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As the song says, this is a song I wrote for the RPM Challenge. I simply took my actual experience beginning at 12 midnight on February 1st, and a couple or three hours later I had my first song. The player takes away the intensity of this track…
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I have no idea why I named this song "Random". (hmm, maybe that's EXACTLY why I named it "Random.") I never use the word, I hate when other people do, and it's not mentioned in this song. Enjoy the recital.
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Written and Recorded April 22, 2010
Buddah defined compassion as "a trembling of the heart."
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD/DADGAD Capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity.
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This is a collaboration with some tasty funkadelic percussion added by Norm. Guitars and Keys with some Fx's, I hope you like it,
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A chapter in my bio...
ONE SMALL CANDLE Key - G
G D G
In this old world when things go wrong
D C. G
We hold our women. We sing our song.
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key of C - no capo
We listen for years for words to explain ourselves. "I'm good but not THAT good," was such a moment for me. Good enough to stay in the game but never good enough to win.
Last night I kissed somebody
I kissed somebody…
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One day as I was turning into my driveway I saw Rita on her porch. She's a lot like me.
AL & RITA Capo @2 in C
C stepping down to F
Al was a smoker. He's dead now, of course
Al has Alzheimer's. Alcohol made it worse
D stepping down…
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Another mini-suite, of sorts.
Diamond marimba, mazda marimba, bowed gourd
iPod apps: NLog synth, Bebot
Extremely altered guitar
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2010 Vocal Jazz Festival - Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
The Mansfieldians, a 12 voice vocal jazz ensemble, held a concert on April 15, 2010 closing the day's festivities. Directed by Dr. Sheryl Monkelien, the group features some of the…
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4 stereo guitar tracks played out one at a time.
Another late night - early morning recording.
I like to keep a positive attitude about the things that haunt me, but sometimes dreams change course unexpectedly, and the worms creep in.
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An Old (within the year) Synth Track....
4 Tracks of Virus TI...
Played Live each time.....
I Love Analogue synths....
About a Hard Time...
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This was recorded on an old cassette 4-track using a Carvin preamp and a couple of cheap Realistic microphones. Warning: I tried to sing.
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Verse 1
Dozing in and out of consciousness
the blade falls from her hand.
Her clock will cease to tick,
then everything will be fine.
Chorus 1
It’s all good now, it’s all fine.
It’s all good now, it’s okay.
Fade
Verse 2
Every sound becomes…
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I Feel It (Lyrics)
Desperate thoughts of uncertainty
Keep on dancin’ in my head
And all these images of yesterday
And what I should have done instead
Oh, Oh, I feel it
Chorus:
I feel it, I feel it…
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Is this years' fillertrack. I had started this backingtrack to fit with a lyricidea I had but I decided against the lyric and turned it into an instrumental. I needed an extra tune since two other tunes I put quite a lot of time in were going…
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One of my better tunes this year I think. Lyrics were meant to be an anti-"My Way". Instead of looking back on life all proud and selfassured, this is from the viewpoint of someone who has just realized he has been living his life on other peoples…
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The lyrics were meant to be kinda stupid and obnoxious to set the bar really low for myself in an attempt to get over my chronic lyric-writing block.
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Composed in digital performer for a course in computer music. Some of the presets reminded me of Kraftwerk, so I thought I'd attempt something in that style. "The doom house" was my sister's nickname for her place of residence at the time.
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There's no reason for this to be named after the infamous section of craigslist, beyond the song itself sounding sort of sleazy I guess. The ending isn't meant as political commentary, it's just a funny moment I happened to capture.
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I might go back and do an expanded version of this someday. Despite the title, I think it works nicely as an ambient piece.
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Some places (like Salisbury Beach in Massachusetts) are just sacred ground.
"This tide rolls out and in my life."
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The sweet little girl I can't seem to get
Out of the back of my mind
Isn't quite sure what she's looking for yet
And I worry about what she'll find
Working so hard looking out for herself
I know there are times all alone
She's always had…
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The first track from 2009's "Where I May Have Been." More uploads from this album to come!
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Another in the iPod series.
Apps used:
Sound Pallete
NLog synth
Bebot
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The cover I did off Uglifruit's 2010 RPM submission. The drums are a pair of hotrod sticks, that I made, hitting my keyboard table. The "kick drum is the stick hitting the pop screen while the mic was on.
I still need to fade...
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A typical folk song.
Written and recorded in about an hour for the 24 hour album (attempted on March 13th). Excuse roughness and vocal glitches, it was 2am and this was my first full take.
Thanks to montgomeru for his chord suggestions…
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The first 6 min. of the set from Backbeat Cafe last night. My favorite part at a manageable listening length.
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This was a piece I made with Reichatron back in January and, at the time, didn't upload.
I had the odd experience of momentary unfamiliarity, enjoyment, and a sense of "Did I make this?"
Listening to it again I enjoy the way it drifts in…
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Sometimes, all you need to do is decide that you're gonna save yourself.
