music - tm

https://tommoody.bandcamp.com/track/volt-variations (streaming version on bandcamp)

From my current release Similarity Engine

"Volt" is a strings-like preset from the E-Mu Orbit 9090 ROMpler module, a 1990s device. The presets are available as soundfont files. "Volt" consists of three samples stacked in a chord, which you can see when you open it up in PC-based sampler GUI. This tune uses those samples individually and together for the main melody and variations. Other sounds include some additional vintage synth from Legowelt's online sample archive, and a couple of snare hits appropriated from a famous Detroit guy and played in Tracktion Waveform's Multi Sampler instrument.

The screenshot of the Tracktion Waveform DAW tells you little or nothing -- that is to say, as much as the wave file images that Soundcloud uses. It's a crude "indexical" record of the music.

https://tommoody.bandcamp.com/track/more-you-earn (streaming version on bandcamp)

From my current release Similarity Engine

Sources include sounds from the St Celfer sample archive (by kind permission), Helm (the arpeggiated chime at the beginning and end), and a certain Lamborghini driver.

The screenshot of the Tracktion Waveform DAW tells you little or nothing -- that is to say, as much as the wave file images that Soundcloud uses. It's a crude "indexical" record of the music.

https://tommoody.bandcamp.com/track/grains-and-reverb (streaming version on bandcamp)

From my current release Similarity Engine

hat tip to St Celfer for the discordant doorbell sound at 0:32 (bellNOISY.wav). That little sound is the hinge, fulcrum, sine qua non, or whatever-nonmusical-term, for this tune.

These screenshots of the Tracktion Waveform DAW tell you very little -- that is to say, they tell you just as much as the wave file images that Soundcloud uses. It's what's in the boxes that matters but I want some kind of "indexical" graphic for these pieces.

https://tommoody.bandcamp.com/track/little-computer-tune (streaming version on bandcamp)

From my current release Similarity Engine

A listener(?) on bogchat posted a link to the song with a picture of happy girls shopping at an upscale mall. Oh, really? I think it starts off kind of insipid (hence the title) and then works through some changes/variations that are slightly more complex and ends on a dark-ish note. The original speed was increased by shortening the piece to 83% of its length without altering the pitch.

Update: On Bandcamp, I replaced the sped-up file described above with the original, unaccelerated version of this tune. Some nuances were missing, I thought.

Announcing my 26th Bandcamp release, Similarity Engine.
Ten new tracks, created with a dizzying array of software, gear, and samples listed on the release page.

Music diary: I've been posting embedded players to announce these releases, but I think I'm going to stop this practice. The concept of Bandcamp is you are supposed to use "social" to promote music, otherwise it just sits there, since Bandcamp has no in-house means of promoting releases. The one exception is, an email kicks out to anyone who bought your music in the past, letting them know you have a new release. Anyone who hasn't opted out of this process is your de facto community.
Since Bandcamp's artist and release pages are a very good way to organize a large amount of music, I plan to keep using it as a music hub, and let tommoody.us be a place where I keep notes and think aloud about what it means to make a pre-post-internet style of tunes.
I've always pretty much disliked embeds -- it's just one more thing to hang up the loading of a blog page (especially with a new theme that uses scripts, plugins, and third-party font downloads). With the music I've been posting I've been removing the embed code once the blog post has dropped off the front page, and this gets tedious.