Buntline’s Overcompensated Six-Shooter Rag submission for Weekly Note Composing Jam #25 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO July 2025

the text prompt for the jam was simply "Old Saloon"

And so a honky tonk piano seemed logical along with banjo approximately.

Buntline’s Overcompensated Six-Shooter Rag submission for WNCJ25 for Itch.IO

Water Strider

Noisy in Boise

Lounge Jam

Blue Shuffle

Humble Beginnings

A Damn Good Love

Leafcutter

This Gamma Remaster uses entirely Mixcraft Software Synth instruments hence terming it "Akai Beta" because when dealing with Mixcraft i use my 25-key dummy MIDI keyboard instead of the FA-08

Supremely Poised To Give Me A Hard Lesson (Akai Gamma)

The text prompt for the jam was simply "Noir"

Venetian Blind Blues submission for WNCJ26 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO July 2025

submission for Friendly Music Jam #4 hosted by Gullo, featuring Gullo, Xafae, elia the animal, lodesa, and RSR's samples + my connectors

modular multiple-step process on this one the most ambitious that I have done so far since 2023.  There aren't MIDI dumps or MuseScore scores of this because if i did it would be only tiny pieces of the whole thing.  It's done with random throw away lines in my text files for lyrics that didn't go into full songs so it feels like some White Album thing of half-songs or the way Alan Parsons Tales of Mystery & Imagination doesn't quite hang together because it was his first solo effort.  The samples of the contributors were paired with Roland FA-08 performances into "modules" and the ones that failed in that process for selection were replaced with Akai-MIDI keyboard performances of instruments that I got off places like Humble Bundle that are integrated with the Mixcraft 10.6 Pro Studio DAW.  And then backbones of performances which connect the sample section modules complete the process when overlaid with vocals corresponding to all (or almost all) the modules.  This went twelve draft versions, I've never done that many incremental drafts.

William Tell Should've Known Better - Chocolate-Dipped Chocolate

A Shiny Non-Euclidean Sarabande - submission for Composer Weekend Jam #3 hosted by Joe Chris of ScoringTech.NET for Itch.IO July 2025 – exedexes1

I'm getting called on the carpet by the music theorists for inaccurately (randomly) naming it a Sarabande, and they're right.  Nuff said lol.

The music jam prompt was to go find a piece of graphic art and be inspired by it.
I chose to take a tour of being slightly influenced (for 4-5 seconds each and then to veer away sharply) from various Classical Composers.
as follows:

1. Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707):
Canzonetta in A Minor BuxWV 225
Toccata in D BuxWV 155

the only composer where I used more than one piece this evening.
I spent about 3 hours on this overall submission.

2. Gioseffo Zarlino (1517–1590).

Veni sancte spiritus, motet

3. Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706).

Praeludium in D.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750).
I actually did skip JSB its already evident my entire corpus of output is already heavily influenced.

4. François Couperin (1668–1733).

Ordre 12 in E or E-, 8.L'Atalante

5. Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687).

Les folies d’espagne,

6. Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767).

36 Fantaisies for Harpsichord, TWV33, No.13 in C-

7. Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741).

Grave, for 2 trombones

8. Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757).

Sonata in C-, K.99, L.317, P.135, F.57, Allegro

9. Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764).

Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin, Suite in G/G- - 6.Les Sauvages

A Shiny Non-Euclidean Sarabande submission for Composer Weekend #3 for Itch.IO July 2025

Cloud Gate

A restrained but very tongue in cheek send up of the 8-bit Nintendo game Magic Of Scheherezade, I think differently enough that it won't cause I.P. problems. Particularly this fit the game jam's idea of the Dark Forest because the specific overworld tune during the night-time portion of the game was a decent inspiration that I had always wanted to circle back to some day.

Scintillations of Ariosche submission for WNCJ27 hosted by emscottish for Itch.IO August 2025

The first vocal track of Mъdrъ / Mudru draft album.  A mix of playing an instrumental before writing the lyrics (which is a departure although has been done a little recently), and also later my older style of writing chord-per-syllable to already-written lyrics toward the end of the piece.

Overall I write pretty naive lyrical pieces.  This guy is kind of a paranoid douche but with the best intentions.  She's like absconding off to (heaven forfend) a different little splinter group than his thing but it turns out to be benign and he inflicts some minor annoying damage by sneaking into their outing.

