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Very much a work in progress. I have not even decided what kind of effects to use and when. Again another 1-shot recording to capture the essence of this rambling piece.
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Another one-shot recording with an simple overdub. A much older song I started writing back in the 90's. There is much much more to the song than what is captured here, still getting used to the software...
As a side note, I really like the…
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Recorded with a Digitech GNX Workstation straight into my desktop with Cakewalk. Simple plug and play as I prepare to learn the software more and get accustomed to the idea of having to do everything myself. Just a fun jam, could possibly become…
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This is a captured and then edited live performance using the Sonar Matrix view using various samples - some of which were paul stretched.
I'm liking this - if only they had the possibility to change the pitch live it would be like sticking…
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The answer to the question:
What if The Eagles wrote for elevators?
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This is a piece performed on an Alesis Q49 using Kontakt 4′s viola and gongs samples as the sound source. The violas are retuned to 10 notes per octave. This piece is concentrates more on melodic aspects. This is my first piece in 10 edo…
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I used to play around
I never wished to see you gone
I left the radio on
I never thought you'd hear the sound
So I wait for you to call
Still I wait for you to talk
Now I'm hearing that you're getting angry
Breathe in, breathe out
Before you…
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"Winston's Black Dog"
I could have made a great Prime Minister
Just need a good reason to be sinister
Give me an army, an enemy,
a great war --
and I'll deliver
Put me in the middle of nowhere
In the wilderness I'll survive
But in an air-conditioned…
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With oldrottenhead on organ and bg vocals and Dave Berry on lead guitar. I did the guitar and voice percussion.
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It's supposed to be a polka but you be the judge:D
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The Sailor gets a part time job in late-nite data entry-ing now that the offworld fishing industry is on the fritz...
how could I ever leave my poor little scuttlebug
so careless and free, she's my little scuttlebug
when the lights turning…
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Hiding April is a programmatic electronic piece that uses the hardware Korg MS2000 and Absynth 5 software synthesizers and orchestra percussion from Garritan Personal Orchestra. At about 4:10 I found an aircraft-ish sound on my Korg which then…
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I'm not on top of it as usual, guys. But I did manage to let Greg Brady out of my basement and set him free. This is his testimonial regarding the incident. I hope he can forgive me.
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reversion of my erin express song. has a bit of a Blues Me Wicked Number One feel to it :) cheers
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Reg was out tonight on the dance floor doing his thing and saw this beautiful women doing her thing......well if that doesn't make a song what does?
YOU GOT SOMETHING I NEED (Lyrics)
Baby you got something about you
You got something special…
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Reg was having another conversation with Elvis and Elvis told Reg what his Mama told him...............
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I Love Drum And Bass.
Grew up on the stuff..
Here is a Nostalgic one...
Peace
T
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It took a bit of doing and a lot of learning - I've built my first guitar
I have a video of all of the stills I took while making the guitar with some demonstration music.
The music has mistakes - but it is the first time I played it - I spent…
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Tried composing a love ballad sort of sad
with a 60 s flair and a kenny g sound. hope
u like this .......................best regards
NEIL SWANSON
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Reg was down the cellar earlier chatting to Elvis and he told Reg he was just having one of them days ..........so they made a song.............
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Reg just had to watch her leave ......it was all his fault......he couldn't blame her.........
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improvisation - in part to learn to ebow and strum at the same time.
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After the Alonetone meetup in Dublin, I promised Tess & Bethan I'd get my finger out and finish/upload some more stuff. So this is the first thing that's reached "good enough" stage. A trancey/ravey number featuring monotron samples after…
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I am always interested in mixing genres and musical cultures. I have been for years.
This was a spur-of-the-moment song written in my studio during a bored Saturday afternoon.
I played piano, acoustic and electric guitar, bass, native american…
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Woodwinds and Harpsichord in John O'Sullivan's Blue JI tuning.
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This is a piece using Garritan World Sample Set (Tibet singing bowls and Tibet bells) and pianoteq. It also uses a non-octave tuning that is an infinite stack of just major seconds (scala file below).
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a stream of consciousness type lyric with my modus operandi as a songwriter outlined in the chorus.
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Guess who came down the cellar last night......Johnny's tune was playing on the juke box and nobody could stop him.......Thanks Johnny......
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Kept in the Cellar is a piece for piano, percussion, and processed street signs in 17 edo.
