Calm Domino or Durr

More Nord Micro Modular fun. I forgot how much awesomeness is trapped inside that little beauty.

This is a single patch I made the other night... it's performed all with knobs, in one take. There is very little 'sequencing', as it were - mostly just lfos and oscillator sync doing tricky things. Some slight fx were added afterward in Live. Not terribly exciting, but fun to build.

Calm Domino or Durr by wi_ngo

I'm breaking out all the old toys and messing around, trying to prepare myself for RPM 2009.
I encourage all to try it - it's quite an experience.

Rock on.

Oh, and the title is an anagram. ;)

Fire and Ice

A little synth anthem using the beloved Nord Micro Modular, which I have taken to patching once again.

The drums are TR-606 samples by Goldbaby.

The toy piano is a Schoenhut 'Fancy Baby Grand' sampled by Kent Williams

Right Justify the Means by wi_ngo

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

-Robert Frost

Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

-Macbeth, Act V Scene V

My RPM Album!

This is the album I made entirely in the month of February, for the RPM Challenge. You can stream or download the files below.



Download a zip of the whole album here: fraud: a collection of love songs

Right-click/Save As on the title to download the mp3 (better quality), or click the sideways triangle to stream:

Fraud_Moog_Edit

Loser

Cosmic_Liar

Sleeze

Immature_Jerk

Cheap

Coward

Truth_Equals_Beauty


And, Hey!

Also check out the collective I'm a part of, too. We also made an RPM album, all of us using Monome minimalist interfaces. I contributed a track and a remix of a remix (a 'double remix', if you will). Check it out here: miximal

Hi Everyone! (Me)

I'm going to start posting here again. I have erased posts about some fucking trip I took a long fucking time ago, because it's irrelevant to me now.

I'm going to try to stay more music oriented for now, so I have an excuse to put my new tracks on-line and record my thoughts about them. Since I have no 'readers', as it were, I'll just think of it as a little on-line diary (isn't that what blogs were sorta meant to be about in the beginning anyway?) or whatever, cataloging my musical thoughts and experiences - whether it be with Los Des or just by my lonesome self, so I can come back and be amused at my dorkiness later (or at least until Google eats itself and destroys everything - haha). Plus, talking to yourself is a sign of awesomeness. My clinical trials have proven this.

So - hello, Future Me! And if you are bored enough to be randomly reading - hello, You!

So I was inspired to do this by this guy Jake Mandell. I found out him and his tonedeafness test through one of my favorite blogs, MusicThing.

This dude is apparently a producer who is in med school now and enjoys neuroscience, and also happened to work on Reaktor and Absynth (soft-synths I have yet to use, but have a great rep) for NI. Sounds like my kind of guy. Anyway, he's started posting his rough tracks on his new site and I really, really dig them. Very unique. I will certainly be checking out his albums.

Here is his site. The Unreleased Music tracks are neat-o.

Also, the tonedeafness test is really tricky. Can be an ego booster or destroyer, depending. You have to pay really close attention. It makes me feel like I'm in theory class again. It seems to have a lot to do with short-term memory, which is something I have made a valiant effort to destroy over the years. I got 86.1%. Thank god I'm above average. I wasn't quite prepared for the difficulty (I thought I would pwn it) so maybe I could do better if I were. But I'm OK with my results so I'll just not risk disappointing myself.