Lyrics:

Somewhere in the past someone set us up the bomb
Culture shifted so fast that 30 Rock is now a right wing sitcom

Somewhere in Ulster's bowels
Were heard the pangs of an alarm
A girl's heterofatalism was giving her an ulcer
The ginger with a minge
Had had enough of Hinge
Since the latest respondent's saccharine charm 
Was rather laid on with a trowel
The states seemed the right place to flee
And that's how she hooked up with me

How have I hated instruction, 
And my heart despised reproof 
It was the nagging ineluctable
Erosion of fitness under our roof
And what came of it was standing aloof
As i witnessed its destruction

After being the fall guy i was focusing on
Survival in the strange waters that i was swimming
Much like tall guys have no idea 
That they are at war with short guys
Normal women have no idea they are at war with crazy women

I saw our coming doom 
Through the bloodshot glass 
At the bottom of a marinara jar
The girls had started having breadsticks parties
And a lot of gossip got said
And pretty soon our burgeoning movement
Was given up for dead
But one can take theorizing too far
Particularly if you're too well-read

And so at the risk of assaulting my intestines
I engaged in a clandestine infiltration
And the leader of her congregation
Served a sumptuously appetizing oration
On the fiscal dangers of being an oversnacker
At the end of the presentation
One presumptuously testy cracker
Pointed out that one of the high watermarks 
Of our civilization
Is the Domino's pizza tracker

You can imagine their reaction
When I said the most frugal drug
Was constant distraction
In sunshine or rain
It lessens the pain
Of trudging dissatisfaction

We got to a really dark place
And the tipping point began
Around when i was being really crass
And implied that the high priestess was an also-ran
She was really about to kick my ass
I think it was the rage of Caliban
Not seeing her own face in a glass

After several mint juleps
She went and staggered amongst the tulips
magniloquent miss molly
Chided me on my vindictive folly
She asked what are you stupid
What's the point of all this skullduggery for me

Well I am genuinely attracted to you
Having walked too close by Cupid
And that is a pretty stupid thing to be

Magniloquent Molly's Mozzarella Jolly

Full Moon Sturgeon Surf

Submission for Composer Synthestration Jam #1 hosted by Joe Chris for Itch.IO August 2025
The jam called either for directly synthesizing a classical/romantic piece or to write an original piece entirely in synthesizers.
Technically all of my output is always done -on- synthesizers with the FA-08 or with software synths in the laptop.
However I took pains in the submitted mp3 to mostly use synth tones.
In *MuseScore* however: if I used all different synth tones the player online in MuseScore's website would give an end product where things sounded very murky and bled-into-each-other. So there are some natural-sounding instrument tones albeit electronically produced, which are indicated in the score PDF as a result of that. And there are probably a small number of natural-instrument tones in the mp3 file which is the principal submission piece: however in that case it's like 90% electronic sequence tones.

The process was to listen to the Bela Bartók piece (4 Stücke Sz 22 BB 27 No.4 "Scherzo") on the mp3 player's earbuds while manually performing similarly "inspired" sections on the FA-08 and then to export that as a wav file. this wav file was then combined in MixCraft with the MIDI export also from the FA-08 and then the MIDI export used MixCraft's instruments in addition which takes us beyond the 16-track capacity of the FA-08 on its own. There are inter-cuts of brand new variations on the Whimsy series' leitmotifs, which cause this to be designated Whimsy Number 7.

Whimsy Number 7 (Bartókian Whimsy) submission for Composer Synthestration Jam #1 hosted by Joe Chris

Sophie Agnel: piano
Joke Lanz: turntables

Recorded by Martin Siewert at his studio in Vienna April 2024
except Wittgensteins Hand and 21st Century Humans recorded by Benjamin Pagier at Instants Chavirés, Montreuil November 2022

Mixed & mastered by Martin Siewert

Collage by Joke Lanz
Photo by Marcandrea
Design by Lasse Marhaug

Edition of 300 copies

Sophie Agnel & Joke Lanz - Wittgensteins Hand (iDEAL LP)

A therapeutic journey into a mix of jazz, classical, and a blend of types of electronica.  And a wry, gradual observation that promotion tends to only go as far as you push it.  At least I make my fellow musicians laugh a little.

Electronic Sound Disturbances & Pleasures since 1998.

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