"Chillout Librarian" [mp3 removed]
Psychedelic easy listening for the masses. Some Electribe groovebox preset melodies "treated" with a couple of filters and made into a slow, rather tuneful song. This is basically two "live" takes cut up and selectively muted to get the better passages of each. Am especially happy with the bass on this one.
"Pitch Lesson" [mp3 removed]
Made a chart with all the pitches and their equivalent frequencies so I could teach myself EQ-ing (most equalizers use frequencies and was tired of looking at numbers that meant nothing to me). Then made a grid in Cubase with all the pitches between C-1 and B9, recorded it, and used various equalizers to see if I could selectively eliminate pitches.
After that exercise, I cut up my pitch grid into loops, added a kick and ambient percussion, and the above tune resulted.
[Here's the table:
C-1 - 8 hertz
C0 - 16
C1 - 32
C3 - 65
C4 - 130 - Middle C
A above Middle C - concert tuning - 440 hertz
C5 - 523
C6 - 1046 (1.046 kilohertz)
C7 - 2093 (2 khz)
C8 - 4186 (4.1 khz)
C9 - 8372 (8.3 khz)
C10 - 16744 (16 khz)
E above C10 - 21 khz (teenagers hanging around 7-11 parking lots can hear this when the proprietor turns it on to get rid of them)]
"House Sweeps" [mp3 removed]
Full disclosure: this is one of those "art" pieces. An LFO-triggered filter sweep such as you might hear in a club tune, at the end of a dropout, right before kick comes triumphantly back in and takes the room to higher levels, here...fades out again. And then comes back... And then fades out, etc. There is also a drum pattern being swept with an LFO on a slightly faster frequency. And panning as seen in the diagram (the green lines). The upshot is, it's repetitive, but nothing ever repeats the same way exactly.
"Monomechanic" [mp3 removed]
So called because it is mechanical and mostly in mono. Made with the mutator filter, Electribe rhythm box, and some software drumming.
