music - tm

"Subharmonic Duo (Faster)" [mp3 removed]

A sped-up version of a song posted a few years ago. I think I just saved it at a lower sample rate but I don't remember. I have EQ-d and otherwise tweaked this "faster" version.

"No Grain No Pain" [mp3 removed]

Added some doomy videogame bass and broken chords about halfway through a "rhythm only" sketch I posted in early '08. The beats were done in Reaktor's Krypt sequencer. Music diary note: I used EQ to selectively boost the pitch on the Krypt notes at the end so they would interact more with the added parts.

"Dearth of the Cool (Minimal)" [mp3 removed]

Another remix of a tune from a few years ago. This is the electronic version as opposed to the "acoustica" versions. It's still less-than-cool but now there's less of it. (May distort on laptop speakers but sounds kind of good that way.)

"The Frogs" [mp3 removed]

This was going to be "Analog_Sketch_a7b" (as in, more heavily filtered LFO pulsing) but then I added some electronic frogs and beats. Then it needed a middle section so I borrowed some bass and percussion from an earlier piece, "RMV Study No. 2." Then some pretty pads over the top that come in towards the end. Thus, "The Frogs."

"Pretty Killbots" [mp3 removed]

Continuing series where live analog synth passages are augmented with more "scripted" rhythms and/or melodies. As the title suggests the idea here was to wed the heavenly and the obnoxious. The tune from "Miasmatic Wave Crunch," played here with an e-piano and a video-gamy sampled Sidstation patch, is layered over some doomy analog grunts and complaints. The melody got boring after a few repetitions so I was forced to write some variations and counterpoint--darn, that's hard--so the song now has a narrative arc.