Name: NightNOIZ by zadude
Duration: 4 min 52 s
Description: A glitchy dirty piece - just wanted to make some noise on a Saturday night.

What a 💯vibe! 👏👏👏🫶🫶🫶

Can I fave this more than once? Holy cow!!!

another of my few compositions created by finding & painstakingly arranging bits of sound samples in GarageBand (adding my own percussion bits throughout). Mixing instruments from both Indian & North African influence (and a hint of Gospel), the two styles seem to blend seamlessly, and I love how it transitions from the more ambient first half into the electronic frenzy in the second half. This one's definitely one of my more favourite tracks of the newer (post 2022) recordings.
(flute sample taken from the song 'Neydzan', performed by master ney flute player, Kudsi Erguner, from Turkey)

All comments welcome, and don't be shy to be critical or suggest ideas to help me improve.   :)

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From Agra to Zanzibar

this recording from around 2001 was a bit of an accident; when I was messing around with a drum machine and somehow the midi connection was triggering sounds from the drum machine while I was messing around with a dark melody on the synth. sounds pretty much like the title says.

Unorthodox Explorations

Haunted Drum Machine

'Jazzy Ditty' (https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/jazzy-ditty-new-med?in=user-432503709/sets/album-the-goods) is one of my earliest and favourite jazz tracks, which I keep revisiting and trying different things with. In this slowed down version, the opening and closing piano parts are the main chorus theme, and in the middle I tried throwing in another older track - 'Belle Curves Blues'. 

There's also an alternate faster version called 'Jazzy Ditty (alto - quartet)', where the piano melody line is replaced by a saxophone. https://soundcloud.com/user-432503709/jazzy-ditty-new-med-quartet?in=user-432503709/sets/bestest-ones

I'd love to eventually expand the main theme into a longer piece, and one day have this played live by jazz musicians. 

All comments welcome, and don't be shy to be critical or suggest ideas to help me improve.   :)

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Mark's Album (post-2020)

Jazzy Ditty / Belle Curves Blues (slow, extended)

more experimenting with arranging sampled sounds & loops. a little slow to build up, but once the horns and hammond organ kick in, it's pretty funky.

-sampled instruments include: rhythm & lead electric guitar, some bass, filtered piano, horns, some drums & perc
-instruments played by me include: organ, some bass, drums & perc  

All comments welcome, and don't be shy to be critical or suggest ideas to help me improve. :)

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Sneaky Reggae

Arguably my most popular track, at least it was for 20 years until I started writing new stuff in 2022. The violin solo near the beginning is one of my favourite bits I've recorded, but the "guitar" solo (played on keys) needs work... I don't know anything about playing real guitar! This is a pretty old recording which I'd love to hear some day with better sound quality.
 
instruments include drums, bass, piano, electric piano, violin, electric guitar, xylophone, organ (all played on keyboard)

All comments welcome, and don't be shy to be critical or suggest ideas to help me improve. :)

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Multi2dinal

Ambient sitar & tabla music, loosely inspired by the classic Dixieland standard, 'Tiger Rag' (well, only the name really).

It's another older track, maybe from late 1999 or so. The sound quality of the tape recording is not that great, but I more recently (in 2022) added a bit of reverb effects in a few parts to punch it up a bit.

I remember when I was first working on this, I started with the tabla drum pattern and tampura drone, which I liked so much, I left it playing all night and woke up to it the next morning and pretty easily came up with the main sitar theme. Maybe the drums inspired something in a dream, who knows...

instrument sounds generated using an E-Mu 'Proteus 3: World' sound module, which uses samples from real instruments.  

AI generated image using Dall-E

Tiger Raga

I was honoured to get a message from Mark Sartori (@user-83791253-79179570), whose music & guitar playing I'm a big fan of, asking if I might want to collaborate on one of his pieces of music. He suggested I add some percussion to his guitar, and this is what came together. Mark S has since recorded a new, solo version of the song as well. 

Thanks Mark, for giving me the nod to work with you on this really fine & catchy tune. Hope folks dig this pan-Pacific partnership!

Little Wind (Mark Sartori - guitar / MisterMark - percussion)

a fairly rough piano thing I still want to finish... hoping to find a kind of bridge section eventually, and possibly a bit more instrumentation. See also the alternate Jazz version, "Finished Diminishing (jazz trio)", that includes upright bass & muted trumpet. 

https://on.soundcloud.com/AhncVeX831TC39xM8

That jazz version is one of my favourite things I've written/recorded, and again, would love to hear played with real jazz musicians some day.

Finished Diminishing (echo piano)

part 1 & 2.
This was one of the earlier bits of music I recorded shortly after a 20 year (hard to believe) 'break' from writing music. It's also one of the very few songs that were just solo piano and which I could play without multiple tracks. So it was surprising that this took only about 2 days from initial conception to final recording - even though I've revised it a few times since then, as usual (thus this latest re-upload).  I may try to add some strings to this one day, which I think would work nicely.  


All comments welcome, and don't be shy to be critical or suggest ideas to help me improve. :)

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here's some pictures I took: www.flickr.com/photos/mark_boucher/
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A New Nostalgia... (solo piano)

A glitchy dirty piece - just wanted to make some noise on a Saturday night.

NightNOIZ

And now for something completely different ...  a bit of a mellow mood here.  Was a little guitar lick that turned into a smooth drone for late night sleepy time.

Melt

I have worked with many artists here (in Canada) and abroad in many mediums, video, photography, performance/installation , writing and poetry  and music mostly in collaboration with dance and artists that work with dancers.  I mostly have written music for dance and dancers.
 
I love making textures and sound and have mixed for many artists over the years.  I love working with soundscapes and will probably create some more soundscapes when I have the time as I love the amalgamation of organic with electronic and analog sounds. I love all types of music and am open to listening to most types but my true love are the masters of their instruments as I could never be like that - and I am well aware of the gift special people are given.

Peace to all of you.

NightNOIZ

zadude

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