Name: Nightingales by q-u-b-i-k
Duration: 6 min 28 s
Description: A groovy, funky house track with layers of loops and vocal hooks.

this track develops just right... and not too much!

Saturday mid-day fusion
Rhythm and lead guitar on my Gibson SG Standard
Bass on my Aria Pro II Wildcat Bassguitar
Drums is artificial from my recorder.

Both Hands

Melatonin

From my October 2021 release, Things That Go Bump.  Available on Bandcamp.  Cover Design by Belial Pelegrim.

https://wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/album/things-that-go-bump

Orson Said So

Here's another cool composition that @nic_nic_nic Nic sent over for me to color on.  Like Vast Fields and Torres Strait, it's got an understated moody kinda vibe to it.   This one really grew each time one of us would touch the project.  It's been fun to hear it evolve over the past month or so.  

It's a 12 minute plus commitment should you choose to make it, but hopefully you'll find it musically interesting throughout.  Nic likened it to a big Italian meal with lots of delicious side dishes.  I thought that was appropriate.  

So check out "Great is the Sun"  and if you like it, take a listen to Vast Fields and Torres Strait  Also don't miss "bow" - one of my tracks that Nic did vocals for. 
https://soundcloud.com/texmex-shaman/bow-collab-with-nic-and-tms 

Music: nic and TexMex Shaman

Lyrics: Robert Louis Stevensson

Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven without repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad,
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles,
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.

Great Is The Sun [NIC and the TEXMEX SHAMAN]

To begin with I would like to thank you for coming to listen to what I have presented you today. Staying true to my motto of creating experimental electronic music that results from unscripted jam sessions, here comes my latest upload which features plenty of quirky sounds and curious samples.

As always, the Boss RC-300 loop station is the MIDI clock master to which I sync my humble Eurporack. As an inspiration for the whole session, I played back the Youtube video "Minimal Glitch - Modular Improv" by Modular Cult (@user-451526715), just to start things going, and then I added my sounds on top of his experiment and also modulated his original soundscape in order to put my spin on the whole affair. To spice things up, I decided to employ yet another Youtube video, "Saraz Handpan F Harmonic Minor 9" by Saraz Handpan. Since I love the intricate but calming timbre of handpans, I employed sounds of this lovely handpan playing F Harmonic Minor, that I put through the Mutable Instruments Clouds which was heavily modulated, again, to put my spin on it.

As you might have read in one of my previous write-ups, I love to include speech samples, especially by narrators who talk about music, which may or may not fit the session's narrative. This time, I settled on a lecture by Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is considered to be influential but also somewhat controversial composer, and one of the pioneers of electronic music. His explanations of changing musical moments really matched my approach, since I love to change up the flow of my jam sessions to keep things interesting. Additionally, to emphasize the transition from one particular segment of this track to another I used a famous Monty Python catchphrase.

During the course of this particular session I heavily relied on a combination of several modules, most prominently the Turing Machine with its expander Pulses, the LxD, the A-147, and the Radio Music. This setting ended up creating some glitchy rhythms, which very much reminded me of the track "Vertical Invader" by Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree (@frankbretschneiderofficial, @taylordeupree). I decided so sample this track directly onto the loop station and after adjusting the tempo to my session's original tempo of 112 BPM, I was able to quite successfully incorporate this amazing minimalist track into my musical flow. 

Interestingly enough, the harmony of Vertical Invader went really well together with the sound snippets that came from the Radio Music module at this stage of the jam session. Also, the conglomeration of all these sounds matched the E Phrygian scale that I have been toying with for the last couple of weeks on my guitar and my synths. Since I am not much of a player, I decided to play back a couple of related Youtube videos and see if anything comes up that really fits the whole narrative. Indeed, in her Klezmer lessons, Robin Seletsky usually plays in E Freygish (which basically corresponds to the E Phrygian Dominant scale) and her clarinet's timbre tied the whole picture together. However, I mostly wasn't able to play back her videos in a rhythmically meaningful way, so I put many of the samples in post production.

Most of my tracks can be downloaded for free, and I encourage you to use them in your jam sessions and live sets. If you use any of my material, I really would like to know what you could come up with. So drop me a message and please give a shout-out to Mrs. Audio Boy!

MAB logo by @maxim-lichtenwald, check him out!

I hope you enjoy this one!


Samples from the following material were used:
* https://youtu.be/MFvynwLkGco
* Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree - Vertical Invader
* https://youtu.be/NOSGbVNYFq8
* https://youtu.be/B83Iu_4FIIU
* https://youtu.be/M6hT2mGIlKo
* https://youtu.be/fK8nyiolmas

Electroacoustic Moments [Jam session sections: RAW2021 - 8]

I DO NOT KNOW

original track https://soundcloud.com/user-649412648/fire002orig?si=d1c252373fd84292bfd231df6ce016cb
words by lady of fire poetry
https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire

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Blessing Face

I saw them
working as
old schlepps
like you or me
postering as
flawed and human
but I know
they walk perfect
upon the earth
ordained in shrouds
of shimmer
upon them
and when you are
not looking
they sing of
liberation
between
the moments
while blessing your
face with God

lady of fire poetry & holy shitshow : blessing face (holy-remix)

This one is part of "The Open Path", it's an oldie but remastered. I had access during one week to a room full of instruments, so I recorded with my humble Zoom H2 microphone a lot of piano and other stuff to make my own samples and then mixed all together during the next months. It was really fun to do and I hope you will feel that fun while listening.

The Open Path

Follow the Moon

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Follow The Moon

A groovy, funky house track with layers of loops and vocal hooks.

Nightingales

Martin Kula - album

A Deep Forest’s Spell

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco

Far And Beyond

The Long Shadows

!!Playing live at Bleep Works at The Steamboat Tavern, Ipswich 24th May!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/322411882691338

QUBIK is an experimental clash of electronica, house, techno, and ambient compositions.

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Based in Essex in the UK I have been creating music in one form or another for over 25 years. I’m a graphic/digital designer by trade and design all my own artwork for my tracks.

I compose mostly on the iPad using apps like Samplr, Audiobus, Loopy, Sector, DM1, Borderlands etc and finish tracks off via Ableton Live.

Nightingales

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