Aw thx, yep they are round wound steel strings, def keep your calluses up
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 August 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
yo m@tt this beat is dope
― The Reverend, Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
aw thx rev, it's child's play compared to what real dudes do but i thought it sounded pretty good
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/thomasblackburn/tracks
playing with myself in the evenings
― Crackle Box, Friday, 24 August 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
"spooky" tag otm. i like it! nice picking, matt. rev's track is rad! and dog latin, are you on tumblr? i feel like I've listened to your stuff before...maybe you just sound like someone. anyway, sounds cool, kinda pere ubu goes folk? i've started playing with someone in the basement, so i may have something to contribute to this thread in the near future.
― tylerw, Friday, 24 August 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
To say "I Make Music" is putting it in the broadest sense of the word.
http://soundcloud.com/r-mantlebakken/down-on-weekends
― pplains, Saturday, 25 August 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
ok wtf were you guys on? :)
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, staying up too late.
― pplains, Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks Tyler! Pere Ubu goes folk is a big compliment in my book, although no I'm not on tumblr :-)
― Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:25 (eleven years ago) link
Pplains your track made my smile - like what Paul's Boutique might have sounde like if they'd spent most of their budget on ketamine
― Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:42 (eleven years ago) link
Lol
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
finally got around to adding a few tracks to soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1"that american life" is a woozy beat"burning life" is a slow pop song on a bed of ebow"the joke that tells itself" is a blown-out instrumental
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
thanks, dl and ums. 1999 was a different time.
― pplains, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
digging that ebow tune, n/ai put up the most recent thing I've recorded: http://soundcloud.com/tylerwilcox/now-you-knowvery short! think it might be a ripoff of a GBV song, but I'm not sure which one.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
sounds good but yeah very GBV
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
Fwiw pollard probably isn't sure which old gbv song he's ripping off at this point
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
lol yes. i actually wrote that song when i was a teenager (and probably at the height of alien lanes mania), but just re-recorded it last month.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
sounds great nick, esp. 'that american life' (ha), real legit.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
thanks, just did that one this past week and i'm pretty happy with it, gonna try to do some more sample-based stuff with a similar feel
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
but we'll see if that actually happens
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
what do you sound like recording a christmas song on the hottest day of the year
http://soundcloud.com/thomasblackburn/christmas-mix
― Crackle Box, Friday, 31 August 2012 10:23 (eleven years ago) link
Synth-pop doo-wop:
http://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/ill-refuse
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B06vfsSsETkSQ3R6Z1ZiQmk5SWM
unsure if tihs google docs thing will work
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
cracklebox that is great
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
hah so you got the Christmas thing done? It's awesome. Guitars sound amazing!
― owenf, Saturday, 8 September 2012 08:04 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwyr2lc69uo&feature=player_embedded
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
good job crackle box though I would need earplugs in concert cause its so harsh and I am so mellow
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, cheers, it was a total hack job, did the recording (and err 'writing' the 'song') one afternoon and I mixed it after work the next day to be sent off. Not my studio. Always difficult in someone else's studio.
Anyway, your music is awesome dude, ended up watching them all on youtube, ha :)
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
Been picking up my guitar a lot more recently, so decided to try and combine the kind of post-punk/rock I always end up playing on the guitar with the house/techno music I've been recording the last few years:
http://soundcloud.com/bleak-house
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 20 September 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
latham green your music belongs on speculator dj mixes (see djs post your mixes for download)
and thanks, rod stewart made coffee come out of my nose at work "how can an athelete be a musician at the same time erryeehhhh"
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 20 September 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
i recorded up an upbeat number about getting punched in the face
http://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/man-of-violence
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Saturday, 22 September 2012 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
It's a hit! (ba dum pish!)
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Saturday, 22 September 2012 07:01 (eleven years ago) link
pow! :D
I also finished off another one the other day, this one is a more straight-up house track, so is under a different alias: http://soundcloud.com/glocknspiel
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/lonely-synth
i have this weird old cheap synth i bought of craigslist that i keep meaning to take home but it's in my office so i made this up the other nite...can hear too much key noise though should have put my phone farther away
― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 September 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
does it have a make/model on it? sounds cool, the vibrato is nice.
