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The part you solo over came out a measure short, had to improvise....
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performed by Randy Johnson.
from the album "Sunny, sorta..."
sunny sorta, in a twisted way
to see you praying all together
with your greedy little eyes
all staring at a prize
that is so very far away
sunny sorta on this ungrateful day…
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Part of the Sunny, Sorta project.
Music & Lyrics written by Angie Fights Crime.
there's a bomb in the back
as we head down the tracks
but we can only go so fast
there's a man on our trail
pack of dogs with no tails
this kind of excitement…
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Written by Brent Kinder (Angie Fights Crime)
Performed and recorded by am/fm dreams
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This is an improvisation I did live on ustream - but the audio quality was horrific - fortunately I had recorded everything in Sonar so I used Sony Vegas to make this into something listenable. Since the frame rate was messed up (you can see…
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Sometimes you need to stay up late to try to force yourself to dream.
When I wrote this song (and started singing it a bit), I knew that my voice could never give it what it needed... So I turned it over to one Sister Savage... And she did…
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I can't remember her name. I saw her at Kerrville back in 2005. A little blond that always wore a leather cowboy had, played keys and wrote music for movies. (Someone remind me.)
COULD SHE KNOW
Could she know I think about her
Thinking…
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This improvisation (chords, melody and lyrics) is complete fiction and any resemblance to anything at all is just a coincidence.
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I can't guess
how it must be
to be so shallow
that you have ta be
an alien renegade…
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Image from Katerina Art - click on image to view more work by this great graphics artist. If you follow the link you will see that she has dedicated this image to the victims of 9-11. Katerina of course owns all rights to her image and is not…
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short drone piece for ImprovFriday APOD theme challenge (scoring an astronomy pic)
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Fuzz bass didn't sound too bad on this, original is mostly synth, but I really like the song.
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Product of noodling around. Lead guitars are a combo of UAD's Nigel plugin and the Fractal Axe Fx. Clean guitars are the Fractal. The outro guitars are my Princeton Recording amp.
I played the piano's through my midi guitar and Axon. You can…
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I just got myself a new toy called Maschine. Maschine is a "Groove Production Studio." So I guess that makes this my first groove product.
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i think the title says it all.....the easy ones from the Beatles music book........More Regged up beatles but no Elvis he has gone off in a sulk he never did like them and he thinks were doing too much of them.......
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ImprovFriday mash, 9/3 (feat. Vaisvil & Goodin)
something to do with the blues and the mystery.
be patient with it...
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Arrival is a song about charging into the breach. When you want something, you gotta go get it and sometimes this means going to places and seeing people who are more than willing to screw you over. So give as good as you get plus a little more…
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The opening track from the 2nd Xenharmonic Praxis Concert, Madonna, il poco dolce, written by Nicola Vicentino (1511-1572)in (31-tone extended meantone)
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composed by Marji Gere
violin Marji Gere
kalimba Dan Sedgwick
vocal Ryan Stickney
fipple pipe Elizabeth Adams
The video below is the "official" video for the July concert from which this performance is taken. The larger August concert video…
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A solo electric guitar piece. Strat copy in 17 edo, Marshall amp, zoom H2 recorder.
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I'm a long-time fan of Imogen Heap. I particularly love the way she layers her vocals- harmonies and interlocking bits. I love trying to do the same in my music, but she owns it.
Anyway, I've been wanting to cover her for a while now but have…
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Backing track rough edit. Drum track is a modified ableton preset the rest consists of about 5 different layers that are all orignal.
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This piece is based around a talking patch that I made for the Korg Radias.
Is this the first time I've done something that's not synth-pop?
Updated 28/8/2011
Updated 29/8/2011
Updated 9/9/2011 (twice)
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This is a composition for Jazz Quartet – Tenor Sax (sorry for the unrealistic stray notes), fretless bass, piano, and drums. All but the drums were preformed on my Fender Mustang + GR-20 retuned on the fly by Fractal Tune Smithy.
