experimental music

tests and demos

Splonkitank

Tone test od Scuffham amps s-gear guitar amp vst.  Going for the sound of Traffic's Dear Mr Fantasy guitar with a little more edge.  "A" setting is the rhythm throughout, single coil neck pickup at 3/4 vol.  Crunchy low end with slight drive but clear articulation on the top, mids severely scooped.  First verse just rhythm guitar.  First chorus, the "A" setting on a neck humbucker with guitar volume at 10.  A little raucous combined with the rhythm guitar, but might be useful on its own.  Second Verse is "B" setting, which overdrives heavily and punches the mids up in the same place the A pulls them down, so this is a better complementary leadd tone but nothing like the song.  Various pickups.  You can hear the "B" kick in after four measures of the second verse.  Quite obvious.  Different guitar settings give a pretty good tonal range for the rest of the B setting verse.

Dr Mr Scuffham

Something very important is going on but not sure what it is  

falling through frames

atmospheric phenomenon

Atmospheric Phenomenon

Finding patterns where 
none exist, I heard this as 
a song.  How 'bout you?

pareidolia

Pareidolia

Just a guitar track for an idea I had today.  Variation of a song I wrote when I was in the Mess in the early eighties that we used when the other guitarist, Palmer, broke a string.  The original, which I'll put up some time, was in E so that he could tune up in the middle of the song since we had no tuners and it was usually the E string that broke.  We had another song for when I broke a string.  I'm playing through an iphone on two apps called Bias Fx and Bias Amp, which allow me to create my own amp.  The version here is a variation on my old Ampeg vt40 that I no longer have.

rich rath - funky keoniana

Goin for that post-trip 13th-floor-elevators-turned-up-loud-but-played-all-quiet-and-soaked-in-spring-reverb sound, gotten from linux with open source wonder-amp Guitarix's Ampeg tonestack.

Slide 160925

FMelan

Dangerous Kitchen loop set.  All sounds recorded while cooking. Working on a complete sample set.  This combines four or five of them and mangles them a bit.  114.772 bpm.  More info on way.net/waymusic

114.772bpm8btMultiloop02

Kinda festivus but hollow at the end.  If you missed my demo of sourceaudio's hothand midi ring yesterday, check that out at http://youtu.be/EurIFU-IF4Q.  I probably won't post the audiohere, as I had to mic the speakers for the sound.

hollowfest

This song is set up around taking little bits out of a loop until there is not much left then rebuilding it and repeating: a punctuated, evolving repetition under some mixed up beats and crackly guitar.  It is about playing the silences as well as the sounds.

the takeaway

ambient punk
I listen back! if you listen to more than one song  @richrath or @rreplaymusic, make a comment, follow, or like, I will listen to your music. If I like it, I'll put it on the "all my relations" playlist.  If you share it with others, I'll listen to their stuff too!