Music Is What Feelings Sound Like

Que fais-tu baby?

The Spanish Inquisition.

This song took longer to finish than I thought when I started. It is difficult to get the frequencies right so that all the sounds don't flow together into a mush. A good sound engineer knows the tricks we amateurs tear our hair out over.

As usual, I use Reason:
https://reasonstudios.com/
Samples are from bundled refills.
Massive use of Polar, dual pitch shifter and Synchronous, Timed effect modulator.

Primary synth is Pigments from Arturia:
https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/pigments/overview

Some mean sounds are made with Synclavier V from Arturia.
https://www.arturia.com/products/analog-classics/synclavier-v/synclavier-v-resynthesis

A little bass from Blamsoft, VK-2.
https://blamsoft.com/rack-extensions/vk-2-viking-synthesizer/

Text to speech:
https://voicegenerator.io/
Google UK English Male. Pitch 0,6. Speed 1.

Finally, Monthly Python’s flying circus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Inquisition_(Monty_Python)

TheSpanishInquisition

Is anyone still out there?
Well hello there if you are taking some of your valuable time to read this! As the lyrics to this (probably)final song say, its been a long while……
The last time I checked into Soundcloud was maybe last December, wow…. 
I packed up for a holiday in Hawaii, ran the Honolulu Marathon, watched a volcano erupt, cast my dog’s ashes into a lava field and drank a tropical island's worth of cocktails while watching the sunset with my wife. And then returned a few weeks later decidedly unenthused about the Cat and my collaborator.
Gina had been making noises about returning to an on again / off again musical partner. That wasn’t unexpected and was actually a bit of a relief as I hadn’t been enjoying this for a while. Our last few songs had been tortuous to finish, including this one which was finally finished I think way back in October 2022.
Cat Came Back was always a lot like an arranged marriage - nothing at all in common but we kind of made it work 3 minutes at a time. But by late last year, it had become very hard work. And as you fellow Soundclouders know, outside of personal satisfaction, the rewards for all of that hard work are not very large. So, if the personal satisfaction is gone, there’s not a lot left to motivate oneself. 
In addition to that, there were a few rather large elephants in the room regarding my collaborator that I won't go into but nevertheless constantly weighed very heavily on my mind throughout our time together and I was finding these increasingly difficult to continue to ignore for the sake of making music together.
So anyway, when I returned a perhaps brief hiatus accidentally turned into this - silence for what, 7-8 months? Haven’t picked up an instrument in all that time and they currently sit in my garage gathering dust. Took up Chess, what a rabbit hole that is! Continued running. Listening as always to a lot of old jazz. Continued seemingly never ending renovations to my house. Spent a lot of time with my lifelong friend, William Styron’s Black Dog, as a matter of fact he's here sitting right by my side now. 
So what now? I sat down a few days back and listened to a few things that were unfinished as of late last year. Maybe its time to start again. Find a new collaborator or two? Anyone know anyone who might be a match?
In the meantime I’ll dip my toe in and check out what some of my favourite Soundclouders have been up to while I was away. I'm sure I've missed out on some really great stuff.

Minor Exotica (Turned To Black)

Your destination may be lightyears ahead.  You will need too choose some kind of a craft.  You May need a new body nor you may decide to simply warp.  The craft could be your mind.  The abilities  could depend on your origins.

Chee's,
Counterworlds Voltage

Noise Grid Jumper

Watch the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwOPUG4G_kc

Simple meditation on : 
When you hear people talk about other
people, they mostly talk about their own opinions.
You learn your opinions about others say
more about you than they do about the people in question

The Middle Way 2

Experimental, electronic soundscape by Spasmodular and VCO (Vincent Carlton Overdrive). This composition was created from field recordings, shortwave radio noise, and multiple synthesizers. 
c) 2023

Salapärane Tunnel

Vox & Lyrics - https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/21930/reasons-rap-acapella-120bpm-rap-acapella
https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/detail/21925/speedboats-120bpm-hip-hop-acapella
Music - https://soundcloud.com/omcb/blackout-omcb-open-collab
Artist - https://soundcloud.com/omcb
MOSNAR DET - Remixing, Drum Programming

OMCB - Blackout (open Collab)/ markushmane - Speedboats, Reasons (Looperman)

Soon

91MAXIMUM A

Burden (Slowed Down)

Lady of Fire Poetry - Lyrics, Vocals, Percussion, Effects | Motion X - Music, Mix, Mastering
This is an open collaboration of Lady of Fire Poetry track Once Upon a Time
Original Track - https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire/once-upon-a-time
Check out Lady of Fire Poetry here - https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire
Photo by JR Korpa on Unsplash

Once Upon A Time

Lady of Fire Poetry | Motion X - Once Upon A Time

the snake eating it's tail

harsh vaporwave ; )

I always seem to be working on something musical, this is where the best results of ongoing experiments work their way out into the world.

Until the next phase is through, this will be an incubator only.

91MAXIMUM A

Cznic

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