This is the first in a 3 part Audio Story I am creating. 

STORY:
A woman gently holds onto her husband's hand. He is week, trembling, trying to look up at her to talk, but no words come to his dying lips. She begged him not to do it, but he knew that this was the only way he could continue to live to fight on. 

His body was finally giving up on him. All of the the abuse that he was forced to endure through the years locked away and tortured finally took it's final toll. He suffered unknown horrors for just wanting his people to be free, to show them that they had a choice. 

And as his spirit slipped through the tubes, sensors, and arcing light that connected him to the metal machine that stood beside him, he said his final silent goodbyes, knowing not who or WHAT he would be once the transition was completed. What cost would there be? Would his love be enough to hold onto his binds of humanity.  

INSTRUMENTS USED:
- NanoStudio
- Vocoder

LYRICS (original)
I went to look
but could not see.
Your hand 
held mine
what was left of me.

With a soft gentle caress
my spirits slip and were gone.
And I never asked your permission
for my journey beyond.

The world, your words 
drown out
into speeding tunnels
towards bright pulsing light.

My motionless movement
through the darkness of flight.

And when I reach free
to the end afterlife behold
I find myself broken up into data and code.

My arms and legs shatter
replaced with metal and gears.
All senses dim,
become digital
reboot
memory clears.

First mechanical step 
I falter.
Gyroscopic system
begin to kick in.
As my new eyes go high resolution
high processor reactions grow bright from within.

My love, I'll never forget you.
Though no longer in my physical host.
Remember me always, remember me dear.
As the way that I was
not the machine in the ghost.
The machine in the ghost.
The ghost.

The Machine In The Ghost 1: Transitions

For some odd reason I got the Ren & Stimpy Happy Happy Joy Joy song stuck in my head at work, so I had to do a remix. I wanted to take samples from the track and see if I could come up with something that sounded almost like it came out of George Orwell's 1984 (big brother is watching you and all that). Tried to make it sound more industrial, dark, and militaristic. I gave myself 3 hours (since I'm trying to go to bed at a semi-decent time). This made me laugh. Definitely fun making this one.

INSTRUMENTS USED:
- NanoStudio

AUDIO USED:
- Bits and pieces from Ren & Stimpy's hyper fun Happy Happy Joy Joy song.


I Don't Think Your Happy Happy - (Ren & Stimpy Happy Happy Joy Joy Remix)

Travelin' Man Blues

Oh Deep Mellow Me

What's that? There's someone ringing in on the land line and it's the 80's callin' wanting to bring some sick synth sounds back. Here is some way cool beats that I was playing with one night after stepping in my time machine. 

It Came From The 80's

Red Sand Strutters

You got the funk. She's got the funk. He's got the funk. We all got the funk. Now let's get the funk out of here!

SuperFunkaFragilisticExpialaGroovy

The Electric Sin Get Down

Float With Me

Dive Deep Dancer

Dark Dweller In The Cellar

Echoes From The Future

I am Bob. I am a multimedia designer. This is my audio playground.
 
When I'm not coding games, designing websites, or all the other work-a-day fun, I like to create: 

- ambient audioscapes 
- experimental electronica 
- strange songs
- write short stories and languish over lyrics

I use a variety of applications, tools, and musical instruments that I own. I have never learned to master any one instrument because it is just too damn fun playing around with all of them. Because of this, I would call myself a Music Designer more than a musician. Check it out and see what oddities burp out of my head.

Best to plug in the headphones and turn up the volume. I have included information about the making of the songs on each page (click on the song's title to get there if you are viewing this through a browser, or click the info "i" icon if you are using the SoundCloud mobile app). Feel free to comment or contact me at designsbybob@yahoo.com. 



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