30 Jan
2010
30 Jan
'10
9:26 a.m.
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.
Gordonjcp MM0YEQ
30 Jan
30 Jan
9:38 a.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
I'm not a Zappa fan, always thought he was just too derivative (though
an excellent guitarist), but I did agree with his assertion that we
needed more humor in music.
The whole thing re: Patrick's music would make a nice addendum to
Slonimsky's Lexicon Of Musical Invective.
Patrick, you may be inspired by this commentary from Max Reger on a
critic's unflattering review of one of Reger's pieces:
"I am now sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review
in front of me. Soon it will all be behind me."
The Lexicon is *the* corrective for swelled heads and broken hearts.
Best,
dp
9:48 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp(a)gjcp.net> wrote:
Enjoy, and I look forward to your feedback.
granular synthesis?
$ oggdec declination.ogg
$ rubberband --tempo 1:20 declination.wav declination2.wav
$ mplayer declination2.wav
not so bad ;)
--
cb
11:38 a.m.
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:32:43 +0000
Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp(a)gjcp.net> 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
I downloaded and listened -- to almost all of it.
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.
Well, I fall into the latter category, I guess. Nevertheless, I'd be
interested to know *how* you made it. In particular, how did you get
those levels so "hot"? What kind of effects, synths, mastering (if any)
etc.
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.
I did enjoy, thanks for posting.
David
31 Jan
31 Jan
5:03 p.m.
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:35 -0500, David Santamauro wrote:
Well, I fall into the latter category, I guess.
Nevertheless, I'd be
interested to know *how* you made it. In particular, how did you get
those levels so "hot"? What kind of effects, synths, mastering (if any)
etc.
Righty, I've had a mixture of on- and off-list replies, most of them
positive but one or two singularly humourless ones - to which I would
say that if you can't take a joke you may be in the wrong place.
Okay, here's what I did. I took a bit from a thing I'm working on and -
as becks guessed - timestretched it with rubberband (I love that, you
get these complex evolving textures from just about *anything*).
The actual samples came from my Novation Xiosynth, recorded, cut up and
loaded into Specimen. You can get the samples and specimen bank file
here:
http://lovesthepython.org/~gordonjcp/xiodrums.tar.bz2
They are free as well as Free, released under the WTFPL. Enjoy them,
and if you use them in a track that makes you exceptionally rich and
famous do please credit me in the sleeve notes.
I drove Specimen with Seq24, with a fairly simple drum pattern and
switched layers of sounds on and off. I recorded it into Ardour,
slapped a bit of EQ, pingpong delay and reverb on, and exported it.
You can hear the unstretched track here:
http://lovesthepython.org/~gordonjcp/declination2.ogg
(1.2M, 0:1:33, 122bpm)
Patrick, I'm sorry you didn't take my original post in the spirit in
which it was meant. I realise that not everyone "gets" the typically
dark and satirical Scottish sense of humour (Russians and Scandinavians
do, Americans generally don't). Oh well, if you post an hour-long
recording of a car alarm with some reverb on it, what do you expect?
Gordon MM0YEQ
11:28 p.m.
On 31/01/2010, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp(a)gjcp.net> wrote:
Righty, I've had a mixture of on- and off-list
replies, most of them
positive but one or two singularly humourless ones - to which I would
say that if you can't take a joke you may be in the wrong place.
I remember that phrase. I heard it a lot in the playground, when
teachers would ask why I was crying in the corner with half a dozen
other kids laughing at me.
2 Feb
2 Feb
2:36 a.m.
On 02/01/2010 08:09 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
Patrick, I'm sorry you didn't take my original post in the spirit in
which it was meant. I realise that not everyone "gets" the typically
dark and satirical Scottish sense of humour (Russians and Scandinavians
do, Americans generally don't). Oh well, if you post an hour-long
recording of a car alarm with some reverb on it, what do you expect?
Apology accepted. FWIW, I did actually smile while reading your
satirical response.
I'm surprised you didn't get the extremely sarcastic tone of my response
to your response. I work with Scots so it all makes sense now ;-)
Nothing wrong with a but of controversy every now and then eh? Keeps us
all on our toes.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
30 Jan
30 Jan
6:43 p.m.
On 30/01/2010, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp(a)gjcp.net> wrote:
Well, I _really_ like it - I'm listening to it right now, in fact, and
so far it's kept me from a cuppa for 15 minutes - but does that make
me one of the people you're taking the piss out of?
6:49 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp(a)gjcp.net> wrote:
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
Seriously though, who isn't?
Chris
7:01 p.m.
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
7:09 p.m.
On 30/1/2010, "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
On 01/31/2010 12:32 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
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.
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.
7:19 p.m.
On 01/31/2010 10:09 AM, james morris wrote:
On 30/1/2010, "Patrick
Shirkey"<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
I realised some time ago that Gordon usually posts whne he has nothing
nice to say. I figure that it is his buzz. He often gets a large number
of people upset and must get a kick out of it.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
On 01/31/2010 12:32 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
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.
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.
7:25 p.m.
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 10:01 +1100, Patrick Shirkey
wrote:
I'll refrain from joining in the more florid and festive element of this
thread, but will extend a greeting to Scotland from the frigid US Northeast.
Frank
AA2B
Buffalo, NY
At least we can reliably count on your for a
caustic, demeaning and
generally negative response.
There's never any surprises in your emails.
Awww, where's your sense of humour?
Gordon MM0YEQ
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