[LAU] Some new* music

allcoms allcoms at gmail.com
Mon May 30 22:51:43 UTC 2011


Mr Q!

How many prog points shall I award thee?

Thanks for taking me well over my Mellotron RDA - the odd binge never
did us any harm did it? I posted Larks Tongues (the Arnaud Lane vid)
on my FB earlier, then I get this!

Great stuff!

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Q <lists at quirq.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> Finally, I get to post some new music and more than just a short, isolated
> part.
>
> Parts 1 and 2 have been posted before, but for the first time are now
> together as intended and with the added context of the third section. All
> three parts are complete, but it's a work in progress insofar as Parts 4 and
> beyond are yet to be completed (or even started in most cases).
>
> It's just raw mixdowns with a little light limiting to raise the volume, no
> post-processing besides that.
>
> The titles are just vague working titles at the moment.
>
>
> Beyond Triple Point [9.29]
>  (i) Theme From Our Old World
>  (ii) Vale Fanfare: A Change of State
> (iii) Recrystallisation
>
> FLAC (56.5 MB):
> www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_parts_1-3_30-05-11.flac
>
> OGG (ogg7 | 14.0 MB):
> www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_parts_1-3_30-05-11.ogg
>
> MP3 (320 kbps | 21.7 MB):
> www.quirq.ukfsn.org/Quirq_Beyond-Triple-Point_parts_1-3_30-05-11.mp3
>
>
> The drummer spent a while woodshedding before we did the third section; I
> think it was worth it but I swear if I hear the name Bruford again he'll be
> on the receiving end of his timp mallets! The guitarist has been his usual
> lazy-arsed self and hasn't bothered to practice (guitar, bass or flute) and
> seems to think just buying new pedals and an EBow is sufficient. Okay, so
> he's contributed an interesting part or two, but he's still a lazy sod ;-)
>
> I seem to have been on a year-long analogue hardware binge and between synth
> noodling, redundancy, job-hunting and the time constraints of a new job,
> have managed to write, record and mix the new section.
>
> So, between all these excuses -- and necessary guitar amp repairs! --
> release is several months later than was originally intended. In the end
> though, it's been enormous fun and I think most, if not all, of the new toys
> were played with in this new bit.
>
> All tracked in Ardour and mixed with the usual LADSPA and LV2 plugins
> (mostly EQ10Q, Invada and Calf) -- as always, a massive "thank you" to all
> the devs.
>
> I managed to grind my quad-core, 4 GB RAM machine to a halt during mixing
> and even after lots of bounce-downs the CPU load was over 80% in places:
> kitchen sinks are nice though, so I included a choice of them!
>
> It's self-indulgent because it's pretentious. It's pretentious because it's
> prog -- enjoy!
>
> Cheers
>
> Q
>
> ---
> *Contains greater than 50% new music by running time.
>
> NEW MUSIC NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
> This product is a significant source of Mellotron.
>
> Contains 250% RDA of Mellotron.
> Contains 65% RDA of odd time signatures.
> Contains no software or digital synthesizers and no preservatives.
>
> Best before: 1977.
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