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Final song in the Goldenbridge Orphan Trilogy. This was meant to be a song of healing. It was inspired by the memoir "Freedom of Angels" by Bernadette Fahy which tells of her life growing up in the infamous Goldenbridge Orphanage, and of her…
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This is a track from my retrospective album Heptadecaphilia.
Details, online play, PDF that has background on the music, images, and links to videos are to be found here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1007
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I Got the Idea for this tune when I left Geir at Stanstead Airport.
Recorded it Last night after a Gig....
For the Folk Fest...
Pretty PennyWords and Music by Tharek Mokbul
-Lyrics-
Pretty Pennies sing about the troubles in the way.
Tells…
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I saw discussion of Bleu tuning on the yahoo tuning groups – all of which were tempered to a pure octave. Embolden by Andrew Heathwaite’s 88 cent guitar I decided to try the tuning without tempering to make the octave pure. So I made a scala…
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The "hook" sums it up:
"Out of the darkness, won't you come?"
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Not the most accessible tuning - 13 edo splits the octave into 13 instead of 12 parts. So everything is guaranteed to sound different. That could be the charm or the problem for you. This piece focuses more on melody than most of mine.
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This song was made in the month of June 2011, and is supposed to be a sort of frenetic fusion of styles.
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Chris sent this track to me earlier today with the request that I add some percussion to it.
I had something different in mind.
After the first take I was afraid to return it to him, fearing that he would convert it to 23 edo or something…
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This one was saved from an old cassette heading towards the bin....some might say it should have carried on ..............it is an early recording of Thetworegs ad-libing unplugged from an hotel room in Germany on a wet Sunday in 1994......Elvis…
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Norm set me these drums for Dancing on my own a while back but Reg went and dumped the file so we couldn't use them. So i'm using them now, while Reg gets Gone.........Thanks Norm
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Don-Blackburn/109630439067289?sk=app_57675755167
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i was listening to a post of this Beatles cover by oldrottenhead this morning,,it is a really great song, so this evening i sort of just sort of sat down an let it happen,,i didn't even really know the song as much as i might like,, but i find…
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Two Peas in a Pod, Kindred Spirits you know the feeling about spending time with someone whose heart beats well with yours.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Don-Blackburn/109630439067289?sk=app_57675755167
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Berceuse (means cradle song - or lullaby) by Chopin Op. 57 midi recorded by Ron Lubetsky, M.D. in 1997. And indeed I can tell from the midi file this was a real performance. I ran it through pianoteq in Sonar X1. I hope you enjoy it.
http…
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The berimbau is a Brazilian instrument associated with Capoeira, which is a Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, sports, and music. It was created in Brazil mainly by descendants of African slaves with Brazilian native…
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This is a composition that was realized by playing a Fender Mustang which has a divided pickup connected to a Roland GR-20 guitar to midi converter / synthesizer. The GR-20 generated piano and saxophone sounds (in two passes) which were re-tuned…
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The island of Cuba was a Spanish possession for almost 400 years (1511-1898). The land-owning elite held social and economic power, supported by slaves, both indigenous and of South American and African descent, until slavery was abolished…
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This was the first song we ever wrote. This is the second version of this song. Blah, blah, blah.
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A manipulated ambient-ish piece
Sound sources, 5 string bass, 18" and 14" china cymbal, cornet, mixed tuning, 6 edo, 12 edo, unconstrained pitch.
kudos for anyone who listens to the whole thing.
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Fathers Day on Sunday....
Thought I'd write a song for my son.
Here you go lad...
As the Sun shines....Lyrics
And my boy.....
You Smile so wide as the sun shines.
But you will keep your joy as the clouds try,
to stop our light…
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Here's a song for that horribly obnoxious person who's unfortunately in your life or workplace!!!
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Good friends, family, my adorable pet--you all bring a smile to my face!!!
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You stole my heart (and some of my property) a long time ago--and now you're back at my doorstep like nothing ever happened! Gonads, anyone?!?
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I was crazy about you back then---But now? Not so much!!!
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A jive-era feel, with lyrics about working hard to get what you want!
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Everybody who said we'd never last have broken up and here we are, still together!!!
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The millionaires are doing just fine, thanks---but the rest of us are barely getting by!!!!
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I'll lose control but maybe find love instead....
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I dedicated this song to my old friend, Ed Begley, Jr. and to all those who are working to make this a cleaner and better place to live!!!
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Is my future just to be....your ancient history?
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Here's a great way to keep some peace at home!!!
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She was mysterious, gorgeous...and we fell in love immediately...but her parents were against us being together and sent her back to their country, leaving me to search for her forever.
