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For Debbie, written (just) before I met her.
Reaching Out For You
I've been trying
Crying
Reaching out for you
It never is enough
I never do get through
My heart is true
My heart is meant for you
I've been crying
Trying
Reaching…
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Recorded 1981
The Ulstafarians were a rock/reggae/R&B band from New Paltz, NY, USA in the early 1980s.
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Recorded 1981
The Ulstafarians were a rock/reggae/R&B band from New Paltz, NY, USA in the early 1980s.
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My band xDoubleCrossx at a block party performing one of our songs penned by our bass player 'The Rock' ... Myself playing the lead guitar....
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In October back in 2010, Holdempok and myself had a little jam session in his garage. After the cops had come and left....LOL, we settled down and Mike said, let's jam some blues.....
What came out was this! First take on a blues thingy .... just…
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Variations on the Enigma theme by Elgar 1899
The score is below.
http://soonlabel.com/b/Attachments/EnigmaTheme.pdf
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A song that I wrote about our currant events here on this little blue and green orb.....
Performed by Me, myself and I....
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every moment
each day
searching
for something
someone
to feel
know
care
every face
each friend
rejection
and its too much
too much
too much
to bear
it's been a long
long
time coming
it's a long
long
way home
every moment
each inch of time…
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The duel guitars were inspired by a song from Jesus Christ Superstar. I think the first one Pilate sings. No words because I didn't need them and I recorded this before I had a decent microphone.
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I really wanted to play this one nicely, but every time i pressed 'record' and started to play, i made a mistake... so, after many tries i just decided left it like this (for the moment, at least...)
I hope you like and/or enjoy this one.
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.......if there not the one,should you keep looking, if so for how long...........well Reg threw Henwrench's music into the cellar and what bounced out was a song he wasn't suspecting....
Love me tender
I've been alone now seems to long…
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An encounter between a little astrodroid and a little insect. Monotron, junk percussion, DW-6000, and MT-32 (I think).
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Cover of the Roy Orbison hit. Vocals by oldrottenhead. All instruments by 64Guitars. Recorded on Boss BR-864 Dec 20, 2008.
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For this one I went for a more honkey-tonk feel. I put away the electric guitars and let the old piano have the center of the stage.
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This live recording resulted from the collaboration named "Island Quartet" that ended last may. Good times.
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This is an loop station improvisation with my death metal strung up strat (low B - effectively a baritone guitar - which I did see one at Guitar Center a couple weeks ago) with some layered synths afterward.
Hopefully you'll find it as…
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One of America's songbook classics. What a fun tune to play!
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acoustic version
recorded in 2003
sorry for the bad recording quality
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this song is about not being able to sleep alone...missing the sound of his breathing...
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Reg has been sitting in the cellar reading some old notebooks and he has decided it's time to air some of his secret stash of poetry. He knows the word poetry can turn an audience of quicker than a desperate man turns a women off but he is prepared…
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Well Elvis couldn't just sit still watching Fredrico and the others having such a good time Jamming, he got up and joined in........i mean the party has only just started...................
She was my Princess, Queen of my highway
She was…
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Do you wonder
What became of me?
Cause I wonder
What became of you
Since you wandered
Wandered far away
Full of wonder
I couldn't make you stay
So I wonder what became of you
Did you do the things you had to do?
Will you find your…
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Reg was just tootling about with the piano and he got possessed by someone and just couldn't stop. He's thinking it must have been the Devil himself because he just couldn't stop......or maybe it was the Moonshine........
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My first rehearsal with some local jazz artists. This was just us getting to know each other, musically speaking. It was fun :)
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Lyrics Steven Chugg
Music Errol Chugg
Produced by Ken Barken Studios
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The lyrics are pretty selfexplanatory; it's about so-called magic-pill-solutions. The doubletracked "guitarsolos" could have been better but I only recorded them on the last day and thought it might be OK a little rough and off. I did them really…
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Words & Music Errol Chugg
Produced at Brush Hill Studios.
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Words & Music Errol Chugg
Produced at Ken Barken Studios
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The Devil blocks your view at the drive-in, and steals some of your snacks. What an asshat.
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John Salad wakes up, brushes his teeth, reads the paper, drinks a coffee out of his Ray's Diner mug.
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the thing, cast outside the gates of gormenghast.
