"Word Planet in Title (Variation)" [mp3 removed]
A remix of an earlier tune. Added a drum kit that sounds a bit like a live player struggling to stay in tempo with 8-bittish music. Also more filtering on the main voices and a kind of round at the end with two parts playing out of sync.
This is a repost of a song I put up in Jan. 2006. I changed the name because it was too much like some non-US TV show or something that was drawing insane amounts of unwanted traffic. Otherwise the post and the song are the same as they were.
"RT Controllers" [mp3 removed].
The Sidstation synth feels like a real black box sometimes--there are weird wavetable sequences programmed into the presets that don't come out unless you hold notes a certain way, and/or never come out the same way twice. "RT Controllers" is tightly organized (and short) and combines several hardware and software synths, but burbling in and around the regular sixteenth notes are these unpredictable "Commodore 64 game" swoops and blurps that the Sid just seems to make of its own accord. I've been avoiding overt videogame references but more and more I just want to let this machine go its own way, as Stevie Nicks might say.
"Blighted Industry" [mp3 removed -- a revised version of this track is on Bandcamp]
The type of music enjoyed by hormonal boys (e.g., speedbass) but the world needs more things hard, fast, noisy and arty. Used a rather severe compression plug-in, with a hard limit at -3 dB, suggested for broadcast. It's still plenty loud and had the effect of unifying a piece slightly marred by swooping and dipping volume levels. Normally the one-click maximizers are avoided. Am happy with the almost-atonal melody line.
"Experimental Hoedown (Excerpt)" [mp3 removed]
The bouncy part of "Experimental Hoedown."
"Experimental Hoedown" [mp3 removed]
This song is in several movements a la classical music. It's almost all done with hardware and there is some actual audible knob turning at the beginning. One groovebox is feeding audio into an Adrenalinn pedal's phaser FX while another alters the phased sounds with MIDI notes (tunes as opposed to simple on-off messages). Altering the wet-dry mix in the pedal slowly brings up the un-effected drum sounds. Also, the phased sounds are sometimes further altered by running them through Mutator filter sweeps. I like the matter-of-fact feel of this suite--it's 7.5 minutes and not getting anywhere in a hurry. The phased sounds resemble plucked strings--the "hoedown" part comes in around 1:45 and is on the bouncy side.
