music - tm

"Song 8 (Blip)" [2.3 MB .mp3]

Tune done "live" on an Electribe groovebox (the Amkii, not the Rmkii I was using last year)--it's semi-default-y; I wrote the melodies myself but some of the textures (like the scratching, and the ending sputter) are direct from the factory.

This is a straight recording, no compression, effects, or changes to the tracking or balance have been added (hence the hard panning of the right and left channels). Eventually I might tweak it but right now I'm kind of enjoying it raw.

"Trance Sequence Experiment" [mp3 removed]

Honestly don't remember doing this. Found it on my hard drive from about two years ago and went--"huh." It's like this recurring dream I have where I find a cache of intriguing (usually expressionist) paintings I don't recall making.

"Force Fed" [mp3 removed]

Aggressive, male club type thing with dirty guitar effects, 808 and very digital acid-synth

Update: added a few more "licks" to the third guitar appearance and took out about 10 secs of synth near the end.

"Reggaedrome II" [4.3 MB .mp3]

"Scratch school" photo by Anthony Pidgeon, East Bay Express, via Google Images. I posted this tune about about month ago. It's been work in process for about 2.5 years--I used this same photo on the old blog and it still gets at what I was trying to convey with the piece--students learning to scratch. For "Reggaedrome II" I added a new, self-penned tune at the "climax" and an "eerie sound" near the beginning just to make it a bit more complex. This is also not as loud as version I.