The tuning…
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This is a video I made that uses heavily modified voice samples from the human lattice at the xenharmonic praxis summer camp and video footage from a cave I visited in Virginia. The piece is in JI since that was the point of forming a human lattice…
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Samples used in this tune from the NY subway this summer. Inspired by Dave Dunseath
3-12, just uploaded a new version of this with guitar- and some other changes
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After almost 3 months of work (collectively throughout this entire year) I've been working on something, really really working on something. I mean REALLY working. Now... a few months AFTER the 25th anniversary, I give you, The Legend of Zelda…
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I purchased a Simmons drum pad today - I'm not a real drummer - please be kind. It was on sale at Guitar Center $180 + extended warranty + sticks http://www.simmonsdrums.net/sdmp1/
The synth is my Fender Mustang + GR-20
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An acoustic guitar piece played in the style of a sitar. This is sort of a default chillout tune for me to play, and I hope other people like it as mood music. It is 14 minutes long so cross your legs, shut your eyes and enjoy, warts and all!
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A mashup of microtonally processed music created by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen called imp_08_1 with video and video sound tracks by Chris Vaisvil
Jukka-Pekka's original
http://heliumheal.wippiespace.com/mp3/imp_08_1.mp3
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Something different for me, a piano improv. Right hand only. One track each of delayed piano and strings recorded independently then combined.
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details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1086
Norm, I finally used my china cymbals like... cymbals. :-)
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I felt i needed to buy an electric guitar as most of the guitar on my tracks so far is done on my keyboard i was going to buy an expensive guitar, i felt i deserved one.......... then i looked on ebay and found one an Encore for £16 with an…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprotonic_helium
Tuning:
Harmonic six-star, group A, from Fokker
16/15 6/5 32/25 4/3 3/2 8/5 48/25 2/1
A string composition played on Fender Mustang driving a Roland GR-20 that was re-tuned on the fly
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Obey, just experimenting with different sounds and sound clips from the tube.
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If your like me, your in a "summer daze" right now.
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This piece is composed in a mode of 15 equal notes per octave with scale steps:
2 2 2 3 2 2 2 (formal name) Fifteen-tone Miller's Porcupine-7
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And another one I didn't share from the same day. I must of been in a funk where it all sounded really bad. This improvisation concentrates more on melodic aspects of 22 edo though there are some harmonies.
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Here is something I had laying around that I forgot I did. A 9 edo improvisation with my Roland GR-20 + Fender Mustang combination. This will probably sound pretty foreign and / or out of tune. To me it sounds oddly funky in places like at 0:22
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( i do not own copyrights to the beat, i just did my promo for this one)
Lyrics:
this goes out to the people that has said
that this fame wont take me
ima rapper but this game wont break me
i dont want no deal, no this money wont make…
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This is the first piece made with a Reaktor instrument I built today that I have called "Xylo".
Xylo is a sampler that plays a region of the sample back and forth with a 10s release time. Each note defines a region of a different length (but…
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I've been trying to think of some lyrics for this riff for ages.
Then along come Super Bethan, who also gave me the melody.
Many, many thanks.
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Very simple but quite funky. I've been listening to a lot of Tame Impala.
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STEELY DANK DRUM IN THE SUN
AND THE TEMPERATURE IS GETTING HOTTER
GETTING HOTTER AND HOTTER...
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Regs party has just started down the cellar but Johnny's got them all going down on a bummer with this until Elvis brought it back up by remarking how lucky we are not to be Billy and Jim filled everyones glass and it looks like the partys going…
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It Regs birthday tomorrow and he's in party mood already getting it on in the cellar....with James and the crew....ooooh yeahhhh!!!!!!
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We forgot to mention that Reg visited Norm's place a little later and added some vocals. The video is a ride through the US state of Virginia. The Texas Tavern serves cheesy westerns (cheese, fried egg, burger, bun) in the downtown of Roanoke Va.
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Queen Lithium is a tyrant ruler, but a fair one..mean spirited, demanding, but deep & loyal..
demands attention 24/7, but invariably, is alone..
"midnite alone, with her, Solitaire'....
The road to camelot is sometimes a bumpy road, or…
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Well, screw the metronome, damn the torpedoes, and grab a capo!
