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Paris in Summer
V1 Walk me through the streets of Paris
Hold my hand along the river seine
Watch the moon shine over Montmartre
Shelter me from summer rain
V2 In the shadow of the tower
Eating crepes of grand marnier
Smell the croissants…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 43
This is actually my 53rd and likely final song idea for this year's 50/90 and I kinda like it. I mean it is kinda boring, what with what I laughingly referred to as a chorus just being eight bars of Emin7, and one…
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We can set up camp here... it looks fairly safe.
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No Surrender
I will never surrender
To those people with their pens
Who try to take my freedom
Only see things through their lens
Ill stand among the chosen few
Ill take the final oath
Ill circumcise their minds
From the silent expanding…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 44
Another swing thing... sort of. Not as overt as the others, and I really wasn't planning on it. The GarageBand session drummer suggested it and I figured the session drummer knows best, right?
All of the fun of…
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Scattered all around me
A night time to behold
The youthful bright standing out
The dull and dying old
The stars that cover my whole sky
Light the dullest night
Everyone who seems them here
Are awed just by there sight
I wonder what…
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This one makes me really happy. Soothing and a little snappy. Guitar, bass, lyre, bongo, bodhran (brush), vocals.
Lyrics:
Life is a roller coaster
Just turn on the toaster
I know you're up and down
Just make a happy sound
Flying a dragon…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 45
Eh. Not really feeling this one anymore. It's not terrible as a big dumb rocker, but it lost me somewhere. The mix sounds pretty ratty to my tired brain right now. Maybe I'll like it more in the morning.
All…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 46.
Not terrible. It feels punky to me which implies that this is what punky sounds like to people who don't really know what punky sounds like.
Short and sweet. I think the chorus could stand a rewrite, but otherwise…
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It all went wrong so quickly
Too much to contemplate
I wished id changed things earlier
But now its far too late
Our love is like A blanket of stars
Once bright But now slowly dying
My whole heart I put into you
But now ive given up trying…
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Everyone does a song about their beautiful snake, so here's mine. He's a spotted python, and named Snapper because he bit me on the drive home from where we got him.
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First foray with a Eurorack module in conjunction with my Pure Data patch. Also using a delay box from Timebox Instruments on this which has some theremin ability. Created for this week's Sound-In fest.
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2021 50/90 Song Number 47
Well now that this one is done I think we can forget it ever happened. I don't know, maybe I'll take the sections with the harmony vocals and the wah-wah on the rhythm guitar and try to work those into a song that…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 48
Not bad. I like the phaser on the guitars in the A section, and I like the wah on the rhythm near the end. That wash of noise underneath is actually a guitar solo that was sort of hiding the slow wah effect so I…
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V1 It began on one spring evening:
She was the smartest one around,
She had more than anyone
Or now i have found
V2 She has now become my friend,
My calm my love my one
The one that i need more
Than any other one
C Yesterday was special…
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A collaboration with Geoff Matthews, a UK based lyricist and Bill White a US singer songwriter based in Peru.
These are excellent lyrics from Geoff that graphically paint a picture of the grinding poverty of the dust bowl depression era in…
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I was absolutely delighted when Sonya agreed to do some vocals on this collaboration with @kristi
I think you will agree that she has done an absolutely stunning job and lifts the song to another level. She brings some real soul and feeling…
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I love David Taro's stuff (@davidtaro) and I asked him if he would put some vocals on one of my tracks. Happily he agreed and this is the result.
Hope you like it.
THIS WELL IS DRY
VERSE
He’s cruising down the highway.
Cutting up…
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Now I am completely aware there is a Pink Floyd album with the same name but the name seemed to suit the topic covered very well.
What is the topic? The absolute evils of social media and how it is rotting our once great civilisation from the…
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From Lyricist in South Africa.
Currently we have unrest in SA
The Streets are not a safe place
Fire and bullets are common place
Every journey must be carefully planned
Zuma is in jail for contempt of court
not His many crimes
But He…
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A song written and recorded for the Record Every Month Challenge in September 2021
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A collaboration with @cindyrella
Love the words
What is the Shape of Love?
© 2021 Cindy Prince
Does love have a shape?
Does empathy
Or honesty?
Amnesty?
Or charity?
Does love have a shape?
Chorus
What is the shape of…
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Words by Geoff Matthews
A slightly odd structure, led by the lyrics, which has a very different intro verse the chords of which are not then repeated though the song.
Seems to work though.
As ever with @geoff61 the lyrics needed minimal…
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I’ll Drive David L Graham
I never begged to have the power
I just need to be me
Don’t matter what you believe
Unless you want to run with me
Then we’ll see what we see
But I get to drive… I get to drive
Chorus…
Cause this is my…
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Released as a single earlier in the year with the very lovely Erin Sullivan on vocals.
A song about a woman facing up to the fact she is dying and trying to reconcile the life she lived.
VERSE 1
Sweet life
Something that you take for…
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Released as a single earlier this year.
This version the song is sung by the lovely Theresa Johnson
An optimistic track for these dark times.
VERSE 1
When dreamers fly
We need them now more than ever before
And if they talk about…
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Not much to say about this. It consumed me for awhile, and I'm not convinced it's worth it.
A little keyboard intro, bass, drums and a bunch o' guitars. And some stress and sweat.
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2021 50/90 Song Number 49
I like this one and I can't figure out why. It's certainly not because of the recording because it's pretty hacky. You can pretty much hear every punch and every edit. It's certainly not because of the vocals because…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 50!
WOOHOO! Success! 2014, 2020, and now 2021.
I kinda like this one. It's kinda swampy, in a good way. I like the strummy solos. I probably should have put more work into them but I think I can live with this…
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*Her departed voice
*says
*barely audible
*static crackling
*I must try and defrag
*constant recalibration of
*the listening machine
(I sense a world of bits and bytes)
(Machine reverie hidden from our eyes)
(It's all there for…
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Interactive jamming on a Pure Data patch I made that Paris Young contributed recent enhancements.
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an older recording of my avdogs arping on my plumbutter
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This is my second music experiment 🌈.
Wear a headphone 🎧 for the best experience.
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I've recorded this track about a year ago. I was planning to make more tracks like this and release them as EP, but I'm a lazy ass, and didn't record anything since then.
I have no idea what genre this is. I guess it's influenced by jungle, techno…
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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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