Amped-Up electrifying hair-raising experiments / experiences
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Amped-Up Electric Hair-Raising Experiments

Repeated bars of opening piano riff from Henri Mancini's "The Pink Panther".

The sound is de-essed, passed through a BOD bass over-driver pedal, routed into a singing series of amps and compressors, mic'd along the way and all tweaked a little darker somehow.

Everything you hear is one piano or one Rhodes pushed through VST amps
(like real-life amps, with same controls, just inside the computer)

You have been listening to:
Piano without and with BOD followed by an LA Rhodes. Also reversed the ending and PaulStretched it too (in free tool Audacity) to give it  that Ultravox "I Want To Be A Machine"  approaching-arrow stretched intro-styled / Sylvia Massey+Tool "Disgustipated"-esque ending.

The Pink Panther

Sincilious - The Haunted Pink Panther (H Mancini cover+Amping experiment)

Stray practice recording of repeated piano riff from "Linus and Lucy" by Vince Guaraldi (as featured in Charles Schultz's 'Charlie Brown') with the pedal held down to increase the lovely). The amplifier warms up and reacts differently even to the same thing again.

Everything you hear is one piano pushed through VST amps
(like real-life amps, with same controls, just inside the computer)

Played badly, with gaps - but those gappy bits let me hear what changing the order of amp and compressor and speakers and mic and amp achieve. If only to discuss with mates, thought I'd share.

The sound is passed through a singing series of amps and compressors, mic'd along the way, all tweaked a little WARMER somehow - and this time they sing.

Cover - Amping Experiment: Linus+Lucy+theSingingAmps

Quick, unplugged practise-take on small classical guitar found when moving in. It was fate. Or from a village fate. 

ME/CFS makes playing difficult but instead of "start from the top" advice or metronome tending to just play through, fix it in post, and look! we'll go all the way to eleven!

Is There Anybody Out There?

Cover - Is There Anybody Out There by Pink Floyd (classical lilt practise)

Putting together the perfect playing-piano project file in Reason using plugins.
(like reason convolution reverb, the one using samples like dark stack or damp cave, Exciter, TheOven, SPL-Iron, BetterMaker and Nectar/Neutron compressor/limiter/transient shaper/EQ, reverb/synapse deep bass verb etc)
Am only 20% way through Mastering & Production by Bob Katz (THE book for this sort of thing) - will improve sound, tone, level, smoothness of playing, the piano settings themselves and general mixing/blending (eg with sends) production and pre-mastering - getting more comfortable playing and producing / still on the mend :D

Sincilous - "Air Music" by Vince Guaraldi

Early preview of a downbeat and mournful, reflective, Sunday morning in the sun kind of instrumental arrangement of Summer-Time (by George Gershwin).
For the lovely girl who served me breakfast and got off work 2 hours early due to how quiet it was (really? quiet? moi?)
Using S.W.A.M. instruments by http://AudioModeling.com played with a ROLI Rise-49 Seaboard and good old Behringer UMX-490 standard MIDI keyboard.
(...with foot-pedals for breathiness / formant and seaboard faders controlling growl / flutter / 'harmonic structure')
For now it's just a quick chords reference for me to learn to perform correctly

Sumtime (Piano-Sax)

Sincilious - Sumtime (Sax-Piano) (Summer Time by George Gershwin)

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ME/CFS lupus coeliac and MS sufferers please note: Am recovering from "leaky gut" & malbsorbtion-related weight-loss. Search 2023 ME/CFS "malabsorbtion" research taking Vitamins A, most B's, C, D, E and supplements for Iron, Calcium, Zinc, Selenium, Magnesium, Co-Enzyme Q10 as well as Equazen Omega 3+6 capsules and following strict Paleo diet (life-saving advice based on latest findings on "Leaky Gut" and auto-immune groups above - PLEASE tell your friends/family)

