First go with a slightly outdated setup.  Unmastered and clippy as hell. Have to work out my interface.

First Go

one live take with microkorg, boss sl-20 and old organ.
recorded to cassette, rerecorded onto reel to reel, recorded again into computer, and uploaded here.

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Sonar

Written and recorded while out at sea for 3 days onboard the Silja Europa during cyclone "Olwyn" in 2015.

Olwyn

Same riff from another one of my songs but the structure is a bit different. This was my first attempt at using Garageband.
Recorded during a Tropical Low Pressure System out at sea for 5 days onboard the Silja Europa in 2015.

Tropical Low

A faster song I came up with. I had a short swing so I tried a simple riff with some chords over the top. Nothing flash

180 bpm

Ah Trees are – Ryan Adair, Charles Douglas, Harry Livings, Zachary Taylor & Bryn Ryan 
Produced by Sam Ford & Ah Trees. 
'Team Sports' written by C. Douglas & R. Adair, 'Nara' written by J. Stefanuto & R. Adair, 'Stormy' written by R. Adair, J. Stefanuto & C. Douglas, 'Mars' written by J. Stefanuto, R. Adair & C. Douglas. All lyrics by R. Adair. 
Ryan Adair: vocals & synths. Charles Douglas: guitar, bass & piano. Harry Livings: bass. James Stefanuto: guitar. Zachary Taylor: drums & percussion. 
Recorded at Tone City Recording Studio, Perth. 
All tracks mixed by Sam Ford. 
Mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering. 
Original art by Coco Cartel. Design by Zac Jury & Harry Livings.

Team Sports

9 Chords

nonlinearcircuits cellular automata, the rundown:

the voice is a couple of sheep noodles recorded into 3 or 4 splices on the morphagene, which feeds bionic lester (secondary notch selected), which feeds clouds (granular mode) in the beginning, the MG is stalled on a single splice... when the clock (noise tools rand clock) is engaged on the cellular automata, the CA then powers all the modulation from that point out, which includes gene, morph, slide and shift on mg, freeze on clouds and ch's a and b freq cutoff on the bionic lester (whose q is dimed) 

partway into the audio, the clock source and the aliasing of the bionic lester are manually changed to further accentuate the modulation. 

one cool/annoying(depending on your stance, i think its great) thing with the CA is that if you clock it, but don't seed it, it will stall out and you will be stuck on whatever modulation values it freezes at. this is by design, and can be interestingly controlled by seeding the CA with itself...so when the countdown stops, and the gate from the cell that you are using to seed it is low, it will freeze, but can be restarted if desired by unpatching that cell and patching into another one that is indicated as high by the display. this is what happens around 1:50

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