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I watched a few episodes of Metalocalypse and Dethklok inspired me to make this jam. I don't think it turned out "metal" enough though. The harmonized sweep arpeggios were the hardest to play. Hope you like it.
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life429
The POWER of Appreciation
Minister Brad Dassey
2-16-2011
The Prayer Closet
http://www.theprayercloset.org
Free Sermon Downloads
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Angels Missing Bill Sethares for simultaneous 12 equal guitar and faux voices in Sethares Neutral 10 tuning
More pieces from the survey can be found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=493
! E:\Cakewalk\scales\sethares-neutral10.scl
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sethares…
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something I might work more on but after crashing the acid program I am leery some.
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~Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité et l'Amour~
Simple joys of being in this the seeming imperfect world.
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~Spinning the Squirrel Wheel~
Spinning-spinning our globe, and we're in spin with it, servants of spin. What if we actually just ... snowflakes? We are spinning all our lives, sometimes together but often apart. Is it sad? And, if so, then…
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This is a tale of an anti hero Howard Marks who used the disguise of Mr Nice to cross borders and smuggle huge amounts of drugs, he was caught and sentenced to 25 years. He is now a loveable rogue playing to packed audiences telling tales of…
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Danny Zuko from the motion picture Grease
sung by Sandy Gritt
written by Louis St. Louis and Scott Simon
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INSTRUMENTAL! or just mental, probably one of those 80 to 20 mental over physical kind of things.
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finally uploading this version to demonstrate my method of beat creating because this version sounds better at faster tempo.
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Lyrics
Take the lift and your half way up....
Reach the top and your half way up...
You didn’t see your rise, and Lost your way.....
Looking down on the world your tears fall...
You Missed the Beauty of the climb.
And now you’re…
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~For all those who have parted forever, and those who have parted for a while~
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Kickin' off RPM this year with instrumentals.
I don't feel much like singing. Or trying for that matter.
I may put some vox on this when I'm feeling a bit better.
Enjoy!
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One in a lifeless space. Cold. Only the power of spirit can help to survive and to love again.
~Furiously~
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Most of you probably haven’t seen Reg dance, so I should explain it to you.
When Reg takes his “classic moves†to the dance floor everyone else steps aside to just watch – well, that is everyone except a few of the most self confident…
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anutha one for rpm, this is I think the final idea for the hath beezlebub tune, just maybe more added to it. Half Ass Metallica stuff here.
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Reg has been dancing on the scene and started drinking again, this freedom he wanted so badly is harder than he thought. But he'll get through it.........
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How To Overcome The Cycle Of Sin
Minister Brad Dassey
2-7-2011
The Prayer Closet
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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Island tribute to a drink made of Kahlua and milk. Recorded 1981
The Ulstafarians were a rock/reggae/R&B band from New Paltz, NY, USA in the early 1980s. This song inspired wild dancing when played live.
Recorded at Valley Recorders, Red…
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Only in Disneyland is a 17 note per octave guitar solo. This was recorded direct in a Alesis multimix 8 into Sonar X1 with Lexicon reverb and Sonitus multiband EQ / compression.
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Reg is wanting his lady to come home, he misses her, he needs her everything has gone wrong................RPM2011
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It's funny how Reg can seem to put in one sentence what others need a whole page to say...........
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Updated on RPM website also but here for your listening pleasure.
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FORGIVENESS
Minister Brad Dassey
2-2-2011
The Prayer Closet
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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This is a song I made at my cabin last fall ... didn't have anything new to say so the lyrics are a bit out there ... anyway ... this is "Nothing new" ... all recorded on my Boss BR800
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I don't see myself in shiny mirrors
I don't see myself in sunny skies
And I won't see myself
Until I see myself again in Peggy's Eyes.
Once upon a time there was a reason for the rhyme
There was some silver in the dime . I remember
And…
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Minister Brad Dassey
Why The World Is Geared On Sex
1/30/2011
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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This was made as a parody/homage to the great mr Henwrench !!
http://alonetone.com/henwrench
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Minister Brad Dassey
The 3 R's To A Better Relationship
1-29-2011
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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I'm sorry for this one. Not the whole song, not well done, nothing... but it fits my mood today. And i love it.
Edit, uploaded a new version with some storm recording in the background and re equalized. I think it's better now.
