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An atonal work for keyboard with bell-like tones. Written based on a four note cell that makes an augmented C chord.
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Meant to emulate the sound of a carousel's band organ. Written for small concert band.
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Download full album for free at http://www.snowavemusic.com/
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An arrangement of an anonymous tune by John Dowland and realized electronically by me.
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introduction to four covers from video games that left a lasting impression on my childhood.
Download the full EP here...
http://bacalao.ch
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An old folk song of american origin which has been adopted by the Irish folk scene. It tells the story of a broke traveller who is so impressed by the hospitality and dark beauty of a Creolo girl that he asks her to marry him, but is turned down…
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I made this in GarageBand with some loops that came with the program, some audio files, and some loops I recorded myself. The audio is from a Cardinal World Series game in the '60s.
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A song about the classic dice-rolling game:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41/cant-stop
Lyrics:
It feels so nice when I throw the dice that I think I'll do it again
It'll be okay if I can find a way to make a 3 or 6 or 10
I've come…
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A song about a classic boardgame:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5/acquire
Lyrics:
Sit yourself right down my friend and I'll tell you how to play
You're goin' first because your tile is closest to 1-A
I recommend you start a chain…
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A song about the popular tile-laying game:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne
Lyrics:
You flip a tile off the stack and then you spin it
We give you lots of good advice
You finally put it down and put a meeple in it
I'm…
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A song about a fun little card game:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza
Lyrics:
The order that you draw the cards
is the order that they'll be om
the only way to get 'em out of your hand is by giving them to me
giving them to…
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Help Wanted: Looking for a benevolent troublemaker of any gender.
This piece is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings," which can be found here…
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not sure how to classify this one - chill with a dash of electronic strings...haunting.
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A good ol' electronic thump . . . .
Updated 23.9.2010
Updated 24.9.2010
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This is the instrumental track to my uncompleted song, Through The Eyes of A Child. I have yet to finish the lyrics.
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This is a remix of the song "Memories" that I recorded a while back. I spent about 6 hours on this mix, so let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
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Part V of a fully improvised ep. Available for purchase at bandcamp.
http://maxsipowicz.bandcamp.com/album/the-winter-in-our-hearts
By buying you will also get a $5 discount on the price of the LP I am working on once it comes out.
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A friend of mine did an off-the-cuff review of this song, saying "he's taken a subject so depressing and made it sound so good".
What do you think?
ER
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its only thirty seconds long, but, its alot of songs. This is the fable mangoz zurge, as told of in the forums, which you all should visit.
oh yes, i dont think i wrote any of these songs, but, you can't really tell.
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Brad Dassey - When Jesus Comes
The Prayer Closet
www.theprayercloset.org
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Nothing special - just a little ditty to play with some new toys and get the creative juices flowing.
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I have issues at my house, sometimes they manifest themselves in my tracks. In this case, the bassoon and oboe represent the mouse. The guitar is the peanut-butter.
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A 1700 mile road trip culminated in a gig in Amarillo at the 806.
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This is my first effort with real bongos. I've been so inspired by Norm's talents, that I had to give it a try. I borrowed a set of bongos from my brother Asa.
http://alonetone.com/asalennon
I had to play 18 holes of golf to get my hands…
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Live recording 2009.
Cees Borger-Vocals & Bass, Rob Louwers-Drums (Toured with Link Wray, Robert Gordon and recently The Fuzztones on Rock Pallast),
Guitars: John Filippo & Ber van Zanen.
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a sinister violence...a quiet violence...the violence of tears...the violence of sorrow...the violence of hurt, distrust, betrayal...the violence of loss, coping, longing...the violence in my heart.........
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I am really exited about the potential of the digital revolution in audio. I have been at it for about a year and a half. I own Logic, Live8 and use Elysium and gleetchlab3. I am also a bluegrass banjo player, former opera singer and guitar player…
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I had not touched my keyboard for a long time - couple months? So it was inspiring to play it again. I set it up in the living room of the new house and played pianoteq on my laptop using a Just Intonation tuning (below). Actually I had to improvise…
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So Radiohead and Tortoise walked into a bar...
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just a nice blues track i wrote. Brian Bazeley on Bass once again with an awesome Bass line!! Hope you enjoy it.
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New instrumental. New mics on the way, so probably not for long.
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Fan music, plain and simple. I did this a few years ago, excited about the prospect of Casino Royale...
