Before I start describing this week's track, I just want to say thank you to all of my regular listeners who put up with my recent silly experiments, mostly concocted to meet requirements.  You were patient, and you were lovely.

Anyway, back to normal.  This week's track is a little piece of fluffy pop fluff that I put together on Chordbot on my Android tablet, exported the works into Audio Evolution, dressed it up with some soundfonts (including this funky drum kit that I have always wanted to use), did a few more bits with it, and sang on top of it at the very last minute (the bedroom voice sounds particularly hoarse today.  Sorry, will fix).   I didn't write lyrics for this until this morning, when I found myself going through William Shatner's twitter feed, reading of some fuss kicked up about some fans wanting an actor fired from the TV show Once, so two characters a few have been dreaming about getting together can get "shipped" for real (the things I learn on Tumblr...- for the benefit of folks my age, or close to it, to "ship" is imagine two people, real or otherwise, in a relationship.  Its as if you are a dream matchmaker, or something).  So, this song is all about "shipping"  and "fandom" and OMGWTFBBQ.  

I think I like this song enough that I may resing the thing and do a video.  Should you care to sing along, bring up your vocal remover, apply it to this track and have a gander at the words below.  Feedback, as always, is a lovely thing.  Peace.

Shipping


Chorus: I want to ship every boy, every girl that I see
I want to set this downward running story arc free
I want to ship all these bad plot ideas out to sea
I want to unleash the matchmaker inside of me

I was reading your books and I came up with these plans
I am quite sure that you have no idea who I am
But I had your characters paired up before chapter 3
Then you had to render them asunder on me

Chorus:

You are my favorite author but, darling let's be clear
I don't understand what artifice brought him to her
I was pulling for the other hero you had in the back
Angry that two pages later he died in an attack

So I am down with the fandom, my subplotters hit the floors
because my plans for your heroes are better than yours
We shall bring the right man back to the love of Sweetie
We shall make this ship happen, just you wait and see

©2015 Helen Sventitsky/JOAT Music.  All Rights Reserved


Shipping

Exploring music and sound possibilities on Linux. The search for software that can make me appear talented has failed so far; oh well... O:-)

...what software can't do, people can: collaborations!

A very special mention to @rachel-gaskin-whitrod (also known as InterStella-Moonbeam, and .~ReD~. at the time) for my first SC collab,
and to @Yugin83 for my first SC collab in Italian

How big will this collab list become? For now, let's start with...

@ian-melvin
@ArcelliA
@fivosvalachis
@scienceteheran
@pios-hausmusik
@angelo-annicchiarico-1
@pierrou
@alock-4
@jaime0223
@januschb
@mrinal-desai
@ice-requiem
@ilaria-brovini
@gli-angelisalvatori
@salvatorenuccio
@alienized
@marin-gale
@fingerstyle_guitar
@discratebye
@jackwm
@lum-9
@user-923223956
@dj-rubberman
@telefan
@dm-tribute-friends
@lionliing-2
@jojo2017
@no-mates-ensemble
@alpha-roots

And how not to mention the other artists involved in those collaborations although I didn't work directly with them?
@milanazilnik
@stephanfischer-1
@cindyeichardt
@tonybluestone
@chris-wiggs
@jean-michel-george
@suzukikiso
@aida-kaly
@elleshell8
@domenico-crispino-1

Some of my tracks are now featured in compilations by a daring and experimental producer: @kutmusic

Rock Flexible is a spare-time guitar player, multi-instrumentalist, producer and singer based in Berlin, Germany. 
He is much interested in the technical and production side of things and he will immediately stop making music as soon as he has achieved his final goal: Creating music in the quality of the ones producing for Radio and commercial CDs :o)
His other projects like the Electronic Music project based on KORG's Volca stuff can be found here https://soundcloud.com/rock-flexibles-elektro.
Rock has done many tracks based on Lyrics or piano pieces of the fantastic Jaime J. Ross which can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/jaime-and-rock.  
His seasons of the "The Great Conqueror" epic instrumental series is available under https://soundcloud.com/the-great-conqueror .
Here on this profile his favorite songs and new releases can be found ...
The latest project is based on an own Modular Synth RF has started to set up. So, hopefully interesting soundscapes to come :)
Hope you enjoy ... 
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Rock owns a small home studio - the "CandyLand Studio" in Berlin. He uses the following - not complete - list of equipment to record and mix his music:
- Guitars: Fender, Ibanez, Schecter, Charvel, Ovation
- Guitar FX: Eleven Rack, Boss GP-10, NI Guitar Rig and a modded CRATE Amp
- Mics: Neumann KM184 MP, Shure SM57, SM58, SM7B, Brauner Phanthera
- Outboard: WA76, Joemeek VC1, SPL GoldMike, TC Helicon Voice Live Rack
- Electronic: KORG Volca Bass, FM, Sample and Keys, NI Maschine, Roland TR-09, Kaoss Pad 3+, Arturia Drumbrute + Beatstep Pro, Roland MX1, Pocket Operator PO-35 und PO-14
- Eurorack Modular with modules from Doepfer, DreadBox, Mutable Instruments, MakeNoise, SSF, TipTop, EoWave and Manhattan Analog.
- Interface: RME FireFace
- Monitors: ADAM A7X
- DAW: Logic Pro X and Ableton Live 10
- Software: NI Komplete Ultimate, Several Waves Plug-Ins, Melodyne, u-he Podolski, Toontrack EZ-Drummer 2 & EZ-Keys
- Flutes, Whistles, Clarineau, Duduk
- Percussion (quite often I use real percussion over ready-2-use loops)
- Hurdy Gurdy

#DYI #Linux #Indie #Musician. #Painter .
Feel free to 'Like' my Facebook artist page ;) :
https://www.facebook.com/thierry.mozika


Electronic Music Composer for more as 35 years

I am a singer/songwriter with a small but growing audience. Most of my music is done using samples, loops and beats.  Occasionally, I play guitar. While I do identify as an electronic artist, I also do jazz, country, rock, pop, and some times all of the above.  As well as dance.    

I have released one album, which can be found here. 

http://www.cdbaby.com/AlbumDetails.aspx?AlbumID=helensventitsky&_ga=1.216763094.110970492.1425335146

I am getting some other EPs and an album together, which should see the light of day sometime this year.

Lyrically, these days, I am all about either saying what's on my mind, and/or being as creative a diarist as I can.  Hope you can relate.   And please enjoy.