Mr Sandbags

Edward Lear.
Ring Modulation.
No, I don’t know why either.

It’s been so long since I’ve made any music I’ve kind of forgotten how. I was just noodling about and thought I had a sound I liked so I bounced it out quite quickly.

This one is all made with Reaktor and Boscomac’s Air Piano ensemble, plus a heap of Microtonic Permut8, and a drizzling of…read more

A violin sample used as an impulse response for a convolution reverb to which various filtered noise is fed. Just playing with the technique.

Some old cylinder-days orchestral sounds resampled, chopped, and effected. Put me in mind of clowns.

No rhyme, no reason, just a colony of mournful machines piping their clangorous, grinding sonorisms at each other across an barren electronic landscape.

This will also be some of the source material that I will process later into something with more definite intent.

Caveat auditor: long…read more

A new piece for the Synthesis playlist.

This is an ambient piece made mostly from field recordings in the Soniccouture collections ‘Geosonics’ and ‘Giant Bass Tongue Drum’.

The final version, at last!

Tess Savage - composition, synth, strings, voice
Mr Sandbags - beats & reichatron samples

Deep in the night
I remember
Euphoria

(Savage 2012)

This is my first run through the 7th Goldberg variation. It’s been about a month since I started practicing it. This is the first time I “made it"—meaning, it’s a bit fumbling and pushes and pulls, but hey, I hit all the notes!

I’ve played piano for 10 years for fun and for composing; but…read more

I told the good Sister that I wanted to try using vocals in a track and she offered to do me some abstract, stylized, vocals that I could play with and this little number is the result.

Working with wet (pre-effected) vocals was a bit of a challenge at first…read more

This is the first demo Sister Savage and I have made for our RPM 2011 album.

Although I’ve uploaded a copy here we’d be really grateful if you would listen to the [version uploaded by Sister](http://alonetone.com/sistersavage/tracks/breaking-arrows-with…read more

Another in my “music for drones” series.

This one started life as an “off cut” piano phrase imported into my Tukuramu Reaktor instrument and “played live” as I altered the pattern, grain length & density, filter cutoff, and delay feedback & resonance.

I imported the resulting piece into Live…read more

Another in my “music for drones” series.

This one started life as an “off cut” piano phrase imported into my Tukuramu Reaktor instrument and “played live” as I altered the pattern, grain length & density, filter cutoff, and delay feedback & resonance.

I imported the resulting piece into Live…read more

I got stuck on a silly little musical phrase, noodling around with it on the piano, unable to let go of it and unable to really develop it into something more.

I recorded myself playing a number of variations as I searched in vain for a deeper “song” underlying the phrase. This track is a…read more

This is a track I’ve been working on for quite a while so I am glad to finally have it out of my head.

I have a kind of love/hate relationship with time and its humble functionary, the clock. Ticking, in particular, is something I am ambivalent towards: I hate incessant ticking while, at the…read more

A piece of experimental whimsy. I took a nice piano loop from the Logic library and utterly destroyed it with The Finger. What’s interesting about this to me is that I was not playing the MIDI driving The Finger but using Elysium to do so. Here’s the pattern I used:

![Elysium layer](http…read more

It’s been so long since I’ve made any music I’ve kind of forgotten how. I was just noodling about and thought I had a sound I liked so I bounced it out quite quickly.

This one is all made with Reaktor and Boscomac’s Air Piano ensemble, plus a heap of Microtonic Permut8, and a drizzling of…read more

Edward Lear.
Ring Modulation.
No, I don’t know why either.

Edward Lear.
Ring Modulation.
No, I don’t know why either.