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Keyboards: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Written/Recorded: 2006
Another short piece I threw together when I had access to a keyboard. If I ever have any extra money, I need to get a keyboard. Though I'm technically inclined, sometimes…
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This is a written by Taylor Swift, but we did our own spin off of it and put a little "man" behind it. Hope you like it!
***THIS IS THE SCREAM VERSION!!!! SEE "LOVE STORY" FOR THE ORIGINAL!!!***
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Something I did last year - A song about the crazy college days (Or Uni where applicable :) )
Bad Old Days
Everybody's drinking their wine
Driving slow and taking their time
Better off when I sip moonshine
Not rubbing alcohol 'cause I…
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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A track that I had chalked up as a "throw-away" until a PAL convinced me otherwise. I believe this is an alonetone debut for this one.
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made with an electric guitar, a simple looping device, an amp, and automated volume curves in Garageband
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Kind of an antagonistic / protagonist song. 3rd person type rendition. This song was inspired by a little of my past history.
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Moving from point a to point b, sometimes not as fast as you would like but with rewards at the end. Sometimes the rewards are unknown but still worth it.
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Inspired by a couple people. And the general pretentious ideology in general.
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Made a little song which ended up being about the veteran German footballer Torsten Frings (holding midfielder, can break forward).
Did it in an accent that started off being a bit Willy Mason, ended up a bit weirdyank.
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An improvisation on the resonator, played lap style.
Tuning CGCEBE
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The final version.
Thank you for listening, any feedback that you can provide is greatly appreciated.
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Seeing as how it had Fly in the title I used my riff Fly for free, pay to land. It seems to fit.
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So, what's "Fly"? This.
Bass Cajon; tambourine; congas; cymbals.
4/4 180bpm.
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this song is the result of playing around on one of those free loop internet jungle gyms.
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aren't strings expensive? man i need to sober up.
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A long over due changing of the acoustic strings led to this epic production. 40 tracks and 34 plug-ins. Good Gravy that's a boat load of tracks. All kinds of stuff happening.
Enjoy!
you spend your days and your night times
bustin' ass…
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WARNING! ADULT CONTENT or goofy great........
After a week of computer crashes, I finally got my gear all back to normal. I got my drum kit hooked up yesterday and did a test run which led to this bit of Saturday morning fun that only
proves…
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I wrote this one about this guy I worked with in a two man show. Do I feel guilty? Meh.
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I wrote this song for the first person I ever fell in love with to tell her that I loved her. I figured that if she didn't feel the same way, it would be less awkward. Win!
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For the indignant lover who won't walk away in all of us...
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Party 2 Nite is a song about you and your lady.
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last eve there was a beautiful moon
dancing in a blue black sky
outside my piano room, it called to me
this tune is a one take playful moment, loosely based on the main theme from the 2nd mov of my piano sonata,,, i only toned down about…
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Quick live recording on my buddy Jim's guitar while visiting him in Portland. The song hopefully speaks for itself. Eastern Europe gets me every time...
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This is a microtonal Jazz-ish piece produced with some newly developed techniques.
Norm Harris provides the excellent percussion. I probably could have made it easier on myself by not being so chromatic… but there it is.
The piano, bass…
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The first song done on new album. Featuring Roy Sample on guitar.
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They recon if you go down any mine in the world you'll find a Cornishman there working.
Colin did the vocals and twelve string
Matthew did Balron, whistle, backing vocals ect.
I did the acoustic and backing vocals.
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this is a random song i made when i was bored hope you like it
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well, i really took to both pieces. I decided a mashup should be without permission, otherwise its just aremix. Hope I made something new, Incidentally structure is based on theory heard on alonetone.
Just add 4/4 and go!
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This is a 3/16 Bembe on tuned congas, played with mallets. I've arranged it (at the very kind suggestion of Vaisvil & ReefWalker) in a verse/chorus/bridge/capo fashion to get away from a straight pattern - I think this sort of arrangement…
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Guess I've been away a while - something a little difference - distinct parts in harmony, perhaps... or just me experimenting ;-)
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If you have the fever and the only cure is more tambourine, here it is.
MORE TAMBOURINE SOLOS!! (But you should probably wait until you have the house to yourself...)
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I present the first of 3 guitar solos - Fender Mustang => Roland GR-20 + DoD FX-7 into Alesis mixer and Alesis effects.
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This is the song that's responsible for the creation of this band in the first place. It was originally intended to be used with another band of mine, but kept growing and changing, until it no longer suited that band.
