Once in a while, I'll be posting short excerpts of songs I've worked on, isolating a particular section like just vocals, sound effects or, like in this case, a horn arrangement (something I'm trying to learn more about these days).

This is the closing chorus section of one of my favourite songs I've done, Pick Me Up. This section features a sax solo, accompanied by a horn arrangement (trumpet, sax, trombone), with a bit of organ, bass and drums. All horn sounds are VST instruments, from Acoustic Samples (great company for high quality instrument sounds).

And here's a link to the full song; thanks for listening!
https://on.soundcloud.com/NvLvbJNAFqMABMpf6

More goodies in the "ISOLATED TRACKS" playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/sets/isolated-tracks

Pick Me Up (FEATURED HORNS)

FULL SONG NOW AVAILABLE HERE:
https://soundcloud.com/mystictapedeck/the-feathered-crown

We often do some quite elaborate percussion ensembles within our songs which can get a little buried under everything else we do. The aim of this release is to highlight some of the more interesting percussion passages in our songs, before you hear the songs themselves. 

Just thought it might be fun to feature these. 

This one has a drum kit, tabla, tambourine, finger bells, finger snaps and claps, and some crowd sound samples.

The Feathered Crown (Percussion Excerpt)

Paranormal
Narrator: Kelly McGaw
Run Time: 4 hours 13 minutes

Lana is a psychic ghost hunter working in the Circle of Roses shop. She wants to help solve a case when a man’s wife leaves him because of ghosts tormenting her in the attic, but she ends up with a haunting dilemma of her own. Terra’s ghost is haunting one of her teens in her small townhouse.

Sylvie and Dana are teenagers who just want to live but when Sylvie’s room is repeatedly thrashed, psychic Rose is called to investigate. She knows Terra from way back and thinks she wants more revenge, but why is the other teen, Dana, not affected? Sylvie and Dana have their own group called the Rosebuds. Started when they were kids, they wind up the only two in it. When old enough they will go into training to become real psychics. As for this story it is their first everything, except their first time seeing a ghost. How long can Terra’s ghost be kept a secret from Dana? And will Rose be able to solve both cases at once?

The Haunted Rosebuds by Martha Wickham

In 1930, while on a trip to the UK, the father of modern neurosurgery Harvey Cushing operated on a monkey in the lab of his friend Sir Charles Sherrington, the famed neurologist. This is a very brief note describing that operation.

This is from Chapter 17 of HARVEY CUSHING, A Biography, by John Fulton (1946). The entire 40 hour unabridged narration will soon be available from Audible.

Read by  Edison McDaniels

e170.e3 A Simian Craniotomy Ch17

meant to be part of the original 5-minute collaborative version of zombie slush with someone by lovelyliz aka auggie but we had a bad fallout regarding the way the track was planned to be released so it never came to fruition.
guitar was done by auggie as well.
zombie slush cypher remake with 3 other people soon <3

homeward bound <3

Penelope Whitehorn was interviewed by Jane Frere as part of the Climate Stories Ambassadors program. In this excerpt, Penelope speaks about the changes she's seeing in the Scottish Highlands and how human land use combined with climate change leads to biodiversity loss. 

Penelope Whitehorn, Drumnadrochit, Scotland

a little something that I couldn't help create because of finneas' beautiful score for 'disclaimer'...it could never match the soul of his music but it was fun connecting each pattern to the next!

the day that never arrived

Hymn of the Trout was composed by Samuel Sjostedt in 2024 for Mivos String Quartet during the Vienna Contemporary Composers Festival. 

"Hymn of the Trout" for String Quartet (EXCERPT 2024)

I thought I was writing a book about the baritone roles in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi. But it became increasingly clear that I was writing a book about myself. So I turned it into a memoir, the story of my mid-life coming out, the refashioning of my marriage, my coming to terms with misogyny and toxic masculinity, all told from the perspective of opera. This chapter is about one of Verdi’s rare baritone good guys, Simon Boccanegra. I use his story to explore the death of my mother and my relationship with my children.

This is an excerpt from a longer essay that can be read in full at https://tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/daddy-baritone/

Mark Mazullo is Professor of Music at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where he has been teaching piano and courses in the history of music since 1999.

