Here is the latest song challenge offered by the Minnesota Asscociation of Songwriters: . . . . . . . . Your mission this month is twofold: 1. Try creating a boundary between the production of content versus the judging…

Two different recordings combined. One is of birds recorded at the boardwalk in Point Pelee National Park, the southernmost tip of mainland Canada. This recording has been doubled to give extra length. Over top of that is me making chirping sounds…

Fun with a new pedal and a new scale. Written and recorded May 27th, 2022

Did a studio challenge this week from Joe Gilder to try to recreate an entire song from scratch, breaking it down and recording and producing everything. This could be considered a cover tune of "Something for the Pain" by She Drew the Gun. I…

#2 track of the new album

A song about finding the core, where all dreams begin.

Written by Crystal Dawn Performed by The Chairs Featuring Chad King Recorded by Mike Rotolante

Instrumental

Pure Data, 6 oscillators and a patch that grew from an envelope.

Tumbjam app

This track is all about me trying to learn music production techniques. So I threw just about everything at this track, compression, equalization, automation, ducking, limiting, so much so that my DAW began to protest and have momentary breakdowns…

A new little ditty ......

Rough DRAFT of a new Malignant Inception's song This song is written with two guitars in slightly different tuning. Not a huge difference but it's been fun, and I think it sounds cool. One 6 string tuned to D Standard(432Hz), and the other…

this is some musescore work --- and the title words were floating around my conversations I was having at the time so ... that is the title being used the first version was all synth and I have replaced the synths with piano and organ,..

from the album "Fair Game" Turn around that's not an order be kind to strangers this seems right but what do I know i'm neither here nor there i'm not a captain or a major and I can not be told what is worth more to me this conversation…

Unused track from new album

Having fun with crunchy guitars and learning about making a sequenced drum part. Guitars, bass, “drums,” “singing”: Ben Niven Lead guitar in intro: Darren Tipper

Bauhaus cover. Recorded in 2014. Happy World Goth Day (May 22).

prepared cigar box guitar

This one's the single. It's fun to play and fun to sing when I was in the studio. It's meant to played loud. Actually, the whole album is. Thanks for listening! Cheers, Gary

Another PD piece, new way of thinking, some new ideas that are evolving from interests in eurorack and other influences.

I had no melodies or bass lines in my head when I started this one; I just chose a random loop from Apple, put it into a Roland Jupiter 8 and changed the key it was in. It reminds me in parts of a cross between 'Steel River' by Chris Rea and…

I do three things after waking up these days: I shower. I make coffee. I play this song and drink my coffee. Nothing complicated. Nothing fancy. Just some basic fingerpicking to test my motor skills and bring some aural sunshine into my day.

Dave Smith passed away this week. His Desktop Evolver was the first hardware synth to capture my imagination and it's a core part of my instrument today. RIP Dave.