Since then, I have a full…
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this is a redone cover of hallelujah i took this song and made it my own i hope you enjoy :)
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this is a rock song with a message about the sad state of the world we currently live in.....enjoy silly humans!
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There is a video for this below
Its all a bit cliche I know - but its what I wanted to do. All of the video footage was taken by me in an undisclosed location somewhere. This is a microtonal piano improvisation that uses Lucy tuning 0b6s meantone…
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I had a bit of a dry spell with writing new music but today I have decided to break it.
This is loosely based on another song of mine, titled Swell.
I hope you enjoy this.
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Licensed for my new "Forever" CD by HFA this song is from "Prince of Persia". It's a song about having faith that all troubling things will turn out allright. All you have to do is believe it will.
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something i wrote for my worst half. who happens to be my better one..
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Not terribly odd except for how I did it with Fretless gutiar.
I recently bought a used Fender Squier for $60, pulled the frets with pliers, filled the cuts with plastic wood, sanded, and jammed. Took about 2 hours to make the guitar fretless…
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somehow i wandered in this very different direction
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Can you dig this? I can! Looking forward to hitting a real studio soon in hopes of doing this song and more.
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i know it's another remix of the same Bolero of fire theme, but I just felt I didn't do it justice. behold this new rock themed track for Bolero of Fire from The Legend of Zelda; Ocarina of Time.
enjoy.
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A piece of music to a lovescene turning to a dramatic rapescene
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Fender Mustang guitar, Roland GR-20, and Fractal Tune Smithy
Alontone refused to accept the update
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Splice your main-brace, and scrape off your barnacles. You'll be jigging along to this one.
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Why bounce I don't know maybe cause it wants to make you bounce.
Something I recorded a couple years ago using a Digitech RP350, drums are from the RP350. Rythm, Lead and Bass were all recorded on a CP60 Strat, bass was an effect on the RP350.
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Another laid back track that Louis has allowed me to add a little bass too.
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Singer Island's natural Soure in Marajó (AP-BR), does a duet with the band's guitarist Renato Torres Clepsidra.
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Second movment,, perhaps a little rough,, comments welcome,,, 6/11 Third mov is now done,,, and very very different from the first two,, scares me a little
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Twinkly little number. In need of a fairground organ?. What do you think?
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Just added a bit of chugging bass. Hopefully it will add a little to this brilliant track.
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I can just see some plodding along an a horse in the midday sun.
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This is a little piece dedicated to the lost world island of Socotra that grabs a lot of instrumentation from across Asia with little discrimination - the melodic instruments use Afshari with the exception of the Jaw harps which use 9-tET Sorog.
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This is just a little shout out to my boy D Hopz. R.I.P
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This is a piece that uses MOTU Ethno 2. All but percussion and voice were performed my Fender Mustang and midi recorded via Roland GR-20. The piece uses the Almak tuning included in Ethno 2. [Amlak recurrent sequence (x^2 = x + 1/3), as a matrix…
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The salient lines in this traditional song, for me, are these:
"... and still I hold, / that the time will come / when he and I will be as one ..."
What need is expressed in this "holding"? Against what, does our singer hope? The resistance…
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alright..a new collaboration..this is cryptic meadow's tite beat..in my twisted mind..id like to see this song grow..im hot wheels spaulding, and i endorse this message
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Rather dig the style of the vocals I did on this. I imagine the final version of the song to be rather swamp sludge out with all sorts of righteous sounds. I'll get there eventually.
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My performance on video (see "more") at the odd music convergence with words by Evan Harrington and myself.
Details are available here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=68
The full quality 230 meg video is available here: http://clones.soonlabel…
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After listening to Brian's beautiful guitar piece "Mellow," Brian was kind enough to allow me to sing along...
Never saw you coming
Down my lonely road
I never saw you coming
Can't be sure you'll never go
I know you'll be leaving
But I keep believing…
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Alright!! This is some kickin' tune right here. I wanted to mess with this one when Jarvis first uploaded it. Then Brian Bazeley added this great bass line to it. At that point, I had no choice but to add some more veggies to this stew…
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My submission for the Woody Project.
I started this jam in A minor then found out it was in C. So I figure I got as close as a guess can get.
I left it as is because it's a jam, and this tune should be jammed 300 million ways.
Enjoy Woody…
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part of free loops I'm going to upload here for all you to download if you like. Mostly conga and other soundfonts used with my korg padKONTROL and then edited in fruity loops.
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