[LAU] Declination: Music made with Linux

[james morris]

On 30/1/2010, "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote:

>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.
>>
>>
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>At least we can reliably count on your for a caustic, demeaning and
>generally negative response.
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>There's never any surprises in your emails.


If it's any consolation Patrick, I got bored of this piece too. I quite
liked it to begin with, but then it goes on a bit. It's not
particularly original either.