"Oort Lover" [mp3 removed]
This short atmospheric techno stomper includes a looping guitar-and-Moog sequence by John and Brad Moody (my nephew and brother, respectively).
They just sent it to me today and it meshed/contrasted nicely with the drum patterns I was working on.
More from my collaboration last year with Travis Hallenbeck: he came to my studio and we played a "live MIDI" set.
"H.M.M.J. 3" [mp3 removed]
Kind of tribal-sounding, with kinetic and varied percussion from Travis' gear. The reverb makes us sound like a Varese ensemble playing in an abandoned factory somewhere, if that's not too boastful.
"H.M.M.J. 2" [mp3 removed]
Nine minutes long, more tunes to work with here and the musical ideas run the gamut. ("The Charles Iveses of repurposed '80s synths" - Post-Hipster magazine)
The process, as explained last May:
A desktop computer plays MIDI files that we prepared in advance. One channel goes out to my gear: the Sidstation synth and Mutator analog filter. All the rest of the channels go to Travis's setup, which includes a midi mixer and Roland MT-32 sound module (see YouTube demo and this diagram).
So it is a live performance in the sense that the computer is dispensing a stream of MIDI on-off notes and we are changing settings on our gear in real time.
I was recording the performance, and did some minor post-production mixing, mostly for EQ and levels.
"H.M.M.J. 2 (Coda Only)" [mp3 removed]
More from my collaboration last year with Travis Hallenbeck: he came to my studio and we played a "live MIDI" set. This is the end of a longer section I am working on. This does something sort of Debussy-ish at about :23 that I really like.
As explained last May:
A desktop computer plays MIDI files that we prepared in advance. One channel goes out to my gear: the Sidstation synth and Mutator analog filter. All the rest of the channels go to Travis's setup, which includes a midi mixer and Roland MT-32 sound module (see YouTube demo and this diagram).
So it is a live performance in the sense that the computer is dispensing a stream of MIDI on-off notes and we are changing settings on our gear in real time.
I was recording the performance, and did some minor post-production mixing, mostly for EQ and levels.
Travis' part got some heavier reverb this time around.
"Weather Watch," by Mr. Andrew [YouTube] reminiscent of early '00s ambient electro (Plod, Duracel, Plasmalamp, et al) except this is from 1982 (hat tip stage)
"Trollz" by Glass Popcorn [Soundcloud] Mr. Popcorn "redefines dubstep" in the defining deviancy down sense of making it louder, grittier, and funnier. By the end this song is just square waves. What the home computer revolution should be about.
Brute Force, "Tapeworm of Love" [YouTube] (1967)
Young Turds, cover of "Tapeworm of Love" [2:38 min. - 3.7 MB .mp3] (1979)
