Avalanche of Tuning Forks (2012)
8 tracks by Freddie Freelance
RPM Challenge 2012
52:07
RPM 12 x 12 + 12
Long form electronic piece the album is basically named after; based on a 5 second tuning fork recording that was copied a couple dozen times, stretched, sped up, pitch shifted & time shifted... (more)
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Track: RPM 12 x 12 + 12
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2012
High Voltage Electronics, or The Ancient Pharaohs were Nile-ists (2011)
27 tracks by Freddie Freelance
Japanoise influenced Power Electronics, just pure brutal noise.
Think Merzbow, Slugbait, Whitehouse, KK Null
They're mostly just a minute or two long, 'cause how long can you listen to pure noise?
46:50
Hey Kiddies! It's Naked Gunman Time (2011)
10 tracks by Freddie Freelance
RPM 2011
38:32
Intro & Soliloquy
After a short intro, a Musique Concrète composition made up of a pair of beeps & a few seconds of music from the middle of Jean-Luc Godard's "Alphaville."
Track: Intro & Soliloquy
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM 2011
There Isn't Anything At All
Second RPM 2011 Demo.
Based on several rhythm tracks from an old Seeburg Select-A-Rhythm drum machine.
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Track: There Isn't Anything At All
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM 2011
The Premature Arrival of the Future
A Musique concrète assemblage of chopped, looped, slowed and effected violin samples, along with a few choice words from Mr. Orson Welles.
Track: The Premature Arrival of the Future
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM 2011
Like Riding a Wire Fence
A rhythm track that tried to sound like a pair of frogs outside my Bedroom Window last night, paired with washes of noise based on the human voice and a recording of LBJ explaining why he needs new Haggar Slacks.
Track: Like Riding a Wire Fence
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM 2011
The Subject Is
A funky drum loop, that I then stretched 800% and played back over itself, topped with bits of Weegee saying how great his job is run through multiple echoes & large room reverbs.
Track: The Subject Is
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM 2011
Mr. Swirley
Just goofing around with effects chains, like taking a Pink Noise Generator, running it through a low-pass filter, and running the output through multiple phaser, tremelo, & panning effects, or... (more)
Track: Mr. Swirley
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM 2011
Film Strips for Mr. Lawrence
"Film Strips for Mr. Lawrence". It's a backing track made from chopped, looped & effected Instructional Film music, topped with dozens of snippets from instructional films like... (more)
Track: Film Strips for Mr. Lawrence
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM 2011
Drunken Frog Bothering
A noise drone piece made from dozens of snippets of Hammond B3 notes stretched, slowed and pitch shifted before being over laid over each other.
Track: Drunken Frog Bothering
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM 2011
Spring Heeled Jacks are Wild
A series of Jawharp solos I made to go over a bassline I built with a TR-404 soft synth, then I decided I didn't like the bassline there & took it out.
Track: Spring Heeled Jacks are Wild
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM 2011
"Wine, Sex, Cigarettes, Moustache" (2010)
14 tracks by Freddie Freelance
RPM 2010
35:51
Plucky
A demo for the RPM Challenge, it's a combination of Drum Machine track with about 20 tracks of a plucked string sound run through a couple octaveators and multiple delays.
Track: Plucky
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album:
008
A simple but slightly off kilter Drum Machine track topped with a drone made from a sine wave run through a Mutron 3 times, copied & overlaid on itself a dozen times, then that doubled & slightly offset... (more)
Track: 008
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album:
Palimpsest
A backwards rhythm track that sounds like frogs chirping topped with 20 slightly offset copies of a wind-like synth track, all run through various delays, chorus effects, and a Ring Modulator.
Track: Palimpsest
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album:
Cloportes cuit à la vapeur dans du vin blanc sans Raptors (2009)
8 tracks by Freddie Freelance
My 2009 RPM Challenge album, a mix of Avant Electronics & Ambient Noise.
Cover image by Martin LaBar (http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinlabar/)
61:46
Hoax 911 Call... With Guitars!
The track is based on an actual 911 call a hacker made to police in Colorado Springs to "punish" the father of a girl who had spurned his advances. I played the call against a short... (more)
Track: Hoax 911 Call... With Guitars!
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM 2009
Thick Strings Play for the Fuzzy Water
"Thick Strings Play for the Fuzzy Water," has big Swelling strings playing with, over & around what sounds like bubbling water with occasional wobbling rhythmic tones... (more)
Track: Thick Strings Play for the Fuzzy Water
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Slow Build Gamelan
"Slow Build Gamelan" is based on three Indonesian Gongs from FreeSound.org: 24615anamorphosisGMBJegog1.wav, 24613anamorphosisGMBGongLanang... (more)
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Track: Slow Build Gamelan
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Doubly Doo
A shorter, doubled and panned version of "Wubbity Woo," made with Creative Commons sample from FreeSonds.org: 40171ERHaminehstringsarp.wav
Track: Doubly Doo
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Littoral Zone
"Littoral Zone" started with an ambient bass line based (extremely loosely) on a Renaissance-era Classical piece played through an 8-bit SID emulating synth, topped with two tracks based on a Temple... (more)
Track: Littoral Zone
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Fuzzy Twiddles
"Fuzzy Twiddles," is basically a Noise track; a combination of static, organ-like chords, chirps, chimes, bubbling tones, twitters, chitters and belching sounds.
