This unique genre of dance music is created in conjunction with a Tesla spirit radio connected to a haunted grandfather clock.  Video: https://youtu.be/cBd89B9rCkg

Canonical Nonsense in the VIP, by Neons Gone Mad

Precisely what genre of electronic music would you call this?  We recorded it around 1998, inspired by the classic film The Lion in Winter.

Mechanized Electronic Joy

Fog Rise Echo: Neons Gone Mad Clockwork Remix

We transmogrified "Sojourn In the Holo-Desert" with our Tesla spirit radio connected to a haunted grandfather clock.  Music video: https://youtu.be/5LsMKfYpqMo

Here's the original version of "Sojourn In the Holo-Desert": https://soundcloud.com/grevusanjl/sojourn-in-the-holo-desert-kaerian-grevusanjl

Sojourn In The Holo-Desert - Neons Gone Mad remix

The music video: https://youtu.be/DBlVHn680YQ

This is the Neons Gone Mad clockwork remix of Electronic Senses' "Kutulu."  Here's the original version: https://soundcloud.com/electronicsenses/kutulu

Kutulu: Neons Gone Mad Clockwork Remix

The music video: https://youtu.be/Zmf71i0Xelo

Produced with the permission of Universal Music (license #1000000004087). "Close To Me" written by Robert Smith, The Cure.

The Cure: Close To Me: Clockwork Cover (VIDEO IN DESCRIPTION)

Music video: https://youtu.be/92_z9CmIqk0

Neons Gone Mad and Bearcraft.

We Don't Deserve To Die (VIDEO in description)

Pivotal

Temple Fugit

Voice talent Jonathan Caws-Elwitt (of Silly Pillows fame) offers this mad-as-a-hatter rendition of our song about one-letter words (along with a few clever verses of his own). Give it a listen and we can compare laughs!  (This song was inspired by One-Letter Words: A Dictionary, published by HarperCollins.)

"One-Letter Words”
lyrics by Craig Conley with Jonathan Caws-Elwitt
performed by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

One-letter words,
oh what I'd give for
a de-cluttered phrase.

To hear those
one letter words,
that's all I'd live for
the rest of my days.

And the feelings in my heart,
they tell sincerely.
No other words can tell it
half so clearly.

One-letter words,
twenty-six letters
which simply mean 'I love you.'

One-letter words.
Though I may stutter
or sound quite verbose,

I use those
one letter words,
lest I should utter
a phrase grandiose.

And the feelings in my heart,
they tell sincerely.
No other words can tell it
half so clearly.

One-letter words,
six vowels for vowing
my unfettered love for you.

One-letter words:
Compact concordance
To passions so strong

I can find no better words
Hence the importance
Of singing along!

And though the lingo of my love
Is alphabetic
Don’t ever think that I am
Apathetic

One-letter words
Words of one letter
That spell out my love for you!

---

A Key to the Voices (In order of appearance)

Stilted 1920s-era tenor

Stilted tenor + his brother

Rex Harrisonesque talk-singer

Stock brash American voice (complete with brash percussion)

Ed Wynn

Jimmy Durante

Stilted tenor again

1960s-style homage to 1920s-style "show girl" chorus

Bobby Darrin (backed by hack piano player who has listened to one side each of Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols)

"Show girls" again (or are they the Chipmunks?)

Tom Jones (imitating Steve Marriott?); "mod" female-vocalist trio on answer back

One-Letter Words

TRACK 1 - Guided Tour of Unicorns in the Field
(easy, narrated by Michael Warwick)
Subtle nature sounds (birds, crickets, distant chimes, hoofbeats) offer practice sessions for those unable to easily access nature.

