What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

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)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5L3v3oxyTk&feature=plcp

My drummer posted the final mix and mastered version of "Disco Demolition Night" by my band Atomic Thrillride a couple days back. As discussed on another thread around the site, I did end up using Carl Saff to master our record. The guy worked it and I think the whole batch of tunes turned out sounding pretty good for a set of recordings done in a garage largely live with no separation or baffling.

Production wise, base part of this track (guitar, bass & drums) is live including the wah part in the middle. Buddy of mine thinks the overdubs kind of give it a 'radar love' feel in the breakdown. I talked my guitarist into overdubbing that reverse guitar part in the changeover. I asked him to do something really basic and droning during the transition and he looked at me like I was a goofball, but once I flipped it over in the audio editor, I think it worked out pretty cool.

Oh yeah, for the old synth gear lovers, the synth over dub on this one is a Roland MKS-50 string sound.

http://soundcloud.com/iskla-1/eeeeee

Just me plonking about with two fingers on my new piano and some wizened tribal musicians somewhere up in the Atlas Mountains

that's really cool! it's a manipulated field recording (looped children?) with your piano on top?

On top and underneath. The source is actually a recording of my little boy singing a kids' tv song - the drone is twelve different loops of him attempting a harmony (triple-tracked and delayed to build to thirty-six vocal tracks, not that you can hear any change after the instruments come in!); and then the scraps are overlaid towards the end to give the impression of some sort of (very young) crowd.

The instruments are mostly some world instrument settings, played on the black keys as the drone came out somewhere near B flat. I spent ages remixing them, adding panning and modulating volume, trying to create an effect of musicians moving about within the crowd, but again it's barely perceptible even when the pan is quite extreme. I think there's too much going on to leave room for any studio wizardry.

that's v nice Ismael, perhaps what Onra would come up with if he decided to orientalise your house.

After a few years of inactivity I've made tentative steps back into doing music stuff, playing around on Ableton and with the only instrument setup I brought with me when I moved last year - cheapass ukulele -> delay/looper. This is what I got when I combined the two:

http://soundcloud.com/eeeeeein/sparkloop2

(more fragment than real thing, though as I don't think I've ever completed anything maybe fragments is just what I do.)

the other day i was digging around in my old files, listening to stuff i had started but never finished, and i came across this and decided i liked it the way it is so i mixed it down and uploaded it. kind of basic, can't decide if i want to try and put a guitar part over it or just leave it alone: http://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/you-sleep

a few weeks ago, i made this other thing, which i can't decide if it's a remix of a zombies song or an original song that is heavily based on zombies samples. the melody over the backing is a little forced but i think it works: http://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/my-heart-for-you

ismael, i really like that.

http://soundcloud.com/snoball/2887-the-suburbs-are-a-prison

uploaded some tracks from last year sometime, when i was trying to figure out Massive + a bunch of other soft synths and going a little overboard:

http://soundcloud.com/chantssound/kid-colossus
http://soundcloud.com/chantssound/hourglass

the second one is endless arpeggios + bata drums and some metric modulation. it's an arrangement of a friend's piano piece that i'm pretty has all of the chords...first time i had to read a sheet of music in years, took me forever to program into midi.

really into both of those but especially kid colossus

i make some things (don't know if i call it music, don't care either)in my free time besides my day job as a nose (yes, as in designing smells) it is very very bass heavy, so i recommend good speakers/headphones
i use ardour and hydrogen mostly, some pure data sometimes, some other free ubuntu softsynths, field recordings, loads of samples and some occasional guitar playing. maybe someone can get some enjoyment out of it, (and make me rich and famous please hahah)

http://naptimes.bandcamp.com/

besides my day job as a nose (yes, as in designing smells)

wait what?! i have ALWAYS WANTED to encounter someone who does this for a living! do you have a FAQ so i can avoid asking you 500 questions about this? i knew i followed this thread for a reason but i did not think that finding a smell professional was it.

also i like your musics a lot -- devotional drone ambient field recordings = ah!

thanks for posting, whoever you are!

well, i am mostly lucky about getting into this job i guess. i always knew i had good sense of smell. i once did a job application for a so called smell panel in amsterdam during my studies (i actually majored in philosophy). they needed people who would go to places in the city to smell and judge if there is 'smell polution',so i thought making money smelling things would be cool, so i applied. but i had to do a test, because they wanted people with very 'average' sense of smell, because they would be most suitable to judge when a smell would give hinder. i was gonna go through a set of two tests on two days, but after the first test they already told me i didn't have to come back for the second test, because my smell was so much above average, and i would be to sensitive to give usable judgment about smell polution. but after that i kinda felt i should do something with my nose and started getting interested in the world of fragrance. also because i have always very much lived by my senses, also with sound and music, and food, etc.
i ended up writing a lot of people for internships, and finally ended up as a lab employee at IFF in hilversum (small place close to amsterdam) and worked further from there. also, designing smells is not always designing perfumes as a lot of people think when you say you work with fragrance. a lot of consumer products have designed fragrances, food products, fabrics, cosmetics, etc. it's also a lot of chemistry and technical stuff. one day i would like to focus on perfume though, but that's quite hard i think. the world of perfume designers is on of the few that still works with apprenticeship. there is a school for perfumery in grasse and versaille, but it is very very expensive to study there. i think givaudan also has a perfumery school somewhere, but it is probably also pretty hard to get in. the only thing i can say is, built up a memory of smells. focus very much on the technical and chemical side of it, and be willing to be patient and start at the bottom. or just start with trying to make your own perfume at home, there are definitely some more niche perfumers who started that way. it is all very much about practical experience. i think to be honest the best way to go for people wanting to work in the fragrance industry would be to get a degree in chemistry and try getting a entry level job at a fragrance related company.

well, i am mostly lucky about getting into this job i guess. i always knew i had good sense of smell.

i am only this far in and it's already one of my favorite posts

thank you for that thoughtful response!

but after that i kinda felt i should do something with my nose and started getting interested in the world of fragrance. also because i have always very much lived by my senses, also with sound and music, and food, etc.

identify with this! while i'm under no illusion that i am going to become a smell professional, i've dabbled in perfumery and smell-making. also enjoy the chemical side of things (commercial fragrances, etc) and have read a few books, but i'll always be a dilettante. i admire your life's path! and your music is pleasing too.

burt oraneg, professional nose, you have officially lifted my spirits today and that is no small task.

thanks n/a

burt, nice sounds and textures yo...i like the parts that have a little more rhythm/melody/structure to hold it together, but i always prefer that to a total free/stream of consciousness vibe. you should start an 'ask a nose' thread.

DONE
ask a nose

Another remix that I did came out. You have to sign up to a mailing list to download it :(

Probably the one I'm happiest with actually although I sort of wish I'd done 200 takes for the guitar part in the balearic breakdown section rather than 100.

here's the link:

http://facebook.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8257d3332f00a86de331bc5cc&id=0847b5ea0e

i added a new track, something i did around 2005/2006 but never did anything with cause i don't really like my voice on it. it's a lot more straightforward drumtrack/guitar/vocals thingy than the other tracks, more melody as well i guess, less samples but still pretty loud and murky in a way.

http://naptimes.bandcamp.com/track/i-was-a-little-red-rooster-dancing-in-my-room

put it on my soundcloud too:

http://soundcloud.com/cruelt/the-other-tribe-skirts-summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y82oJ4WQxNg

the background music is from the two pieces we're doing on this concert, taken from our rehearsals

Your voice is a bit higher than I imagined, but you sound great as an announcer anyway.