Test Drive after major repair. Harmony Monterey Archtop. 
Begins in Standard, then suddenly in OpenC.

Test Drive

'Arisen' was created from a single recording of a shruti box that was lightly edited and then stretched 2.13x and filtered to lower and higher octaves with Paul's Extreme Sound Stretching software, binaural panning was also added. A Thick Chorus was applied, and another small compositional edit to reduce the length of one of the chords. In remastering, a parametric Eq was added, as well as an expansion of the stereo signal. The result is a faux-orchestral piece appropriately named 'Arisen', as what you hear is what arose from the various manipulations of a single simple Shruti Box. A Shruti Box is an Indian Accompaniment instrument which consists of a simple bellows and a selection of reeds like in a harmonica or Accordion that you can turn on or off by means of simple valves which open or close a hole. It is mainly used for drone accompaniment of melody instruments such as the Veena, or the Sitar. The Harmonium is a glorified Shruti Box which has a small keyboard and about two chromatic octaves of reeds. 

Arisen (Shruti Box as Orchestra)

Comes out different everytime I play it. It's in Open D [DADF#AD]. Played on my Kay 6 string.

A Country Blues With Bells(variation)

The Calling Wind

On this I play my Trinity College Bouzouki, Huang Chordette 20(bass & chord harmonica) and a Dumbek. 

Bazookapolska

Original tune played on Kay Six String. Digital editing done with Cool Edit Pro. Recorded Late August 2011.

Death Rides A Horse

Sound file generated from the drawing shown in the Image at left. I used the freeware synth: "Virtual ANS".  Very etheric sounds.

Demo1_Virtual ANS

Composed on Sunday 7-22-12 on the Virtual ANS softsynth. Image Resolution was 10,240 pixels wide by 512 pixels high. Title borrowed from the poem of the same name by William Blake. 
The Virtual ANS  - the abbreviation for "Alexandr Nicolaevitch Skryabin", the great Russian composer) is the software analogue of the first Russian synthesizer in which the unique optical method of synthesis, developed by a scientist E. Mursin in the years 1937-1957, is used. 
see: http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/ans/index.php

The Crystal Cabinet

Sound rendered by Virtual Ans softsynth of the pic used in the image for this upload. The pic is a nighttime photo of a blizzard that hit the Chicago area on Feb. 2, 2011. I redacted(black) the spaces of light that shown in between the slats of the picket fence for clarity of sound. It rather resembles the howling of the wind. 

Blizzard 2011 Rendered in Virtual Ans

Piece created in Virtual ANS 1.0 Softsynth, a synth that turns your drawings into sound. This is the 192kbps version, you may freely download. 
Just lower your volume if you get crackly sounds.
Get your own Virtual ANS here: http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/ans/index.php
Version 2.0 is now available!

Lectrikdog(Andrew S.)

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