Three fragments made from all or mostly Cabbage-grown instruments by Iain McCurdy, Giorgio Zucco, and Rory Walsh. Cabbage is a Csound-based production environment.

Stuffed Cabbage

Longer central section from Stuffed Cabbage. Basic chillout, something to sound in the background on a down day. All Cabbage-based instruments except for a single percussion loop processed by Loomer's Sequent. Many thanks to Rory Walsh for Cabbage and to Iain McCurdy for the great instruments.

Chilled Cabbage

A multitrack groove created in Bitwig Studio for Linux. Synths used include u-he's Triple Cheese and ACE, discoDSP's Discovery, Loomer's Cumulus, Iain McCurdy's FMCLang Cabbage plugin, and TAL's NoiseMaker. A couple sounds from Freesound.org were also used, along with two samples from a Beta Monkey collection. One Bitwig instrument was employed, the Legend 707 drum kit.

Cold Drop At Club Tux

A tonal counterpoint exercise for four instances of the Angelina VST synthesizer. Fake choral music. :)

Coral

A meditation/soliloquy. One synth (u-he ACE), one preset (HS Softly Centred Squares), one track in Bitwig 1.1.9.

The Soft Center

A one-track album of things done over the past year.

1. Mochi               0:00
2. Helmic            2:53
3. Le faux Gaultier  7:02
4. Hojit               9:02
5. Coral             12:34
6. Reduxion       17:58
7. Hedera          20:46
8. Relatives       23:29
9. Breathing Space  29:44
10. The Soft Center  32:33

A little collection as a playlist. Mostly ambient stylings, including some rhythm/instrumentation studies and jam tracks, with no claim made for significant musical value. They began as exercises, took on their own shapes, and grew into the forms in this list. Two works are newly posted, the rest have been rendered to (by?) SoundCloud in previous more-or-less-identical versions. The lute piece differs slightly from the posted version, I leave it to the listener to discern where. 

All tracks created in Bitwig, edited and arranged in Ardour, along with an arsenal of support software, free and non-free, commercial/proprietary and FLOSS. My thanks to all the developers, they are innocent of any malfeasance listeners may find in the music.

Thanks especially to Fernando Lopez-Lezcano for Planet CCRMA, the base system used here at Studio D. 

Dave Phillips
August 2015

Edit: Two tracks at the beginning added on 28 October.

Bits And Pieces

Something to show off Matt Tytel's new Helm synthesizer for Linux. Helm has the lead line, accompanied by u-he's ACE, TAL's NoizeMaker, Loomer's Aspect, and a single bass drum sample. 

Helmic

Three pieces demonstrating VST plugins created with Rory Walsh's Cabbage, an environment for developing Csound-based instruments and audio processors. Martin Eastwood's MVerb was used on one track, otherwise all sounds heard in these pieces have been synthesized and processed by Cabbage plugins, with no samples. Most (all?)of those plugins are instruments and effects processors designed by Iain McCurdy. 
These pieces were created and rendered with Bitwig 1.2.0 (beta) for Linux, on Fedora 21 with the Planet CCRMA additions. Vast thanks to all the developers who have made such amazing software !

Section descriptors :
1. Sunday morning, waking/dreaming/waking and dreaming again.
2. Sebkha-Chott patiently teach GWAR how to tune their instruments and play simple melodies correctly.
3. An imaginary fretless bass daydreams of 50s Darmstadt stardom, then it all somewhat sadly and totally tonally fades away.


Cabbagenic

A harmony exercise for presets on two u-he VST synths (Hive KS Vintage Strings  and ACE HS Quiet Moon). Two synths, two tracks, that's it.

The Quiet Moon

I was having a Cabbage moment. Four brief sections, fourteen synthesizers. Thanks to Rory Walsh and Iain McCurdy for the Cabbage and the cool sounds !

Irrelevant section descriptors :

1. The rising tide of mayhem.
2. Inharmonicity as a second mode of consciousness.
3. That strange attraction.
4. Leaving on the 8:08.


A Moment, With Cabbage

What a man will do for the love of Cabbage. Another demo, with new instruments from Iain McCurdy, converted to native Linux VST plugins via Rory Walsh's Csound-powered Cabbage software. Sequenced and rendered in Bitwig 1.3.5.
Btw, check out Iain's music at https://soundcloud.com/iain-mccurdy and Rory's project at http://cabbageaudio.com/. 

For The Love Of Cabbage

Recycling here. I've taken bits from a couple of previously uploaded Cabbage pieces and a chunk from the Alchimerical demo, patched them together in Ardour, and voila, a new perspective on some old stuff. As usual, the Cabbage sounds are from instruments designed by Iain McCurdy (https://soundcloud.com/iain-mccurdy), the Hive sounds are from the Land Of Chimera presets (http://soundsforsynth.com/product/land-of-chimera-hive/).

Cabbage And Hive

A mix created from fragments created in AVSynthesis. The sounds are all made with Csound-based instruments designed by Jean-Pierre Lemoine. Four primary synthesis methods are used - a matrix modulation synth, an analog design, an implementation of the VOSIM synthesis method, and an implementation of the CHANT synthesizer. The mix was made with Mixbus on a Linux system, remixed with Bitwig for Linux.

