This is a track I put together with Fever Pitch, a studio project I started a few years ago with my friend Katharine based on our shared interest in music by groups like Portishead, Zero 7, and the Dave Rowe Trio. While it's got a lot of rough edges, people seemed to like it a lot and for us it was a very influential track to write. We had to learn quite a bit and figure out what we were really about.

This was originally released for the Songs for the Cure '10 charity album, but it's been a few years so here it is as a free download.

Fever Pitch - Hurry Home

This is my entry for /r/futurebeatproducers' Future Flip Friday: http://www.reddit.com/r/futurebeatproducers/comments/1yk5l9/friday_future_flip_the_8bit_edition/. The challenge was to make a beat track around the samples provided, which all came from old videogames. I chose the Metal Gear sample. 

This is the first time I've really made anything in this style, and so I decided to just kind of jump in the deep end and play around a bit. Kind of a weird track but I like it and of course making it was very fun. Reverb everywhere! Resample everything!

First Future Flip

I've been enjoying this sort of music lately and felt like giving it a go. I put this together for Dark Outside 2022 but I figured I should post it here at some point.

This one is a bit unusual for me in that I spent most of my attention on just a few elements, and let the rest kind of fall where they did. I was trying to write a short piece relatively quickly that set its mood and then moved on, and didn't try to do anything much more profound than that. If I did it again there are a lot of things I'd do differently, but I think it worked okay? I enjoy listening to it at least.

Stray Light Simulacra

This began as a technical study more than a piece of music, but many Youtube tutorials, a ton of experimentation and a couple of samples later, I have this dubby talking-bassline track which I'm coming to enjoy quite a bit. So here it is.

I'm entirely new to this style so feel free let me know what you think. Especially if you've got good ideas.

Composed, performed, programmed and recorded in Ableton Live.
Samples are from Freesound:
Voice and background noise by acclivity- http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=49118
Finger cymbals by clandestine1114- http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=34154

Flight from Dubai

Original solo synthesizer composition. This is track 2 on the 2011 demo CD for my new music group, Compass Rose Records.

This originally started as a downtempo song I was writing with my bandmate, but we couldn't agree on what sensibilities we wanted so we split off and each wrote our own piece, and this was mine. The mood actually came out fairly close to what I was originally aiming for, although it went off in an orchestral direction that I didn't expect at all.

Sequenced and mixed in Ableton Live. The synthesizers in question are a Roland JV-1080 and the Ableton devices (Operator, Analog, Sampler)



Thin Air

I thought I'd start putting up some of my submissions to the Tom Cosm challenge, which is a series of exercises (one per week) that Tom is putting up on his website for his followers. Generally you have to use Ableton Live and its included tools to do something unusual that keeps you out of your comfort zone.

This first challenge was to make a track entirely out of a single kick drum sample. Oh, and you can only have one MIDI track. I chose the kick that you hear unprocessed right at the beginning, and then bent, shifted, effected, and beat-repeated it into the recording that you hear. Even those chords you hear were made from this kick :)

It isn't like a super-good track or anything, but I thought it was a pretty interesting sound, especially considering its source. It's a bit more boring than I would have liked, but that's okay - it takes me forever to write, and there was a time limit. So, no worries!

Warrior Bob - Tom Cosm Challenge 1 - Kick Alone

My submission for Tom Cosm's second challenge.

The challenge here was to make a pad sound that would evolve for at least 30 seconds all on its own - no extra MIDI input or automation. This recording is about a minute of one chord.

Warrior Bob - Tom Cosm Challenge 2 - Super Pad

Posted by request in a Reddit thread. This is a four-dollar toy store harmonica run through an overdrive pedal and an el-cheapo amplifier and then processed with a bitcrusher, glitch plugin, and reverb.

I do not play the harmonica.

Harmonica with bitcrusher sample

This was my submission for The Dark Outside 2020: https://www.darkoutside.co.uk

...which was originally going to be broadcast from Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn, so I tried to get into the Dada spirit a bit. Unfortunately that event had to be moved online, so it went out over a one-time Twitch stream instead. Samples (it's almost all found/manipulated samples) are from Freesound.org and various packs I've collected over the years. I should try and make a list. 

Thanks to Katja Gee for the name!