ME/CFS patient suffering MALABSORBTION for 30 years with extreme mould-spore allergy and diagnosed in 2022 with "Leaky Gut" (affects Auto-Immune sufferers - Lupus, M.S., Coeliac, ME/CFS and requires strict Paleo diet - no gluten, barley, malt, soya / lecithins and largely avoid wheat)

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Ambient Electronica based in Cardiff with visuals - all my own work, that's right - I'm an art thief (: Poser3D has long come free with skeleton 3D Models and a material that is meant to be stained glass windows, someone else's work and all I did was drag the one onto the other, simples :)

Began making ambient noises before learning to speak - mind you, up until that point everything HAD been satisfactory. Black and Decker, the radiators humming and singing maybe? Oh yes, and a loon or two.

Blasting Music (space-invaders themed jam) came from Euro-Techno mate jam on 3rd floor, we each heard whoops, bleeps, sirens, asked "Is that you?" - later friends came back from a techno night, pointed out ash & smoke two doors down with fire/ambulance crews attending. Everyone was OK (phew) and thus from some weird sort of crucible it was born... Lovingly rescued & restored from C-90 tape (with mid 90s tech/software) it was well-received by more hard-core acid-techno fans, as well as 'the touched'

Blasted Mutants (blasting music reblasted 2025/6) will be what then bandmate wanted all along. "Scurried" is but a whisper of a flavour of what's in store.

Forthcoming singles from Through the Wormhole and Impeachy include "Preponderous" and "Going Critical" (versions of which can be found on youtube and reverbnation) - videos coming too, to a mid-2025 near you - watch space!

I'm Kif (in artworks) but the band name is Doktor Kif in honour of a 'right person' for the job... getting it

In other news: resting till 2025/recovering from malabsortbtion, mould-related ME/CFS problem (search "ME/CFS Gut Dysbiosis")

A dietician helped form weight-loss/deficiency treatment of key vitamins & minerals (did thesis on villi getting out of sync leading to non-absorption):

Eat v slowly, 30m, savour the flavour, 3-5 days
Clear out eg clothes/boxes, bag everything to clean later with mould treatment (softener draw)
Flush radiator surfaces (put soapy water down them with bag/blanket below to catch water/dust)
EG Shark vacuum/Air Purifier (in extreme cases)
Rescue (1st week)
Pro-Biotics
EnsurePlus (take 'as needed' I guess 1/day?)

My regimen (just an example, taking some on alternate days):

This first one is important - apparently the body will not be able to do anything with some of these without others hence my previous regimen taking the Floradix Vitamin B complex massively missed the mark and I still struggled a lot.

"Vitamin B Complex Capsules B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7 B9, B12 UK Clean Supplements" from e-Bay supplier "uknutrilifesupplements" aka "Healthy Life supplements LTD" of County Tyrone, Ireland.

IRON (lifesaver! Ferrate something? Have got it written down at home)
Selenium with Vitamins A, C & E
Chewable Calcium with Vit D + K
Equazen Omega cpsules (EPAs / long-chain fatty acids)
Magnesium
Co-Enzyme Q10
Zinc
Rude Health Coconut Milk with Calcium and Vitamin D2 (lifesaver)

Tried BuckThorn juice for a while but was told even half a bottle is too high a dose and it did feel like it was pushing my metabolism. Two weeks on zinc etc and vits A-E and avoiding wheat while having pro-biotics and omega 3+6 long-chain fatty acid high EPA capsules? Peachy, just put on most of a kg somewhere this week, weight-loss stabilised and hopefully reversed. Will be nice to see if I should have a belly, or be 'svelt' when finally consult the right specialists (up to 6 month wait sometimes, but optimistic, stopped my weight loss and at least can 'pinch an inch' like the ads used to say... happy days)

Live well, Love Well, SLEEP well
But above all, EAT well and BE well

Kif

Cover - Is There Anybody Out There by Pink Floyd (classical lilt practise)

Sincilious Kif