Mark Mazullo, Daddy Baritone, nonfiction

Rhiannon (Camlann)

body resistance - 1min spot

I've been on this kick lately posting short isolated tracks of previously uploaded full songs, just to highlight certain parts. In this one, it's an isolated section of the vocal track & harmonies, with a bit of percussion. Here's a link to the full song, a cover of the infectious "It's All Right" by Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions. I'm really not much of a fan of my own voice, but had some fun playing around with this one. :)

The full song details are at the linked page:
on.soundcloud.com/JG34TadM9uxvzEmi9

More goodies in the "ISOLATED TRACKS" playlist:
soundcloud.com/user-432503709/sets/isolated-tracks

thanks for listening!

It's All Right (ISOLATED vox)

Herzlichen Glueckwunsch Wilhelm Richard Wagner !
*May 22/1813 – †February 13/1883 - Ruhe In Frieden !
Goetterdaemmerung ,
Act 1 , Scene 2 Orchestral Interlude
Prologue - Welch Licht leuchtet dort
Act 3 Orchestral Interlude - Funeral March
Act 1 , Scene 3 Blitzend Gewoelk , vom Winde getragen , stuerme dahin
Act 2 , Scene 5 - Dir hilft kein Hirn
Herbert von Karajan & Berliner Symphonie-Orchester

Manifesto :
Theodore John Kaczynski   -  Rest In Peace
*May 22/1942 – †June 10/2023

In Memoriam Manifestum Pt.2 - Goetterdaemmerung

This is another example of an excerpt of a previously uploaded track, originally written by steve vervaet, and performed by the Eclectic Collective. In this stripped down excerpt, it's just focusing on the organ part that comes in at the second half of the song, as well as Josh playing bass and electric piano, and Ken accompanying on the percussion. 

Here's a link to the full version, including all the guys playing along to Steve's heartfelt vocals:
https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/please-come-home


More goodies in the "ISOLATED TRACKS" playlist:
soundcloud.com/user-432503709/sets/isolated-tracks

Please Come Home (stripped mix)

Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace. The events that followed reveal that the doctor used his own way of treatment in order to express his own essentially despotic and hypocritical personality.

NE DAM

Wartsnall VI cut

A preview excerpt from the soundtrack of the upcoming space western video game, Bitter Silver

Ulysses Vibe Draft Exerpt - Bitter Silver Kickstarter Update

AVANT GARDE | GUTTER PROG | GARAGE JAZZ

Some of our art is made on computers, some of it is made by hand. We are particularly interested in that gray area in between where you cant really tell. All of what we create here is one work laid out in segments, all connected. The Mystic Tape Deck universe is vast and explores all manner of adding meaning to our lives, while pondering meaninglessness.

Please consider supporting our project and helping us complete the work. We make books and cds that go with them. We also have a graphic novel and a custom oracle deck in the works. All part of the story.

A Multimedia Puzzle-Story Of An Immortal Being's Struggle To Define And Exert Their Will Upon A Wholly Deterministic And Ambivalent Multiverse, And The Strange Cult Who Loves Them.

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Greetings to you: readers, beaders, seekers, wanderers, wonderers, outsiders, rebels, fantasy gamers, freaks, mythologists, philosophers, appreciators, creators, perpetuators of beauty, coveters of mysterious objects, collectors of counter culture, the curious, the questioners, the unusual, the unique, the star children, the light workers, shadow integrators, diviners, alchemists, hermits, monks and popes, the saviors and prophets, the builders and destroyers of worlds, the old ones, the young ones, the rollers of boulders, the sun orbiters, the morning star dewdrops and twinkle toed dreamers of dreams, you mystic shining beacons, you crossers and denizens of the void, reality shapers, universe makers and underworld freaks.

"A prominent feature of avant-garde music is to break through various rules and regulations of traditional culture, in order to transcend established creative principles and appreciation habits. Avant-garde music pursues novelty in musical form and style, insisting that art is above everything else; thus, it creates a transcendental and mysterious sound world. Hint, metaphor, symbol, association, imagery, synesthesia and perception are widely used in avant-garde music techniques to excavate the mystery of human heart and the flow of consciousness, so that many seemingly unrelated but essentially very important events interweave into multi-level structures and forms."

