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HMHS Britannic

Disasterpeace — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:38:38 +0000

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

A Slew of Tracks

Disasterpeace — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:33:42 +0000

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

Disasterpeace — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:39:54 +0000

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

Disasterpeace — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:23:34 +0000

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

Disasterpeace — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:21:54 +0000

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

Shenandoah

Disasterpeace — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:49:50 +0000

The sixth piece is a simple piano idea with some overlays, and an attempt at creating some interesting lines that tangle with each other.

MP3: Shenandoah

An Evening with Guy Fawkes

Disasterpeace — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:18:11 +0000

For the fifth day of 30 songs in 30 days, I decided to do something completely different altogether. I recorded about eight and a half minutes of improvisation on the keyboard, and then arranged it for a bunch of instruments. It was a ton of fun and only took me about an hour or so.

This is a great exercise for hearing lots of ideas in some kind of context, and especially useful if you might eventually want to extrapolate some of those ideas.

In light of November 5th, I had to get Guy Fawkes on my tracklist. So imagine yourself frolicking and plotting around London on a dark evening.

MP3: An Evening With Guy Fawkes

Day of Love

Disasterpeace — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:42:38 +0000

My friend Steve is working on a little game, and he asked me to write a little light/dreamy piece, so I decided to have my fourth 30s30d track “get two birds stoned at once”.

This piece only uses two single-cycle loop samples, both of which I got from Jasper’s Journeys, a lovely little retro game from Lexaloffle Games. The samples have a very nice low resolution sound to them, and I’m quite fond of the music treatment in the game. The song itself, while I wasn’t channeling anything while writing it necessarily, definitely has Yasunori Mitsuda influence written all over it.

November 4th is the Egyptian Day of Love.

MP3: Day of Love

The Battle of Vyazma

Disasterpeace — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:45:48 +0000

My third piece for 30 songs in 30 days definitely has a Tool vibe. Wrote a little ditty on guitar, and built a little track around it. I can see myself adding a bunch of length to this somewhere down the line.

MP3: The Battle of Vyazma

The Great Oulu Fire of 1882.

Disasterpeace — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:20:49 +0000

Here’s my second track for the 30 songs in 30 days challenge. Continuing the trend of thru-composition. This one is definitely influenced by “Cereal Number” a song Spamtron wrote for Disastertron.

MP3: The Great Oulu Fire of 1882