TRACY DEAN MCCALLUM

BUZZ

Demo originally recorded for my band KiD System in 2019, my very first bass riff.

Devastation Rebellion - Intro

TRIP OUT

A bass solo intro opens the main piece, and an alternative melody plays as the outro, acting as a collage. About ancient Rome.

Seven Brides

Aria pour basse et orchestre, n°2 de la Cantate BuxWV 34 : Gott hilf mir.
Live performance

Buxtehude, BuxWV 34 - Aria : Gott hilf mir

¿Alguna vez has pensado que hay más allá del RICTUS MORTEM? Se dice que el cuerpo pesa 21 gramos menos, pues es el peso idílico del alma, pero que sucede con ella. Si fuéramos polvo de estrellas o energía cósmica, seriamos algo nuevo dado que "la energía on se crea ni se destruye, solo se transforma". Y si un transformado retornara en espíritu y te pidiera que trasciendas para ser eternos, ¿saldrías del hogar hacia lo "desconocido"?
Disfruta este fragmento de este onírico conversatorio.
Copyright © 2025 J.A. All Rights Reserved.

Camino del ¿Mago?

Dime que ves

Aero Big.

Two Gibson basses playing with each other thru cascading Alembic F-2B preamps!

Fuzz-2Bass

Vocals: The Community
Bass: E Dawg
Drums: Monger
Production: Monger and E Dawg

Dog Mound - I Don't Wanna Talk About Dog Mound

Mixtum Compositum

Succinctly (Bass Interlude)

I hope to use this half minute of bass guitar excellence for the purpose of helping a potential buyer evaluate the worth of Ludo Loco Music, in a less time consuming manner. 
It's all a ruse to get Elon Musk to buy my music and distribute it professionally. That way the music gets the audience it deserves and I can buy a big house to start my big family!

1st Bass Solo Summer Heat - Teaser

Caligo Paean is a 1 hour long sound piece installed on river front property in the town of Franklin, Tasmania as part of the exhibition "When The Fog Clears". It formed part of the Ten Days on The Island Festival March 2025. The intro features the Nocefresca Choir - an impromptu group formed of artist residents I met in Sardinia in 2024. The group (none of us singers) were asked to vocalise in an ancient roman antechamber on a field trip by Sardinian Composer Gaia Aloisi. I recorded it on my zoom for hopeful future use - and here it is making up the intro to this 'song of praise' to the goddess of fog, mystery and chaos. 
The work was installed in several locations across the property including a stack of subs under an old bus, in the main exhibition space and in an abandoned shed some 40 metres from the main area (pictured). The speakers were tuned quite differently depending on their location and the sound was not delay corrected with the result of each mini-installation merging with each other in odd sonic ways  - kind of calling the listener from one spot to another. The the work features field recordings, percussion, piano, bass guitar and Intonarumori as well as this special one off choir : ) 
Big thanks to everyone involved!!
Official press release below. 
Every day, the mists of the Huon Valley perform a seductive dance, gently obscuring and revealing contours of the fertile land and waters. Situated in The Watershed Franklin, When The Fog Clears features six artists from lutruwita / Tasmania exploring the region’s iconic mists through a variety of mediums including installation, sculpture, illustration, sound, and video. 

Developed exclusively for Franklin, this exhibit extends from the waterfront itself into the chambers, kilns, and rafters of the shed, inviting visitors to consider fog as an atmosphere that can cloak us in unexpected ways.

Featuring:
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson
Nadège Phillipe Janon
Joshua Santospirito
Rosie Hastie
Mat Ward
Ursula Woods

When The Fog Clears is curated by Loren Kronemyer and Produced by Constance ARI

This project is supported by Arts Tasmania and presented in partnership with Ten Days on the Island.

Caligo Paean (Intro)

Sea Shells

The two girls and the band members are ready for their concert.

Ready To Rock

Here I take you on a timeless, time dissolving, musical folk drone journey slowly flowing  down a fluctuating colorful stream of consciousness.

Take 2 of a free improvisation with some minor post production edits.

Entered in the BassChat April 2025 Composition Challenge

Played on my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, that I named "Mr. Growly - The Noodlemancer", tuned in G# standard tuning (as in one half step bellow the 4 upper strings of a 6 string bas in regular B standard tuning, plus a high E string), through my "amp-less" setup, directly into a hand held Zoom recorder.

Is to be found in an uncut version, along with the track "Hail Satan", here, where it can be listened to and downloaded for free: https://fjernsind.bandcamp.com/album/piece-911

Piece #911

A Dorian Ody-C#

Free Download

Fjernsind - A Dorian Ody-C#

Here I take you on a timeless, time dissolving, musical folk drone journey slowly flowing  down a fluctuating colorful stream of consciousness.

Take 2 of a free improvisation with some minor post production edits.

Played on my 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, that I named "Mr. Growly - The Noodlemancer", tuned in G# standard tuning (as in one half step bellow the 4 upper strings of a 6 string bas in regular B standard tuning, plus a high E string), through my "amp-less" setup, directly into a hand held Zoom recorder.

