sandbags

I

I elected to pursue my theme for RPM 2010 even though, ultimately, I decided not to take part.

So I'm going at my own pace, not trying to produce "finished" works, or to be governed by anything except my experimental... (more)

II

When I uploaded this last night I thought it was a failure, this morning I am not so sure. I've just listened to it again and, while it fails to live up to my expectations when I started, there's something about it... (more)

III

I wanted to play more directly with noise of various kinds so this piece focuses less on techniques and fancy plugins and more on selection & arrangement of sounds.

I spent many hours going through Reaktor... (more)

IV

The fourth piece in my 'Dissolving into Noise' collection IV was made entirely with my new Reaktor instrument "Yottskry" (see the demo video for more info on... (more)

V

This was a piece I made with Reichatron back in January and, at the time, didn't upload.

I had the odd experience of momentary unfamiliarity, enjoyment, and a sense of "Did I make this?"

Listening to... (more)

VI

Just messing around with voices and Yottskry. Here I am using it in Live and feeding 3 different vocal clips at a time. It's pretty slow getting going but I think it rewards (for some value of 'reward') listening all... (more)

VII

I set myself the challenge of making a track this evening. I've uploaded it with 2 minutes to spare.

I started out with a wind chime instrument in Kontakt. I sequenced it using the PX-18 sequencer and then... (more)

IX

Another in my series of evolving sonic noise experiments.

The source for this piece was a recording from my latest Reaktor instrument TMA-2 with a... (more)

Gnossiennes-1 Reiched

I read about the technique, used by Steve Reich, of playing multiple copies of the same audio at different speed to create phase differences.

I decided to do a little experiment and built... (more)

Gnossiennes-1 Reiched Pt. 2

I've been listening to the output of my Reichenbach Reaktor ensemble all morning as it loops and phase shifts a recording of Erik Satie's solo piano piece Gnossiennes-1

I find... (more)

Propitiation Reiched

This track is the result of putting Kavin's excellent track Propitiation through my Steve Reich style phased looper.

It's a beautiful... (more)

Poor Boy Reiched

This track is the result of putting Kavin's latest, wonderful, guitar piece Poor Boy through my Steve Reich style phase shifting looper.(more)

Reichenbach Piano 1

This is a short experiment with Version 0.99.9 of my Reichenbach phase-shifted looping Reaktor ensemble (try saying that 3 times fast!)

I took a 2 second long piano sample and fed... (more)

Reichenbach Rekkerd 1

Another experiment with Reichenbach, my phase-shited looping ensemble for Reaktor 5. This time I fed it a sample from the Rekkerd.org mixed bag selection... (more)

Reichenbach Rekkerd 2

Another of Ronnie's Mixed Bag samples (this one called 120_hollow_01) and another version of my Reichenbach ensemble for Reaktor.

The major... (more)

Reichenbach Rekkerd 3

A rather more fundamentally experimental piece with Reichenbach's new drift mode. In this mode a probability matrix controls periodic changes in the loop length and/or position.

Twisted Reichazoid 1

I think I may have gone too far!

I've been working on the Reichenbach signal chain to include filtering, distortion, EQ, and a resonator. I've also switched out the delay and gone hog wild... (more)

Reichatronic Flute 1

So... Reichenbach is now called Reichatron.

I felt that the new sonic mangling possibilities of the ensemble were reminiscent of a Japanese monster movie than a composer of... (more)

Reichatronic Flute 2

Another test of the Reichatron on a flute sample. The signal chain for version 1 of the ensemble is now completely worked out and only some details of the beat mode controls for navigating the loop... (more)

Radio Reichatron 1

I was trying to tune my radio into a station I picked up, just for an instant, but I found it hard to keep a lock on it, I kept getting strange interferences.

From what I could hear it sounded... (more)

Space Trumpet

Space Trumpet was an excuse to try out my new plugin "Little Spacey" from Expert Sleepers and also to exercise the Kore sounds from Acoustic Refractions.

MIDI was supplied via IAC from Reaktor using... (more)

Hwamgaarl Cabaret

"So I imagine that the Theocrat of Pan Tang (after a hard day of summoning awesome horrors from other planes to do his bidding) drops in to the gardens of pain to catch some of the Hwamgaarl Cabaret... (more)

Never Tell

Honestly I have no idea where this came from or how.

I was messing with Omnisphere patches and came across a lovely, flutey, breathy sound that put me in mind of the scenes inside the monolith at the... (more)

Old Joe Clark Can Bite Me

I'm learning to play piano and my teacher has given me 'Old Joe Clarkes Boogie' to play. For 2 weeks it has kicked my ass. But I'm getting to grips with it now and this is my revenge!

From A Dark Place

Increasingly I think the music I am making is less about sound design and more about expressing some of the things inside of me that want out. I guess I may be starting to know what I want.

