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Oops All Computer

https://lachfm.bandcamp.com/album/a-few-good-bloops

This album is a collection of quite bloopy pieces of music. 

They were created using various tools, including SunVox (a free audio tracker/synthesiser software), a Yamaha reface CS (a nice synth keyboard) and a Casio SA-76 (a less nice keyboard but a very functional keyboard).

A Few Good Bloops

Sings

Mucking around with SunVox 1.9.6c. Haven't played with SunVox in a while!

QTRJ

A track made entirely on my iPad! Using #sunvox

Implement the process

Marcheline

Used a bunch of Spitfire Audio instruments.

Somewhat inspired by "Peril" from the Halo 2 soundtrack, but mostly only insofar as they both use pizzicato strings.

The Nimble Tank

Saw Spitfire released a new "Epic Choir" in their Originals series, and had to give it a go.

Made entirely with Spitfire VST instruments:
Spitfire Originals: Epic Choir, Cimbalom
Nok Cultural Ensemble - Tape Percussion
BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover

An Unlikely Maneuver

A return to SunVox (2.0e).

Mucked around with some arpeggios, a growling bass, and an airy lead. Got something similar to some previous tracks, but at least I've made something.

Possibility Of Precipitation

A balladic tribute to the late Ryan Davis of Giant Bomb. 
He was a legend.

(Please credit me if you decide to download this and make a video with it, and let me know. Other than that go ahead!)

http://www.maddenedman.com/downloads/music/balladofryandavis.mp3 for an MP3 file (Download from Soundcloud is a 50MB .wav...)

Lyrics:

The man named Ryan Davis
He was half man, half SimGolf machine
But still he was more of a man
Than any other man was or could ever have been

Papa Bear in yesteryear
He trotted through time with ease
Although the rowb'ts knew his Poké-weakness
Koffing made him giddy at the knees

He rode a horse-meet-rider
Into town the night that Ghost Fish was around
The two met eye to eye because
The ghost fish floated high above the ground

Monday...

The Ghost fish sniggered loudly
It said "You can't beat me you know"
It held an ancient copy
Of "You can't Stop Mr Domino"

Ryan wouldn't let this stand
That game was better than the best
He decided that until the game was
Safe Ghost Fish would never rest

He shouted Hey everyone it's Tuesday
And it's time to get that fish right outta town
So he made a Giant Bomb
And rider-meet-horse, he climbed on down

The Taswell and the fish they stared
And on this went for days and days
Til o'er the hill came Ryan's posse
Whiskey came and everybody was amaze...d

He said Batm'n Batm'n Batm'n
And Whiskey backed their man in the fight
They fought alongside Davis
All day, but were victorious in the night

As if a single victory
Was not enough to satiate his hungry thirst
Ryan set out to right the wrongs, but make
The wrongdoers laugh their god damn pants off first

He was the victor against China,
He had Daytona USA
He shat all over Game Room,
And he conquered Dragon Ball Zay…

He won the Brono Trigger
He was better than FTL
He beat Mark of the Ninja
And he gave John Drake hell

But the final win for Davis
Was the greatest triumph off the charts
Unparalleled in everything
He won all of our souls and all our hearts

Ryan was a great man
Leaking happiness right up until the end
And though many never met him
We considered him… a friend

So Thank you Ryan Davis
You have filled our days and nights with endless glee
I hope you're up there in the Game Room
In the Sky enjoying Half Life 3

The Ballad of Ryan Davis

Some un-matched bloops, and some operatic synth leads.

The title is because I made this after watching this LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER video:
https://youtu.be/BjYQwW9hMoI 

Sunvox 2.1c

Somewhat of a meditation on allowing myself to be proud of my work.

Ableton Live 10 Lite. Yamaha Reface CS, bass guitar, electric guitar, a few voices recorded with a gaming headset, Spitfire Abe Laboriel Jr drums.

Papaver Id Est Alta

The fourth ninja
Ableton Live 10 Lite, and mostly Cherry Audio synthesisers.
A remake of a piece of music I made long ago.

Ninj4: The Fourth Ninja

This one feels bittersweet, kind of sugary sad.
Ableton Live 10 Lite, mostly Cherry Audio synthesisers.

RE: Miniscence

Ovine Robo-Somnology

Alas,

I'm working on this piece at the moment, and thought I would upload a version before I get the vocals in there.

Androids (Vocals not added yet) "The Killer and the Wanderer"

Using the note probability and random note functionality in SunVox.

dwiim

Using the note probability and random note functionality of SunVox. This version is just the random notes, none of the structured stuff.

Dwiim Simple

Lyrics:

The tranquil knight, his blades ablaze,
Is tranquilised, for days is dazed
A maiden made in heaving above
Her treble trembles of her love

Bestowed on him, his mistress’ dress
Her tender, under, tenderness
Th’ impossible in castle tow'r
Revealed is she, the whistleblow'r

The uniforms and those in-clad
Determined, storm in room of bed
The tranquil knight, sans underwear
Is here, this night, his manhood bare

The maiden, made of rage and bile
In noise inane and infantile
Denounces noises, knight redacts
Defenestration he enacts

The windy window, winningly
Accepts the knight and drops him free
Without a ladder, he is broke
“Aghaaa” his final word, is spoke

The words of maiden, cruel and fair
For loss of knight she feigns despair
But she, her tricky jape complete,
Skips down the stairs, with food to eat

The Tranquil Knight

Cover of the Leonard Cohen song.

Made slightly more famous by Jeff Buckley, then made like ten times more famous by Shrek (when it was sung by Rufus Wainwright).

Now sung by me, with a bit more of an Australian accent.

Hallelujah

DARK

Test track, learning how to record with the Yamaha reface CS.

Djeurney

Some more playing with my Yamaha reface CS

Phantastic

An energetic piratey theme.

I used: 
Casio SA-76 piped through a Korg Monotron Delay
Yamaha reface CS

The Good Ship Baunss

I got a tune in my head in the car and recorded it when I got home.

My housemates were totally not sleeping...

(Recorded with Audacity with a Zoom H2n)

I'm Being Quiet

What If I'm The One

https://twitter.com/merxplat/status/1039684386105384960

A response to this Tweet from my sister, and to all the songs we used to sing during Te Reo Maori in primary school.

Apologies for my pronunciations!

Kei whea te pahi (Where is the bus?)
Kaore te pahi (There is no bus)

Kei whea te pahi 
Kua ki katoa te pahi (The bus is full)

Kei whea te pahi
He pahi kerua tera (That was a ghost bus)

Kua tae mai etahi pahi e toru i te wa kotahi (Three buses arrived at once)

Kei whea te pahi

Wanted to make a nice bass synth in SunVox. It turned out to make a better high pitched twiddly instrument.

The whistle became the bass, the chord instrument became the panflute, and the drums became distorted!

But I dunno, it sounds ok.

SunVox 1.9.4c

Panflute

Some sort of sad space computer-song

SunVox 1.9.4c

Lament to Disaster

A contemplative track.

Made in SunVox 1.9.4c

We're Here Again (But This Time I'm Ok)

Made a music using some of the default instruments you get when you open SunVox (1.9.4c).

Fell Outside the Box

I wanted to make a piece of music that was very slow.

SunVox 1.9.4c

The Sinking Mind

Sunvox 1.9.4c, a mandolin, and some whistling.

Beepy.

This is the result of me spending a few hours mucking around with the Ableton Live 10 Trial.

Not my best work, but it was fun to see what Ableton is good at!

MaddenedMan

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