This is another recent Logic creation, with Arp 2600 analog bass driven by Roland MPU-101. I used Massive for the lead melody riff and Reaktor Space Drone for the intro sounds. Inspired by Lee Smolin. 

QUANTUM GRAVITY

This is performed on the Spektrumsynth, a Reaktor creation. Special thanks to James Walker Hall and Timothy Lamb for their Oki Computer instrument, which was an integral component of the Spektrumsynth. See the instrument on www.youtube.com/dongarbutt

Heavy Ion Collider

A delightful jaunt: instrumental 7/8 superimposed over 7/4 performed by Don Garbutt, mastered by Moshon Shabah at Signaltouch.com. Inspired by The Mahavishnu Orchestra, and featuring the MOOG Guitar (Reaktor granular synthesis of a note played by the inventor, Paul Vo, my old friend). Thanks, Paul and Moshon!
This track is the better sounding version of the now-deleted track formerly known as "String Theory". Always tricky stuff naming instrumental tunes, eh, my jazz friends?

PARALLEL WORLDS

This is the remastered (thanks, Moshon at Signaltouch.com!) version of a piece featuring the voice of our dearly-missed Lev Kofman, inflationary cosmologist at the U. of T. Theoretical Astrophysics Dept. This piece is a science music celebration of cosmology, with the Don Gobot chorus and the universe of sound created on Logic.

EVOLUTION

Other than kick drum and a crash cymbal, all sounds were made on Razor-X. Razor-X requires the full version of NI Reaktor and Razor. Check it out at www.dongarbutt.com/razor-x.

Quantum Tunnel

This instrumental piece is performed by Don Garbutt in Logic, in the spirit of Mahavishnu Orchestra in 7/8 and 7/4 time. I used NI Battery and Kontakt sampler for percussion and plucked/bowed instruments, Guitar Rig on Kontakt sampler for main theme lead guitar, electric guitar solo in middle section is Reaktor granular synthesis treatment of one guitar note played on the MOOG Guitar by the inventor, Paul Vo. 

Don Garbutt - PARALLEL UNIVERSES

Christmas at the zoo: cats, dogs, horse, cow, duck, crow, monkeys, seals, birds and human rhythm section. Season's greetings!

Jungle Bells

Remastered by Moshon Shabah at SGTC. Using Korg PS 3200, Oberheim SEM, Arp 2600, Roland CSQ 100, Roland analog sequencers. 1979

ASTRAL FLIGHT Remastered

Thanks, Moshon (SGTC) for the great mastering job of this ancient track1 Un-mastered version was uploaded a few weeks ago, so you can compare the versions. It was ecorded on 8-track half-inch TASCAM tape. Winner of "most number of nights" in CFNY Great Ontario Talent Search. After 11 consecutive winning nights, it finally lost on the night that John Lennon was murdered. It featured the crazy phase shifter of the ARP Quadra.

COSMIC UNITY Remastered

Here's an instrumental track from 2002, wickedly remastered by Moshon at SignalTouch. This Logic track is performed entirely on keyboards(no guitars were harmed...)Note the juxtaposition of 4/4 while maintaining a relentless 7/16 bass line! This is for Paul Vo, remembering the great odd-meter jams that we had back in the '70s.

SUPERCONDUCTANCE

Einstein could not explain the expanding universe without the addition of a term called Lambda, or the Cosmological Constant. He then recanted his solution, calling the fudge factor his "greatest blunder". However, since the nineties, Lambda was put on a solid footing, and the rate of expansion has been thought to be accelerating due to the effects of this "dark energy". Breaking news: the existence of Lambda is again being questioned, and, if falsified, would prove Einstein right all along!

THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT

I have roots in Celtic music, and played for several years with Bill Craig, seen in the photo with the Guinness. We were called the Foggy Duo. I wrote and played all the instruments including tin whistle and mandolin. The rest is electronic done in Logic. Thanks again for Moshon at SGTC for his mastering greatness!

MARCH OF THE GNOMES

Wear headphones for best results and close your eyes. This is one of my early works in 3-D Sound, 1995, using Protron by Crystal River Engineering, now discontinued software. I first encountered Holophonic Sound in 1982, and went on a quest to discover a practical way of implementing HRTF-based imaging. Drums constantly move around the head, a rebellious response to drums always having to stay nailed down to the stage. Open/closed hat events move up the vertical axis. Most sounds are mixed in simulated 3-D. Brilliant help from Richard Underhill (3-D doppler-shifted sax, Shuffle Demons), Benjamin Gilchrist and Jono Grant. Again, great mastering of this relic track by Moshon at SignalTouch.

CIRCUIT CRITTERS in 3-D SOUND

Another 3-D sound piece from the mid-nineties.

VAPOURS

Jamming with the interactive software "M" by Cycling '74, this is another 3-D sound piece from 30 years ago.

M THEORY

Mining more of my late 20th century works... Listen with headphones. This piece was largely made with holophonic recordings made with Ringo the Skull, the Hugo Zuccarelli human skull recording device. This captures the HRTF subtleties which enable us to hear in 3 dimensions.

EQUINOX

Here's a properly mastered version from Moshon at SGTC. Great job! This track was inspired by Juan Maldacena's idea that proposes that our 4-dimsenional universe (3-space, 1-time)is a consequence of a holographic projection of a more fundamental 2-space curved anti-DeSitter space. String theory and Quantum Chromodynamics are "two sides of the same coin", giving rise to the quantum particle of gravity, the Graviton. Vocals are a combination of Roland Variphrase and vocoder technologies.

HOLOGRAPHIC GRAVITON

Don lives in Canada, and makes music about physics using computer technology.

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