This piece is from when I was studying compositions and arranging in 2010. Lots of polyphony with contrapuntal lines and cross melodies utilizing brass, woodwinds, strings, percussion, clavinet, etc. This was a guitar song I had worked up 20+ years prior. I have considered doing this on the guitar with this arrangement using a loop-station but haven't invested the time. One of these days maybe. I'd also love to have this performed with a live orchestra one day but it would be a major endeavor. 

Claudia is my daughter :-)

Claudia's Kingdom

30 years ago in the theater of the macabre.

Pretty sure there's 7 guitar parts. When we were sampling the screams the studio manager burst into the control room thinking we were producing porn or actually torturing someone LOL, "No lady... calm down and take my money!"

Some of what I was doing in the late 80's / early 90's. As dense as this arrangement is it's easy to see why I went broke trying to produce myself. I went back to remix everything the original 2" reels had disintegrated. I was able to get 2 of the original master tapes baked at Ocean Way in LA and fortunately we got one pass of 2 of the songs, the rest of the project was lost. 

Ryan Castle at Sunset Sound was kind enough to help salvage and mix this at Sunset Sound in Studio 2 probably in 1999. Thank goodness for his help or this would have been lost forever along with the rest of the project.

The Theological Place of Eternal Punishment

Some of what I was doing in the late 80's / early 90's. Went broke trying to produce myself and when I went back to remix everything the original 2" reels had disintegrated. I was able to get 2 of the original master tapes baked at Ocean Way in LA and fortunately we got one pass of 2 of the songs, the rest of the project was lost. Might be nice to actually mix this down one day. The stems have horns and keyboards but this is just a rough raw guitar / bass/ drum pass and you can damn sure tell the levels were set by a guitar player LOL. Fun hearing the old stuff, no click, just basically a live jam in the studio with I think one overdub doubling of the head the last time around. Doing that thing we did! 

Written in the late 80's recorded about 1991 with Josh Roberts on bass and Paul Thompson on drums

The Fuze 1991

After I discovered garageband around 2010!

Stratocaster madness

Marvel Comics image

Land Shark

Sci-Fi music for maniacs! "Invasion Of The Carnivorous Mutant Spider People" was originally a guitar thing but this version was composed entirely in Sibelius with brass marching band instruments. Using only the Dominant Diminished scale (half-whole scale) I let the written notes take me where they wanted to go. I have the complete score for this. Sure would be fun to have it performed by real musicians instead of using samples.

Invasion Of The Carnivorous Mutant Spider People

Recorded in Logic Pro in 2010

All instruments played / programmed by Chuck Conrad

Burnin Down The Barn

I've played guitar semi-professionally forever ~~ tubes, amps, & vintage guitars. I also studied Jazz & Classical Guitar in college for several years but being a bit of a Rock & Roll purist the technology had left me behind; Soooo ... I Just completed the course work and earned an Associates Degree in Sound Recording / Music Technology at Community College of Philadelphia. Worked in Logic, Abelton, Reason, Pro Tools ...  Now I can create like never before. 

Lots more music to come!





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