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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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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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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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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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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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Well, I love this song...
I hope you like and/or enjoy. Cheers!
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As the name suggests, it's not quick but rolls along. Has some riffage in there too.
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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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work composed entirely in ableton live,using natural sound samples....
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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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another track from "duopoly", a recently released album of duos on spectropol records.
http://spectropolrecords.bandcamp.com/
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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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Just a little prog-Alt.country-folk-rock kinda song about being who you are and not letting anybody tell you different.
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and again this is work for the video with the video capturing the works being made as well.
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For Improv Friday
I improvised this guitar track and recorded audio and midi (Fender Mustang + GR-20) feel free to add to this
After some editing I came up with "And No One Listens"
I used Guitar Rig 4, Kontakt (bass), hyperwave synth, True…
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2010 Young Men's Choral Festival @ Mansfield University. Me as recording engineer.
Unfortunately, the brothers performed from a spot not anticipated by me, with regards to mic placement.
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2010 Young Men's Choral Festival @ Mansfield University. Me as recording engineer.
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2010 Young Men's Choral Festival @ Mansfield University. Me as recording engineer.
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I think it was in 1995 - a convergence of stars that created what would look like the "brightest star" in 2000 years. Maybe something like what the shepherds might have seen. Anyway, this led to my musing.
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One of my favorites. It was recorded a long long time ago while I was a freshman at Queens College, NY. If you like it, check out my page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Boris.Shpitalnik
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...I know, mildly disturbing -- don't read too much into it, most people have a tendency to misinterpret my words
lyrics:
//Gravity
//You took my seed
//I know you wish
//You could keep me from this
I've got a gift for you little girl
If you…
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Ever look in the mirror and not been sure who you are looking at?
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...more of a dramatic reading than a song per say...
It's a poem from the book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. I recorded this around 4 years ago when I was messing around with some recording equipment I had just bought.
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Instrumental named after the street I live on (for want of a name and LOL I live on Ellis Blvd.) any way the base for "Tactual Sensation."
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You saw her. You realised it was a Love thing you were feeling...................
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snippets from a live jam pasted over a bleep!Box beat with some Paulstretch at the end.
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I realised that i hadn't put up the full version as i am still finding my way around the new software so here it is......
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improv-based miniature combining 72t-ET w/12t-ET and electronic percussion
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have yourself a merry little christmas except it's not.
2010 christmas challenge song.
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Expostion of the Carapace
Oh I told you not to worry so much
These things have a way of making you worse
Underneath I can tell you're a smarter person than that
What you're trying to sell, Only makes it worse
Only makes it worse for you.
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Started out as a 300bpm song, theme song for an Evil Character.
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A Ken & Dave Production
music : Ken & Dave
lyrics/vocals : Dave
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Classic Jazz ballad we recorded 2 years ago with my former jazz quartet. Enjoy and check out my page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Boris.Shpitalnik
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As bad as the repetition of songs played throughout the season, this was always my favorite.
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recorded with my nylon strings guitar, and the kit mic-phones to chat hahahaha ;)
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Lyrics:
I am what I need to be
To survive, to thrive, to die
I am simply alive
I am simply myself again
// I lust, I lust so much... not enough
// I hurt
// I breathe, you breed, I break, I am alive
I am what I need to be
To survive the thieves…
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The first song we recorded a couple years ago for our band which went under Cryptic Nothings until we found out there was another band of the same name. Name changed to Nail of The Sun (i think) though we don't do shit together anymore.
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Another cover I did quite some time ago. Johnny Cash has always been one of my personal heroes -- RIP.
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First demo of this new track. Recorded -again :P - with the mic of the web phones kit ;)
still sounds funny
:)
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Randy Brown and I did a little co-write this evening and this is what we came up with...
I MISTOOK IT FOR THE MOON Capo @ 2 Key D (Play in C positions)
I was coasting across West Texas/Had my top down, it was late at night
I caught a coyote…
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recorded in 2005
Joe Silence - guitars, beats, synths, vocals
Mark Cook - bass
bridge vocal by Tom Higgins.
this is no longer the final mix.
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Lyrics:
Something broke loose in life
Something is wrong inside
Everyday is the same. I don't know why I lie to myself. I don't know what my life devoid of content serves, just that I'm still here. Still falling. Still waiting for you to…
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An improv playing with son Eric's Pod XT board. Some live looping and ebow also of course.
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Finally found what to do with this riff I had in my head.
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loose xenharmonic blues keyboard improv on a modified arabic scale
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A cover by other Reg of " Help me make it through the Night". Kriss Kristofferson. On his late radio show (The Dead Cowboys) that can be heard on C.U.N.T.FM 66-69 fm on Weds evenings at 5pm
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Wish how I remembered how I played these leads and once I figure em out again this song is in dear need of expansion.
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For improvfriday I recorded me improvising on my wife's seagull acoustic on a zoom H-2
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This is a solo piano piece performed on a M-Audio 88es driving pianoteq which was re-tuned to Gene Ward Smith's 17 per octave equal beating dwarf(<17 27 40|). The piece was originally recorded in pianoteq using the standalone mode and then…
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Have you ever tried hitching a lift home after a goodnight out and nobody has stopped.....
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... had to re-mix this thing, the version I posted last night was cr*p!
Lyrics:
Everything is gone now
I don't know why you had to kill this
Break it down Break me down
Bring everything down
please...
Stop
I can't take this flood of sh…
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This is for today's Improvfriday. Being all a first pass improvisation against a drum beat - there are mistakes. I did go back and spiced up the drums just a bit. everything but the drums is my Roland GR-20
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Written by Brando and Laura Kepner-Adney.
This song is just cute and fun. I hope it makes your day.
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This is a cover of the song, "Happiness," originally written/performed by Michael Stipe and River Phoenix and featured on the not-so-happy movie under the same title.
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Whew! Been a while.........I'm a bit rusty around the edges :)
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