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Sounds that I make

M.O.A. Presents: Chords Of Orion – The Elements Shall Melt With Fervent Heat (Reconstructed)

YouTube blurb…

An entry in the Chords of Orion Trial by Remix from back in the twenty first century. I’ve half-inched some dialogue to add a little impetus half way through from ‘You Will Become an Old Musician | Bring it on!‘ where the great man himself reads out a less than polite comment he’d received.

The only other additions are new drums and a synth part derived from Bill’s playing where I add an extra bar to the melody to fit the imposed structure. Plus special guest appearances from tam-tam and kangling 1.

Everything else is done by editing, effects, and of course – mirrors.

This is the original.

  1. Sample – this product is certified free of human bones. ↩

A Shade Loud On The Snare Drum

It annoyed me that I’d made the snare too prominent on this so I’ve knocked out a new version and taken the opportunity to make the second bit of vocals marginally less bad.

Titlewise relevant text…

Remaindered

It took a few years but Firestation Records have finally given up all hope of selling The Gits (UK) Retrospectulative at full price and are knocking it out for 4€ in their January sale. I’ve only spotted this belatedly and it ends at the end of the month.

You will have to get five of them to make the minimum order though – or perhaps even consider buying something else. Do allow for getting caught for additional tax in the UK now that we’ve fully regained control of our demise.

A Little Night Music No. 8

When I say music…

The usual suspects are joined by a Source Audio Super Collider delaying and reverbing at the end of the signal chain. Or not quite the end as there be a Digitech JamMan Solo XT recording the outcome. Continuing the Digitech theme a Polara provides the reverse reverb.

The Poly Effects Bebo is mainly for delay in quantity at the following lengths: 31, 32, 96 and 128 seconds. Some chorus and phasing is included for good measure. (Patch photo at the end of the video).

The Zoia is running ‘Parts’ by who else but Christopher H. M. Jacques: ’10 … loopers probabilistically record and play back … depending on a “Density” control. The loops are randomly panned throughout the stereo field, and can be set to different pitches and reversed.’ It is that very Density control I can be seen twiddling.

Today’s guitar is a new old stock DBZ Royale ST as knocked out by Scan Computers in the UK at very reasonable rates (if you can still be bothered to fight your way past Cloudfront Captchas). It’s thin and lightweight but a gnats neck heavy. I got is specifically to set up with very thin strings and ludicrously low action to be easy to play when my shoulder and wrists aren’t in the mood for anything with more resistance.

Speaking of heavy it comes with high output humbuckers – fine for energetic styles but replaced on mine with the more mellow Warman Retro Rockers.

There is also a longer, and though it’s hard to believe, duller version of this on the channel as I had uploaded it before realising the folly of my ways.

To Be Frank

A throw away end of cassette track with me playing with my first synth and sequencer1 which Richard managed to fit some words around. It is in part about the post fall from grace Frank Bough who’s death was announced today.

  1. Roland D110 and Alesis MMT8 ↩

Man Of Arun – Felt Part 3 (2017)

Originally the light relief in a forty five minute track it’s presented here extracted and mucked around with. The video was made using state of the art (in 2001) audio visualisation technology originally developed as the Milkshake plugin for WinAmp and here implemented for cross platform use by ProjectM.

Other than the sequenced backing all the synth parts are from sticking the bass and guitar parts through Jam Origin Midi Guitar II.

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