COMING UP OVER THE RISE
So low I couldn't see the skies
The shadows had me hypnotized
Climbing high, sun in my eyes
I was down, but now I'm coming up over the rise…
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Cthulahoop recording. Monkey, the base element of the human alchemy.
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Guitar, $300... Folding chair, $30... Firewood, free... Labor Day, priceless.
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Matter Of Fate- This song started as a riff I was doing while tuning my guitar. It sounded cool, so I happened to record it on a small dictation recorder I have so I wouldn’t forget it. When I listened to the riff it just screamed Sticky Fingers…
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A cover of a 2010 RPM Challenge song by A Beautiful Scene. Lyrics:
Pouring Rain by A Beautiful Scene
This year I thought of you, far too many times
And it’s made me think
Of things that’ve become over there and they…
And how do I know…
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I've gone more acoustic for this piece with bass and guitars courtesy of Jaz Arwand and the lovely, airy sound of Jess Spencer's voice. The song is about empathy or lack thereof.
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Girls! Women! Birds! Chicks! This song's about all the pretty girls out there (and you know who you are)! This song celebrates each and everyone of them.
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Album: The End of Happy Endings
Year: 2010 (RPM)
Written by: Damian Lethbridge
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Title track to our rpm effort. Introduces both vocalists and overall acoustic rock sound of the album.
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Title track from my RPM 2010 album, entitled "The Loudest Silence".
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RPM 2010 track. Opener for "The Loudest Silence" album.
Full songname is "Of Bad Sectors In The Human Mind".
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So I just figured out that the EXS24 sampler instrument in Logic Pro (the DAW I use) can also import SoundFont2 files, which I happened to have a bunch of from a previous life as a Cakewalk user. All the tracks in this tune were played using old…
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TRACK 8-Revenge---Sanity now a faint memory, he can no longer make the distinction between right and wrong. The only way to stop the chaos that now consumes his mind is vengeance!
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I mostly wanted to make music with a funky clav line I'd come up with, so this is it. For the voiceover, I unabashedly used an awesome monologue by Ken Nordine.
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I came up with the initial rhythmic riff on my bass, then looped it to create the basis for this track. Then, I layered another "lead" bass track on top of that, added some percussion, and finally topped it off with an electric piano-ish sound…
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This is probably the least electronic-sounding of everything that I did from RPM 2010, although it still heavily uses samples (either self-sampled or from Freesound).
That is me playing the harmonica, though. (No, really!)
If the song makes…
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It's not blues, and it's got more than one note.
Another headbanging one.
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Written and Recorded: Feb 07, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
2010 RPM Challenge
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Fun with live looping and a ring modulator.
E minor open tuning improv.
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live @ Dunn Bros. 1/29/10
I kinda like how this turned out. The sound at 1:08 is my ebow hitting the floor.
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live @ Dunn Bros. in Keller, Tx. 1/29/10
Took me awhile to get my legs here, as evidenced by the sloppy playing. The bulk of this is the tune "Blue Hour".
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Decided to finally upload this, warts and all.
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Rell Sunn, the Queen of Makaha, was a beautiful spirit and graceful surfer who lives in the hearts of all who knew her before she was called back home.
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I was trying to tune my radio into a station I picked up, just for an instant, but I found it hard to keep a lock on it, I kept getting strange interferences.
From what I could hear it sounded like someone sent [MMI](http://alonetone.com/mmi…
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A compilation from Christmas day 2009.
Started at 8pm until 3:30am. Me and my family.
Doug - singing. Me and my brother - beatbox.
My boxing day was spent adding the music.
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Words by Michael Thomas
Music by Chris Mitchell & Michael Thomas
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Some non-guitar silliness. Every instrument is an iPod Touch app except for the drums which is friend Phil on electronic percussion.
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Mining the archives a bit. This is an alternate take of my "Jimi Jam" from a couple of years ago. Live to 2 tracks with the Jamman. Really only sounds OK when cranked up loud enough that your eardrums threaten to meet in the middle. LOL!!
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Another of [Ronnie's Mixed Bag](http://rekkerd.org/) samples (this one called `120_hollow_01`) and another version of my Reichenbach ensemble for Reaktor.
The major difference here is the addition of playback modes and, in this case, the *slicer…
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From Music for MOBA: a collection of pieces inspired by paintings from The Museum of Bad Art.
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Lyrics:
I don’t want to live to see that it’s over
But I don’t want to leave before my time.
So here’s what I’m gonna do.
No, no, baby, I ain’t gonna lose you,
I’ll just meet up with you further on down the line.
Well I can’t tell myself…
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This track is off of the third CD. It was written on a trip that I made to South America. I composed it in my hotel room on a traveling guitar. We heard a lot of tango music that week and while the feel and phrasing was inspired by the tango…
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I sent the tracks for this tune to a friend of mine who owns a professional studio. I gave him no instructions on how to mix it, as I wanted someone else's take on the music. He created a very dry, intimate mix, focusing more on the acoustic guitars…
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Background Soundtracks for Personalized Super Triliminal Recordings at:
http://www.personalized-super-triliminals.webs.com
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Another collaboration between me and guitarist Kerry Hoke. Kerry provided me with four guitar loops. I arranged the loops, added some effects, played a sampled upright bass, programmed some drums, and blended it all together.
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A Genetic Disorder That Results In Severe Retardation And A Perpetual Huge Grin
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This odd time signature tune was recorded on September 13, 1991, on a 4-track cassette tape. I imported it into Logic Studio, tweaked the effects and adjusted the levels, and here it is. Instrumentation used: an Alesis HR-16 drum machine, bass…
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Another song in the works that I have never been happy with. Now that Mr. Tolar has me feeding raw meat to the Ibanez, this is the result. So, it's either a rocker, or I'm off my rocker!
Lyrics:
It was yesterday
when she said
she's leaving…
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A soundscape using some new toys.
Specifically, CamelPhat, CamelSpace, Alchemy and Max for Live.
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One of my favorite songs of all time and one of my favorite voices.
Thanks M.T.
My Skin
Some days I’m fine
Yeah some days I feel sublime
All the time
But then there’s days
I wanna crawl out of my skin
And leave it in
A…
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Left over audio from "How to Glu"
This one is about power and resistence.. which I find to be quite sexy when I think about it.
Instrumentation: distorted and clean acoustic guitar, swords, tabla, synth, drum programming, clapping, vocals.
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I told the [good Sister](http://alonetone.com/sistersavage) that I wanted to try using vocals in a track and she offered to do me some abstract, stylized, vocals that I could play with and this little number is the result.
Working with wet (pre…
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From 2005 - Another one of my early pieces written on Fruity Loops, I believe written along side Morning at the Quay. As much as I detest re-recording things, I could probably do it justice now (for what it is, but I cringe at the step programming…
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Measuring Desert by Lena & Irina Panfilova is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
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Narrative: A lonely scientist was stationed to Tundzha Glacier in Antarctica to study fissures.
Instrumentation: I stretched, repitched, and looped two sections…
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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for REALZ, this is way far from being done. this is an oldie from a previous duo I was in, VC Andrews, (http://www.myspace.com/vcandrews) and i wanted to give it new life. Listen to the old version at the myspace page to hear how it's going to…
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started out as a demo collection of parts, then the collaboration fell apart, so that's how it stays.
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Not a song I'm particularly proud of from a lyrical standpoint. But, I've always like the arrangement, so, I decided to ask for feedback here.
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This very popular south eastern rock n' roll ballad was originally recorded in the late sixties by Rick's Continentals. Enjoy this new version and then check out the old one at www.RicksContinentals.com
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Similar in feel to the other Fragile Moment track. Mostly acoustic guitars recorded sitting in my shop on the H4N and then finished up in Cubase just this morning. September 9 09. Maybe a nice one for bedtime
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A short piece, written and recorded by a few of the string players a while ago.
Instrumentation:
Resonator Guitar
Acoustic Guitar
Banjo
Bass
Light Piano
2 Clarinets
Drunken Crooning
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It's the "do no harm" mix.
Because, theoretically you won't hear any difference between this and "technique 43".
Which is sad really, given how many hours I spent on it. Hours spent on the oh-so-exciting put-everything-in-Logic step…
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Started off with me just goofing around with Battery and a couple of other NI things (which are new to me) and grew into this...
It may still have places to go.
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I've had a bit of a love/hate relationship with this one.
I enjoyed making the beats and think that part came out pretty good but everything after that felt rather haphazard and didn't feel right to me.
I was close to abandoning the track…
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This was a quick, 20 minute job with my bass trombone and Propellerhead's "Record" (beta). The arrangment is by "PeterTuba.com".
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From Brazil: the title music from Animal Crossing.
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There's some kind of Tool/Pain Of Salvation vibe to this one, albeit murked up by a lot of electronic ambience.
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Part 3 of the Format Sea suite. Probably the closest thing to honest-to-goodness electronica here.
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We use R.Kelly as an example for how easily we're willing to spend a year watching a trial involving urine and the celebrities that are careless with it. We have given up on the news reporting on subjects of value that actually have an impact…
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Another one recorded "live on the fly", so the sound quality isn't great. Also some tonal support from SonicMood program.
Pileus is a cap-like structure, like on a cloud or mushroom.
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This is a random, ambient, minimal and free music. Created with SonicMood Software for OS X.
Key: G
Mode: Mixolydian
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Added a guitar track to my buddy Nitro's blues dance album which will be titled "Wanna Dance?" You can look him up on reverbnation.
Nitro - Drums, writing
Ruthie - Vocal
Kavin - guitar
Rick - bass-
Bull - piano
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Format Sea - Part Two
Based on the age-old concept that a person is born anew every seven years. It's technically meant in terms of physiology - you develop all new bones/muscle/fat in a seven year period. I kind of add a spiritual/alien abduction…
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Publicado Bajo Autorizacion y sin animo de Lucro. www.carranga.org
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Just a rough sketch, but I wanted to get it out there.
It's still taking shape, but I like the atmosphere.
Goes as a pair with Shine, together I find them very relaxing.
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