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I think this was the first Blues I wrote, about 5 years ago.Changed the tempo & got my mate Dave to play harmonica on it. Thanks Dave.Listening to the old version, couldn't remember what I played so had to revamp it, old age!!! DOH !!!!!
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have you ever been going about your business, and you get sucked into a brightly colored, blocky realm? it seems you can not die, when mortally wounded you just come back to where you were like 5 minutes ago...you master this 8 bit realm and become…
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Speech samples by acclivity over at freesound.org
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A protest against the conditions of poverty in the developing world .
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details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2193
NOTE: meantone refers to a tuning method, not the guitar tone.
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in 11/8 meter at 176 BPM if you are so inclined to add to this..
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When you sat in all the cheap seats
With the money that you paid
I recall the optimism
Then the contempt that you displayed
I had nothing to say to you
On the day you lied
When they had to clear the harbour
To drain the sewage that was there…
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Don't really remember the story for this...written smack dab in the middle of Feb in RPM madness...it happenened, then I moved on and I let go of it...Mike Novak on egg...another song where I waited for a drummer friend to show up that never did...
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I never managed to get this one to work before.
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i'll take bizarre transitions for $500 alex
this musical faux pas is best executed when doing an all nighter to finish RPM
what is mood whiplash alex
rpm 2012 #5
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Part Of Kitchen Sink, the RPM 2012 album for AMUC.
Freesound Samples Used:
18451_zippi1_sound_singing4.wav
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RPM2012 Preview ... drop D tuning ... this time I started with a click track so I was able to add some synth ... enjoy ... lyrics:
The cat's in the yard
The flowers in bloom
The sunshine is out
The boys in their rooms …
Can they tell where…
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from the album "Uniform"
she hides her heart under the pillow
waiting for the good fairy to come
replace this worn and broken thing
with a heart that can feel again
she's never sure which night will be her lucky one
but she anticipates…
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This is a short cover I did of Polly, by Nirvana. I made it to closely resemble the studio version.
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a shrill shit
a shrill shit shatters the moonlit midnight air
despair distorts the dreamy darkness
twists its fluid form into a gloomy dankness
looming like malignant vapours
over stagnant pools
you are surrounded by fools
grounded by…
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I played a few parts of Cliff's Anesthesia bass solo and added some parts of my own. I used my son's Fender Precision Bass, and later in the jam I doubled the bass parts with electric guitar.
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This is the fourth song from the Thomas - Lennon project.
A collaboration with Michael Thomas of Cave Street.
http://alonetone.com/cavestreet
Michael and I always have something going on, So I'm sure there will be more.
Lyrics and…
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FORTY YEAR BARN
words by Jacque Shelton and JMT (I wrote the chorus.)
I had a dream as a little boy
Not a policeman, a fireman or even a toy
I picked cotton, I waitered
My sox need darned
But all that I dreamed was my Forty Year Barn…
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LISA MAKES APPOINTMENTS
Capo @ 3 in C
C stepping down G
Lisa makes appointments for her friends to come and cry
She’s got a comfy shoulder and an empathetic sigh
Am. F. Am. F
Lisa’s…
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About no one in particular, just a figment of my imagination.
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This is the edited version; with violin sound... i kindda like it..
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Song for my daughter. Last verse shows the tragedy of life
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No idea where this came from, all I know is, it was hard work and a late night !! And hard to work the next day !!
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inside, i feel so strange
but who am i to complain
inside, i feel alive
something died in my heart again tonight
...tonight
why are you everywhere?
you've poisoned everything i know.
your poisoned hearts, I drank them all
as you ask me why…
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WILD BILL Key C
C Bass F# Am Bass G Bass F Bass C
The moon shone like diamonds on mirrors in puddles shaped like horse’s feet
Dm Dm - Dm…
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A Version of Moonlight Sonata Performed by OsCKilO as part of the "Cities Festival" on SongCrafters.org.
Guitar and strings.
The arrangement was marred by the recent disorder in London. It is with a sadness that this set of events has made…
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Okay...so Godzilla comes to YOUR town and wants to get funky. What does it sound like?
When I first came to Japan, there was a time when I spent three months homeless and living out of a coin-locker at Shibuya station. Eventually, I got out of…
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Reg got to wondering...What does happen when the money runs out......how many people are going to be homeless through this recession, the people who are going to lose it all and end up on the streets.......and also the ones already out there…
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Composed, performed, produced by Alex Jenkins. From the Omega Jam Sessions. BMI
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A setting of a sonnet by Walter Lowenfels to music.