Track: Fuzzy Twiddles
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Cruising Bombard Street
Another Noise track, but maybe maybe a little more Rock oriented than others; "Cruising Bombard Street" is made from approximately 1000 copies of the sample "42544ERHlongstring... (more)
Track: Cruising Bombard Street
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Summer Twilight on Triton (2008)
2 tracks by Freddie Freelance
The sounds of an old fashioned summer evening, except the wind is poisonous, the insects calling in the distance are made of metal and the wind chimes are the size of gas tankers...
66:09
Summer Twilight on Triton
An album length Ambient piece that sounds almost like wind chimes (from little tiny tinkly ones up to ones the size of Oil Trucks) in a slight breeze while various insects sing in the... (more)
Track: Summer Twilight on Triton
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: Summer Twilight on Triton
Drones (2008)
5 tracks by Freddie Freelance
Overlapping noise-based drones playing time & tone shifted noise tracks ,often dozens of copies of a single source, off and against each other to create beat frequency throbs, overlapping rhythms and near chords.
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Drone One
Overlapping noise-based drones playing time & tone shifted noise tracks ,often dozens of copies of a single source, off and against each other to create beat frequency throbs, overlapping rhythms and near chords.
Track: Drone One
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: Drones
Gong Roll
A series of echoing gongs played in various keys to create patterns of echoes, and occasionally chords. One of my mellowest pieces, almost meditative.
Track: Gong Roll
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: Drones
Drone Two
Overlapping noise-based drones playing time & tone shifted noise tracks ,often dozens of copies of a single source, off and against each other to create beat frequency throbs, overlapping rhythms and near chords.
Track: Drone Two
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: Drones
Drone Three
Overlapping noise-based drones playing time & tone shifted noise tracks ,often dozens of copies of a single source, off and against each other to create beat frequency throbs, overlapping rhythms and near chords.
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Track: Drone Three
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: Drones
Chaos Ascent (Drone Four)
Overlapping noise-based drones playing time & tone shifted noise tracks ,often dozens of copies of a single source, off and against each other to create beat frequency throbs, overlapping rhythms and near chords.
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Track: Chaos Ascent (Drone Four)
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: Drones
Freddie Freelance Demos 2009 (2009)
4 tracks by Freddie Freelance
A catch-all for my current work as Freddie Freelance
35:20
Tyrannosaurs were the Nightingales of the Cretaceous
Made from freesound.org sample "14909reinsambaNightingalesong2.wav" and a chopped up & looped jazz bass riff created with the "Poodles or Flan" tool.
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Track: Tyrannosaurs were the Nightingales of the Cretaceous
Artist: Freddie Freelance
Album: Demo; possible underbed for "Subgenius Pamphlet #1 Suite" part 3 or 4
Milo the Millenium Bug
Dozens of copies of the bass Line I used in "Tyrannosaurs were the Nightingales of the Cretaceous" variously stretched, chopped, or reversed, then run through a ping-pong delay, multiple... (more)
Track: Milo the Millenium Bug
Artist: Freddie Freelance
Album: Demo
ankylosing spondylitis
Three freesoound.org tracks from CyberiaLainKittyKat: "Ambient Shit," "Alphabet Soup," & "Alarma," all variously strrrretched, chopped, reversed, run through a Phaser, a Mutron emolator, and then time shifted & stitched back together again.
Track: ankylosing spondylitis
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: demos
I Don't Want No Stinkin' Cheese!
Pure noise.
Made up of Bass Noise tracks made from various spoken word bits from movies & TV shows ("Excuse me while I whip this out," & "Fanmail from some Flounder... (more)
Track: I Don't Want No Stinkin' Cheese!
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: demos
RPM Challenge 2009 Warm-Ups (2009)
6 tracks by Freddie Freelance
Tracks made in the days leading up to Feb 1st and the start of the 2009 RPM Challenge.
53:32
Whales of Doom (The RPM Whale Challenge)
Starting with a public domain whalesong recording from mkoenig at the Freesound Project, and then adding a number of samples pulled from the stems of "Demon Seed" by NIN... (more)
Track: Whales of Doom (The RPM Whale Challenge)
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM
Sirens Call in Vain
A track made while warming up for the RPM Challenge 2009; Created from the sample 42544ERHlongstringsu_51 from The FreeSound Project.
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Track: Sirens Call in Vain
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge warmups
The Tweaker Whale has Bugs in His Head, Man, Bugs in His Head!
