music - tm

"Jam Science (Arpeggios)" [mp3 removed]

Kontakt 2 has an arpeggiator script I've avoided using till now. A little of that stuff goes a long way but this is short and I've piled three arpeggiating synths on top of each other for maximum doomy psychedelia. The "Jam Science" beats are running underneath so it can't get too serious. It appears my blog will now consist of posting the songs I'm spending days working on and old pictures. I have felt marvelously free of any compulsion to write about other needy artists' work lately, so, sorry. Except in comments of other blogs.

A friend suggested I put some vocals in these songs. Yeah, and what your paintings need are some friendly farm animals in them to warm them up.

Update: Took about six seconds of arpeggioing out at the beginning. I now have it down the maximum of what I can tolerate.

"Jam Science" [mp3 removed]

Minimal high school techno. Belatedly discovering a Reaktor synth called Rhythmmaker: simple front panel, easy to program, no mystification in the form of hidden effects parameters. The attempt here was to wring content from changes in "air" or room tone, as three basic drum patterns change abruptly from one level of reverb to another. Some basic FM riffs provide bare bones melodic content. Could probably take about a minute out of this but for now it is long (for me) and messy.

Update: Shortened by almost two minutes, some new drum parts substituted for old ones.

"Disco Volition" [mp3 moved to Bandcamp]

More robo-latinate stylings, mostly done with Kontakt 2.

"The Beast Two" [mp3 removed]

Minimal tech hip-house. Four drum loops were run through various analog and digital filters and then overlayed.

"Actually Massive" [mp3 removed]

This is kind of found sound--a very slight arrangement of some Reaktor presets for Massive--not the popular softsynth but the groovebox of the same name. I have been posting songs with just the raw samples. In these presets they are granularized and treated with various effects exactly as they are intended to sound. All I did was choose the order of the patches (clicking on the presets in real time) and even up volume levels. It makes a pretty good house tune--there's really nothing else I can think to do to it at the moment.