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Lyrics by Geoff Matthews
A ROCK IN YOUR RIVER
VERSE
You may think it’s easy.
And for some of us this is true.
But when you talk about me.
There’s a different point of view.
I'm always stepping sideways.
While others’ look ahead…
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There was a band in Dublin when I was a teenager called Alien Comfort, not brilliant but some of the members went on to form Aslan, who are pretty awesome.
http://www.aslan.ie/
I always liked the name so this piece of pseudo classical music…
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Notice anything weirdly familiar about the title?
As part of RPM Challenge this year, I made an album in a month. One of the tracks was inspired by the fact that February '21 appeared perfectly in the calendar as exactly four rows of seven…
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I asked for the best advice
Something to grasp on
Something that would make a difference
Keep me away from wrong
Stand me in best of stead
So that my engine doesn’t stall
Ensures i stay firmly on my feet
And never slip and fall
It…
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Song written by myself, I play bass on the track, sing backing and I engineered and produced it.
Released this year as part of the "Because..." EP
The Weirdest Thing is the band name.
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Song written by Mick Gardner, I play bass on the track, sing backing and I engineered and produced it.
Released this year as part of the "Because..." EP
The Weirdest Thing is the band name.
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Song written by Simon Clemmow and Tim Coulton, I play bass on the track, sing backing and I engineered and produced it.
Released this year as part of the "Because..." EP
The Weirdest Thing is the band name.
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Song written by Mick Gardner, I play bass on the track, sing backing and I engineered and produced it.
Released this year as part of the "Because..." EP
The Weirdest Thing is the band name.
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2021 50/90 S0ng Number 51
I listen to this song and I am struck by how little there is to it. It sounds simple and basic and un-special in every way.
Why then was it such an absolute nightmare to sing. I mean... I had to dumb down the…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 52
And that's all she wrote, folks.
The first time I finished 50/90 was 2014 and I had exactly 50 songs. The second time was last year and I had 51. Now this year I have 52. The bar inches higher.
There is a…
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Improvised piece using Vibraslide pedal and guitar, processed and looped via Flashback, FreQout, Line6 DL4 looper, and Avalanche Run reverb pedals. Judicious editing applied in post-production
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Inspired by Dillon Bastan's "Inspired by Nature" Ableton Live Pack.
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It’s on Tuesday across the world
And it really takes some beating
Yes its our weekly fun time
At our Zoom music meeting
We all try and be respectful
Its all civilized and nice
Trying to see who will be
The one tries to break the ice…
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This song tells a story about how we set up the first Student Radio station on our campus in 2008 or so back when streaming over the internet was still quite difficult.
Featuring Big Rips on guitars and backing vocals.
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Inspired by gurgling sounds from the bathroom sink comes this little sax improvisation. I tried to play as short of a sound as possible each time; a few slightly longer ones, by comparison, sneak in but that's alright. Submitted to the no-theme…
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V1 Like a first day sketch
like a homeless wretch
Ignored then just cast aside
Any crumb will do
To help see me through
To conquer and then divide
C I’m pursued by different wolves
Now I've left the words
They are just salesman with…
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To Mr. E. Lien, RPM Challenge, Thursday 30th September 2021
Dear Elling,
As you know, your having a guest appearance on it an' all, we have a new album coming out in October, so I hope you will understand that we have been…
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soundtrack of my abstract video-clip 'the offering' at:
https://streamable.com/iop18p
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Cool envelope I found and tweaked over two oscillators being initialized with random frequencies 0-1400 hz. Built two loops into the patch and it's soup! Credit inspiration from Paris Young with reminding me about PD's randomizer object!
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Recorded 2021OCT02
Direct In
Squier Bass VI and Fender Mustang
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Inspired by fellow Sound-In composer Chris Vasvil and a piece he did this week based on the tuning of Dustin Schallert. I created a pitch around most of the frequencies, this was one of the improvisations.