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I haven't tried the vox pipes in a few months. I've been sickly and singing was out of the question. After 24 days of instrumental RPM, I started getting back to 99%.
Might as well sing right? Better yet , let me trash the greatest song of…
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~images of bygone days~
This was 2009, and it was a photo contest to provide seven pictures of a story and all that. I, together with other, more talented photographers, was in.
In parallel with the images I have written short seven neo…
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You'll find me there.
Discover my smile.
I'll be confused, and so will you,
But it won't last for long.
Because you and I were never meant for this place.
Soon you'll see-
We're better with wings.
It's in the air,
Reaching out for a hundred…
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The past holds nothing for a man so proud.
Nothing for a man like you.
I feel like I haven't lived before tonight.
That terrifies me.
Would you like to take a walk or something?
She keeps the truth held tight inside, but her eyes show.. something…
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Hello stranger.
I've been waiting with a compliment for you,
In case it's something that you don't already know.
Hello stranger.
There is always something left unsaid.
But just ask me and i'll tell you, though I don't even know your name.
We…
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Cover of the theme from the popular BBC television series. Recorded on Boss BR-864 December 18, 2008. All instruments and drum programming by 64Guitars.
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This was written during a time when I was away from home a great deal. My better half called me, and the gist of the conversation became the lyrics of this song.
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Acoustic interlude with a slightly lower tempo that leads into If. The solo is a mix of two improvised takes.
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First song written...this actually had words, but I never got brave enough to sing them.
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antiquary february
queen annes lace is tucked away
in bureaus of dirt
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"The Ballad of Dan Forth and Jane Finch"
Lyrics by Daniel Parkhill, Music by Daniel Parkhill and Joe Neff
I could never be part of your Cinderella story.
I could never go where all hope is gonee.
I could never try to rationalize your living…
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"Fail"
Lyrics by Daniel Parkhill, Music by Daniel Parkhill and Keith Landry
There's a price to pay to be the boy who popped out from a storybook
And every single day I find the jury's giving me the alibis.
So let me tell you:
I'm so-so tall…
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"I Was Born"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
Greetings to my only friend, sacrifical lamb.
Ask me where my mind has been, ask me where I stand.
Guess it isn't real, guess it doesn't matter much.
Ash to ash and dust to dust, etcetera and such…
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Finally going to end this RPM with a slop fest.
Pretty disgusted with my efforts. I did have some fun though.
I feel like I just gave birth to a full set of Ludwigs.
High gloss black of course.
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Falling Down
C. Maiorano
Travellin', my memories a time machine
Re-living former glory and shame
On a quest to find out what this all means
No excuses, only myself to blame
Cruisin' on a road to redemption
Steer clear the potholes of…
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Make Up Your Mind
T Boudreau
I've been lying here all alone waiting for you to pick up the phone oh yea
I've been dying here all along praying for you to come and save my soul oh yea
Where you gonna run when the well gets dry
Or are you…
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Sloane did me a favor & played an electric guitar part on this one. I had hoped to work with her more on this project, but she wound up leaving town to help take care for a recovering family member.
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Seventeen thousand…
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Goodbye Blue Monday
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Goodbye blue Monday
There's nothing else to say
We always knew
we would part this way
Time comes to say goodbye
To pause perhaps and wonder why
Why we always had to be
So blue, so blue
I can see that life…
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(RPM 2011) For obvious reasons, many RPM albums make use of improvisational sound collages. ;-) This is the first of three that divide the record into sections. You may or may not hear the connections in the lyrics, but it actually does make…
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This is an experiment in stacking real time delay/looped tracks that had no preconceived connections... all overdubs were done without listening to previously recorded tracks. I hear some very interesting synchronizations.... You?
RPM 2011
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Harmonica by Dr. K
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Paper hearts in your window
paper hearts on your door
Paper hearts ripped in pieces
And Strewn across the floor
but who am I to question
The intentions of old…
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rpm 2011
You asked me where these rumors start.
"I don't know," I said and crossed my heart.
But I told you I did not hope to die.
You said you can't trust no more.
Why start now? You never did before.
Now I just have to pause and wonder…
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I've been all around
I've been up and down
I said I've traveled in all directions
Now
The world is new
If you've seen what I've seen
And you've been where I've been
I guess you know what I mean
Now
The world is new
RPM 2011
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I tries to wake the dead. Oh if your not dead then adjust the volume at different times..
