With the exception of the notes, this track is almost entirely controlled by a single pass of pitchbend data. Each time you bounce the song, it sounds different. So I bounced it a couple times and mixed them together!
MP3: HMHS Britannic
Category Archives: 30s30d
HMHS Britannic
A Slew of Tracks
30 Songs in 30 Days has taken a back seat to other priorities, but here are a few little ditties that I’ve put together over the last couple of days.
MP3: Backroads
This is a little fingerpicked acoustic guitar number I was messing around with; would go lovely with some vocals one day.
MP3: This Call is Important to You
This is an experiment in creating a new series of sonic limitations. There will be more of this in the future. I created a new drum kit for this track, and I ran the final product through my cassette player to give it an older, warmer sound.
MP3: Saints Hospital
This is a similar experiment as the previous, except focusing more on FM instrumentation. I whipped up a couple new FM patches for this.
Another one coming shortly!
The Battle of Varna
This is a bit of a follow-up to the idea from the third piece for 30s30d, “The Battle of Vyazma” … more focus on ostinati-like guitar riffs and athletic drumming.. I could potentially see this idea melding with the prior one or acting on its own as a followup/sister piece.
MP3: The Battle of Varna
Nuclear False Alarm
So today I decided to do something a little different. Or perhaps really different. I decided to rummage through my library and find some unusual things, put them together, and see what happens. What you have are monkey balls, paint cans, an organ sampled through an SNES, some big percussion, bells … I think that’s it.
On November 9th some 30 years ago there was a false nuclear alarm. People thought the Soviets were about to bomb us, but they didn’t.
MP3: Nuclear False Alarm
Blah
With a great deal of love I named this track “Blah”. I’ve been told in school that it’s always a bad idea to put a negative seed in someone’s brain before letting them listen to your music, but maybe it could serve as an opportunity to have something go beyond your expectations?
I tried to go for a Demoscene vibe but unbeknownst to the music, I just wasn’t feeling propelled.
MP3: Blah
