Noise

I had a moment of obsession with automatons, mechanical music machines, and wind-up sound devices. I designed an instrument that would allow me to control speed and variation of specific rhythmic subdivisions and notes with my fingers. I then recorded my first improvisation with the new instrument. Most of this piece is from that first improvisation. I then arranged and layered some vintage sounding string, wind, horn, and voice instrument parts (Mellotron and Chamberlin)to create a refrain. I added live brushes, cymbals, and background noise and re-recorded the bell sounds through an old 1959 Ampex tube amplifier/speaker that I have and love to use. I really like how some mechanical devices like music boxes and the like have some anomalies that make the tempo vary and bobble along depending on the condition of the mechanical parts or life of the battery. This piece is performed that way and I tried to leave the imperfections as a feature. I truly hope it brings your day something new! A Series of Fortunate Events perhaps? Cheers...

ASoFE

Binaural recording of a street performer - listen on headphones!
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Uši test - binaural recording of a street performer

MDTEK and ILLUMINATEK join forces to make this hardtek melodic track !!!
enjoy my friends!!! ;)

PARTY HARD

Fir B

Cellista's new album, Transfigurations is out new!

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"Confessions" (Featuring Rykarda Parasol) by Cellista

An excerpt fro, the B-Side of, "With Feathers Made From Flesh, She Floated Away, Gently"
Coming soon on Blistered Mind.
By Rain Lucien Matheke, 2019

endometrium cuntplow - Ghostling (Heart Decay In Vibrant Blue) EXCERPT

This is the first of a series of pieces I am creating that are centered around a Rhodes piano. This will be for my first solo album entitled Colorful Language.

The point of view for this Rhodes sound came from sticking my iphone on top of the piano when I was improvising on a friend's Rhodes in N.C. The phone picked up mostly the sound of the hammers hitting the tines. I liked that sound so much that, when I started recording this piece, I miked the Rhodes with the lid off and the speaker volume just barely on. The speaker's role is almost just to add its inherent hiss haha. I bought this Rhodes earlier this year and it needed a bit of repair and tuning. The tuning isn't perfect, but I kinda dig that. I spent a good bit of time poking around inside the piano, learning how it worked, and living with its mechanisms for a good while while fixing little issues. This may have been the influence to give this piece a "construct/destruct," "build and rebuild" kind of feeling. I often create from a very mental image point of view and that's what was lingering in my mind during production. Well, there's all that if anyone cares to know. This piece is nearly done (!). I just need to remove a couple of edit clicks, sit on it for a bit, and see if I need to add or take away any stuff :-) It has not yet been properly mastered. Video coming SOON!
 
I am also working on some big, bombastic horn/string pieces with huge beats that I'm excited to share soon. Thank you for listening. 

Envelopes Copyright McKay Garner 2012

Envelopes

This piece also features a Rhodes piano. This time the Rhodes is playing the melody and the tines are played with a mallet. This track is also best heard on full range speakers with some decent low end reproduction or in headphones while skydiving.


Copyright 2013 McKay Garner. 
No unlicensed samples were harmed or used in the creation of this piece.