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's a bit of an oddball synth called the Yamaha PortaSound PSS-680 Music Station
I can't really figure out who it was made for, because it's on one hand definitely a cheap, Casio-feeling unit, got 100 cheesy preset voices and 100 cheesy rhythm preset tracks w/autochord etc...the build quality is low like something you'd buy at Best Buy, plastic and small keys etc...
but the weird thing is that for some reason they included a bunch of features that you'd normally see in a higher-end synth like this digital synth module that basically emulates and analog synth, letting you fuck w/all the sine wave stuff and modulation/frequency/decay etc, except instead of knobs you use buttons...
you can also save sounds but i don't know how to and i bet the internal battery is long dead...so basically just start with a cheeesy preset sound and then start fucking with it with the analog synth modeler thing and you can end up w/some cool sounds...there's also preset effects like stereo chorus/vibrato/portamento/reverb etc
i looked stuff up and i think circuit bender dudes like it
i'm sure a chillwave band would get a big boner over it...got it for $40, neat toy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LW5IyUiktI&feature=related
― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
actually this is the model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBZkqBLGqc&feature=related
― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
It's 2 operator FM, like a very cut down consumer grade version of the type of synthesis used on the DX-7. The sounds are programmable over MIDI using a piece of s/w called PSS Edit, which gives access to additional parameters that aren't available from the front panel.
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
(I have a semi-irrational desire for these cheap Yamahas, like I know logically that a TX81Z would handily outclass the PSS-680, but it's the latter that I'd want)
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
it's kinda cool! just don't pay a lot for it....but yeah i've fucked around and gotten some decent tones on it...
― jalapeno kloppers (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Singing mah heart out: http://soundcloud.com/bhfsim/numb-im-yours
― Buddy Holly Flight Simulator, Friday, 28 September 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
i like that buddy holly
― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 October 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
i've been reading morton feldman and john cage recently so i decided to do my own chance composition.
http://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/indeterminate
here are the "rules:
Indeterminate
Five channels of sound - left, left-center, center, right-center, right.Five pitches, player's choice (I chose C2, F2, A2, C3, F3).Two sections, each 60 beats long. Tempo is the player's choice.
In each movement, there are five notes that are played in each channel.
The duration of the five notes is partially randomized (see below).The notes must be played sequentially - from low to high in the first section, and from high to low in the second section.Each note begins very quietly, reaches its loudest point in the middle of the duration, and ends very quietly.
Determining duration of notes The duration of the five notes must add up to 60 beats in each movement.The duration of each note must be, at a minimum, at least 4 beats. There are a number of ways to randomly determine the duration of each note, using a computer, while keeping the minimum duration above 4. Here's one:
Lower limit = 4Upper limit = (60 - (sum of beats used so far)) - (4 x (remaining rolls - 1))
ExampleFor the first random "roll" in a channel:sum of beats used so far = 0remaining rolls = 5
Lower limit = 4Upper limit = (60 - 0) - (4 x (5 - 1)) = 44
I use a computer to generate a random number between 4 and 44. The computer chooses 25. The duration of the first note is 25 beats.
Second random roll in a channel:sum of beats used so far = 25remaining rolls = 4
Lower limit = 4Upper limit = (60 - 25) - (4 x (4 - 1)) = 23
I use a computer to generate a random number between 4 and 23. The computer chooses 12. The duration of the second note is 12 beats.
Continue doing this for five rolls to generate the duration of the five notes in a channel, which will add up to 60 beats. (Optional: randomize the order of the five generated rolls)
Repeat for all five of the channels, and for each of the two sections (first section starts low and ends high, second section starts high and ends low).
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 5 October 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
nice!!
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Friday, 5 October 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
i like that a lot. i don't really understand the process but i like the result.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, thanks! Yeah, I'm not a very good technical writer (or a writer in general) so I probably didn't describe it very well. But the gist is generating 5 random numbers that add up to 60 beats, and using those for the durations of the notes.
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
If I knew how to program, i think it would be possible to write a piece of code that would perform the song using randomly generated numbers each time. On repeat, and every rendition would be similar but different. I guess the trick would be connecting the code to a sound generator.
I know some arduino, and I know you can hook it up to programs like msp...hmm...
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 5 October 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Just tried this, here's what it looks like in my DAW.http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8451/8057810759_c4fedb19aa_z.jpg
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, awesome! I was hoping someone else would give it a shot!
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
I ended up slightly blending the first and second sections (overlapping by 4 beats, I think) but of course do whatever you think is best. So rad!
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 5 October 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link