Name: Rachmaninov - Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3, No. 2: Prelude in C-sharp minor by wjlroe
Duration: 4 min 24 s
Description: Please forgive the sound of the cat running about here and there, he is just a big Rachmaninov fan.

Another old MiniDisc I just recorded in, having recently re-found my old MiniDisc player, a bunch of MiniDiscs and some spare time to burn!

I will be uploading many of my old MiniDisc recordings over the coming weeks under the "MiniDisc Relics" series, with sets from the years 2000-2004 when I actively used MiniDisc to record audio before it wound up on the technological scrap-heap of so-called "dead media".

This one was titled "Alec Pritchard > 003" in the metadata and was recorded on 22nd September 2000, a set of deep progressive trance records. Hope it brings back some good memories for those who were around this sort of music at the time! Certainly does for me.

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01 David Alvarado - Blue You // Ultra (1997)
02 Northface - Entity (Yekuana Remix) // Pied Piper (2000)
03 Low-Life - Blue Moon // Mosaic (1999)
04 Funk Function - Odysseus // Multitracks (1999)
05 Mainline - Innerspace // Bedrock (2000)
06 Electrique Boutique - Revelation (James Holden Remix) // Data (1999)
07 Medway - Solace // Hooj Choons (1999)
08 The Unknown - Merchandise // Black Ice (1999)
09 Salt Tank - Rezmorize (Salt Tanks Continuum Mix) // Hooj Choons (1999)
10 Ritmo - Perfected Technik (Force Mass Motion "Polaris" Remix) // Fluid (2000)
11 Ultraviolet - Heaven (Chris Zippel Remix) // Silver Planet (2000)
12 Electrique Boutique - Revelation (Zardoz Remix) // Data (1999)

Alec Pritchard - MiniDisc Relics 01 (22-09-2000)

Please forgive the sound of the cat running about here and there, he is just a big Rachmaninov fan.

Rachmaninov - Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3, No. 2: Prelude in C-sharp minor

Tribute to Dr Who theme coded on Sonic Pi.
Code at https://gist.github.com/rbnpi/26418cb7c462634e5a4d

SonicPi - DrWhoTribute

Compose this track for the Google Polymer conference in Amsterdam, Sept 2015, weaved in my version of the dutch national anthem.


Polymer

A much cleaner recording than the one I posted yesterday, with some enthusiastic whooshing ... here's the backstory.

Over 52 years ago, I heard the Doctor Who theme for the first time at my grandmother's house in Sheffield, at the Stones brewery in Burton Road, Sheffield, the first ever episode. I was only 4 years old, the sounds terrified me, the whole family sat transfixed at the noises, which had been created some months previously by the awesome Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. No synthesizers, just wobulating oscillators, tapes and a shedload of patience, diligence and dazzling creativity. 

That was 1963.

Now it's 2016 (bloody hell, last time I looked it was 1978) - can you believe you can do all that AND MORE for £4.99 today? One Raspberry Pi Zero (£4), one 99p USB audio interface, and the difficult bit - a huge bunch of very specialized, hardcore, time-consuming software development.

This track has 8 Virtual Analog monosynths, one wavetable synth (polysynth but with polyphony set to 1 as I am somewhat lax with the noteOff messages throughout!) and a single sample replay synth for the Tardis takeoff effect.

The VAsynths are : 
Channel 1 : kick/tom - noise, bandpass filtered slightly resonant, and an EG to shape the amplitude
Channel 2 : snare (same setting as 1 but up the scale)
Channel 3 : the old faithful 'Martyn Ware Glitterclap' - these 3 are not exactly canonical but I wanted to add in a blast of "Human League do Gary Glitter / Doctorin the Tardis" for the outro. This is a burst of noise modulated by a square wave LFO, shaped by an EG to become a decaying train of noise pulses, bandpass filtered and quite resonant to emphasise the clappiness
Channels 4/5 : a pair of Radiophonic Wobulators, sin waves which warm up (some Phase Distortion, some morphing to slightly square) under a slow ramping EG, which also ramps up the LFO amplitude that is FM and AMing them. These have a bend range of +- 24 semitones for the giant 2 octave swoops
Channel 6 : the diddly dum bass riff. This is really velocity sensitive, both in amplitude and in brightness. OSCB gets louder under velocity, and both OSCs sharpen up under hard bashing - the 'fine pitch' modulation output is hooked into a fast EG. So really hard hits sound like plucked strings, sharpening immediately under tension then going true very quickly
Channel 7 : a bass 'slurp' for the grace notes - a slightly less bright version of the riff, and with a larger reverb send amount to distance it
Channel 8 : a noise generator with a keyfollowed bandpass filter, with some resonance to be played manually (hence hamfisted noises throughout). Heavily feedback delay adds SFX swishy whooshy things to the mix - really spacey, dude!
Channel 9 : a wavetable synth for the 'melodica' melodic notes
Channel 10 : EXTERMINATE! Samples, for the heck of it

Plus there are 4 delays with low pass filters and independent LR settings for delay, levels and feedback levels, plus a stereoizing reverb engine.