This... (more)

Glass-A

This one almost got abandoned, I didn't seem to be getting anywhere with it.

It started as I was looking for a sound for another track (which really isn't getting anywhere) and I came across a chime sound... (more)

Folding Space From Ix

So this track was purely for the fun of it. I was messing about in Omnisphere and came across this wonderful sound that reminded me of the guild highliners in Dune.

I built a beat around... (more)

Crystal Liquid

This is quite an old track that got abandoned because I didn't feel it was right or going anywhere.

But listening to it in iTunes this morning I thought it passed muster. I don't think it has enough... (more)

In Your Arms

I've had a bit of a love/hate relationship with this one.

I enjoyed making the beats and think that part came out pretty good but everything after that felt rather haphazard and didn't feel right... (more)

Planet of Static

The first track I built, back when I was still full of hope for this exercise. I'm not convinced the hope survived it :)

Waiting For Stalagmites

I liked the sound of this one but I don't know if it works as a track.

Uncatchable

Everything was getting to complex and messy so I tried to go back to layering more simple patterns with this one.

Reflections

A very dull title, I guess my hopes for this track are not high :)

Stellarium

Oh wait, I think this may be the crappy ambient track.

Near The Edge Of The Field

Was this the crappy, overlong, attempt at an ambient track that I did to try and fill time?

Missisippi Groovin

I needed 2m02 to finish the album. I was completely spent and without a drop of creative juice left. Just noodling with an Omnisphere patch when one of my cats, Mississippi, jumped on my keyboard and... (more)

This is Hard Work

This started from the idea of the sample which comes from a very old (deleted) audio book of the Wind in the Willows. The problem was that I had no idea what to do after laying down the beat, bass, and... (more)

Glubotism1

So, in http://alonetone.com/mmi/tracks/..., MMI offers us his take on a Glubot beat. I gently seasoned it with Replicant and then added 6 whacking great slices of Stylus RMX to came up with this...

Glubotism2

Okay so I enjoyed doing Glubotism1 enough that I thought I'd take a second crack at it. Same tools but took a different approach to how I used Stylus RMX and I introduced some of it's built-in effects on some... (more)

Rytme Guzheng 1

A second experiment with my new Rytme sequencer. This time Rytme is being fed into Logic to a track containing Kore 2 which is, in turn, hosting Kontakt 3 and the lovely Guzheng from Soniccouture (I bought... (more)

Rytme Piano 1

So one too many coffee's and I have insomnia, I decided to mess about with my prototype sequencer Rytme and one of the Logic piano presets (Piano Motion).

I came up with this piece (in the key of... (more)

Rytme Guzheng 2

I thought I would try a slower piece so Rytme is running at 90BPM and I have introduced a density function that allows me to create sparser pieces.

MIDI from Rytme is going to a single track in... (more)

Ryme Piano 2

Another build of Rytme, another experiment. This time the major change is that Rytme now provides a deep level of control over rhythm density which I use here to layer the more ghostly piano over the Liquid... (more)

Rytme Shifter 1

After yesterdays experiment with noise gates and vocal transformers I thought I'd have another go using Rytme as the source material.

A single Rytme track with multiple playheads is playing into... (more)

Rytme Shifter 2

Logic's noise gate and vocal transformer are my new best friends. I really enjoyed messing with them and thought I'd have another go.

I've always quite liked pulsing ambient and it seemed to come... (more)

Ripples Remixed

MMI gave me one of his loops to play with (maybe he'll upload the original loop for comparison). Anyway this is my first real attempt at using a loop so I butchered it pretty liberally. Let me know what you think.

Glubotism1

So, in http://alonetone.com/mmi/tracks/..., MMI offers us his take on a Glubot beat. I gently seasoned it with Replicant and then added 6 whacking great slices of Stylus RMX to came up with this...

Glubotism2

Okay so I enjoyed doing Glubotism1 enough that I thought I'd take a second crack at it. Same tools but took a different approach to how I used Stylus RMX and I introduced some of it's built-in effects on some... (more)

Komposition 1

This is a very simple composition using two Elysium generators with an oscillator controlling the pulse count of the first and the offset of the second. Elysium is playing Kore 2's "Abendstern" instrument... (more)

Komposition 2

A jarring Elysium composition, structurally similar to Komposition-1 but using the Kore 2 instruments "Boesen Buddy" and "Trembling strings" played simultaneously. I think I was also using an osciallator... (more)

Komposition 3

Just noodling about with a variation on one of Mark Burtons demonstration pieces for the reacTogon.

Komposition 4

A single layer experimental composition using Elysium 0.7.7 playing the Kore 2 instrument 'Abaska Bong' through the 'Hello Repeat' effect from the Kore 2 factory library.

In this track both the tempo... (more)