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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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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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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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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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This is my first recording using new software logic pro 9.
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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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ImprovFriday mashup feat. Steve Layton, Paul Muller, & Ken Palmer. 10/29/10
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with some inspiration taken from an old movie "Days of Wine of Roses"
Lyrics:
To have and to hold
These aren't days of wine and roses
For better for worse
These aren't days of wine and roses
For richer for poorer
These aren't days of wine and…
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Initial harmony, that infinitely moving in space, becomes thiner and thiner and finally turns to chaos. We, humans, are able to distinguish harmony in seeming casual sounds. We're able re-create it.
~For Matt~
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Well, this is the last song in the Lobster man song cycle. I had one left in me to get out, this one hopefully finishes the story for our Lobster man and his son Lobster Boy. I can now finally move on to other things... thanks for listening…
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A cinematic, slow and psychologically charged dark ambient track, musically inspired by Maurice Ravel's noble and sentimental piano waltzes and thematically by Wim Wenders' 1984 movie Paris, Texas.
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From my forum post on Using Impulses for other than Reverb purposes. Which do you prefer the first or the second in terms of quality?
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This is a rough mix of a track I did with the one & only Norm Harris. I've got some vocals in mind, but it may take some time to put it together, so meanwhile here's the instrumental version. Big thanks & major props to Norm…
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Another tale of a melancholy pirate, I guess thats the way I see the old Pirating life, hardship, terror, and longing to go home.
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Electric guitar improvisation, with live computer processing.
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Jonathan Thomas continues to look at 1 Corinthians 7 and asks what it teaches about being single and the issue of divorce.
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I had some fun this afternoon with a bluesy tune - and ran out of time for singing and my vocals are not good - wanna try?
I need to remember to tune my guitars down when I want to sing - that would make my life easier.
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The Final Version me thinks.
Charles Ives composition from 1906 arranged for Jazz Ensemble. a reference for Ives
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I re-interpreted my friend Mia J Park's (http://www.reverbnation.com/miajpark) ballad Ever After (originally in English) into Chinese, and sang it as a demo for her.
This song is in Cantonese. Chinese lyrics can be found here:
http://helenefung…
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spectro-minimalist remix/re-comp of Paul Muller's post-minimalist Light Rain.
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It's not unusual to chase your girl around with a dull axe, is it? Just kidding - This was 60 tracks and almost a year to finish. I had some help:
Guitars: Tony W
Fadeout Solo: Gnasty
Acoustic/Rhythm Guitars: Me
Phone Message: Tony W &…
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The start of my journey into Guitar Center today.
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I tried to get the vocoder to work. It didn't in so many ways....
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Drive cleaning....
This is a lost instrumental. I have no interest.
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took a short phrase from Jeff Fairbanks' @ the Shorties site & put it to battle against my own loop.
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some more programmed beats and music. ssssSPACE boy to the recuuuue! dun dun duna dun. Well it's good for a laugh, halfway through theres a part of the song where it sounds like a theme for a super hero.
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A classical/avantgarde piece inspired by Franz Schubert's Der Leiermann from his song cycle Winterreise. Will the hurdy-gurdy man play his songs for you?
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Righteousness!!! A little piece I wrote that dealt with a new method on music composition itself.
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Norm's percussion
strummed electric mandolin
ebow electric mandolin
piano
voice snippet
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The closing number.
Lockdown:
We don't get to choose our days or chase our past
We only get the ones, we've made to cast
but there are things I'd say if I could
and If I was a better man
but under lockdown all I have...
Sweet end…
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Pink Floyd cover from A Momentary Lapse of Reason album. Minus all the cool leads and saxophone and organ. Just grit. Just CM doing a cover in his own style. Just is.
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The opening to a new little ditty... More to come as it progresses.
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another track off of "cryptical condition" as it is still being written.
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I've just finished the music on 17 songs and I still have to go through and do the vocals, a daunting undertaking. Before I add vocals, to whet the appetite . . .
This one will eventually have lyrics about dead country stars and such.
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Track 18 from "Someone Else's Hell"
Lyrics:
So, this is what it's like
To grow old
Old
Everybody needs you
Everybody cares
Except the ways that matter
Why are you still here?
So, this is what it's like
To come home
A hero
You…
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