This is an ambient piece I composed. I decided to layer the track with sounds I created in the vicinity of my own home to have in the background (See if you can guess what they are) ;) I also recorded some poetic lyric stuff I had lying around to use though out.

Lifetime In An Hourglass

A track I did for the credit sequence in the short comedy film 'Code Fire'.

Music by Ashlin Johnson
Lyrics by Ashlin Johnson & Ben Holt

Office Man

Vulgar went out on a fishing trip and lost his compass (so he thought), he now has no direction home. After much searching and getting even more lost he comes across a robotic girl- she is injured. She has to be repaired so she tells Vulgar where her home is although she is quite hesitant. She belongs to a hidden society/city which is controlled by steam and mechanisms. Vulgar likes this new place of mutant-robotic humans and decides to stay (as no one really liked him in his old town, hence they stole his compass so he could not return home). These humans have implemented their insecurities and flaws with mechanical things they learnt to make themselves. Vulgar and the mechanical girl fall in love and move in together. After awhile the new town starts to become slightly frustrated with Vulgar’s unaware rude behaviour. He decides to visit his old village since he is now in possession of a compass. He goes back to his old town and decides to tell them all where he has been, the village is very fascinated and decide they want the mechanics for themselves and plan to attack the gear city. Vulgar goes back to gear city on his small flying mechanism, the village pillages gear city; it’s all Vulgar’s fault. The two societies are at war and kill each other, Vulgar survives. He carries on into the wilderness unaware of all the destruction he has caused.

Vulgar's Jouney Home

The microtonal piece that can be heard at midnight when you listen closely to the call dial on your telephone.

Microtones In The Telephone

A song written and performed by my band "Anti-Violet". 
The song contains views of a local car accident.

http://www.facebook.com/AntiViolet

Take A Hint-

[Verse]
We're gonna drive drive drive 'til we end our lives
We can't hit the brake cause we're all gonna die
This years gonna be a better year
Cause we can't hold the brake to save our god damn lives.
We got 4 good years to find a damn good plan
Now i've got 1 left and i'm ready to jam
But i'm quite sensetive when it comes to it
I just don't understand why we're all 2nd hand.

[Chorus]
Take a hint
Cause my eyes aren't surprised that you're looking at him
Such a small world
I don't mean to demean but you're begging me, please don't go
Take a hint
Cause my eyes aren't surprised that you're looking at him

[Verse]
Say goodbye bye bye cause it's cold outside
And if you're really that proud then turn back now
When we hit the road it's a mother fucking joke
Because it's too late now, we're all in the ground

[Chorus]
Take a hint
Cause my eyes aren't surprised that you're looking at him
Such a small world
I don't mean to demean but you're begging me, please don't go
Take a hint
Cause my eyes aren't surprised that you're looking at him

[Bridge]
We're gonna drive drive 'till we end our lives
Drive drive we're all gonna die
Drive drive 'till we end our lives
Can't hit the brake save our
Can't hit the brake save our
Can't hit the brake save our lives.

Anti-Violet - Take A Hint

A piece I wrote for study- My apoligies for the "Sibelius" quality, one of these days I'll redo it properly. The story follows the theme of a strange lonely man and his night out alone in a diner; written in the key of C# minor.

C# Minor, Alone In The Diner (Demo)

Do You Think She Thought Of This?

Some of us live in a place you would call your home
but what we'd give just to show that we're not alone.
Like the earth that we live on in every hour is just a second to my escape
Like the sound of the clap under all these towers, I don't know how we made it today.

(Chorus)
And I wonder if you'd have thought
and I wonder if you'd have thought
and I wonder if you'd have thought any of this.

And we'll wait for you to step, out of this hospital bed you rest in
and we'll wait for you to get all those messages that were sent in.

(Chorus)
And I wonder if you'd have thought
and I wonder if you'd have thought
and I wonder if you'd have thought any of this.

Even in my dreams I have never thought of anything as cruel as this.
You can sew up the seams but they'd keep breaking, breaking down like this.
(Repeat)

Do You Think She Thought Of This?

I am a composer, songwriter & producer based in Melbourne, Australia.
Lead Vocalist/Guitarist of Anti-Violet.

From sounds in my head, are now on the web
Contact: ashlinjohnson@hotmail.com

Ashlin Johnson

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