The original soundtrack to the completely real and totally not made up Hellraiser game for the NES.

Commissioned by Civvie 11 for his April Fools 2021 video: https://youtu.be/rfoNSN7ACtc

Made in FamiTracker with the VRC7 expansion. No DPCM.

Hellraiser (NES) - Original Soundtrack

https://esselfortium.bandcamp.com/track/memory-entryrrrr

A remix of D_RUNNIN inspired by Everywhere At The End Of Time. Composed for myhouse.wad.

memory=entryrrrr/////

Dark Star Conjecture

Sound Theater Archives: No Control Numbers

Here's the stand-alone sound-file from my iPad music deck soundtrack on YouTube.

It's a multi-track session on electric bass, de-tuned autoharp (struck with chopsticks), erhu (Chinese 2-string fretless chordophone with captive bow), girl berating, police radio, canoeing on a glacial lake, geese taking flight, antique halloween noise-maker ratchet, voice, 1969 Chevrolet Impala (trying to start), and a whole bunch of piezo-music Christmas cards I set-off at a local Wal-Mart (I had an assistant, it was a show-stopper).

I learned to play the erhu in England while driving the Cotswolds. With an old map as reference, I was hiking local woodlands searching for tumuli –– ancient Roman tombs. I'd hang a stereo recorder in a tree above the tomb, often a simple mound of earth in the forest, and attempt to record sonic anomalous propagation.

It was Ray Man, in London, who sold me my first erhu (I have four, the one heard here is from Ray Man's shop). I asked him how best to learn this difficult instrument. Smiling gently he said, "practice." 

The recording is light-hearted but factual: there are no artist control numbers.

Sound Theater Archives: No Control Numbers

Sound Theater Archives: Silence the Tongues of Prophecy

If you have the Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones CD/book set, introduced by Tom Waits and nicely produced by Ellipsis Arts, you've already heard the shortened version of this song. This  post is of the original, longer version of Silence the Tongues of Prophecy.

Always fascinated by synthetic speech, as soon as the tech became available (early 1980's) I began building human voice synthesizers. In this recording I use an instrument built around the vintage SP0256-AL2 IC. 

The instrument, in fact, uses two SP0256-AL2s to create a stereo human voice synthesizer. Originally named the "R.A.P." (pre-dates popular rap music and stood for Readily Available Phonemes), I've since re-named it after discovering its circuit-bent personality: the Subliminal Chant Generator.

In the text sheet accompanying the IC I noticed a statement something like, "The SP0256-AL2 needs the control of an external microprocessor to concatenate allophones into words." Immediately I thought, "nah." 

After all, address lines are only voltage levels. I wanted to build a machine with which I could activate allophones manually, by pressing keys on a keyboard, a modern version of the classic 1940's Bell Labs Voder talking machine. 

I did that, and with the addition of the final bending of the circuit (allowing bits to float) the vast realm of subliminal chant appeared.

Here, however, the Subliminal Chant Generator operates in its more overt personality, delivering allophones with clear certainty. The subliminal aspect of the voice synthesis is not presented in this recording but will be in an upcoming post of songs from "Voice of America," a cassette album from my old Sound Theater catalog.

Joining the  Subliminal Chant Generator in this post is one of my first incantors (I'd not yet written about the design, at the time of the recording they couldn't be heard elsewhere). 

That's all you need to know to understand what you'll hear. If you'd like to know more about the instrument, check-out my Facebook post of Dec. 2, 2015 for an up-dated excerpt from my EMI article, "The Subliminal Chant Generator."

Sound Theater Archives: Silence the Tongues of Prophecy

Relax your jaw, open wide, release your moan, into the sky.....zoh

invocation of evil-v0.1.2

./neural.NET