Shouts out to Britney Spears! You are immortal! You will live forever! The new album, Array Curse is available now at http://bubblegumcrisis.bandcamp.com

Also, this has a music video! Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klr-ty1kgTY

Bubblegum Crisis-Loud Moves

the latest offering from the Sydney electro funk outfit 

Rollerskates

Not Meant To Be

Falling Down

This was my attempt at making an Outrun/Synthwave track with vocals. 

Feel free to download if you enjoy it!

No Stranger

Oolong - INTERFERENCE

So, I'd half-started this piece already and turned out the Countryside Ride Jam. And it turned out fairly nifty. All... ehrm.. maybe 10-15 of the people who listened to it so far liked it quite a lot.  But I still had an ABC file with a lead line and chords and thought it would be pretty cool to actually finish the piece I'd intended to write but accidentally didn't.  So... in the week or two between when I'd finished the last piece and now, I generated this piece.

I'd been pondering the merits of writing a slightly longer instrumental thematic piece... and after some pondering, I decided to go for it. So I took the state of the wind sound at the end of Countryside Ride Jam and set that as the wind state at the beginning of this piece. I'd also decided that, since I'd already used the birds, that I wouldn't have an extended intro in the same fashion.

Now, writing it, I'd kinda started out wanting to write something that descends. I'd initially been thinking of descending like in Take The Pill by Emilie Autumn, but then I'd kinda extended that. And so I started pondering the notion of writing something that was natural and human and stuff at the start, but then transitioned into being robotic, like both sides of the Butlerian Jihad from Dune. I re-arranged sections a few times before getting the order of the piece where I'd wanted it to be.

Now, the lead sheet is two pages of notes with chords notated above it. But I started hearing that it starts out with a guitar. So I decided to play the first few bars on the guitar, then switch to a keyboard. I decided that the most efficient way to do this was to convert my ABC score to a GNU Lilypond score with the provided abc2ly tool and then use Lilypond to generate tabliture. And I found that, while it was playable, it was actually a good finger exercise to play it on the guitar because I tend not to generate guitar parts on anything other than a guitar.

I also rapidly discovered that, even though I prefer the form of tabliture that has standard musical notation above the tab lines, it was distracting to see that while playing on the keyboard, so I wasted some paper to have multiple versions of the score.

And, finally, I realized that I'd never used the metronome button on REAPER and that it would come in really handy given that a decent sized chunk of the song has no drums.

There are a few ad lib sections. If I were to print a score, I'd have no choice, because hitting a note and then diving up and down an octave while whanging paramaters around doesn't fit well with standard notation. The ending is entirely inspired by hearing Holy Ghost! play live.

As I wrote, I kinda changed it from the more unpleasant war between robots and machines and more into an Alice in Wonderland theme. I'd also accidentally realized that it was half-time in the start before switching to double-time towards the end. And I'd also realized there's at least three more pieces to follow, of which I've got parts of two more written

Much to my amusement, this piece uses double-time and has a drop, just like dub step.  Yet is not at all dubstep.

I'm continuing my love of TAL NoiseMaker on this piece. It is seriously an amazing tool with amazing built-in presets. So there's footsteps and robots hovering in the air and little blips of robotic static. And some harsh treble roboticy sounds that I'd long wanted to accomplish but couldn't figure out how until more recently. I also used my new sampled drum kit that has both a set of 4 roto-toms and a set of 7 regular toms.  And the usual suspects otherwise... StringSynth and xoxos nature effects.  Oh, and did I mention double-tracked electric guitar?  Yes, I did already.

Also, as usual, even though I could have just dragged-and-dropped the MIDI file that ABC generated into the synth lanes.... everything was played live.  

I kinda switched between recording the lead lines and then building up the sonic effects and then back to the lead lines. I think it's arguably a bit eccentric to have so many atmospheric effects in a piece. .. but oh well.

Descent into the robot factory

New Single "Fantasy" from Tesla Boy's upcoming EP.
Available  for retail on May 22nd, 2012

Fantasy

GODNOW (single)

I play guitar, bass guitar, and keyboards.  I can even manage to play drums (although I'm far better at faking it on my keyboard's drum pads than I am sitting at a real kit)

I've gone through industrial, industrial metal, metal, new wave, electropop, progressive, techo, grunge, and fuck-it-all-I'm-doing-nothing-with-music kicks over the years.

I was a bedroom computer-centric musician since before most of the world had thought such a thing possible.  When Apple IIgs computers with Ensoniq chipsets and Pentium 200 computers with AWE64 Gold soundcards weren't charmingly retro.

Descent into the robot factory

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