The drum line (aka The Ruff Brothers : ) is generated on the fly from random number generators set up "just so".  The Ruff Brothers are as hard to control as a bunch of sops...  heh

Street Samba 003 Dry As A Bone - Featuring The Ruff Brothers

This is *not* mastered,  and, the opening voices are way too loud.

In order of appearance:

	The Ghost of DCI Passing [1] and
	Drumajor Column-Right Left and her sidekick SPANG!
	Grupo Timpo [1]
	The Ruff Brothers [1]

	Grupo Taikosan
	Dance Grupo Surdio
	Dance Grupo Shaka-da

[1] Fully computerized:

	no music is being fed into the machine,
	no midi, no pre-rendered audio tracks/loops,
	just "wire" them up, push a button, and off they go.
	There are two real-time controls, one knob for 
	velocity and another for note density.

Notes for the technically inclined:

I've spent the last two weeks figuring out how to get the virtual drummers working in Ableton Live 8 without writing any code.  The rest of the track is stuff left over from exploring new tools and a bit of sonic/humor relief to keep my sanity while listening to the the worst crap imaginable (of my own making) intermingled with Live8 crashing on an hourly basis (also my own doing, i've been pushing Live8 to it's limits).

I was about to give up last night when I had an idea, and I woke up this morning with a solution that luckily seems to work.  We [humanity] have not yet created artificial intelligence despite what the AI Evangelists lead the public to believe... that's just marketing to justify their gigs.  We have, however, become very proficient at programming computers, and without the robust code lurking inside Live8 I would not have been able to do this in such a sort period of time...

I'm older than the "old school" that most of you think of as old school, and I am definitely struggling to come up to speed learning new tricks.  Nevertheless, I'm a pioneer of sorts and am having way too much fun seeing many dreams come true in my lifetime.   heh

If you are a seasoned snare drummer take a listen to the practice pads... I now know how to finish nailing it down, but this is good enough to be [almost] believable.  (Being one of the best helped in that regard, and I had to re-live my '68 summer woodshed experience to remember exactly what makes a snare drummer tic; no pun intended.)

And with a sense of humor mixed with a dose of reality, the following notes are for my drum corps friends:

From DRUMAJOR's Journal, May 4th, 2012

The virtual corps didn't sleep last night.  I destroyed their electron base and rewired their neurons to listen to Column-Left.  

The Ruff Brothers are still acting like god's gift to women, but they're starting to get the idea of how to play in a group (unlike some sops I know...heh).

The old school pharts fell asleep after being retuned.  For now I'll let them start and play until they fall back asleep. :)

The timp-toms are still using a set of hand-me-downs from the Snapettes.  They had this to say about that:  

"We're elated to be back on the field and The Programmer promises new drums will be here next week.  We haven't carried a set of ball busters since the spring parade in 1968 when we played George Of The Jungle for the first time.  While it's true Boston did a pair of bass drums the previous year, we marched the first timp-toms, and with "that sound" echoing around the streets the drum corps world was set on fire.  It's nice to be back, eh?"

The conga line got drunk last night with Jersey Girl last night and are nursing hangovers with the rudimental tambourine line.  They might be allowed on the field next week.

Gotta go... these electrons are just as wild as a bus full of Snapettes.

Rudimentary Yours, DRUMAJOR

Street Samba 004 Ruffing It - Featuring The Ruff Brothers

Tom Cosm posted a fun Ableton Live jam pack yesterday and I couldn't resist giving it a go.   http://www.cosm.co.nz/     

Just for fun from the viewpoint of someone from the 60's and avoided the drug scene... informal... it's about the length of one side of an LP, just the right length if you put an LP on a turntable and let it play.  :)

Psychedelic Trance

What would it be like to be very tiny and trapped inside a cymbal... 

Venus Cymbal Trap

Rhetoric - language [and music] designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.  Rhetoric that is copied-and-pasted without design is gibberish.  

This audio track was constructed using the musical equivalent of alien flash cards and a bowl of profanity soup.  It wasn't composed, it wasn't designed and it's definitely not music.  

Rhetoric

I spent the better part of this summer coming up to speed on the current state of music technology, and I met an online group of like minded electronic musicians known as The Cosmic Core.  They were gracious enough to take the time to critique my progress over the summer.  Many thanks to an international group of producers !

This is my finished track at the end of the summer,  "Who Are You"

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Who Are You

30 years ago the GDS introduced FM synthesis to an unsuspecting world.  I dug up one minute Halloween cassette tape loop from 1982 and cooked up a yummy stew of old and new.   Can't sleep?  Download to your iPod and snuggle up with a scary book . . .

Copyright (C) Jeffrey C Johnson 1982..2012 - All Rights Reserved Worldwide

GDS Halloween 2012

An old school starter for a drum circle.

2012_1104_no_more_war.wav

	"No More War"

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No More War

A rhythm section warming up with some old school west coast funk.
Copyright (C) Jeffrey C Johnson 2012

Funky Friday

Sleeping

WIP remix before final arrangement.

Funky Friday - rhythm section cooking up some old school west coast funk gettin' ready for another Funky Friday Night in the club. : )

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