Sometimes the best versions are the ones played fast and loose. Hope you enjoy this song adapted from one of my all-time favorite poems (I'm a bit biased since my dad wrote it…
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Norm and I in a room at his house. See the video for the reason for the name.
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Other layers may or may not be in the works, but I thought I'd let everyone have a listen so far.
HERE WE ARE TODAY
How can it be so clear
In my mind
The first night you were here
Like going back in time
Sweet as summer wine
Your whisper…
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With a little help from some of the lyrics of the Doors descriptions of the uncertainty of the 60's Reg has decided to do a kind of Punk song from both sides about the trouble in England which seems to be igniting the youth to set light and loot…
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Back to basics here. recorded with the Yeti mic.
Ramblin' round your city,ramblin' round your town
I never see a friend I know
As I go ramblin' round boys
As I go ramblin' round
My sweetheart and my parents I left in my old hometown…
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The Crystal City Aviators are:
Tristan Haze - guitar, vocals
Nathan Clinen - bass
Direz - drums
The White Weapons EP was recorded by Josh Gorman at Vienna Studios, Sydney, in 2010.
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Tristan Haze - guitar, vocals
Direz - bass
Recorded at Northbeach Studios in 2008-9. Mastered by Meredith Brooks at Soundwarp.
To see a loose performance of a song from this era entitled The Raven, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ktyDRb0FKA
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Tom Higgins - lead vocals
Joe Silence - guitars and vocals
Mark Cook - Chapman Stick, fretless bass, synthesizers
Victor Romero - drums and percussion
Recorded in 1991 by Mark Cook and Joe Blair at The Crypt and Spit Recorders
Mixed by…
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Reg heard this collab (Quarter of a 60th Djörk (M.T.C.) and thought it brilliant, the music made it so easy to put the words to, a story of holiday romance.......with a bit of Tom Jonesing going on..........Thanks Djork and M.T.C for letting…
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I'm a part of an improv guitar trio called Strung, Drawn and Quartered, and we play gigs maybe once or twice a year. This one's from last night.
Darrin Kobetich - guitar
Bill Pohl - guitar
Kavin - guitar, loops
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Me and Rihanna went on a date...That's my story and i'm sticking to it.
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Funny song about women who chase the thug life they see in music videos.
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All F&C music is designed to be listened to through headphones. You may not experience the desired auditory hallucination effect if played through a different medium.
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Loop idea recorded during gig rehearsal. Room miked so you can hear me stomping on pedals.
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Alternative Indie Electronic Rock song by Kazimierz. Surreal, Psychedelic, Political.
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A quick paced indie alternative song about the hopeless avoidance of love and misery, with a wry smile.
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Dark dreams and long stretches of road separated us from our loved ones. We broke hearts and had our hearts handed to us in fragments. Win or lose it, in the soul, love is long.
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Well, it IS!
lyrics for my Italian friends:
We're gonna be there in your wake
mending the seams when they start to break
make you do what you said that you would
and other words that rhyme with good
once so close why let it go, baby…
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Tom Higgins - lead vocals
Joe Silence - guitars and vocals
Mark Cook - Chapman Stick, fretless bass, synthesizers
Victor Romero - drums and percussion
Recorded in 1991 by Mark Cook and Joe Blair at The Crypt and Spit Recorders
Mixed by Joe Blair
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Tom Higgins - lead vocals
Joe Silence - guitars and vocals
Mark Cook - Chapman Stick, fretless bass, synthesizers
Victor Romero - drums and percussion
Recorded in 1991 by Mark Cook and Joe Blair at The Crypt and Spit Recorders
Mixed by Joe Blair
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Tom Higgins - lead vocals
Joe Silence - guitars and vocals
Mark Cook - Chapman Stick, fretless bass, synthesizers
Victor Romero - drums and percussion
Recorded in 1991 by Mark Cook and Joe Blair at The Crypt and Spit Recorders
Mixed by Joe Blair
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Tom Higgins - lead vocals
Joe Silence - guitars and vocals
Mark Cook - Chapman Stick, fretless bass, synthesizers
Victor Romero - drums and percussion
Recorded in 1991 by Mark Cook and Joe Blair at The Crypt and Spit Recorders
Mixed by Joe Blair
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Hey friends, it's been awhile! I just got back from Alpharetta, where I managed to get a few short hours hanging with my good friend Treefrog. We recorded a whole bunch of weird noises & then decided to do at least one "real" song. This is…
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From the album THE MAN FROM TAURED. Some spontaneous deconstruction that comes weirdly close to proper tunes on several occasions.
