music - tm

Production notes for "Lounge Laugh 2," from the Terra Organization LP:

Full size screenshot of Tracktion Waveform page. The Waveform DAW is used for editing and mixing on Ubuntu Studio; the tracks incorporate sounds playing or triggered on other PCs and devices. This isn't a "score" so much as a form of notekeeping (I prefer these colored blocks, monotonous though they may be, to (a) the Soundcloud waveform with "this rocks"-level superimposed commentary or (b) YouTube demos showing dudes' hairy hands turning knobs).

Tracks:
1. Moog Subsequent 37 CV - "live" recording of (altered) sequencer preset
2. Moog Subsequent 37 CV - "live" recording of (altered) sequencer preset
3. Moog Subsequent 37 CV - "live" recording of (altered) sequencer preset
4. First 8 bars - recording of U-He Diva synth playing organ riff on Windows PC;
Next 12 bars - Machinedrum beat by GYS, trimmed and looped;
Next 8 bars - recording of U-He Diva synth playing "spacy" pad riff on Windows PC;
Last 8 bars - recording of U-He Diva synth playing organ riff on Windows PC
5. Recording of U-He Diva synth playing organ riff on Windows PC
6. Moog Subsequent 37 CV - "live" recording of (altered) sequencer preset
7. Moog Subsequent 37 CV - "live" recording of (altered) sequencer preset
8. Collective (software sampler instrument) -- recycled riff from my track "Evil Lounge Laugh"
9. Recording of ADDAC wav player module -- recycled percussion riff from my track "Deep Blue Mainframe"

Production notes for "Piskow GoBox," from the Terra Organization LP:

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This track combines some of the settings and sound files from Premonition of Discord and an earlier percussion piece, Piskow Reassembly.
The Multisampler kit and its submix tracks assignments came from the former; some "mangled" versions of samples from 1970s jazz percussion, from the latter.
Tracks 2 and 3 are recordings of GoBox, a Reaktor groovebox playing on a Windows PC, captured and trimmed for this tune.

Production notes for "Dub Mechanic 4," from the Terra Organization LP:

uncropped screenshot of Tracktion Waveform page

Tracks:
1. Recording of ADDAC wav player module strings riff, trimmed into loops and timestretched
2. Recording of Doepfer minisynth module, riffs trimmed into loops and timestretched
3. 808 loop found on internet
4. Multisampler playing hits from a kit I made for the ADDAC wav player of pitched synth notes. The zones are set to play randomly when MIDI-triggered. Track is muted after rendering.
5. Renderings of Track 4.
6. Additional renderings of Track 4.
7. Additional recordings of ADDAC wav player module strings riff, trimmed into loops and timestretched
8. Recording of ADDAC wav player module keyboard riff
9. Recording of ADDAC wav player module keyboard riff
10. Multisampler playing E-Mu soundfont drumkit, with Tracktion Delay Studio plugin

Production notes for "Max Conundra," from the Terra Organization LP:

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Tracks:
1. Beatburner drum loop (early '00s sample pack)
2. Bass riff with "squelchy" high pass filter (Octatrack sample pack)
3. MIDI notes for Loomer Aspect riffs (played in Carla plugin rack, rendered, then muted)
4. Rendered Loomer Aspect riff
5. Rendered Loomer Aspect riff
6. Recording of ADDAC wav player module bass riff -- timestretched
7. Recording of ADDAC wav player module organ riff -- timestretched
8. Recording of ADDAC wav player module organ riff -- timestretched
9. Recording of ADDAC wav player module tuned percussion riff -- timestretched
10. Multisampler playing kit I made of Vermona DRM1 percussion hits -- bitcrushed

Production notes for "Imaginedgy," from the Terra Organization LP:

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The rather hideous title (originally a placeholder but so awful I decided to keep it) is a portmanteau of the song's main components: the 8-bit synth module Edges and the "Imagina" series of commercial drum loops from Tracktion. The idea was to meld geeky with urban cool, arcade with triphop, etc etc
So about half the tracks above are drum beats from a live drummer, manicured and FX-ed in various ways, and half are sequenced riffs from videogame-y Eurorack modules: in addition to Edges (which ended up not being used very much if at all), these include the SIDGuts and SIDGuts Deluxe.
Other additions are the RetroMod Fat softsynth playing some quasi-jazzy, seventh-style chords and a bassline wav from the Octatrack libary.
The piece starts out "slow and cool" and then speeds up for no reason to reach the heavily flanged climax!