Is to be found, along with the track "Hail Satan", here, where it can be listened to and downloaded for free: fjernsind.bandcamp.com/album/piece-911

Fjernsind - A Dorian Ody-C# (Directors Cut/Uncut)

Music and things that might sound like music by Mat Ward. Noise Art/A  Piano and Bass Duet with Dani Kirby/A 50 plus member Art Ensemble called Then She Reaches The Gun/Deep Research Into Luigi Russolo and his Intonarumori .. thats just the stuff I post regularly : ) Thanks to everyone thats ever stopped by. Music is The Best!

Much love for all the new fans, you are all very much appreciated! 
Please keep reposting our tracks, this helps us out a lot!
Tell your friends about this weird but exiting music you've encountered and how it revolutionizes musical creation in it's core fundamentals... Or just enjoy the music. Take care!

*Introduction:*

We are Ludo Loco, an Experimental Independent Improvisation Ensemble from Leiden, the Netherlands. 
We are an ensemble with Jeroen Keereweer on the keyboard and Robert Veltema on the bass guitar.
Ludo means, in Latin: to Play/Mock/Tease/Trick and Loco just means: Crazy, Mad or Insane, in Spanish. When you listen to our music you'll understand why that is our band's name. '

*The Ludo Loco Way of Making music:*

Hi, I'm Robert from Ludo Loco and I would like to tell you about the Ludo Loco methods of how we make our music and why the end result is always unique and original. 
All of our songs, already over 200 tracks, have only ever been played once and  this is always recorded on a computer. We are not capable of any reproduction of our tracks. In fact, in my case after I finish playing the bass part, I usually have no idea what I have just played and I have listen to the recording to realize if it was any good, authentic, original, but above all, doesn't contain any ugly errors that would ruin the whole track.

We usually need two takes, because there's only two of us and we usually want: bass, keys, drums (keyboard drumming) and sometimes an electric guitar. So the second take is usually the keys, if the bass and drums were laid down first. Sometimes we record piano and bass simultaneously, which often results in very sensitively played music with a lot of emotion poured in it from our inner muses.
 
We have the skills to create music in the heat of the moment, without it being erratic, random or filled with errors. It has to be great on the first try. Though we do have nights were we really suck, but those tracks we just discard and we move on.

I honestly haven't heard any other ensembles or bands that come close to our unique Ludo Loco Sound, or that match our Playing Style.
So, everything is improvised and because we've played together so much in our lives, we respond very well and immediate to each other, as the song evolves and grooves into different intensities, building up, playing variations, climaxing, bringing it down eventually with a proper ending. 

I think that if people know their instrument very well and have become bored with playing fixed songs and don't like rehearsing the same tracks over and over (like I was), they could learn how to cast off these chains of regular, written music, and develop the skill of playing by feeling only, while still being able to implement a song structure while you record it. I say people who know their instrument very well, because you need the muscle memory to help you guide your improvised track.

At least for me, this way of creating spontaneous, authentic, original music, is way more fun than practicing with a band and getting it all perfectly memorized. 
I use that space in my brain; from not memorizing anything; for allowing me to play with a lot of feeling and be creative, but also critical of how I sound, whether it is nice to listen to, whether I'm playing something totally new. Just monitoring myself and directing the creative process mentally into the next phrase of a song. I love when I make it sound cool and groovy, so that's what I usually prime my head for and for the rest it's just about having great fun with playing my part. 

In all, I have yet to hear anything anywhere that compares to our music style. I would love to know about others who make music this way. When you talk about improvising, people automatically think of Jazz, but with Jazz you have to know the standards and you're kind of only allowed to improvise over a standard from the real book. Jazz is kind of weird like that. 

We use freedom of expression to the max and I feel like we are doing something good, but also very rare... It's definitely not mainstream music, but as a niche, there's still many people who will enjoy our music and if we can find a way to reach these people, then we will be enriching their lives with something that I feel is very special.

Releasing Projects For:
Monger 
Dog Mound
Rellin
@justmonger on ig


hieronymous is an ongoing instrumental music project, centered on the bass guitar and drums - the music is mainly improvisational, following the "instant composition" style pioneered by Can, Miles Davis, the Grateful Dead, etc.


A former game designer and developer of Rocksmith+.
After complete retirement from the game industry, I came to the music world in search of a new passion.

Under the name First Mammal I compose and release mainly heavy metal and other guitar oriented music, on the other hand Lo-Fi Shredders is a project with the concept "A teenage girl duo of a guitarist and a bassist who like to shred wanders into the Lo-Fi world where the Kemono characters live. ".

If you are interested in my guitar play, please subscribe my TikTok and YouTube channel below.

Sweet, sweet noises... 

Experimental dark drone/ambient - Alternative folk - Psychedelic electronic

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This is where almost all my music related output ends, from solo projects, sound tests of gear, to just stuff made for the sake of the experiment or fun of it....

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Enjoy!

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(The following links are to some of my more serious projects, which material for most parts is also to be found here. The Bandcamp pages provide free downloads of all tracks):

Baroque singer
Harpsichord, Organ and keyboard player

Morning Has Come 🌅

The sun peeks over the hill, 🌄
A new day starts, the world is still. 🤫
Birdsong fills the air, 🐦🎶
A gentle breeze blows, without a care. 🍃

Dewdrops sparkle on the grass, 💧✨
As morning's magic comes to pass. ✨
A golden light bathes all the land, ☀️
A fresh beginning, close at hand. 🌅

The world awakens, slow and bright, 🐌🔆
Embrace the day, and all its light! 😊☀️

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