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A song for my friend, Eric. Eric changed his diet and drank some green gunk every day and he's cancer went into remission. It's 12 years later and last time we talked he said it was all back...now. He hasn't called in a while. I assume he has died.
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Leafless trees hung low in the cold.
I saw myself kneel, fall, die all alone.
No pity, no tears, no profound song.
Just gone.
The limbs of the trees broke in the wind.
Worn and old from beckoning, again and again.
But no god came. In the end…
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(WATCH THE VIDEO... it'll make more sense)
Part 4 of the asexual lovechild of Artist Rich Gibbs and amateur musician Vestigial Remorse -- enjoy.
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Demon:
"There is no room for your beliefs in hell
Hell is what I make of it…
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Love this song and it was screaming out for a remix
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2 guitars, melody and rhythm. Inoffsensive and potentially catchy. Drums by Luke Sampson (of The The The Stutters).
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Pastichio Rocker aka PDOA wrote and performed/programmed this electronica piece and asked me to write and sing a lyric for it. Despite (or maybe because of ) my accent, we considered it a success. It got some college-radio airplay.
I've made…
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Our entry into a compilation CD for the Acid Exchange International Music and Arts Guild double-CD. I wrote the music and cowrote the Lyric with Scott Graves, and sang the song. Other players are Jay P Lindsey, Dave Bell, and Steve of Asymetric…
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The Dutch musician Paul Corduwener wrote the music for this. I wrote and sang the lyric, inspired by a guitar lick near the end which seemed to be 'saying' to me "Chicky, go Home".
Paul passed away New Years Day of this year. Love to his…
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Music written and played by Trevitte Brown. Lyric written and sung by me.
I can stop my Honda on a dime
I can stop this smoking anytime
Knock on wood I can stop at four
If I could I would stop the war
When I was young I could stop a train…
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It makes me want to stay curled up under the covers, anyway.
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Just a mellow, sensitive piece despite my blushing uncomfortability showing "that" side. Or something like that.
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Another miniature (always miniatures...). Kind of unfinished as well... but some time ago I read something like: "an opus isn't finished, it's just abandoned". And I agree with that sentence...
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My 100th upload to Alonetone!
I played a pretty random arpeggio which I arranged into 3 versions of medium notes, long notes, and short notes followed by a gap. I cloned these version and transposed them up and down one octave respectively…
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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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for the Coheed and Cambria Remix Contest. Took about 28 hours to fully remix and remaster
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This an improvisation in 17 notes per octave with layered software synthesizers. Specifically, various percussion ensembles, french horn, piano, and two synthesizers. At one point I forgot what in the world I was doing because I transposed the…
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Well, I love this song...
I hope you like and/or enjoy. Cheers!
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This song is dedicated to my dad. He is a great man in every sense of the word. I also wanted to do a song in general for "Dads", because they're every bit as important as "Moms" but seldom get the same respect. "Moms have songs...and now "Dads…
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xenharmonic strings vocoded w/field recording + keyboard improv in JI
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for shorties 12/14/10 "rocks and sliders" FB event
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I gotta feeling it's gonna be a good year! Enjoy http://www.theprayercloset.org Copyright 2011 Brad Dassey
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The acoustic version of Eitherway, me and a buddy sat around and wanted to write a song and this is what came out..I like this version better also.
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Independent production conducted by Anderson Luizaga partnership with Daniel Agabiti created, recorded and mixed in exactly two months, for a presentation of ballet at the Teatro Alpha-Sao Paulo-Brazil. A rereading of the famous dramatic ballet…
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This is the demo version of what was to be a full-on internet band thing. The instruments are place holders (but not bad in part). Just pretend the lead guitar player got into the wine early. Sadly, it will likely never get beyond 'demo', but…
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in my dreams, my friends come to visit me in new york. they bring me money but i refuse it on principle. also, there is some sort of fact-checking problem. i have no idea.
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this was a hard song to play and sing... mostly because i was terribly hungover. oh yeah, and also it's horribly depressing.
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"botpat"- when blowbots run amok
for the "blowhards" event at shorties on FB 1/4/11
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This is a jam intended to follow on the heels of "Dance, Little Sister" as it uses roughly the same progression. Sort of a mongrel, style-wise.
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This song is not for everyone but I like it because its a live recording with a single instrument using infinity delay FX. (I turned on the loop delay at :09 after the guitar was flat on the floor.)
All the sounds are made with an acoustic bass…
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Recorded in Sonoma after seeing Les Claypool perform at a small club in Sebastopol. Inspired by his awesomeness, I recorded this all day Nov 27th 2009 thanksgiving day.
A cool blend from Electronica to Rockin' Primus vibes.