Guided Tour of Unicorns in the Field

This is a clockwork remix of a song by Jim Girouard entitled "We're Almost There."  Before the invention of MIDI, programmed music required meticulously timed Grandfather clocks, and every performance ticked at 60 bpm.  In the tradition of the original "old school," this clockwork remix features vintage timepieces. The original song features the line, "There's a light in the church up the road ahead, in a place where the living meet the dead."  You can hear the original vocal/guitar version here: http://holistictech.net/jim/music/13%20-%20We%27re%20Almost%20There.mp3

We're Almost There

"Seeing the Future" by Dexter Britain (2012), via Creative Commons
vocals: Hilary Caws-Elwitt, Karen Kahler, and Robert Parker
text inspired by: www.oneletterwords.com/unicorn

Chapter 1: Listen for environmental clues

This is a clockwork remix of magician Abbi Spinner McBride's "Die and Be Reborn Again," further transmogrified by the celebrated poet Gary Barwin. The original song features the line, "Like the phoenix and the grain king, like the sun god and the moon queen: die and be reborn again, die and be reborn." Before the invention of MIDI, programmed music required meticulously timed Grandfather clocks, and every performance ticked at 60 bpm. In the tradition of the original "old school," this clockwork remix features vintage timepieces.

Die and Be Reborn Again: Prof. Oddfellow's Clockwork Remix Resurrected by Gary Barwin

Impulses are transmitted across the cold mental synapses.  Reach out and switch on the Dream Engine.

Composed and recorded in 1998.

Review from The Fading Halo: "Dream Engine is an 11-minute sonic excursion into the dreams and nightmares of a machine. Driven by a relentless beat, each tone is like an electrical impulse firing between the cold synapses of the machine’s metallic brain."

Review from George Zahora, of Splendid E-Zine: "Dream Engine has the 'charm” of a Eurodisco classic -- melding its cold, metallic mood with an earthy ability to stir sweat-drenched bodies into motion."

We Are Each Other's Baby

Dream Engine

Prof. Oddfellow (his strange & unusual site is http://www.oneletterwords.com ) carefully set antique clocks to play Wolfgun's song "Zenith."  Before the invention of MIDI, programmed music required meticulously timed Grandfather clocks, and every performance ticked at 60 bpm. In the tradition of the original "old school," this clockwork remix features vintage timepieces. You can hear Wolfgun's original electronic/vocal recording here: https://wolfgun.bandcamp.com/track/zenith

Wolfgun's "Zenith" -- Clockwork Version

Anagrammatical (Spoken Word / Magick)

Weird video for this: https://youtu.be/taOmLEp_WkU

Drinking the Moon (Spoken Word / Magick)

We're extraordinarily excited to finally reveal an audio track inspired by our Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.  It's a collaboration between us and the recording artist and remixer Fear of Tigers.  Truth be told, for about eight whole years Mr. Tigers led us down the garden path (in all fairness, unicorn trackers are going to be led down a garden path, one way or another).  We finally asked ourselves, "Why are we still keeping this track under wraps?"  So here it is -- and if you're new at this, may it assist you to hear your first unicorn.  Do tell us about your adventures!

Demo

Unicorns in the Wild (Fearless of Tigers)

Original instrumentation ©(P)2018 Ken Clinger, used by permission.
Vocal courtesy of Adam McFarland.
Words from A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns By Sound, by Craig Conley.
www.oneletterwords.com/unicorn

Unicorns And Dragonflies

"Run" by Arthur Loves Plastic
          +
"June and Novas" by Moonbabies

Note: Vocal and music sample used with permission.

Run to June and Novas

"Ashtray" by Arthur Loves Plastic (Slice)
        +
"At the Gryphon Aviary" by The Armor King

Note: Vocal and music sample used with permission.

Ashtray at the Gryphon Aviary

"Lies" by The MPC's (Lucky for Some)
        +
"Overture" by Autocad

Note: Vocal and music sample used with permission.

Liar: The MPC's vs. Autocad

Come in the Evening (Silly Pillows)

Come in the Evening (instrumental)

"Stratospheric" is copyright (c) Story of the Running Wolf

Stratospheric (Story of the Running Wolf)

Featured in Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNMaAJhGXvM

Unrealness (Oddfellow's Fashion House)

A clockwork remix of Michael Ash Sharbaugh's "Closer."  His original version: https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh/closer-sm17-wip

The music video: https://youtu.be/6U0aHaPrx0U

Closer - Neons Gone Mad Clockwork Remix

New and remixed music from a parallel universe, with a Tesla spirit radio connected to a haunted grandfather clock via a strand of cobweb.  Luminaries of the dark web, Neons Gone Mad are Messrs. Miaow and Meow (a.k.a. Prof. Oddfellow and Michael Warwick).

Popular tracks by Neons Gone Mad / Prof. Oddfellow