Can you believe it - 10 whole synths, all of them awesome, 8 of them virtual analog, on £4.99 of computer hardware. Less than 5 quid!!! 2016 is an insane place to be.

Thanks for the awesome arrangement Delia. And thanks to the Timelords for "Doctorin' The Tardis", spotting the unholy glory that is the mashup of Delia Derbyshire and early 70s glitterpop. So glorious a mashup that Hell's Bells, I just HAD to slap the tempo up from 140 to 143 BPM as the drums kick in. I go WHOO HOO every time that happens, and I don't often get actually excited by something I've created. 

p.s. major thanks to the team at http://dwtheme.com without whom my tone deaf / 'cannot do intervals' brain would have struggled to make sense of this - this would have taken a month rather than 2 days!!  

Here's video of how this looks as it's playing - the Pi Zero is visualizing the sounds it plays at 1080p!! Take a look : http://youtu.be/kFwYwq_wSU8 and http://youtu.be/B44f_NB6Tg0

A loving tribute to all things Radiophonic on a £4 Raspberry Pi Zero

Theme tune of Ski Sunday (Pop Looks Bach by Sam Fonteyn) arranged for Sonic Pi using this recording http://www.televisiontunes.com/Ski_Sunday_-_Original_-_Full.html
to work out the notes
Article with full details including the code is at
https://rbnrpi.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/ski-sunday-theme-on-sonic-pi/

I HAVE FURTHER MATERIAL AT https://soundcloud.com/rbnman

SkiSunday theme tune on Sonic Pi

composed this track for the opening of Google's Polymer summit 2016 in London.
The track is part of a visual art presentation by project mapping artist Aszyk.

Polymer London

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Consecuencia

Death's Gambit

Bloodletting

This one’s been floating around, as it was broadcast live from Jet on Facebook and uploaded to YouTube.  But our mate @maxizamac has processed the stream and now we have a high-quality version for SoundCloud that is available for DOWNLOAD!!

Luke isn’t in the booth much anymore, but when he is, it remains an experience second to none.  It’s like riding a bike for Luke; he’ll never lose his funky groove. 

SOUNDCLOUD: @lukefair
www.facebook.com/luke.fair.live

More of Luke’s beats live from the oasis of Argentina: 

Luke Fair live at Freak Me Out, Bahrein Buenos Aires - August 5, 2017
https://soundcloud.com/bringthebeats/luke-fair-live-at-freak-me-out-bahrein-buenos-aires-august-5-2017?in=bringthebeats/sets/luke-fair-dj-sets

Luke Fair @ Freak Me Out - Bahrein, Buenos Aires - Nov 5, 2016
https://soundcloud.com/lukefair/luke-fair-freak-me-out-bahrein-buenos-aires-nov-5-2016-part-1?in=bringthebeats/sets/luke-fair-dj-sets

Luke Fair - Live at La Estacion, Cordoba, Argentina - March 9, 2007
https://soundcloud.com/bringthebeats/luke-fair-live-at-la-estacion-cordoba-argentina-2007?in=bringthebeats/sets/luke-fair-dj-sets

Luke Fair - Live @ Villa Gesell, Argentina - January, 17, 2006
https://soundcloud.com/bringthebeats/luke-fair-live-at-villa-gesell-argentina-part-1?in=bringthebeats/sets/luke-fair-dj-sets

Luke Fair - Live at Clubland Pacha, Buenos Aires - October 11, 2003
https://soundcloud.com/bringthebeats/luke-fair-live-at-clubland-pacha-buenos-aires-october-11-2003?in=bringthebeats/sets/luke-fair-dj-sets

Live @ Jet (Desert In Me)

LUKE FAIR dj sets

Luke Fair - Live @ Jet (Desert In Me), Buenos Aires, Argentina - February 3, 2018

<a href="http://bit.ly/jazzistlive">Ninjashop</a> / <a href="http://glnk.it/1yr">Amazon</a> / <a href="http://glnk.it/1zi">iTunes</a>

Free download of <a href="http://ninjatune.net/artist/jaga-jazzist">Jaga Jazzist's </a> 'One-Armed Bandit', taken from their album <a href="http://ninjatune.net/release/jaga-jazzist/live-with-britten-sinfonia">'Live With Britten Sinfonia'</a>, released 6 May 2013 on Ninja Tune.

Rachmaninov - Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3, No. 2: Prelude in C-sharp minor

wjlroe

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