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One day I was bored and I decided to plug my acoustic guitar into a distorted amplifier. This is the result.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/kT_7jJZFi08
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A collaboration with singer/songwriter Sinéad McCarthy. It is still a work in progress and we are just starting to work on the mix. If anyone would like to give some comments/ideas on how the mix is working that would be great. Thanks
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ableton wavetable -> hybrid reverb -> redux while sitting in bed
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Been sat on this for a few months, thought it was about time I got round to record it.
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A couple of recordings from the local creek, slightly swollen from a recent rain. One recording was fairly short, about a minute long, while the other was a little more than six minutes. I removed a few segments from the longer one - which, surprisingly…
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altered settings in a tibetan monk preset and worked out in logic x
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and it is more preset derivatives from that other multiverse where things change too fast and nothing is ever real --- ever- or so it is thought but what is the thoughts of the average person really --- from "there?"
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for the Sound-In Unheard Improv event. Real time mixing drone and Steve Tibbetts loops without monitoring.
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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Bringing back a song from 2011 with a new twist. The song now has drums, bass, and an orchestral backend. This is hopefully part of a larger collection of me reworking older songs with orchestration.
Many thanks to Brian of A Beautiful Scene…
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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unheard midi created performance--- using various presets and editing the midi and sound
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this is for the sound-in event "Unheard improvisation playing event."
I did not listen to the sounds and randomly picked the presets and settings on the supernova II --- I was just blindly looking at the levels in audacity as it was recording --
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Continuing to work with a tuning I was enlightened to by Chris Vaisvil, Porcupine tuning by Dustin Schallert. My platform is Pure Data and I created a patch with 12 oscillators, one per frequency of the Porcupine tuning, well except the last…
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"unheard improv" on the fretless Chinese junk strat
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quick response to Gyaws prompt of a fictional character - just for fun
I want to drive a fast car
Drink martini s in the shade
I want to save the world
And never be afraid
I want to have the pretty girls
Hanging off my arm
I want…
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We have a cane toad. Sometimes we call him Caney, sometimes we call him Toady, but sometimes we call him Dairy Queen.
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So I found some chords I'd written down for another song from about 3 years ago but never used, so thought I'd try and spin that into a song today & then I really liked the initial recording of it so... here 'tis lol!
Hope you enjoy it…
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An updated version of a 10 year old song, now featuring orchestration.
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Obscurium midi capture to Prophet 12, Kontakt sample instruments all in 22 edo. A semi-aleatoric composition.
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Born into the mob
And Lived by the sword
Was used as a hit man
Always given reward
Retired to his Restaurant
Worked hard every day
Watched over his shoulder
Coz he didnt want to pay
But Luciano its said
liked doing the dishes
Took…
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Back to the epic game/movie trailer style orchestrations...and this one allowed me to bring in the big guns that are the cathedral organ and choir!!
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Another trailer-type epic sound.....Here I imagined the massed enemy archers at the walls of the castle!!
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Another late night session in a dark blue-ish cloud.
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No Promises
I'll give it my best shot
Do all that i can
This could be the real deal
well that is my plan
But i am what i am
And nothing more
So don’t you go try to pretend
I didn’t tell you the score
I’ll make no promises
Not big…
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The first one took a very long time. The new one, not so much...
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many a soft synth were harmed in the process and you can keep the dime.
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For Choir
Humility Do Not Come to You
Bet you do not know what I do
what I am doing what I m doing
Bet you do not understand
Yes I realize
that you think you think you are so big
and its hollow the night you stand
Humility…
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I got nothing.
Insert some random post-apocalyptic sci-fi narrative here, involving Speak And Spells achieving sentience and taking over the world, only to be thwarted by the Amish.
Alternatively, "Based On A True Story" something something.
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Don't really know where this came from, could the month, October does have a lot of history with my family over many years.
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Hello Empathy
Hello Empathy, can’t ya see that its me hanging out to dry
I’m surprised to see you after all this time
A sip of sympathy may be all that i need to get me by tonight
But those home made remedies only work for a while
Miss…
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