It took an hour of continuous performance before I settled down and recorded this and did excerpts and layered it here.
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Finished my RPM CD.
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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I used a clip of the English version of greetings recorded on the gold disk on board Voyager 1.
Thanks NASA/JPL
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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Almost finished...
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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This song was born on the 18th of Feb. 2011. It was the last piece I wrote/recorded for the challenge. It was a very sad day for me, almost as if all my usual winter sadness was concentrated and crammed into one day. The process of writing and…
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This starts at essentially the same improvisation pattern and then travels elsewhere - I think I like the Martin version better myself. This one is in stereo.
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Just an improvisation for ImprovFriday - recorded on my Zoom H2 in the expensive acoustic guitar room at my local guitar center.
I had to switch to mono because I had the zoom too sensitive and created a series of pops on one channel. This…
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After spending some time listening to Breaking Light, I figured I can try more guitar sounds in these ambient productions.
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Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.
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Compare to "Coughdrop Overdose" from RPM 2010. =)
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Contrast to "Adrift In The Enigma Shift" from RPM 2010..
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these are the messages from my machine. I did this before but somehow had to do this again. of course the answering machine messages were edited for content .. :)
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I hope you can see the above picture - I scored a 15 chord autoharp zither for $42 on ebay. 4 old guitar strings later (I save them... just in case :-) and a tuning against an organ patch she is working nicely again. Can't wait to show Emily…
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A live improvised recording for the RPM Challenge 2011
recorded 2/19/11 at Dunn Bros. Coffee in Keller, Tx.
Michelangelo: didjeridu
Kavin.: guitar, loops
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Was Reg daydreaming had Robert Plant really just come down the cellar bar to visit Elvis and sang while he played. He shook his head and resumed playing .....................
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Reg has seriously got the blues and can't seem to leave the empty bar, there is just him and Elvis in there. The strange thing is that the tables and chairs are there, the bar and the stools but there is no booze behind the bar just empty glasses…
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this gets loud at minute 3 and never settles down. wawoots. :) till about minute 7.5 then it quite outs.. then the end just kills me and yes I know I performed that but still it kills me LOL
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This was one of several songs I recorded in a session on the night of my 29th birthday. I had decided to just start playing and see how many tunes I could write straight through without stopping. My only rule was that these tunes had to be totally…
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I wrote this song as one in a series of potential songs to be performed at a friends wedding. I liked this one so much that I modified the lyrics and recorded this version as part of my "Transition" album.
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Commemorating the epic struggle taking place in Wisconsin (USA) an improvised piece for orchestral, Indian, Chinese, and African percussion plus 3 synthesizers in harmonic series tuning. (A straight harmonic series from C1 and on up). Performed…
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some how this was mixed for the pleasure of ours.
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I am noticing a patter in the musics like at minute five to minute five and a half I start to slow down and change up the systems.. anyway when i mixed the two things they came out like this.
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This is a page from my "sketchbook". I regularly sit with a guitar and just let the flow of thoughts drift up in words and progressions. I will rather "surf" an idea that arises on some set of words, but I don't "control" much of this. So it's…
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this is mostly sync level play and other things too. It seems the Microkorg likes being controlled by the supernova II :)
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The POWER of Appreciation
Minister Brad Dassey
2-16-2011
The Prayer Closet
http://www.theprayercloset.org
Free Sermon Downloads
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Angels Missing Bill Sethares for simultaneous 12 equal guitar and faux voices in Sethares Neutral 10 tuning
More pieces from the survey can be found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=493
! E:\Cakewalk\scales\sethares-neutral10.scl
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sethares…
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something I might work more on but after crashing the acid program I am leery some.
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~Spinning the Squirrel Wheel~
Spinning-spinning our globe, and we're in spin with it, servants of spin. What if we actually just ... snowflakes? We are spinning all our lives, sometimes together but often apart. Is it sad? And, if so, then…
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finally uploading this version to demonstrate my method of beat creating because this version sounds better at faster tempo.
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First of 24 new song I have written. This one is cute, about unrequited love no doubt. #:)
When I say 24 new songs not all will make the cut but most of them will. I will be busy for a good long time!!
Using pointless picks of course.
See my…
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One in a lifeless space. Cold. Only the power of spirit can help to survive and to love again.