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the most evil piece of jew's harp you have ever heard! one take recording with Szilagyi in F with distortion over a tiny guitar speaker.
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Bit tricky trying to play guitar whilst hiding behind the sofa.
You'd of thought she would of herd it.
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This song is called "Atrum Sodalitas" which means "Dark Companionship" in Latin. This song will depict two people from different backgrounds that share the same, yet dark, goal. You will hear their story.
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If you like The Phantom of The Opera then you will love this. This song features the main theme from "The Phantom of The Opera". This is an arrangement using that theme and therefore I call it my "Phantom Rendition".The easiest way to describe…
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my friend beniko recorded this vocal on a hand held digital recorder with no key sig or tempo and asked me to do something with it for a japonese shadow theatre performance.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDCh2kirUqU&feature=share
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you the listener/s have all the description in your ears this time.
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A little something I've been toying with based on one of the chords from Free's "It's Alright Now".
Apologies for my rusty recording mojo...
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A peak into a glimpse of the first day of August 2011 and there's a nice storm to watch here in the Philadelphia area. Getting a little inspired here.
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Track 1 from MUTATE's side of a split tape with Thee Moths.
Listen to Thee Moths side here:
http://alonetone.com/theealex/playlists/thee-mothsmutate-split-c90
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Track 7 from the 'Space Opera' EP.
Download EP from:
http://www.archive.org/details/SpaceOperaem123
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Track 1 from the 'Space Opera' EP.
Download the EP here:
http://www.archive.org/details/SpaceOperaem123
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This is a composition that uses indeterminacy with respect to pitch (and instruments but since this is one recording that doesn't apply). However, all of the other musical elements are controlled. This performance occurred at the Praxis Xenharmonic…
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A collaboration of my original music
with Geoff Judges re lyrics and vocals
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I'm into doing faster songs at the moment. This is a Smiths song from 1983 with some cheeky lyrics.
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plokken is a very quiet and groovy piece of jew's harp music with. you cn nearly taste the saliva.
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jew's harp duet with dutch jew's harp maker Steven Stoop. www.jewsharper.com
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live @ Cafestival, Kargadoor, Utrecht, NL Jan 2011
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very old track (1999), one of my first jew's harp tracks
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I stumbled across a sample I took of a cd skipping, which is the base rhythm/pulse track for this.
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2nd of the 24 songs I have recently written. Simple fluff that started as something different. I could have done a better job on it but as I've said before "I'm lazy" and if it seems just "OK" I'll pop it up there. Hope y' like it!!
Using pointless…
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Just messin' around with some sound
Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi ambient project.
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A little instrumental I've been working on for a while. I'm considering doing a version with lyrics and vocals.
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re-done this one, now titled from make me perfect to "Perfect Machines" for upcoming slew of demos for the new album "pronounced : jez-my-us"
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I don't know the right words
To make a love song for you
I won't live enough days
To wait another one for you
I don't know any way
To make it clearer to you
All the things I don't say
When I don't know what to do
I'll carry this cross
To where…
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Some people are better staying in the past.
(Also- an awesome short story/collection by Joe Hill- check it out.)
LYRICS:
She calls herself a mother
Leaves her kids behind
Might be eyes on the back of her head
But the two in front are…
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I wish I could say that I had a story behind this but I have none :( Thanks to all those that put their input into this, particularly GCD, I cannot overstate how helpful this was.
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This started out with the rhythm, and then it took me a month to find a tune to go with it.
I used three synths: my Mopho, Matrix 1000, and a great deal more Roland JP8000 than I originally intended.
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normally would try to upload something like this to my Wizard of Drams account, but here it is on my original Jesmiaus account.
I remember listening to the vocal track after I recorded it and thinking wow I really do sound like I am singing…
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