A track using Creative Commons licensed sounds or ones I created from scratch myself. From the freesound Project I used WHALECRY 2 by mkoenig, and bamboo... (more)
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Track: The Tweaker Whale has Bugs in His Head, Man, Bugs in His Head!
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM
Antlions Attack!
A Noise Drone track that sounds like Mosquitos buzzing past your ears & around you, mixed with crunching noises...
Track: Antlions Attack!
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: Demos
Brass Whales
This one started with a piece of Royalty-Free Production Music, which I slowed down and then split into 40 mono tracks, variously sped up or slowed down, and then overlapped into one Stereo track... (more)
Track: Brass Whales
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM
RPM Challenge 2009 Demos (2009)
20 tracks by Freddie Freelance
Tracks that may or may not be part of the final product
116:46
Doubly Doo
A shorter, doubled and panned version of "Wubbity Woo," made with Creative Commons sample from FreeSonds.org: 40171ERHaminehstringsarp.wav
Track: Doubly Doo
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Littoral Zone
"Littoral Zone" started with an ambient bass line based (extremely loosely) on a Renaissance-era Classical piece played through an 8-bit SID emulating synth, topped with two tracks based on a Temple... (more)
Track: Littoral Zone
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Too Fat to Funk
A little rhythm piece for 28 seconds later called "Too Fat to Funk" based on a beat I came up with on HammerHead Rhythm Station copied 15 times and run through an echo box, Phaser (2ce), dub style... (more)
Track: Too Fat to Funk
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Toy Harp Overtones
A tonal experiment along the same lines as Glenn Branca's large ensembles. Made from the FreeSound.org sample "4501dobroidetoy.harp.arpeggio.wav" run through a Phaser, then an 8 step... (more)
Track: Toy Harp Overtones
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Slow Devils
A short "Bumper" piece, "Slow Devils" is made from a HammerHead Rhythm Station drum part, a drone made from FreeSound.org sample 30188ERHcello1loop sequenced.wav, and a loop that... (more)
Track: Slow Devils
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Doomba Gongoo
"Doomba Gongoo" ia Doom-y Noise/Drone piece that's based on my track "Wubbity Woo" slowed to a crawl, chopped in half & the results pitch shifted up by about 1/2 an octave, and the addition of... (more)
Track: Doomba Gongoo
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Fuzzy Twiddles
"Fuzzy Twiddles," is basically a Noise track; a combination of static, organ-like chords, chirps, chimes, bubbling tones, twitters, chitters and belching sounds.
Track: Fuzzy Twiddles
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Thick Strings Play for the Fuzzy Water
"Thick Strings Play for the Fuzzy Water," has big Swelling strings playing with, over & around what sounds like bubbling water with occasional wobbling rhythmic tones... (more)
Track: Thick Strings Play for the Fuzzy Water
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Rolling Boil
"Rolling Boil" is a Noise/Drone piece based on the FreeSound.org sample 62893ERHBIGHISSYSTRINGS_42 that I've done some of my standard things to... I like the piece, but I need to think of some new tactics.
Track: Rolling Boil
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
NATO (Whisky Tango Foxtrot)
"NATO (Whisky Tango Foxtrot)," is a Noise piece that's made up of a combination of a Phased noise underbed, liquid, vowel-like sounds, and sprightly chiming tones.
Track: NATO (Whisky Tango Foxtrot)
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Cruising Bombard Street
Another Noise track, but maybe maybe a little more Rock oriented than others; "Cruising Bombard Street" is made from approximately 1000 copies of the sample "42544ERHlongstring... (more)
Track: Cruising Bombard Street
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Wubbity Woo
"Wubbity Woo" is based on a TB606-based rhythm and a swelling & waning string sequence based on the FreeSoound.org sample 40171ERHaminehstringsarp.
Track: Wubbity Woo
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Desolate Canon
"Desolate Canon" sounds a little like a toy music box turning into slow, minor key buzzing & echoing tones before fading back into the toy music box.
Track: Desolate Canon
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
The Thing in the Walls
"The Thing in the Walls" is kind of a chittering, buzzing noise piece that slowly builds and shrinks, like the sounds of Locusts outside in the Twilight, but it's not outside...
Track: The Thing in the Walls
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
Slow Build Gamelan
"Slow Build Gamelan" is based on three Indonesian Gongs from FreeSound.org: 24615anamorphosisGMBJegog1.wav, 24613anamorphosisGMBGongLanang... (more)
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Track: Slow Build Gamelan
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
The Spiders Chitter & Bark, even as the Tanks Roll into the Forest (excerpt)
An excerpt from a 40 Minute long (!) Ambient Noise piece; I like the grumbling bassline in this piece.
Track: The Spiders Chitter & Bark, even as the Tanks Roll into the Forest (excerpt)
Artist: Naked Gunman
Album: RPM Challenge 2009
RPM Challenge 2012 Demos (2012)
16 tracks by Freddie Freelance
RPM Challenge 2012 Demos
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