[LAU] Declination: Music made with Linux

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 01/31/2010 12:32 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> I was fiddling about with various bits of Linux audio software and came
> up with several hours of recordings into Ardour.  If I don't go quite as
> crazy with remixes as, say, Moby, then there is probably about 17 months
> of music in there.  I've picked out one that I feel stands up on its own
> without further processing, and uploaded it to my server:
>
> http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/declination.ogg
>
> If you have time to download it (it's about 26 minutes long, 21Mbytes)
> and listen, I'd appreciate some feedback.  I tried using a homebrew
> fuzzbox and a guitar amp, but that just made the neighbours bang on the
> wall (and they live half a mile further up the farm track).
>
> I consider this track to be in the Techno Reconstructed Yurt genre, with
> influences from Vangelis, Pierre Schaeffer and James Bilsland (the
> latter using a huge industrial pump to deliver heating oil to the
> 1300-litre tank at my house).  If that is the kind of sound you are into
> or you wish to make people think you don't listen to "normal" music,
> then I think you will enjoy the track.  If you don't or it's a bit too
> "experimental" for you then clearly you are an imbecile and you wouldn't
> know genuine avant-garde talent if it bit you on the backside.
>
> Enjoy, and I look forward to your feedback.  I hope you get as much of a
> kick out of hearing it as I got off the anode caps of the power amp
> valves in my HF radio transmitter.
>
>    



At least we can reliably count on your for a caustic, demeaning and 
generally negative response.

There's never any surprises in your emails.


Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd