Entry for Spring Tracks X on Battle of the Bits

https://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/kernel+panic+at+the+disco/46340/

Kernel Panic At The Disco (Spring Tracks X)

Rendezvous - Cannibal Hologram

A new demo for an ancient tune we put together in the late '90s for the band El Producto, named after the street in New Orleans. A composited arrangement that borrows heavily from some of our biggest influences at the time - Herbie Hancock and Medeski Martin and Wood, with the 'B' section from Caravan. 

Beats borrowed from Illy B (Billy Martin)  and Zigaboo Modaliste.

Tchoupitoulas 2023 DEMO

Post

You & I

samples "Siren" by Chupacabra and "Old Pirate" by Sonar

Siren

performed live at home in a single take, June 2022

Weightless (Live)

Suzanne Ciani
Buchla Concerts 1975
FKR082LP
Finders Keepers Records

Finders Keepers invite you to witness the incredible first ever Buchla synthesiser concerts/demonstrations providing a distinctive feminine alternative to The Silver Apples Of The Moon if they had ever been presented in phonographic form. This is history in the remaking.

This spring Finders Keepers Records are proud to release an archival project that not only redefines musical history but boasts genuine claim to the overused buzzwords such as pioneering, maverick, experimental, groundbreaking and esoteric, while questioning social politics and the evolution of music technology as we’ve come to understand it. To describe this records as a game-changer is an understatement. This record represents a musical revolution, a scientific benchmark and a trophy in the cabinet of counter culture creativity. This record is a triumphant yardstick in the synthesiser space race and the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. While pondering the early accolades of this record it’s daunting to learn that this record was in fact not a record at all… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational demonstration had been placed in a phonographic context alongside the promoted work of Morton Subotnick, Walter Carlos or Tomita then the name Suzanne Ciani and her influence would have already radically changed the shape, sound and gender of our record collections. Hopefully there is still chance.

In short, Suzanne was a self-imposed twenty-year-old employee of the Buchla modular synthesiser company, San Francisco’s neck and neck contender to New York’s Moog. Buchla was run by a community of festival freaks and academic acid eaters whose roots in new age lifestyles and the reinvention of art and music replaced the business acumen enjoyed by its likeminded East Coasters. In the eyes of the consumer the creative refusal to adopt rudimentary facets like a piano keyboard controller rendered the Buchla synthesiser the more obscure stubborn sister of the synth marathon, steering these incredible units away from the mainstream into the homes and studios of free music aficionados, art house composers and die-hard revolutionaries. Championed and semi-showcased by composer Morton Subotnick on his albums The Bull and Silver Apples Of The Moon, Buchla’s versatility began to open the minds of a new generation, but the high-end design features and no-compromise modus operandi was often confused with incompatibility and, in the pulsating shadow of Moog’s marketing, the revolution would not be televised nor patronised. Suzanne Ciani, as one of the very few female composers on the frontline (and also providing the back line) did not lose faith.

These “concerts” are the epitome of rare music technology historic documents, performed by a real musician whose skills and academic education in classical composition already outweighed her male synthesiser contemporaries of twice her age. At the very start of her fragile career these recordings are nothing short of sacrificial ode to her mentor and machine, sonic pickets of the revolution and love letters to an absolutely genuine vision of and ‘alternative’ musical future. In denouncing her own precocious polymathmatic past in a bid to persuade the world to sing from a new hymn sheet, Suzanne Ciani created a bi-product of never before heard music that would render the pigeon holes “ambient” and “futuristic” utterly inadequate. Providing nothing short of an entirely different feminine take on the experimental “records” of Morton Subotnick and proving to a small, judgmental audience and jury the true versatility of one of the most radical and idiosyncratic musical instruments of the 20th century. These recordings have not been heard since then.

Suzanne Ciani - Buchla Concerts 1975 (Excerpts)

An attempt was made. So I hope you enjoy.

Mastered by Stemage

Chiptunes = WIN: Volume 6

Attemption (Chiptunes = WIN: Volume 6)

Within the confines of this calendar month Saxonic inhabitants will experience a full moon, a Friday 13th and, as always, a glut of Hallowe'en parties officially making 2017 the host to the scariest October of all time. The add salt to the wound The Finders Keepers Records Radio Show trump this horrific hat-trick by bringing you a truly bloodcurdling display of vampyric vinyl, psychotic psychedelia, freakshow funk and a unique brand of zombified humour that would make the most stoic stand-up comedian literally die on stage. Yes it's that bad! Andy "The Axe Minister" Votel and Doug "The Diabolical" Shipton are left under the parental supervision of Pete "The Mummy" Mitchell while they attempt a radiophonic seance to resurrect the Morte Vivante of European horror pop and obscure curios from the belly of the B-Music beast. Putting a combined 75 years of well-polished professionalism to one side these three absolute losers present what they consider to be their worst ever show and even a visit from Lancaster's (genuinely proficient) poetic-power-drinkers The Lovely Eggs isn't going to sooth the gaping graze that this show will leave on your tolerance for years to come. With all the usual tenuous magazine features that allow us to stitch this Frankenstein-a-like bastard together this show is a nightmare. So, tune in and let Finders Keepers summon up the same jokes we did last year and feel the pain as your favourite reissue album subliminally brainwashes you all with attempts to eat your living bank balance from the inside out! Dead air? Viva la muerte!

Finders Keepers Radio - Halloween Special Part Three

The last of my submissions to Battle of the Bits' Summer Chip 8 compo.

This achieved rank 1st/7 in the PCE category, and 24th/215 overall!

Title: Undefined Behaviour
Completed: 3 July 2018
File Size (VGM): 499KB
File Size (MP3): 6.16MB
Export Source: foobar2000 v1.3

Summer Chip VIII

Undefined Behaviour [PCE] (Summer Chip 8)

Made on stream at twitch.tv/ipidev! I had viewers submit samples that I had to somehow integrate into a song. (They also helped name the song, if you can't tell...) It turned out to be really fun, so I'll definitely be doing it in the future! So follow me on Twitch to get notified when I go live, and join in the fun!

Title: 56 Fantastical Swippy Shortbread with Fluid Mathematics
Completed: 02 May 2020
Format: IT
Filesize (IT): 3.02 MB
Filesize (MP3): 7.17 MB
Export Source: OpenMPT 1.28.07.00

56 Fantastical Swippy Shortbread with Fluid Mathematics [IT]

"Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time."
--Questlove

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