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What? is an improvisation using excerpts of Timo Tuhkanen's Clarinet Improvisation and Kavin Allenson's accoutrements in Dimension Pro 1.5 - each using a harmonic series tuning plus "epic frame drums" sample loops in Kontakt played on a M Audio…
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Was going to layer or track this into the jumping on 2 but could not do that legitimately anyhow by the end I start part of the jumping on 2 song, coming next. first here i set the levels then at about min 2 something I sync the beats between…
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my best howlin' wolf/lemmy vocals slowed down foolish games
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2x 5 string bass, electric piano, vox
I tried adding percussion via playing drums on my keyboard. It was way ugly. So... I think I'm done unless someone wishes to lend a hand.
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(WATCH THE VIDEO!!!!)
Part 5 of the collaborative Rich Gibbs and Vestigial Remorse "Faces of Humanity" project.
Lyrics:
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Narrator:
"I know
You don't understand
Yet
This is a glimpse of eternity
Welcome home
Home is the place…
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Thoughtless
w/m: Tharek & Geir
Guitars /Music : Tharek
Vocals/Lyrics: Geir
-Lyrics-
A simple mind
not evil or unkind
had lost it's sight
of anything but it's spot in the night
the words should have been unsaid
what they did can't be undone…
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The year is 1790 and the place is French Guiana and the subject is the slave trade.....................
This is a collab with Norm.
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Gonna let this moment bend us into circles so we have no ends
in light of everything you think of being isn’t always knowing
something isn’t coming, something in you still denying love,
love is never wanting to be all alone and so we roam…
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This was made from a sample of an elephant roar/scream.
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In the winter when I have no work I survive by the good grace of my fine lady. She says she doesn't mind but I can't help but worry that one day she'll get fed up with it.
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Believe what you like. Or don't. It's your choice.
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TRAIL OF TEARS was not a metaphor. It was an American Holocaust. Michael Jeffrey helped me with this track.
TRAIL OF TEARS
Am Bm/A C/A Am C/A Bm (3) E
A
CHORUS - Well, the trees…
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Reg had sat listening to the Wrinkled Shirts track and decided it was time to tell you the story of how he found his Mojo. it was a time way back when, to far back to remember. when he was just a young man. when he had decided to fast-forward…
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A remix of a performance by laptop/guitar duo Wasp and Pear. Remixed with iPod touch and Filtatron app.
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A tribute to the late great bassist/multi-instrumentalist Mick Karn.
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A friend of mine sent me a poem and asked me to put music to it. I took the liberty to mangle a bit of the lyric.
MANGO
I like a mango. I like a mango.
Well, I like mangos mornin' noon 'n night
I like's in the dark. I like 'em in the light…
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A mini-miniature conceived last night, some hours ago... as the result of a discussion.
Enjoy.
Edit: new record.
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And in this warm up, Dave used an insane sustain distortion to show case his mad skills. Check out our band's page on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kolombour
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Another backing track but at my bad memory it wasn't the Irish penny flute sound I used but a patch called Changer Winds inside Alchemy with two different arpegiators. One with rhythmic steps and another one set to minor pentatonic scale.
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There is a small flicker of faith that he will make it through. He has found himself in the market place surrounded by people, looking for compassion. There is none. He feels invisible, centered on his own problems but that small flicker of faith…
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12 string improv experiment with stereo mic setup and dual capos to get a Csus open tuning.
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Here's a "live" thing, if it can be called that, if one performs in a public place and there's no audience, can you call it "live"...?
If you'd like to hear the rest of the set, go here:
http://soundcloud.com/breaking-light/sets/no-audience…
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the deep blue sea rose up
and the devil came to play
she rose up and she began to say
why do little men take with my name
such a foolish game to play
hath be the devil be thy name
hath beezlebub have a grain of salt
so never look back upon
you…
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Calculated Electron Orbitals
I have been exploring Sonar X1 and one of the ideas on my list was to apply the apreggiator to a piece of music that was classical and used the harmonic series – just sounded like a good idea. Well, here is the…
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I'm surprised I forgot to post this collaboration with Norm and Char.
Char performs the reading
Norm performs the percussion
Chris did choir, sax, bass, FXs
Poem - Edgar Allen Poe
Annabel Lee
It was many and many a year ago…
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First Song Idea Demo of unveiling my next album.
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consider this a microcosm of the final work that might just happen ,, yes a complete Klingon Orchestrated Opera :) (feeling shameful that it was Chris's idea first.) (this is a mire raw example of an outproduced work.>
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Guess where I dreamed up something like this? When the choir members started walking up the aisle in a cadence of the Monastic Walk (3 steps forward followed by one step back, followed by a brief pause), the backbeat appeared in my mind. I worked…
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A serial improvisation in 12 equal setting Vachel Lindsay's 1931 reading of his poem "The Mysterious Cat" to musical accompaniment. Vachel Lindsay is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are…
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Some people need to fall down every now and then.