Booking|Promo:  nasiha.halilbasic@gmail.com

Fay Roberts is a performance poet, a musician, a storyteller, an events host, an accidental voice actor, Artistic Director for Spoken Word at PBH’s Free Fringe, and an enormous geek. During weekdays, ze persuades people to make lists and say no to shiny things. For every role, there is a different hat, and a spreadsheet to match. Zir first full collection, Spectral, came out with Burning Eye in March 2022, and ze describes it as “a kind of poetry concept album, with illustrations”.

she/they
archive/scrap/unreleased account <3
i do music and shit.
@sn8kebytez is my main, this, @lolislaughter and @thegayturds are my alts

The official account for the indie game studio, Lookout Drive Games

Armenian-American composer and multi-instrumentalist from Boston, Massachusetts. Berklee College of Music. 

Instagram: @sam_sjostedt
Facebook: Sam Sjostedt
Email Contact: samsjostedt@gmail.com

Audiobook narrator Edison McDaniels does both fiction and nonfiction work. He also has the technical expertise and background to do complicated technical narrations, such as medical and legal books and papers. He is also interested in and quite adept at military fiction and war stories, especially naval adventures. A special interest is speculative fiction and literary fiction.

Edison has his own in house audio studio. He has a unique and varied background, all of which contribute to his expertise in spoken word audio production in general and audiobook narration in particular. He is a Stanford Med School graduate, a physician, a board certified surgeon, a veteran of sixteen years of active duty naval service (promoted through the ranks from E1 to 05 [that’s Commander, one step below full Captain]). An author, he has published a dozen novels and numerous short stories. Most of his stories are either speculative fiction; he is partial to ghost stories. All of his stories are intense, and tend to showcase ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Find him on Amazon.

His spoken word audio work is rich and diverse. He has narrated over 50 books and a number of short stories. The SurgicalFiction Podcast showcases many of the books and tales he has narrated. Selections on the podcast include entire stories lasting several hours, as well as chapter readings, brief excerpts, and pieces of popular fiction and nonfiction. You will also find selections of both popular and obscure tales from the public domain.

He has a special affinity for tales showcasing medical and surgical fiction (hence the name of the podcast), as well as nautical fiction.

His fully outfitted audio studio includes a dedicated Studiobricks audio booth, several Apple computers and monitors, a Studio One Artist (v. 5) digital audio workstation, an IoStation 24c audio interface, and Izotope RX6 Standard for mastering and production standardization. He uses a Sennheiser MK4 condenser microphone for all his productions. He uses a punch and roll technique, which allows for on the fly direction and immediate correction for word substitutions, tone shifts, pronunciation errors, characterizations, etc. 

The voice you hear is always his and his alone. You can catch him on reading his own stories on facebook live from time to time as well. Follow him on facebook and join his email list at surgicalfiction.com. He also has a presence on facebook and his twitter handle is @surgeonwriter.

Sanity’s boring, harmony's a joke,
I built my throne out of everything broke.

This is blues exorcism for cursed souls. Heavy psych riffs dragged through ash. Basement doom jams that sound like they’re melting from the inside.

This is not good music. It’s honest noise. 
These sounds are built for the broken, 
... not for the sober.
Unlovable, unmarketable, undeniable.

If you get it, welcome.
If not, you were never meant to...   Haha, guitar go Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Climate Stories Project (CSP) is an educational and artistic forum for sharing personal stories about the effects of climate change on our lives and communities. CSP focuses on personal oral histories, which bring an immediacy to the sometimes abstract nature of climate change communication. Some of us may recount dramatic events such as floods and wildfires, or we may address our observations of changes in seasonal patterns and our fears for the future of our families and communities. We may discuss how climate change is forcing our communities to adapt to extreme weather and sea level rise. Or we may speak about how we are getting involved in the movement to fight the fossil fuel industry through community organizing or nonviolent protest.There is no "right" way to talk about climate change, as it is a vast topic that is increasingly touching every corner of our lives. CSP also facilitates educational workshops where students learn to speak about their own responses to climate change and interview guest speakers about theirs. In addition, some climate stories are featured in music and soundscape projects that allow audiences to witness the effects of climate change in a novel way.

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