2023 Tracks

A tinkly, clinky piece that made me think of icicles…
Piano Motifs is playing ChordJam which is then playing 4 other Chordjams playing multiple Roli Noises.
StepBud is playing the inter section melodies.
Lots of effects including FAC Alteza, Pitch Drift, AUM Time Offset, MixBox, MidiEcho, Rozeta Scaler and LFO.

#145 Icicles

Short piece using synths and arps i.e. Mela 3, DRC (played by Piano Motifs and Rozeta Scaler)and Moog D (played by me via GeoShred.
Also Rock Drummer.
Effects - Pitch Drift, MixBox and TB Reverb.

#130 Recycling

Short piece about the futility of war.
Sound effects (from the BBC Sound Archive) are from the 1941 London Blitz though MixBox.
Drone from DRC through Pitch Drift.
SWAM Alto Saxophone via GeoShred through TB Reverb.

#146 Futility

Lovely tune that popped out of Piano Motifs
1st section uses SWAM Double Bass, Cello, Viola and Violin
2nd section adds various Roli Noise bells and plucked instruments 
3rd section adds BeatHawk Bagpipes and ThumbJam Uilleann Pipes
Effects MixBox, Pitch Drift and TB Reverb.

#148 Fairy Dance

A short ambient piece, all the sounds are created by Pipa.

#149 Between The Stars

When I first found these sounds on the BBC Sound Effects site I, ignoramus that I am, assumed they were from somewhere in Africa. it turns out ‘ The Ainu are the indigenous people of the lands surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, including Hokkaido Island, Northeast Honshu Island, Sakhalin Island, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula and Khabarovsk Krai, before the arrival of the Yamato Japanese and Russians.’
This is their Crane Dance which is so hypnotic and rhythmic it hardly needs any tinkering but tinker I did.
A2M is used to convert the sounds into midi that then plays everything else.

#147 Ainu Crane Dance

Ravenscroft 275 piano through MixBox with GeoTrumpet

#152 Tune For A Dull Day

My addition to a great track by https://soundcloud.com/paulieworld and https://www.youtube.com/@ColinPowell_AMultitudeofOne was some GeoShredding… what else ?

#153 In My Heart

A laid back jazzy bluesy sort of piece with Riffler providing the backing with a semi improvised GeoShred solo on top.

#150 Steers Like A Cow

I’d guess you could call this some sort of Jazz Rock Fusion ?
I let ZOA run until it had reached an end point where it had a repeating loop, called according to Wikipedia an Oscillator (in general) and specifically in this case, a Blinker which repeated every two cycles (Period 2).
This provided a predictable set of notes which went through ChordJam and then Polythemus to drive 5 * MoodUnit Waverley (of various types) and 3 * DRC.
Rozeta Bassline played BeatHawk Bass and Mid East Drummer provided percussion.
I provided the manic GeoShred solo with lots of mistakes but I enjoyed it  so what the hell 😊

#151 Oscillator : Blinker (Period 2)

Another piece inspired by sounds from the BBC Sound Effects site, this time a recording from a Cypress Swamp.
4 instances of Korg Module being played by ChordJams, each one being fed from a channel from Piano Motifs and each one put through Spirangle.
Velvet Machine Wet / Dry mix being varied by Rozeta LFO.
BeatHawk Harp through TB Reverb with MixBox panning.

#155  Cypress Swamp

Tuned percussion vs multiple synths.
Generated vs improvised via GeoShred.
Bouncy rhythm vs ambience.
Piano Motifs, BeatHawk, DRC, Sunrizer, Mela 3, SWAM Cello.
MixBox, TB Reverb, Spirangle, Velvet Machine, Attack Softener, LRC7.

#158 Juxtaposition

A collaboration with Paul ( https://soundcloud.com/paulieworld ) using a tremendous backing track he kindly let me jam over.
GeoShred guitar and SWAM saxophone.

#160 More Jam Ft. Paulieworld

In order of appearance we have Piano Motifs, ZOA, PolyBud, MelodyBud * 2, SnakeBud * 2, MelodyBud, Riffler, Fugue Machine (on Percussion), Scaler 2 and then 4 overdubs with a human being playing GeoShred (Mandolin, Flute, Pipes and Viola)

#157 GeoJig II

Simple GeoShred piece with BeatHawk Fretless Bass on the low E string and BeatHawk Harp on the other 5. Effects are TB Reverb and Magic Dice.

Also available on YT here to see how it was played… https://youtu.be/0qbO0JJQ08U

#156 Footsteps In The Snow

Pbelgium (https://soundcloud.com/dutchee) produced a tremendous solo guitar version of Time after Time last year. This puts his track through a couple of effects (FAC Alteza and Velvet Machine) and adds a GeoShred played SWAM Flugelhorn solo.

#106 Time After Time

All the sounds here (other than a bit of Roli Drums) are from the 4 SWAM String instruments I.e. Double Bass, Cello, Viola and Violin. All have the Harmonics setting at  ‘4 Control’.
Played by one instance of 4Pockets Euclidean Sequencer and me, via GeoShred.
One take in AUM, no edits.

#159 String Theory

Simple Piano Motifs backing (Piano and Cello) with GeoShred Flute and Bass Flute  and a lovely Blackbird recording.

#154 Tryptych For Blackbird, Flute, Piano And Cello

Four Green Fields is a 1967 folk song by Irish musician Tommy Makem.
This is a version with 2 * Teraverse providing the drone through FAC Alteza and Velvet machine and a GeoShred SWAM Alto Saxophone solo through TB Reverb.

#111 Four Green Fields

GeoShred guitar part done in one take over a backing provided by Riffler and Piano Motifs playing Percussion, BeatHawk Bass,  Roli Noise Organ and ThumbJam Power Guitar.

#133 Blueshift

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

2023 Tracks

GeoTony