~Furiously~
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Most of you probably haven’t seen Reg dance, so I should explain it to you.
When Reg takes his “classic moves†to the dance floor everyone else steps aside to just watch – well, that is everyone except a few of the most self confident…
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anutha one for rpm, this is I think the final idea for the hath beezlebub tune, just maybe more added to it. Half Ass Metallica stuff here.
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I write a Vikings parody song for every game of the Minnesota Vikings season for my blog, which is found at http://www.thevikingship.net
This is a parody of Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix
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Reg has been dancing on the scene and started drinking again, this freedom he wanted so badly is harder than he thought. But he'll get through it.........
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for ImprovFriday 2/10-12 2011
ambient impro+tweaks
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How To Overcome The Cycle Of Sin
Minister Brad Dassey
2-7-2011
The Prayer Closet
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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Island tribute to a drink made of Kahlua and milk. Recorded 1981
The Ulstafarians were a rock/reggae/R&B band from New Paltz, NY, USA in the early 1980s. This song inspired wild dancing when played live.
Recorded at Valley Recorders, Red…
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Only in Disneyland is a 17 note per octave guitar solo. This was recorded direct in a Alesis multimix 8 into Sonar X1 with Lexicon reverb and Sonitus multiband EQ / compression.
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It's funny how Reg can seem to put in one sentence what others need a whole page to say...........
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Updated on RPM website also but here for your listening pleasure.
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FORGIVENESS
Minister Brad Dassey
2-2-2011
The Prayer Closet
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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Minister Brad Dassey
Why The World Is Geared On Sex
1/30/2011
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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Minister Brad Dassey
The 3 R's To A Better Relationship
1-29-2011
http://www.theprayercloset.org
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my best howlin' wolf/lemmy vocals slowed down foolish games
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Gonna let this moment bend us into circles so we have no ends
in light of everything you think of being isn’t always knowing
something isn’t coming, something in you still denying love,
love is never wanting to be all alone and so we roam…
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This one has been sitting around for awhile.
I wanted to get some mix time in before RPM gets rolling.
Trying out some new mixing techniques.
Enjoy!
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Another backing track but at my bad memory it wasn't the Irish penny flute sound I used but a patch called Changer Winds inside Alchemy with two different arpegiators. One with rhythmic steps and another one set to minor pentatonic scale.
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consider this a microcosm of the final work that might just happen ,, yes a complete Klingon Orchestrated Opera :) (feeling shameful that it was Chris's idea first.) (this is a mire raw example of an outproduced work.>
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Guess where I dreamed up something like this? When the choir members started walking up the aisle in a cadence of the Monastic Walk (3 steps forward followed by one step back, followed by a brief pause), the backbeat appeared in my mind. I worked…
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And, yes.. another miniature. But this is a fresh one.
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(WATCH THE VIDEO, it'll make more sense)
The third installment of the graphic novel/video/song project I am working on with Rich Gibbs (an amazing artist and friend).
Lyrics:
Narrator:
"You're always late
Why do we wait?
Why do we…
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As the name suggests, it's not quick but rolls along. Has some riffage in there too.
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this is my January challenge song for RPM.
my movie song theme was "mental breakdown"
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1/1/11; took bits from two of Mark's tracks from Pleasure Listening (2002) and improvised in Max with them, then mixed in DP. a mellow vibe for the new year.
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just continued work with the new microkorg :)
youtube work is being processed as I type.
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work composed entirely in ableton live,using natural sound samples....
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The complete "how to" article and online play back is on my blog http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=404
Yesterday I was able to capture the Fractal Tune Smithy midi stream of an "on the fly" relay re-tuned performance in Sonar 8.5 by use of LoopBe1…
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This piece is for solo viola. No electronics or processing were used. The fantastic technicolor performance is by Jessica Meyer.
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Gary Thompson from the Music by Computer yahoo list (aka Johnny Pumphandle) remixed me version 2 of Sweeny's Agony - and blew me away - by toning down the volume he brought out a lot more soul in my opinion. I love it - and I hope you do too.
Chris
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another track from "duopoly", a recently released album of duos on spectropol records.
http://spectropolrecords.bandcamp.com/
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after the ocean of possibilities,there is a plateau covered in rain and storms,where curious angels sing,after which,there is a lake,surrounded by weeping willows and eucalyptus trees,across this lake,coracles pass,carrying the sacred flame to…
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