Vosim - Dream Sequence II

A little set for my friend Bob Morabito. Three short pieces for solo sequenced piano, a "counterpoint study", a march, and the waltz I posted earlier (track now removed). These pieces are notated, but I doubt they're humanly playable as-is. See
http://linux-sound.org/dlp-music-lilypond/3chars/3Chars.pdf for the scores.

3 Character Pieces

A simple mix of sound fragments from Freesound.org. Very nice after Dream Sequence II.

Gentle Moment

Sonata for solo sequenced piano. As written, this piece is not humanly playable and should be considered as an exploration of music a la Conlon Nancarrow's works for player piano or Bach in parts of Die Kunst der Fuge.

Sequenced with Voyetra's Sequencer Plus Gold running in the DOSemu program under Linux (Fedora 21). The instrument is a slightly tweaked preset in Modartt's fabulous Pianoteq.

Original image by BFolkman - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39758206``

Sonata for Sequenced Piano

Three pieces based on preludes by Alexander Scriabin (Op.11 #9, Op.13 #3, Op.16 #4). The first two pieces are recompositions, the third is a fantasy/improvisation recognizably derived from the original. Scores coming soon.

3 Contrafacta (on preludes by Scriabin)

Totally appropriate family-friendly low-temperature background beat made with two soundfiles from Freesound.org and synths from u-he, discoDSP, and Martin Lueders' excellent PG-8x. Midi tracks composed in Bitwig 1.3.10, all audio mixed and rendered in Ardour5 (built from git source code). Nothing serious going on here, just musically filling the time while doing the big dance.

Chill Diddley

Five more or less related pieces (more less than more) for sequenced piano. All are contrafacta/parodies on pieces by Cesar Franck (Little Prelude in Cm), William Schuman (Pensive, from Piano Moods), Dane Rudhyar (The Quest #3, from Tetragrams),  Sergei Rachmaninoff (Moment Musical from Op.16 #5), and myself.

Made with Modartt's fantastic Pianoteq. Comments welcome, and I hope you enjoy the music.


A 5-Piece Suite For Sequenced Piano

Nothing special going on here, just a single-patch prelude played by u-he's Diva, followed by a beat track composed with instruments from u-he, discoDSP, Renoise,  TAL, and others. 

"... then they'd gone out walking, just ghosting the rainy streets together in what felt to Mona like some perfect harmony where you didn't need to talk. And that voice had been right, there was no jangle to the rush, no tight-jawed jitter, just this sense of something, maybe Mona herself, expanding out from a still center. And they'd found a park, flat lawns flooded with silver puddles, and gone all around the paths, and Mona had a name for that memory: the Silver Walks."

from Chapter 15 of Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

The Silver Walks

A little demonstration of Matt Tytel's Helm synthesizer. This track was created for the KVR One Synth Challenge #90 as a little demo of Matt Tytel's Helm synthesizer. No other sound devices were used, everything heard here is made by Helm and Helm only.

StudioDave - 3 Breaths for Helm - KVR OSC90

An original lamentation in the style of an Old Occitanian planh (Latin: planctus). U-he's ACE, Bazille, and Diva were used, one track each, one preset each, in a simple harmonization of a simple melody. Made with Bitwig 1.3.12 for Linux.

Planctus Novus

A very simple instrumentation study, based on a scale derived from an Indian raag. Percussion is from Boulder Sounds' BoB World Music collection (performed by the mighty Linuxsampler), the tambora loop was found on Freesound.org, the flutes were made by Howard Scarr for u-he's Zebra2 synthesizer, the sustained violins and the pizzicati basses were played by the Sonatina Strings.

Ahir

A solo for sequenced keyboard, written during a pleasant rainfall on an unseasonably warm evening (70F) in NW Ohio, in late February. 

The instrument is a Full Tines preset for the Yamaha TX802, imported by Sean Bolton's Hexter synthesizer.  The reverb is a Medium Empty Hall preset for the Calf Reverb processor. 

Dedicated to Will Godfrey.

During Rain, For Will

Three pieces for sequenced piano, based on an 8-tone scale from Persichetti's 20th Century Harmony. Dedicated to Bob Morabito.

I. A Toccata In Twos & Threes
2. The Octotonic Muse
3. Plight Of The Fumblebee

Ocotoco, For Bob

A brief ambient track made with two instances each of discoDSP's Discovery Pro and Vertigo, plus one instance of u-he's Diva. Created in Bitwig 2.1 b5 for Linux.

Discovery

An ambient synth piece. Four instruments - u-he's Diva and Zebra2, discoDSP's Vertigo, and Loomer's String - on four tracks in Bitwig 2.1.

Declensions

A little something for the Mississippi John Hurt lovers in the audience, a DP original a la mode. And I still don't know what I don't know...

Fair Enough

Fair Enough aka The AFAICT Song

Lifelong musician (blues, rock, classical), composing with computers since 1986. Discovered Csound in 1989 and Linux in 1995. Still performing, composing, and teaching in Findlay OH USA.

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