear a bit of Andromeda Ribbon controller in there too. Not very musical, sort of binary and good for psycho's, but I think it's cool. It's better when you put one speaker in front, and one behind. Kind of surround-mono vs. the tired stereo method of presentation. |
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| This is an experiment with massssssive feedback. I hooked up the soundcard out to a few boxes, and then back into the soundcard in. I used a stereo granulating audiomulch patch to processess a gentle decay. It's kind of massive, sort of like reverb, but alltogether cooler. The actual sound that started it all was just a factory sound from a Yamaha AN1X, and a bit of cable jiggling to make some static. |
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| This is an excerpt from my live 'dj' mode of operations. I lost an LFO on an oscillator somewhere, and it sounded like a siren. By the time I found it, I was all imagining OJ Simpson running from the cops. Just an excerpt. |
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| Just playing with the Electrix analog filter. I did this song quite a few years ago. Possibly late 90's or 2001's. |
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| One of the first songs I ever made, years back (in the 90's), just experimenting with layers and layers. Good ambient stuff to study to if you're very tolerant of early efforts. It is all 'live' as it were. Just doodling on synths and recording one take. |
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| For a few months, I would make songs for friends of mine, to go with their mood or whatever they'd be working on at the time. This song is for Matt Gilbo, a friend of mine who was studying or something. Just a nice long ambient peice that reminds me of insects chattering, an endless hollow world, and bone chimes in a radioactive ambient null zone while reality defragments. Yes, it reminds me of that. |
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| A drone sample through Fruity Loops built-in granulator. I like it's granulator. Sounds very good. |
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| I don't know why, but this is one of my favorites. It was when I was really into beat-box approaches to emulate Kid Koala's sort of goofy styles. No computers, except for recording the final output. I really hated computers for music at the time, as they kept crashing ... oh wait, they still crash all the time. Crappy puters. |
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| I got Harry Potter on the brain. I'm hoping to see the Goblet of Fire when it opens on IMAX. Should be pretty radical. In any case, here's a cute version of Harry Potter that I cooked up Nov 13, 2005. |
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| Something about mellotrons are hot. This is made with a sampled mellotron. I'm playing with the idea of making algorithmic videogame music that stochastically just invents itself. All the instruments and plugins are free, which is amazing. |
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| Soundblasters used to be awesome. It blasted sound. This is a funny song I made inspired by an old OMD song of ages past. |
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| Turning the Osc that was functioning as the master clock for a patch. Lots of variation for just one knob\! |
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| Apart from some digital clipping, this song has some really good syncopation going on. It's the longest song I ever composed live. I'd do one set, move to another, and then re-layer the first set (or previous sets) via a loop sampler. It's about 20 minutes long, so give yourself some time. You realy should play it from beginning to end to get hooked into the syncopation. |
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| This is an odd acoustic experiment I did with Plogue Bidule and my laptop mic the night before the Bush Re-election. It features some cool spectral domain processing, and the main sounds are actually a risset bell, an accordian synth, and a drum -- although you'd never know it. |
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| So a lot of synths came to party, and this is what they played. |
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| This is a cute song/tribute to the Hillarious House of Frightenstein. I made it with a friend as we randomly dragged and dropped samples from a directory onto Fruity Tracks years ago. I wanted to show him how completely simple and innane computer music is. Turned out, I like some of the random things in this song. We tweaked it for about 15 minutes, and here it is! |
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| I'm not very good on keys, but I managed to play in time on several keyboards at once to create this ditty. It reminds me of 'ice cream truck' music a bit. The melody is from a pogues tune, but it's quite a bit done up here. This song is from a particularly fruitful period (musically) where I challenged myself to record a nice sounding full song each day in under an hour (often in under 5 minutes). |
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| I'm trying to find the rest of this song. It used to be on mp3.com. Great background to study or meditate to. One of those endless industrial spaces with occasional metal klanks. |
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| Oh my god this is so bad and funny at the same time. My friend Leif, who is now living in France, popped by and started improvising insane german lyrics to insanely bad beatboxing. This should be part of the Guiness Book of World Records for dumb-ass stuff people do on hot summer afternoons. It was for stuff like this Crack was invented. |
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| I once heard a story that Kraftwerk would work for days to 'get the sound just right' and once a friend of mine was talking to them, and they said "Scott, which do you like better, A or B", and Scott said, "Huh? They both sound the same to me", to which one of the Kraftwerk dudes would go "arrrrgghhh". This song is sort of like that. It's just a loop fed into some odd treatments performed entirely in the frequency domain. Some people I play it for don't hear any appreciable difference at all while it plays, and some go 'wow, it morphs so nice'. Hmmm. |
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| A 100% analog synth (Alesis Andromeda) fun day. Just doing some surf guitar on the analog synths (surf syntar?) live in one take. I love wet and sloppy loose synth play. Pressure sensitive ribbon controllers make me melt. |
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| A test to see if I could add subtle backing tracks to an existing piece of music. I've added a few tracks. See if you can notice. It's a test of remixing, and mastering and trying to play in time. |
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| I made this the first night I got an Access Virus TI Desktop. A bloody fantastic digital synth. |
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| I made this the first night I got an Access Virus TI Desktop. A bloody fantastic digital synth. |
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| Just a nice bassline with some other bits. One of the first modular simulators I played with on a puter. |