What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

aw thx rev, it's child's play compared to what real dudes do but i thought it sounded pretty good

http://soundcloud.com/thomasblackburn/tracks

playing with myself in the evenings

"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.

To say "I Make Music" is putting it in the broadest sense of the word.

http://soundcloud.com/r-mantlebakken/down-on-weekends

ok wtf were you guys on? :)

Ha, staying up too late.

Thanks Tyler! Pere Ubu goes folk is a big compliment in my book, although no I'm not on tumblr :-)

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

Lol

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

thanks, dl and ums. 1999 was a different time.

digging that ebow tune, n/a
i put up the most recent thing I've recorded: http://soundcloud.com/tylerwilcox/now-you-know
very short! think it might be a ripoff of a GBV song, but I'm not sure which one.

sounds good but yeah very GBV

Fwiw pollard probably isn't sure which old gbv song he's ripping off at this point

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.

sounds great nick, esp. 'that american life' (ha), real legit.

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

but we'll see if that actually happens

what do you sound like recording a christmas song on the hottest day of the year

http://soundcloud.com/thomasblackburn/christmas-mix

Synth-pop doo-wop:

http://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/ill-refuse

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B06vfsSsETkSQ3R6Z1ZiQmk5SWM

unsure if tihs google docs thing will work

cracklebox that is great

hah so you got the Christmas thing done? It's awesome. Guitars sound amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwyr2lc69uo&feature=player_embedded

good job crackle box though I would need earplugs in concert cause its so harsh and I am so mellow

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 :)

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

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"

i recorded up an upbeat number about getting punched in the face

http://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/man-of-violence

It's a hit! (ba dum pish!)

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

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

does it have a make/model on it? sounds cool, the vibrato is nice.

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

actually this is the model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBZkqBLGqc&feature=related

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.

(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)

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...

Singing mah heart out: http://soundcloud.com/bhfsim/numb-im-yours

i like that buddy holly

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 = 4
Upper limit = (60 - (sum of beats used so far)) - (4 x (remaining rolls - 1))

Example
For the first random "roll" in a channel:
sum of beats used so far = 0
remaining rolls = 5

Lower limit = 4
Upper 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 = 25
remaining rolls = 4

Lower limit = 4
Upper 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).

nice!!

i like that a lot. i don't really understand the process but i like the result.

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.

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...

Just tried this, here's what it looks like in my DAW.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8451/8057810759_c4fedb19aa_z.jpg

Yeah, awesome! I was hoping someone else would give it a shot!

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!

http://soundcloud.com/snoball/chance

Cool, I'll listen when I get home (currently at a bar) (again)!