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

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

I found another old cassette tape of mine from 1983 to 1985. This is all music that I recorded onto a Clarion XD5 4-Track Cassette Recorder which was one of the first, and very primitive, 4-Tracks at the time (no EQ, no Effects.) Synths used were a Sequential Circuits Prophet 600, Ensoniq Mirage, and Ensoniq ESQ-1 on a couple of tracks. Drums were from my Roland TR-909. On the tracks with my cheesy vocals, I was using a cheap $20 Radio Shack microphone running into a Boss Chorus and Delay pedals. No Computers/DAW, no Sequencers, I played each part live all the way through into the 4-Track and did a lot of bouncing; recording a Drum part on Track 1, a Synth on Track 2, something else on Track 3, then bouncing those down to Track 4 to free up the first three tracks for additional sounds (sometimes guitars, or sample effects from the Mirage, etc.) So this bouncing down degraded the quality quite a bit... coupled with the fact that this tape has been sitting around for 40 years! I'm surprised it still even played!

Woman in a Mausoleum // Music From The 80s

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...

I've been working on a story on and off for 3 years. I liked the concept, but it just didn't do what I hoped it would in storybook form. One day, Particle Dots asked if I was going to participate in the 2017 RPM Challenge, and immediately I knew that I would, whether I finished in time or not. I decided to treat my storybook idea as a song, and possibly an album. I knew it would help the rhythm of the lyrics and in fact it did improve the structure, and as I worked on it, it became an album. Thanks to a few MJ friends for the inspiration and the help on the songs to follow.

Steel Grip

Boy With A Mechanical Arm

Marky Mashed Potato

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)

So Alone Now (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.

Woman in a Mausoleum // Music From The 80s

genshi

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