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A couple looks back nostalgically on the magical moment when they first met.
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I wonder what they do under a placid, golden moon without the worry of today's who's who
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The whole world could be falling to pieces but it really doesn't matter because WE'RE IN LOVE!!!!!
(I was especially happy to throw in a line about 2012 and the Mayan Prophesy!!!)
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And then came a lion...
Conga / Harmonica (key of D) improvisation.
4/4 90bpm
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ORIGINAL Rock instrumental exploring
new avenues. of retro and current rock
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A FILM SCORE I COMPOSED USING
26 TRACKS AND ROYAL FREE SAMPLES
BESIDE VST EFFECTS AND FX . BEST
REGARDS HOPE U LIKE IT ...NEIL
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This song is a latin . cha cha flavor
bringing together these 2 forces..for
a new sound. hope ulike it regards NEIL
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A favorite style of my wife... like Kris Kristofferson, in a way. Maybe more folk than Outlaw Country...? The song has great meaning for me.
Hope you like it!
Doug
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A song of my friend Darren's which we worked on together.
He's on keys and vox, I'm on guitar.
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Added a little more to this nice little change of strumming patterns played as an excuse to write a little love song.
I FOUND LOVE
You know I love you more than I
Ever thought one simple man could
You know I need you more than I
Ever…
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hmmmm.... that should be "origami neuborgspout
ers"
thanks to all (once) at neub.org
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a character disorder
I've got a character disorder
you know they say I've got a borderline
personality disorder
and I'm sick of taking orders
like a waiter or or a nun
I want to be the one that gives the orders
I hate the nurses…
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Tight-wad Moody writes song in lieu of Father's Day gift.
Now with extra cheese
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Home made cannon in Just Intonation, cymbals struck by hand and bowed. (I don't own so many cymbals - I made a field recording while walking through the cymbal room at Sam Ash. A most exciting experience actually!) I did buy two cheap cymbals…
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I used Paul’s Extreme Stretch (PES) to take a hammer dulcimer + violin improvisation and divide it into seven streams based on just intonation relationships to A at 55 Hz…
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thetworegs - vocals (holy gospel choir of Regs)
Dave Berry- Strat, bass, organ, drums played on Roland HD-1
"In the Ghetto" (originally titled "The Vicious Circle") is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music in…
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Worshiping at an abandoned alter...
Let my breaths be as long as her legs
Let my breaths be as smooth as her back
Let my breaths be as cool as her hips
Let my heart be as still as her tongue
Let my mind be as bright as her skin
Let my…
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Recorded the 1st guitar and bass and vox staurday.
Today, I finished up with a lead guitar track...
LG
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I used about half of the tones produced in my stop sign video as samples looped in Kontakt and improvised on an 88 key controller in 17 equal notes per octave. Not something you'd listen to for enjoyment.
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How the human race has gone down hill ever since
using fire.
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Hammer Dulcimer in Harmonic Series Tuning, processed into 7 streams. Field recording, processed. Details here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=911
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Fulfilling a request by Acid
The video is the whole point / show here. Please put into the comment section what you think the occupants of the car you see at 1:00 where thinking. Or alternately the kid on the bike at 1:20.
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a totally spontaneous improvisation Debbie and I made with the violin and hammer dulcimer tuned to harmonic series starting at G.
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One could use this to compare the changes I made to accommodate the change in tuning because this is the Centaur tuned piece but I changed the master tuning back to "standard" 12 equal.
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Well, I should give some background. Sometimes, for me, the difference in tunings are hard to discern - I don't have perfect or even good relative pitch discrimination. So I can get fooled. The Prelude for a Centaur tuned piano was actually composed…
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Together with a few guitaresque pieces (some are presented here, "Lettres 'D Amour" or "Mar Adentro" for example), this one was my "swan song" in already so distant 2009.
~Sign Of Hope~
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Vocals/lyrics - ThetwoRegs
Music - Dave Berry (Epi Sheraton, bass, keys, Drums played on Roland HD-1)
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there's a story to the story of the fuzzy years of my life.
Unfinished song, just one progression looped really so far with words to the story.
it's "always the top of the street somewhere" was a phrase we used to describe how no matter what…
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This is a recording of Norm and me playing together a few months ago. I didnt have any percussion instruments so Norm was on a Roland electric trap set and I had a cello. I looped some of the stuff we did that night, and retrofitted the rest…
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~timeless~
Rhythms of modern life, which comes from the environment and force us to follow, are often (let say, always) does not correspond to our inner rhythms. First, we do not have time to stop, think, or simply do nothing. Then when we…
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ACTiVE Yodi first single beat by lightskincieted
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This song was created as a part of my song-per-month project for the month of May.
