What do you do when you wake up "this morning" with a set of chords in your head and a line for the chorus that's something like "One Step From Hell"? Record it and ask your super-experienced guitarist friend Rick DiFonzo to add some extra grunge to it. 
Which is what I did. Now who wants to sing it?

One Step From Hell

This started as a quick test of the DSI Mono Evolver Keyboard versus the Moog Sub 37 Tribute Edition... 17 tracks later and I had gone too far. Both of these synths are absolutely beautiful to behold; both in sound and in looks! Also included is the Korg Wavedrum Global Edition and Piano and Strings in Ableton Live 9 Suite. Video version of the creation of this track can be found at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HOgXIcPX30

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I think part of being mature is truly feeling the flow of time and realizing how short and fragile life can be. When you see people around you die, or get ill, or even when you yourself are attacked – like when strangers shot rockets at you – it makes you question your own beliefs but also be grateful for what you have.

This serves as a reminder for myself to be bold, brave, and strong. It's a call not to waste time and to cherish what life has to offer.

Maturity

I sampled some analog synths into the Teenage Engineering EP-133 K.O. II Sampler Composer and made this little Darkwave (?) track along with the Arturia Microfreak's Vocoder. I actually had more vocoder parts in the song, but cut them out as they didn't really fit and it just sounded annoying. Video version can be seen here -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZZrhTMaLpo

(*note: I hate genres. I never know what to call any of my tunes, but this sounded closest to "darkwave" according to a friend of mine who listened to it, so... there it is.)

Darkwave with the Teenage Engineering K.O. II + Microfreak Vocoder

Made in Reason.
The only synth used is Arturias VST of Buchla Easel.
Quite different approach to sound synthesis. I wont use it again...
Text to speech: voicegenerator.io

BuchlaChatGPT

Winter Songs

Frigid Night Sky

Falling Snowflakes

Let me start with an apology to all french speaking listeners! I don't speak french and just translated English sentences based on French words that rhyme.

The song is a pastiche (French word!) on the New romantic band Visage.
It was the result of testing the new VST plugin “paralogy64” from Full Bucket Music, “           simulating the paraphonic Crumar Trilogy and Stratus keyboards from the early 1980s”.
https://www.fullbucket.de/music/paralogy.html

French voice is provided by https://voicegenerator.io/
It has manually been split and pitch adjusted to resemble a French singer…

As usual, I have used reason and soft synths from Arturia and Cherry Audio.


LaChansonDeVisage

I Miss You Dreadfully...

How About Now

This is a very old (and poor quality) 4-Track cassette demo of a project I had with my girlfriend at the time in 1989. We had some interest from various labels including 4AD and Capitol Records when she up and left me (after 9 years) and took the demo tapes! This was (barely) salvaged from the original cassette master. All songwriting and instruments by me, vocals by an ex.

Leaving Heaven (1989 4-Track Demo)

New tests, sketches and experiments from my film scores and various band projects (under the names of genshi, jido-genshi, Science Patrol, StarDotStar, cell:burn, Seven Summer Eyes, and a few others) as well as an archive of old songs of mine from various decades.

Darkwave with the Teenage Engineering K.O. II + Microfreak Vocoder

genshi

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