#16

Been bit since the spirit to write something has caught me but this week’s prompt was fantastic.

Here’s “Alice at the Gates (disquiet0439)”

I wish I could say it was a first take, recorded at that speed, without edits, but i certainly can’t play this music at speed (edit; I had a stupid self deprecating joke about internet fibs here earlier that fell flat)

Enjoy, and stay safe out there.

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#17

Unsure if that’s aimed at me but not having to play notes through sequencing and having both hands free to modulate the voices and the speed of playback isn’t a supernormal feat. If you listen the track there’s plenty of mistakes. I don’t consider it that good or even a good choice of styles to combine to be honest. I did abort and restart recording twice. All sounds go into one channel of the audio interface and from there into a DAW. I did add a fade in and out in post though. That’s all.

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#18

Oh my goodness no sorry it was aimed entirely at me!!! I had to record my part 30% slower and edit it to get it working - sorry you mis interpreted it - I would never critique someone else’s production choices. To avoid people missing my tone I’ll edit out my comment but sorry again

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#19

Oh and @Glitcher my goodness now I see you make a comment that yours was a one take. I am so sorry that next to each other my comment 100% looks like snark at you which is so completely not my style!!

I write and post my bits before I listen to or read any other junto items so I hadn’t even seen your comment when I wrote mine.

Apologies again for the misunderstanding

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#20

No problem. Sorry for misinterpreting. I prefer your track to mine haha it’s much nicer :slight_smile: Peace

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#21

That’s so good. I loved it. The accompanying video just makes it all the better, especially when the beat kicks in proper. The cranky bass stabs make the context of the latter video (i.e the go-go party) a bit unsettling; like a weird orgy, freakout or extreme violence - ala JG Ballard - is about to erupt. :smiley:

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#22

Clinton, Neuman… and that famous Tabu sound. It feels good!

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#23

Music, video, music plus video. Brilliant anywhere. :laughing: :clap:

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#24

The drill is awesome.

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#25

Well. this was enormous fun. There certainly could have been a weirder mashup. I admire so many musicians over a very broad sprectrum. But I made the most of this and wrote a quick and punchy tune in the style of the White Stripes, as if Rick Wakeman had sat in on keyboards. It cracks my up every time I listen to it. Hope you get a smile too.

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#26

This is a quick exercise in a mashup of a composition by Ludwig van Beethoven and the piano style of Angelo Badalamenti’s work on Twin Peaks. I used a lightly tweaked and slowed way down MIDI file of the work to drive a stock sampled piano in Live. Added some doom laden reverbs from Zynaptiq and Eventide. I treated the left and right hands very differently to accentuate the produced sound. I would call this a pastiche or simple study.

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#27

Here I tried to combine elements of Steve Reich’s Pulses with some Radiohead from the Kid A era. I crafted a Europa synthesizer patch from scratch to get the pulsing while the chord progression has a definite Radiohead influence (as most of my chord progressions do). I wouldn’t call it a song because it doesn’t change, it’s more a demonstration of an idea. I enjoyed making it, the disquiet prompt definitely provoked some creativity for me.

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#28

My arrangement of Bach’s chorale with some modern harmonies and rhythms.

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#29


I tried to combine the dark unearthliness of Anji Cheung (https://anjicheung.bandcamp.com), whose music I feel very close to ever since I discovered it a few years ago and the raw energy of Cecil Taylor’s piano playing, which I’ve always admired since I first experienced it in concert in 1983.

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#30

Wanted to try to combine an older SAW Aphex Twin set up with a Zappa-esque break, but I think I only succeeded a little bit, to be honest. I need to find a way to insert some jazzy-weird melodic line. Well, maybe I’ll do that another time.

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#31

Heh. I think it worked great. Nice job!

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#32

This piece to me, sounds as if you have captured some of the fascinating timbres that grabbed my attention when I was a lot younger. At the time though I just wanted to know what instrument it was.

My dad told me it was a synthesizer. I don’t think I’ll ever forget it. Thanks for reminding me of happy times with this beautiful composition.

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#33

I hadn’t heard of R. Julius, but H. Yoshimura started showing up on my Youtube “suggested videos” lists about a year or two ago - is New Age retro now?

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#34

Thank you, that’s very kind!

If you like this sound, I highly recommend Alessandro Cortini’s three Forse albums made entirely on an Easel. They are synthesizer music distilled. No empty calories.

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#35

I think I’ve got everything in the playlist, but if I missed your track, let me know: