Tracks created whilst holidaying on the Isles of Lismore and Tiree.
Both islands are in the Inner Hebrides off the coast of Scotland.

Inner Hebrides

Composed by Johann Pachelbel (1653 - 1706)
Arrangement from https://www.youtube.com/@LetsPlayGuitar
Played on GeoShred with sounds from Speldosa passed through TB Reverb

A video of this being played is available here https://youtu.be/BVWNqlObNrk

#295 Pachelbel’s Canon in D

26th Jamuary…
Drones supplied by four low frequency SWAM instruments played by MelodyBud and put through a few effects.
Lead is GeoBassFlute.

26th Jamuary 2025 | Drones & Bass Flute

Who can resist that classic combination of the sounds of Nepalese farmers tending their Mules in the foothills of the Himalayas and the Moog Model D Synthesiser.

#304 The Foothills of Happiness

The 21st track in the Decent Sampler album…
All of the sounds used on this album are free.
Sounds used on this track are…
Earthquake Sounds (Pads 1,2,3,4 and 10)
MyDuduk

Decent Sampler | Vindemiatrix

One more from the archives…
Piano Motifs (in the days before it was AUV3), Roli Noise and SWAM Tenor Saxophone.

2021 11 10 Wednesday Quick Play

The latest in a series of experiments using a single instance of GeoShred to control multiple instruments. In this case the instruments were Roli Noise (November Rain Guitar Lead, String and Horns, Lemon Bell and Fluid Acoustic Bass) and Roli Drums (Ambient Beats Groove Kit)
Effects were ScaleBud 2, Attack Softener, TB Reverb, MU Filter, Velvet Machine, FAC Alteza, LRC7 and MixBox.

A video showing how the track was made is here https://youtu.be/W9J8rgFax3I

#318 GeoShred Experiment #10

This one’s been on the back burner since November 2023 but as it’s coming up to the time of year (in the UK anyway) when Cuckoos start to return from Africa I thought I would, eventually, finish it off.
AUM, Euclidean Sequencer, Melody Bud(s) and GeoShred playing Speldosa(s), Naada Bansuri(s) and Naada Pan Flute.

#236 Cuckoo

SWAM Soprano Saxophone and Cantoria Church Organ.
GeoShred and Piano motifs.

#317 So much for subtlety

The 22nd track in the Decent Sampler album…
All of the sounds used on this album are free.
Sounds used on this track are…
Felt & Fog (Hoffmann Felted (*3) and Brian Eno’s Fav)
Recollection (GR04 Lonely Day 2)
Short Scale Bass
Played by Piano Motifs and GeoShred

Decent Sampler | Wurren

A SWAM Viola improvisation played with GeoShred over a Piano Motifs / Ravenscoft 275 backing.

A video of the track being created is here https://youtu.be/UIbuG5nhQh0?si=pEgtoDOV58uPN6l4

2025 04 05 Saturday Quick Play

The 23rd track in the Decent Sampler album…
All of the sounds used on this album are free.
Sounds used on this track are…
Communication Loss (Morse code)
Blended Keys
Earthquake Sounds (Pad 01, Pad 02, Pad 03, Drumkit)
Casio DG-20 (Glocken, Flute)
Bowed Oven Rack

Decent Sampler | Xamidimura

The 24th and penultimate track in the Decent Sampler album…
All of the sounds used on this album are free.
Sounds used on this track are…
Flute & Ebows (Flutes & Ebows, Ebow Less Fundamental Fast Att, NFlute Choir * 2)
Tunnel Bodhran
Bombo De Guancho

Decent Sampler | Yed Posterior

Ravenscroft 275 (Piano), SWAM Double Bass and Alto Saxophone all played by me with GeoShred.
Additional ‘shimmer’ supplied by ZOA playing Decent Sampler RJS Guitar and Korg Prototype 8.

#307 Conjunction

The 25th and final track in the Decent Sampler Album.
Like all of the other tracks this just uses sounds that are completely free.
It covers a lot of ground from electronic through blues to jazz and possibly a few other genres.
The whole thing was done in one take with no edits and a video of the process can be seen here https://youtu.be/F2WkmjmrPwg?si=jZc_MZKdicF_RCUU
Sounds used are…
Thyssia (Evolutions 02)
Analogue Waveforms DS (Bells of Emptiness)
Korg Prototype 8 (Pad Ghostly)
Analogue Waveforms DS (04 - Stereo Bass)
Univox JR-5
Short Scale Bass
Record Cutter Synth (003 - Topanga Canyon)
Felt & Fog (Passing Thoughts)
Korg Prototype 8 (Pad Dew Drops)
Flute + Violin (Waves)
Soft String Spurs (Harmonics)
RJS Guitar (Old Strings)

Decent Sampler | Zubeneschamali

Fired up the latest version of Piano Motifs playing some Decent Sampler piano with a bit of SWAM Viola (Harmonics 2 setting) played with GeoShred.

2025 04 17 Thursday Quick Play

Inspired by the book of the same name by the late lamented Iain M. Banks and also by the music of Yvonne Dickerson available here http://www.youtube.com/@yvonnedickerson5326 , this starts off dark and menacing and gradually resolves to something a little more melodic, finishing off in G Major.

#320 The Hydrogen Sonata

A variation on some sort of traditional folk violin piece

#315 SwirlyJig

The nature of these quick play tracks is that they could always be better… more practice, more takes etc but they are supposed to be (vaguely) spontaneous so here is today’s attempt.
This uses the latest version of Piano Motifs, specifically the new Randomise feature. PM and GeoShred both playing their own instance of iFretless Guitar.

A video of this track being created is here https://youtu.be/hmapgSgGLAY

2025 04 30 Wednesday Quick Play

A track created whilst on holiday on the beautiful Isle of Lismore in the Inner Hebrides.
GeoShred playing SWAM Viola over a Piano Motifs / Decent Sampler (Felt and Fog) backing.
Sounds of nature recorded on Lismore this morning.

Lismore 1

2nd track on the Isle of Lismore using a recording of nesting Crows near St Moluag's Cathedral.
Piano Motifs playing 3 copies of Felt and Fog + Woven Strings.

Lismore 2

3rd track created while staying on the Isle  of Lismore…
Decent Sampler Felt and Fog, Singing Bowl and Spellsinger.
Sounds of nature from the sea around Castle Coeffin.

Lismore 3

4th track from the beautiful Isle of Lismore…
Decent Sampler Felt and Fog (*3), SubFrost, Korg Prototype 8 (*2) with sounds recorded from a ruined cottage in the middle of Lismore. A sheep decided to run past somewhere around the 2:30 mark 🐑

Lismore 4

A fifth and final track from the Isle of Lismore…
Decent Sampler Felt and Fog (*2), Bodhran, Metal Desk Lamp and Lewis E Pyle Violin with sounds (including some wind noise and a little heavy breathing) recorded on the coast at Port Ramsay

Lismore 5

A second track from the sunny (very) Isle of Tiree…
Decent Sampler Dave Choir, Ice Choir and Otto played by Piano Motifs.
SWAM Alto Saxophone played with GeoShred.
Sounds of Skylarks singing recorded this morning.

Tiree 2

It’s International Drone Day so here is my contribution…
Decent Sampler Venus Theory Strands played with the AUM keyboard, 2 * Piano Motifs and GeoShred

#321 Drone Day 2025

Just firing up Piano Motifs again with some great sounds from Venus Theory I.e. Forms Piano + some Tunnel Bodhran.
GeoShred solo over the top (quite literally)

2025 05 24 Saturday Quick Play

Some sounds from Decent Sampler I.e. Earthquake Sounds and BSM Communications Loss played by ZOA.
SWAM Flugelhorn played with GeoShred.

#322 Fanfare for Earthquake, Comms and Flugelhorn

Piano Motifs and Decent Sampler are a constant source of inspiration…
All sounds from the free version of Auras Rooms from Venus Theory.

A video is available here https://youtu.be/j2YJBD0_9b8

2025 05 31 Saturday Quick Play

Four MelodyBuds playing Decent Sampler.
2 * Venus Theory Drops and 2 * Venus Theory The Kalimba.
GeoShred playing GeoTrumpet.

2025 06 01 Sunday Quick Play

Relaxing ethereal piece using 3 copies of Venus Theory eraphine for the ‘voices’ and 2 copies of the Cantoria Organ

2025 06 03 Tuesday Quick Play

An exercise in controlled chaos gradually resolving to some sort of recognisable order.
A sequence in ChordJam A is driving ChordJam B which is set (initially) to randomise more or less everything.
The 5 outputs (channels 1 to 5) of ChordJam B are driving 5 instances of Entonal Studio, each one set to a different scale.
Each Entonal Studio is playing a Decent Sampler with a different preset from Venus Theory primetra.
Finally Decent Sampler drops, pure preset is being played by channel 1 of ChordJam B.
Part of the way through I gradually start removing all of the randomisation and move everything to a C Major scale, or as close as I can get to it !

2025 06 04 Wednesday Quick Play

Decent Sampler…
2 * auras : rooms
1 * drops : pure
1 * Korg Prototype 8 : Hit Short
1 * Short Scale Bass
All played by Piano Motifs
GeoTenorSax played with GeoShred

2025 06 05 Thursday Quick Play

XinematiX strings and pizzicato strings played by Piano Motifs.
SWAM Viola played with GeoShred.

2025 06 06 Friday Quick Play

My first (fairly rudimentary) use of Gestrument Pro to play the backing while I use GeoShred for the lead.
IFretless Guitar used for both.

Gestrument Pro seems to be a very deep app and I’ve only scratched the surface here 🤔

A video showing how Gestrument Pro was used is here https://youtu.be/QZqrhFZTd8Q

2025 06 11 Wednesday Quick Play

‘Too much latency’ was the message that AUM kept displaying while I was creating this.
Ravenscroft 275 piano(s) put through multiple AUM Time Offsets, Rob Jackson’s new ANALOGyGR, Noise Melody and Drums, all played by multiple Piano Motifs with AUM clock ratio set so that some things are running at 10bpm.
SWAM Soprano Saxophone played with GeoShred.

#324 Almost too much latency

Everything here is created, recorded and mixed on an IPad Pro using AUM.

I use GeoShred to play everything that is not generated or sequenced.

I also have some tracks on my YouTube channel

GeoTony

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