Did I sound like…
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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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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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I used sonar 8.5 matrix view to turn my M-audio 88es into a sampler keyboard - assigning samples to almost every key. Most of the samples are field recordings from today and yesterday - most of the others are recordings I made of a drumset I…
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My old buddy and collaboration partner Phil Close joined me on what is at or near the last song for my last album. I wrote the song and sang--Phil did everything else you hear. Dance in the New Year.
Dance, Little Sister.
Dance till you…
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My first attempt at a Blumlein or Mid/Side recording. This one is actually a mid/side recording as I used a directional mic in combo with a figure 8 ribbon mic set at 90 degrees from the main mic. Thanks to Pat Broaders for the loan of the ribbon…
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A layered improvisation on a M-Audio 88es
Korg MS2000 * 2 (duplicated the midi track and recorded the MS2k with two different voices serially)
Pianoteq
Absynth
Reading of his poem "We're on the Brink of Utter Befuddlement, Yellow Hanky Style…
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Performed live by Rainbowtruth @ Irish Brigade Fredricksburg, VA circa late 1990's.
Barnett: Guitar/lead vocal
Osborne: Drums/back-up vocal
Duff: Guitar
Bowers: Bass
Slightly more aggressive than the original. Cool high-energy take w…
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this song is still in the works....i threw the lyrics together after messing around w/ the piano...the timing is off at parts....it still has a long long way to go.....
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This one seems to be a favorite among my friends. Maybe it hits close to home.
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the silent moon watches us amble through the hoops.
improv + soundscapes + tweaks for ImprovFriday.
http://improvfriday.ning.com
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This song is for the one I'll always love. The one who went away. My swan.
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~time as metaphor of being~
...the chronotope is 'a unit of analysis for studying language according to the ratio and characteristics of the temporal and spatial categories represented in that language'. Specific chronotopes are said to correspond…
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No title for this guy yet, as indicated by the...title. Anyway, this is a venture that leans in the direction we hope to take our sound. Of course it needs work, bass and vocals, but we think it's a decent representation of "us," and probably…
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Percussion = Norm
Guitar = Rick
Vox = Emily
Bass = Chris
We started with this
http://alonetone.com/rickph/tracks/a-mile-with-sorrow-normrick
which came from this
http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/a-mile-with-sorrow
I hope you both…
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VOIP (dance for the solstice you fucking plastic robots)
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HYSTERIA
poem by: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved
in her laughter and being part of it, until her
teeth were only accidental stars with a talent
for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps…
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As can happen when you listen to sometime a million times over your mind and ears start accepting things that later you wish you had not. This is a (much better imho) revision thanks to the urging of Gary from the music by computer list.
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Kinda rough. I'm uploading this mainly to share a guitar technique I've been working on. I'm wearing a slide on my picking hand and using it to alter pitches in single line phrases. There's a lot more can be done with this technique that I've…
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You know who you are :)
3rd outing for Le Boîte Diaboliqué.
Accompanied by Timeless 2, Augustus Loop, and Valhalla Shimmer.
Samples used:
* ["Swiss balcony" from Freesound](http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=59723…
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'...whys and wonders -AND wordless prayer for Heather J., Jim L., David Garcia, Jerry W., Dr. Choi, M. Sparks, John Fitch II, and dear Zea, among many others.
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This rough track uses my Blue Just Tuning system (go to www.johnsmusic7.com for details and a photo of the guitar). This is the same tuning Chris Vaisvil used in his Excluded By Peers piece. I hope to add some lead to the track soon.
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Well, it's about a guy accumulates material possessions, but doesn't have the means to pay them off.
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Recomposition of the following ImprovFriday composers / pieces
Peter Thörn
Wheel be
Norbert Oldani
Piano Impro 1,2 3
Another Aulos Impro.
Jeff Duke
Scanners and Bells
Kavin Allenson
dragchain
brain salad surgeon
Slim and None…
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My ode to Gangsta Rap. A powerful emotional piece.
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this is an ambient version of the choir part for "Its a Noon Medicine"
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Admittedly rushed out for the holidays, here's a 5 song EP of techno christmasness. By next year, it'll be a full record with lots more sleigh bells and sirens.
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Admittedly rushed out for the holidays, here's a 5 song EP of techno christmasness. By next year, it'll be a full record with lots more sleigh bells and sirens.
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This is an improvisation (with a bit of editing where my timing got off by a lot) for this week’s ImprovFriday event
I used my M-Audio 88es to drive:
Korg MS2000
ARP 2600 V soft synth
Absynth 5 soft synth
Session 3 drummer soft synth
Pianoteq…
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A cover of a great old Jethro Tull song. Back in the day when they were blues rock.
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