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Fifteen (24H.3)

I spent 15 hours composing and playing this or, I should rather say, this is the sole product of 15 hours of sitting with Live & my piano.

I think there is the kernel of something good in it... (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)

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)

Naked Metamorphosis 1

I recently bought the Imperfect Samples Braunschweig Upright (Pro) sampled piano for Kontakt... (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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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.

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 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 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)

The Madness of Clocks

This is a track I've been working on for quite a while so I am glad to finally have it out of my head.

I have a kind of love/hate relationship with time and its humble functionary, the clock... (more)

Poor Boy Reiched 2

This track is a second attempt to put Kavin's beautiful track Poor Boy through my Steve Reich style phase shifting looper.

In the first... (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)

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)

Sun Is Shining

Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here i am
Want you to know, y'all, where i stand

Welcome Home

Home

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)

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)

Things That Go Bump (sketch)

I wanted to make a track for halloween but technology problems and time have conspired that I didn't get very far.

However I'm uploading the first couple of minutes of what I have.

Have a spooky night!

Metaphysical Beat 2e

This is a remix of my earlier track Metaphysical Beat 2. In fact it's the 4th remix but the first one I'm really happy with... (more)

Metaphysical Beat 2

Another in my series of experiments with the Reaktor ensemble Metaphysical Function.

I used two instances of Metaphysical Function to generate a soundscape that was bounced to audio, chopped... (more)

Metaphysical Morphage 1

Another in my ongoing series of experiments with the Reaktor instrument 'Metaphysical Function'.

This was produced and recorded entirely in Reaktor with the resulting AIFF file converted... (more)

Metaphysical Beat 1

Once again an all-Reaktor show this was made in Ableton Live 8 but recorded via Audio Hijack Pro as this was more in the way of a 'live performance' than an arrangement.

I had two instances... (more)

Metaphysical Noodlings 3

Another experiment with the Reaktor ensemble 'Metaphysical Function' this time directly in Reaktor (no DAW) using the recorder box to output direct to AIFF.

I spent some time creating... (more)

Metaphysical Noodlings 2

Another experiment with the Reaktor ensemble 'Metaphysical Function' only a bit longer this time.

Again Reaktor is the only instrument at work here although it's going through a mastering... (more)

Metaphysical Noodling 1

A little experiment building a sound with the Reaktor ensemble 'Metaphysical Function' which is an awesome sound generating instrument.

Reaktor is the only instrument/effect in this track... (more)

Savagery 1 (feat Sister S.)

I told the good Sister that I wanted to try using vocals in a track and she offered to do me some abstract, stylized, vocals that I could play with... (more)

Eno Gets The Blues

Well now, this is actually a very old track, made back in March '09 and not that long after I started learning piano.

I was learning a very simple 12-bar blues piece and getting bored with the... (more)

Metamorphosis-1

One of the things about my Glitching Satie track that I wasn't comfortable with was that it wasn't my recording that I was using. But... (more)

Glitchatom-2

We're deep in the glitch mines again.

This time with a beat developed in Stylus RMX, a "melody" using Soniccouture Skiddaw stones and Tonehammer Frendo, and a bass from Soniccouture Abstrakt Bass... (more)

Glitchatom-1

Glitchatom-1 is the first in a series of experimental pieces where I'm trying to learn about glitching and get more familiar with Reaktor.

In this piece I'm using Peter Dines (more)

Glitching Satie 1

Well the votes are in and nobody, who has commented, seems to think I have offended against Satie with this. That's kind of cool because this really is one of my favourite pieces of music and one that... (more)

Destroyed Piano 2

I'm uploading this more as a record for me than because I think either of these Destroyed Piano tracks are particularly listenable.

In this track I've used the same pattern as before but varied... (more)

Destroyed Piano 1

A piece of experimental whimsy. I took a nice piano loop from the Logic library and utterly destroyed it with The Finger. What's interesting about this to me is that I was not playing the MIDI driving... (more)

Skiddaw Stones #1

Yesterday I bought a very lovely sample set from Soniccouture called The Skiddaw Stones.

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Short Transmission

This is my second experiment with "song form".

In this case I tried out probably the simplest form: "IABABCABE" where I - intro, A - verse, B - chorus, C - break, E - end.

Although I... (more)

Lawbreaker

This is one track where I can say, without reservation, that I am really happy with how it came out.

I worked up a beat I liked with 3 Stylus RMX parts making good use of chaos and time designer for... (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)

My Name is Harry Palmer

Okay I need to say a few things. Please read before listening!

I did not do the 24 hour challenge but I did try and hang around in the chatroom as much as possible with Glu, SisterS, and... (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)

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)

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)

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)

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!

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Shifted Vocaloid

Warning: silliness ahead!

alloy (along with this months issue of MusicTech) got me into the creative possibility of gate and pitch shifting effects so... (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 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)

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)

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)

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...

Krata1.1

So I got Stylus RMX and this was my first attempt to use it multi-timbrally in Logic. It was accompanied by Elysium playing Omnisphere and me playing Reaktor on the keyboard. I still have no idea how to come up... (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.

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)

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)

Near The Edge Of The Field

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

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.

Uncatchable

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

Waiting For Stalagmites

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

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 :)

Sampel 2

As much as anything this was practice for me in setting up Logic to record three separate instruments in 3 tracks. In this case I used the EXS synth with upright bass, fireball decay, and Tibetan singing bowls... (more)

Sampel 1

I'm not quite sure where I was going with this. I love the Abaska Bong sound and was trying to pair it with something complementary. After going through some truly weird combinations I came up with this.

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)

Komposition 3

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

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 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)