While searching for some stuff to post here

I came across a thing I made ages ago, but forgot about.

B3ta boarder Tedious was making a short film and asked me to provide a soundtrack. The brief was for a quiet overture, a main theme and a cheesy muzak version for a scene involving an elevator.

I came up with these:

The Overture

The Main Theme

The Cheese

Unfortunately I don't know if the movie was ever completed. I ended up quite liking the quiet piano version, but despite writing the piece I can't seem to play it very well. Thank the lord for MIDI and Cubase.

I really enjoyed the writing of a theme, then playing about with it to come up with three different treatments. It made me feel almost like a proper composer.

Greetings...

I do enjoy things with lots of buttons on them and so have always been attracted to synths and drum machines. The thing is, I have only ever been good at playing instruments with strings on them, with the possible exception of harps. This means all my music has ended up in the normal rock band bass/drums/guitar mould, which I love, but it can be fun to expand one's horizons.

Hence my pretend electronic band, Aldrin On Moon, which is just me and as many cubase plug-ins that my ageing computer can handle. Making things like this:

Cocoa Krispies 6.39 MB mp3

I am almost tempted to make one of those new fangled myspace pages and everything.

Make it funky he said!

Rapitinui's midi#10 from his post below.

So I got out some funk and a bit of jazz : Badassten 2.5mbMpg160

TERROR! SHOCK! DISMAY!

Oh god, what have I done...

I took a lot of valium and woke up with the following bastardisation of 'That Guy From That Movie With Wesley Snipes'

So I give you, the monstrosity that is :

That Other Guy From That Other Movie With Wesley Snipes

I think that my attention must have kept slipping or something, as there are random choruses all over the place.

Oooh yeah tune

Hello people ... do I get a bumming for my first post?

This is yet another tune I started any will never finish, just messing around with vocal samples and vocoders in Reason and Cubase. Anyone want to play with it?

Clickety-clackety-click here for ooh-yeahhh strangeness. Christ I love vocoders.

Make it funky, more or less

Kia ora ano,
still playing around with 7/4.. testing the theory that if you hit it on the one, it doesn't matter how many beats come after.
I think this could do with some oowww! HUH! get back! ..or solos?
I don't know if we have any horn players around here, but a hideously discordant guitar would do.

Unfinished Track

This is a track i've been working on for the last 30 minutes - it's only the bare bones, and stops abruptly after about a minute and a half. The plan is to have Yoshi from the band sing along with the main melody (she has an amazing voice, and it'll sound awesome - i'll provide frantic spazzy vocals in parts).

I present :
That Guy From That Movie With Wesley Snipes

The main melody (originally it was just the choppy bit) was created when I decided to place random notes all over the place - it seemed to work, and for the chorus type bit it was easy to fill the rest in.

I'm a little unsure about the settings that I used with AudioRealism Bassline (maybe to squelchy - it also needs to be a little louder.

If I fill it out a little, iron a few problems out, and if the guitars and vocals go as well as I hope with this track, this might end up on our 7".

Serial killah

Here's this morning's distraction; I was listening to some old Wendyhouse last night which put me in a Residents frame of mind.
This sequence is based on three tone-rows in 7/4, 4/4, and 13/8..
Who's up for some eccentric vocalising / monologue? It's only a minute long.

It's All The Same To Me

Another new song from me, this is a comedy blues track which I wrote in November.
It's All The Same To Me

Baroque hip-hop

Kia ora ano tatou,

here's a two-and-a-half minute sequence which is a development of a bass-line from a previous post..  started out with a hip-hop intent, but once the harpsichord and strings got in there I couldn't turn back.

Needs proper scratching over it - plus samples and/or vocals?

COMPETITION TIME, MOTHERFUCKERS

The time has come for a bit of a competition - this one will be for covers or remixes of the popular song, "I Love Horses" (Suggested by Rapitinui).

The rules are minimal. People can join forces, multiple entries are allowed, and it will remain open for ever, but the best one will be chosen this time next month. If anyone remembers to do it. There is no prize except the one you award yourself.

My favourite song of mine

I wrote this in 1996 under the name Starfield. I went through a period of writing songs that sounded like nothing else- no other bands, no other genre. This is the best one I did.
Starfield - Bethune
It's a sample of the song as it's my precious! :)

Long lost track...

Just been going through my hard drive and found a couple of half finished tracks from ages ago that I don't even have the source files for anymore, so they are forever doomed to be in the state they are in now. Here's one of them:

BLANKED (unfinished sample)

I probably got a few more of these I may as well post over the next couple of days. Most of them are experimental crap though ;)

A new instrumental track

Hi all. I've been writing songs since 1990 but have not done many recently. This is an guitar instrumental I started last week. You can listen to its initial layout here. http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/data/mp3/instrumental.mp3
I haven't really thought what else to do with it yet, except write a kind of middle 8. What do you think?

Pins & Needles

GREETINGS, INTERNET!
Today, I come bearing a gift. An electropop gift. An electropop gift which I have made for you.

Well not really, it's a super-secret demo of a new song - sans-guitar and sans-vocals. It may end up in the pile marked 'rejected songs', but then again, it may not.

Pins & Needles

It was created soley by myself, using FL Studio 6, and an assortment of collected VST instruments. I hope that you enjoy it.

EDIT : Like a spastic, I deleted it from my server - it's re-uploaded now though :)

Stuck in the MIDI with you

kia ora tatou,

woo! first post and all the rest..  now, I don't have a home computer at the moment, so I won't be doing any mixing, acoustic recording or the like just yet.  I may on occasion record some short samples on my phone, but they always need tidying up.

What I have been enjoying lately is MIDI doodling - great for noting down little germs of ideas, or playing around with arrangements.  I've been using the freeware version of Anvil Studios, which is nice and easy to use, and not too buggy (the commercial version has proper audio recording and mixing features, I think).

Just for fun I've transcribed a few complete songs by other people, such as Franz Ferdinand, and several by Chris Knox.  For this collaborative project I can provide sequenced loops for anybody to do whatever the hell they like with..  or, when I have the attention span, more fully-realised sequences to be mixed down with samples and/or acoustic parts.

Heoi ano, here's a couple of scraps I found on the hard drive from last year:
a couple of bass lines, upright and synth;
and a funny little rock loop. Mmmm, cow-bell.

Here's something I made today, which started off with that insistent syncopated riff at the beginning and turned into a blues-rock jam.  I'd love to hear some vocals or harp samples over it..

LISTEN TO MUSCI

I won't have any new music for a while so I dug up an old track from my accapella days. This track, from my old band, Dyslexic Fishermen is called Chef Boyardeee.
My band was the original grunge accapella band. fuck all the imitators.