LYRICS:
Won't you ever go away
cause I feel the same way too
Did you have your kicks and eat them too
Did you ever cross the line
I confess is undefined
Did you have your taste of…
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Ok, this is another of my few blues (late 90 i guess..). I was playing it today and recorded several times. I don't think this one is the best one, but it has something that i really like. This record is the plane rythmic guitar. Later i was playing…
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And, yes.. another miniature. But this is a fresh one.
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(WATCH THE VIDEO, it'll make more sense)
The third installment of the graphic novel/video/song project I am working on with Rich Gibbs (an amazing artist and friend).
Lyrics:
Narrator:
"You're always late
Why do we wait?
Why do we…
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This an improvisation in 17 notes per octave with layered software synthesizers. Specifically, various percussion ensembles, french horn, piano, and two synthesizers. At one point I forgot what in the world I was doing because I transposed the…
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Well, I love this song...
I hope you like and/or enjoy. Cheers!
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this is my January challenge song for RPM.
my movie song theme was "mental breakdown"
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1/1/11; took bits from two of Mark's tracks from Pleasure Listening (2002) and improvised in Max with them, then mixed in DP. a mellow vibe for the new year.
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just continued work with the new microkorg :)
youtube work is being processed as I type.
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Well, some today's 'afternoon-to-evening' stuff... very simple, but i like it. I hope you like and/or enjoy!
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This song is not for everyone but I like it because its a live recording with a single instrument using infinity delay FX. (I turned on the loop delay at :09 after the guitar was flat on the floor.)
All the sounds are made with an acoustic bass…
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This is another of my miniatures, kind of 'baroque' style. It's from 1998, and I consider it my best guitar composition. Not a good interpretation here, but it took me a lot to play it this way after all these years. I hope you like and/or enjoy…
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The complete "how to" article and online play back is on my blog http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=404
Yesterday I was able to capture the Fractal Tune Smithy midi stream of an "on the fly" relay re-tuned performance in Sonar 8.5 by use of LoopBe1…
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Well, this is a single minute of music around this wonderfull 'Angel Eyes' song. I hope you like and/or enjoy this miniature. Have a great 2011 alonetoners!
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A layered improvisation on a M-Audio 88es
Korg MS2000 * 2 (duplicated the midi track and recorded the MS2k with two different voices serially)
Pianoteq
Absynth
Reading of his poem "We're on the Brink of Utter Befuddlement, Yellow Hanky Style…
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This piece is for solo viola. No electronics or processing were used. The fantastic technicolor performance is by Jessica Meyer.
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This one seems to be a favorite among my friends. Maybe it hits close to home.
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I decided to go full-punk here, while desperately trying to avoid the obvious rhyme words.
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I promise I am not really this creepy. I actually used a 12-sided die to figure the chord-riff here.
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have a little cognitive dissonance, on me, merry christmas!
http://current.com/news/92885943_earth-the-insane-asylum.htm
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another track from "duopoly", a recently released album of duos on spectropol records.
http://spectropolrecords.bandcamp.com/
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This is a composition from July's '96, and it could be said that it belongs to a period in which i was listening to, and composing, in a kind of 'baroque' style, very influenced by J. S. Bach. I hope you like and/or enjoy it.
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Well, this is a blues I've composed about ten years ago, just before I stopped playing guitar untill now. I hope you like and/or enjoy it.
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Vocal, fretless electric guitar, rhodes (Dimension Pro), tenor sax (Dimension Pro), and drums (Session 3 drummer). All but the drums are live performances.
The words by T. S. Elliot used:
(Orestes:)
You don’t see them, you don…
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after the ocean of possibilities,there is a plateau covered in rain and storms,where curious angels sing,after which,there is a lake,surrounded by weeping willows and eucalyptus trees,across this lake,coracles pass,carrying the sacred flame to…
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This is an improvisation (with a bit of editing where my timing got off by a lot) for this week’s ImprovFriday event
I used my M-Audio 88es to drive:
Korg MS2000
ARP 2600 V soft synth
Absynth 5 soft synth
Session 3 drummer soft synth
Pianoteq…
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The second track on my Everybody Loves Funk album.
There are no lyrics or vocals, but in my head I like to think I can hear the story of Evaline, the girl every guy wants to know, but who always seems just a little aloof and out of reach...lol
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Used some neat synthesizer manipulation trick on 3 samples that involved using granular stretching almost all the way down to very slow and then adding modulation to an LFO on the position that the sample was played to "replay" as if it were kinda…
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