My entry for the february OSC (any synth).

This was a quick and dirty one, I didn't have much time available so this was done on just one evening all together (sounds, composing, tracking, mixing). I used only delay and a little reverb, as I wanted to let the pure sound of the synth recognizable (this is also the first demo-track for Ragnarok). All sounds are single patches, no stacks or layers used ;-)

Again (like the previous track), everything is played live and no quantization used ;-) Only 'sequencing' used is BlueARP driving the bassline.

Used 9 instances of the upcoming (free) Ragnarok Synth.

Tracked and mixed in Reaper.

FX used:
- 7x ET-301 Delay
- 1x EpicVerb (send-bus)
- 1x BuzzRizer (master-bus)
- 1x LoudMax (master-bus, brickwall only)

CrimsonWarlock - Midsummernight Love Affair (Ragnarok)

Halloween Drone

INTERLUDE XV (2022)

This Is Untitled 29.12.23

The Question backing track was recorded in 2011.
I recorded the improvised vocal on Saturday 27th January 2024 & re-recorded the vocal on Thursday 8th February 2024
(I finally fulfilled my pre-requisite by getting this to sound bigger than my head)

lyrics
Are they working on you ?
Have they got you fooled ?
Are they working on you ?
Have they completed the job ?
Have they completed the job ?

World, spinning around & through your head
Have they told you what to think, already ?
"But, your life's your own"
Well your life's your own
Keep believing, keep believing ... it.

Being used, being used.
We're all being used
If they keep it out of sight
Just to make sure you goalong with (all of) it.
With a little fight in your head, telling you,
Critical analysis is to bow to their wisdom

"Conspiracy theorists" - Dismiss
"Putin puppets, Apologists"
Don't need to know what goes on.
Just a need to be told
what the only valid lines of assessment are.

Are you being used, by them ?
Are you being "Not confused"?
Are you played through ?
Have you become a vessel
of what they pump through you ?

The Question
Ian Craig -
2011 - Korg Microstation, Microkorg, Guitar
2024 - Lyric, Vocal, New VST instrument parts, production

The Question 2024 5c  2024 02 09 11 45 20 GS

Poetry  Kingdom

Interlude for a longer prog-rock song I am currently working on

Chasing Stars, Interlude

Wilfried Hanrath - Chasing Stars, Interlude

The world's largest iceberg, A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island- is endlessly spinning near the South Orkney Islands, about 375 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Its dance is caused by a phenomenon in fluid mechanics known as a Taylor column. It's essentially a rotating cylinder that forms when there's an obstruction in a flow. The A23a is trapped in a kind of ocean vortex, a Taylor column.
There are many paths a collaboration can take you down. Although the typical one tends to be shaped as a kind of dialog or turn-taking, I like the most those that, instead, become as sawing a seed and watching what happens then, including some active intervention: somebody tells an idea, or provides some materials or tracks to you and they start a self-organizing process in one's DAW. That's what happened here: @user-737426987 Ambient Annie provided some tracks that made some musical sense by themselves, but I used them as seeds for something different though related. Another of Ambient Annie's relevant contributions to this track has been in providing a concept, even though this was originally unintentional: some of our email conversations deal with natural phenomena, and therefore Antarctica, its fauna and icebergs gracefully popped up. Some months later, the seeds swelled, stems grew and leaves appeared, giving way to the flowering that you can now listen to.
During the final mixing rounds, Nyarlathotep, the three-lobed burning eye creature from Lovecraft's cosmogonies, passing his crawling chaos through the throat of @lhtrah Lht (another SC artist you should listen to), unexpectedly contributed with some primordial chants to this track: my degree in Miskatonik studies allowed me to decode the singing as "I will die and nobody will remember me", which is quite appropriate for an iceberg that is slowly melting. As far as I could find out this song was first featured in a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Fando y Lis" (1968).
Ship bell by Mateusz_Chenc @ freesound.

A Taylor column

"Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them..."

I recorded this meditative and immersive long track in one go during a spontaneous studio session (acutally, I was testing a new soundset) on Pentecost Sunday morning, 2015.

The track has some (minor) recording flaws, a different (and probably better) version might appear on an album, one day... 


Pentecost - The Red Lamb

Ian Craig (Music) http://rumble.com/c/c-1501341
pre-requisite - I make music that is bigger than my head. 
from Northern Ireland (The north of Ireland), born over 50 years ago, therefore nearly dead according to consumeristic popular brainwashing nonsense.

The Question 2024 5c 2024 02 09 11 45 20 GS

Ian Craig

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