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This track is almost 14 years old, but is the result of me getting an hour or so alone in the KIIS FM studios thanks to my old college buddy Mike Madrigal who was doing production imaging for the station at the time. I did the drum loops (sampled…
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Bought a new bass guitar and wanted to try it out, so made this last night. Gotta say the bass parts were easy, the guitar took ages to get right though. Now my fingers are sore.
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it's deafening to walk around
to walk around with no sound
it's calm before the storm they say
but I still hear you cursing your style and you way
and were waiting
waiting
waiting for the wayward song to begin
waiting
waiting for the wayward…
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This is a musical setting of Bruce Andrew’s poem “jjj†from his book “Moebius†thanks to PennSound archive.
To create the music I hijacked Norm Harris’ Y Class Steam Locomotive Bell sample and his percussion piece Ilesa and added…
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"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)
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"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)
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"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)
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JI guitar
Fretless Bass
Drums from Sonar
This is replacing the "up way too late" version
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The audio uses all of the audio from that night I bowed the stop sign processed and not.
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I went out during cover of night (to avoid looking like a total crackpot) with a violin bow & Zoom H2 digital recorder and bowed various things in the neighborhood. This is the best - a beautifully resonant 4-way stop sign.
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The music in the video is the harmonic series from the lowest E on the piano, 41.2 Hz, and the 16 harmonics above it. No other pitch is allowed. I used Paul Stretch's filtering and compression to accomplish this BUT the piece was not stretched…
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after a few listens and a good naan bread pizza I feel tripped out listening to this :-)
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Jeff has passed over the rainbow bridge today as I held him. We went out back one last time for a few minutes until the sun came back out and it was too hot. He enjoyed that. The last thing he did was put his paw on my hand and left it there…
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Sad piano loop met bell loop, they got together and the rest is history.
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This man I knew too well
This man I know is gone
This man I see lying here
This man who died in my arms
I can't explain to you
His dark voice
It had a lot of power
It held a lot of pain
He made sure you heard
He made sure you listened
You feared…
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The story of how I did this is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=871
goodnight.
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19 note per equal guitar, loopstation, sonar X1, processing.
Impressions Of Francois-Marie Arouet (De Voltaire) written and read by Ezra Pound
III
To Madame Lullin
You’ll wonder that an old man of eighty
Can go on writing you verses…
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This is a dancy sort of a folk song about the simplicity of a dog (my dog) and how they don't see the darkness in the world. So we should all take a lesson from them to just "have a drink and dance every night away." An interesting thing about…
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Farewell's from a couple different perspectives, some personal, some not, All difficult. Hope it relates
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A question of existence, and an attempt to see myself through the eyes or others.
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Picture and information here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=859
Line up:
2 tracks (right and left) of hammer dulcimer, fretless bass, and cameo appearances for both fretless guitar and electric psaltery.
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live at Landers Machine Shop in Fort Worth. Rhythm background by El Lobo's percussion group.
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I heard this beat of Norms this morning bright and early an had to jump all over ilesa in my mind she was her instead of a town it was fun but it didn't last.....the same old story.....it was her fault she was too hot.......What can i say
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Ambient video and audio improvisation with my 19 notes per octave guitar, loopstation, Marshall amplifier, Zoom H2 and post-processing.
on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGO0R381HQs
full quality video
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public…
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05 Lessons We Learned
You told me you were there to learn
But we ought to have taught one another instead of fought I thought
I told you I’d nothing to prove
But summer came and you moved away
So I went back to school
September – Another…
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03 Stuff And Nonsense (A Fairy Tale)
Hey m’lady what do you see?
I’m down on one knee
Am I brave enough?
I’d fight knights lately with you as my shield
You hold that appeal
That slowly reveals itself
As I deal with all the other…
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This is in some boring typical genre. I just can't figure out which one. Perhaps Wiccan dances for epileptics? Not sure.
In Cold Hell, in Thicket is a microtonal musical setting of Charles Olsen reading his poem in 1950 as provided by PennSound…
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"Seven Shudders" is a one of those love songs with undertones of suicide, drug addiction, orgasm (seven shudders), as well as nature.
Hope you like it.
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This one is the second part of the Goldenbridge Orphan Trilogy and features Jethro on Bass.
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