Mr Sandbags

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

Including the following sample from Freesound.com:
http://www.freesound.org/people/sleep/sounds/1375/

deep
it can be stowed away
it can be remembered
it can’t be thrown away
when it’s deep
hurt
it can be cherished
it can be channelled
it can be part of you
as long as you need it…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

Ghosts do not speak.

Made with the Boité Diabolique playing some piano and cello samples. I did a bit of hand editing in Live and then added some light compression, reverb, and limiting.

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.

The arrangement is me triggering clips in Live…read more

Once again the source material is a snippet of beautiful piano from Sudara only this time I fed it to a new Reaktor instrument that I am working on call Tukuramu.

Okay so tukuramu does not mean earth-quake but instead means plan, scheme, or trick. Which is still…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

Always on the threshold, always buzzing, get out of my head, get out get out

A micro-tonal piece made using one instance of the Novaphone 340 (“Imperial”) playing 3 piano samples from SoundIron’s “Emotional Piano 2.0”.

The samples were sequenced using a MIDI keyboard using the Novaphone Micro-8 scale (1/8 semitone per note). The original samples were of notes 44, 60…read more