Warning: silliness ahead! alloy (along with this months issue of MusicTech) got me into the creative possibility of gate and pitch shifting effects so I spent a happy morning playing with Logic's noise gate, vocal shifter, and ring shifter…

Sister Savage has a little star in this track! Melody based on 'ah! vous dirai-je, Maman,' by Mozart.. the original composer. I think it's the first and second variation of 12, but that was like 15 years ago that I learned the piece so I have…

a moody ethereal track. recorded straight from the laptop mic, so not the best, but had to capture it before it faded away.

the wifebot inspires synths, tabla, beatboxing, claps, and love.

Check out the full song on the album "What They Never Told You" by S.K.I.P., or Du Yun's version of the song (also built on my beat, but with added live players) "Stay", on her MySpace page www.myspace.com/duyun

Bluegrass banjo, southern rock drums, goofy synths, vocoded chorus, and DnB rhythms. Technically has a NSFW word in the lyrics, but probably not discernable.