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The first of the next album!
Check out the video that features a bunch of equally disturbing imagery I drew.
Lyrics:
Darkness consumed me
All you need know
Darkness became me
It's all I ever grow
Darkness is me
All I seed and all I grow
Darkness…
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so yes, I got the Vocaloid 2 program. Pretty cool, a little convoluted, but it has its knacks.
Of course I had to deal with using the Japanese android diva, Hatsune Miku, so the song is in Japanese. (broken if nothing else, my japanese sucks…
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This is one of my earlier compositions. Both clarinet parts are played live by me.
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Driving South on a two lane interstate in Pennsylvania at 1:00am can be hazardous to your health. Just saying. The leads on this one used an actual amplifier instead of a headphone amp. My crybaby pedal needs to be cleaned, as you can hear.
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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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"Fighters Inside"
I didn't always see myself from three feet away
Now my alter ego shadows me all day
There is no war out here tonight
All the fighters are inside
Disaster is apparently a natural state
The winner's tactic is to defy fate
Screaming…
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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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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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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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After a month long break, here are some more home studio recordings of our repertoire. Still in Russian, but the beautiful melodies are sure to make you feel good :)
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Reg has been trying to learn the art of slowing down, relaxing under the pressure of abstinence.......................it seems to be going well .............
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From the album of the same name, this track really was recorded on a dark and stormy night, just to see if any of the elemental turmoil going on outside would lend its ambience to the proceedings. The thunder claps came from a sound effects album…
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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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A ska/reggae version of "Aurora" by Nova, a synth hit from the 80's!
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Ilesa is a city located in the south west of Nigeria. This is a traditional rhythm pattern of the same name - but I'm not sure of the significance of the name.
I played on 3 congas, accented with bell clave, block and cowbell, of course…
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a "rehearsal" outtake. Guitar/loops/ebow/iPod synth/cassette recorder.
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I wrote this one when the woman I was with started seeing someone else before we split up
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This one is, again, from the early 90's, and was originally a bass line. So imagine it an octave down.
I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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'm doing a course in Mandarin Chinese and mamahuhu is one of my favourite words. It means so-so (literally horsehorsetigertiger); "not so good". In this lyric I just allowed myself to whine about my situation; get it over with. I like the harmony…
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A few years back (when I lived it Texas), I drove out to an open field to watch the Geminids meteor shower... I really need to remember to look up at the night sky more often.
The Showers of December
Lying flat on my back
Looking…
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Lyrics/Vocals - OldRottenHead (over at Soundcrafters.org). Music - Dave Berry. Recorded on Boss BR-1200, Epi Sheraton, Bass, Synth. Drums are played by me on my new Roland HD-1 (I have had it two weeks, timing is a little shaky, bloody hard this…
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RPM 2011
Used to feel the same as me
So warm inside
Used to care too much to see
The other side
You’re so far outside the lines
Your shapes distorted, undefined
Your color choices too
A wash and blurry, through and through
Visualize, love saves…
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Take the lift and your half way up....
Reach the top and your half way up...
You didn’t see your rise, and Lost your way.....
Looking down on the world your tears fall...
You Missed the Beauty of the climb.
And now you’re…
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A live improvisation on 3 keyboards and a half dozen softsynths plus korg MS2000 in Sonar X1
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More on the "Freak" end of the Orphans and Freaks designation. Most of the time I'm making music for myself, and this one just makes me happy, no matter how hard I try to resist.
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I once met Juliet sitting in the dark after just losing her Romeo ...............
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Well, this is a single minute of music around this wonderfull 'Angel Eyes' song. I hope you like and/or enjoy this miniature. Have a great 2011 alonetoners!
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Musical piece about the fairy adventures of toys on and around the Christmas tree, and all that.
For us, the boring adults realists, such a story is ridiculous, but not for them - for children who listen to tales with bated breath. For them…
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Another classic recorded "back in the day" when I was just a tiny little freshman fry.. Check out my page on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/Boris.Shpitalnik
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Check out the video, it'll make more sense that way.
This is the first part to a collaborative project I am conducting with an old friend who happens to be an amazing artist, Mr. Rich Gibbs. He is putting together a story through comics that…
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a field recording/sound collage from last Saturday at the Fort Worth MOMA. Sounds inside the Serra sculpture Vortex, and the African percussion/dance ensemble Jumbie.
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This track was my attempted submission for Ramen Music #001. I finally got around to uploading it here.
It was made using several instances of the Max for Live instrument "Loop Shifter" that I played in real-time using my Novation Launchpad…
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