The Current
As well as building websites and writing trash words, I also write ghastly music and sometimes produce other forms of highly disposable media. On this page, you will find some results of some time I spent indulging these pursuits. All media is licensed under the Creative Commons Share Alike license, so you can pretty much do what you want with it as long as you link back here. Hotlinking not polite, please don't do it.
The Future Belongs to the Past
This will be a rolling project, the aim of which is to release all the material I've made in the past 10 years under the CC license above. It will take a long time as I have audio and data CDs, DATs, cassetes, even vinyl, collaborations, single works, live cuts, dj sets, unproduced, overproduced, damaged, forgotten and ruined material. Bear with.
The theme from the finale of Hart Attack. This uses the same sample library as the Cop Theme. Again, released under the CC2 license.
Here is another track from the forthcoming zombie movie, Hart Attack. This is from a dialogue scene involving two policemen, also known as the 'Cop Theme'. All samples in here are freely available on the web - the majority from freesound.org. As such, I release this audio (like the rest of the music on this page) under the Creative Commons 2 license.
My latest pop effort! I consider this a sort of homage to Jon Maus, The Human League and The Neptunes, all mashed into one. I hope you enjoy it. The equipment list is as follows: Powertran Transcendent 2000, Korg Mono/Poly, Roland EF-303, Logan String Melody II, MOTU 282mk2, Ardour, Hydrogen, Seq24, LADSPA plugins. The bell tree sample comes from a chap called Stickinthemud and is provided by the freesound project, a fantastic Creative Commons sampling source.
The following three tunes are a pre-release of the soundtrack I am writing to the forthcoming short film, Hart Attack. The film contains zombies and is set in the town Fleet, in Hampshire (UK). This is the main theme. Instruments used for all tracks: Powertran Transcendent 2000, Korg Mono/Poly, Roland EF-303, Logan String Melody II, MOTU 282mk2, Ardour, Hydrogen, Seq24, LADSPA plugins, various creative commons orchestral samples.
The first incidental theme...
Love Lions, The Lions of Love. A bit of fun to celebrate the new decade. Instruments used: Yamaha Pacifica, Aria Pro II bass, Logan String Melody II, SM58, MOTU 282mk2, Ardour, Hydrogen, LADSPA plugins.
Here is a horror collage I made. It is a sampler for a director making a zombie movie. This is a slight departure from my normal, minimalist equipment setup, in that it uses a drum machine loaded with orchestral percussion samples and a Logan String Melody II to provide the string and organ parts. In writing this, I was keeping in mind Goblin, John Carpenter... and Shackleton!
This is a recent number I did which uses solely the Transcendent 2000 as a sound source. I was very happy to hear it got mentioned on the BBC's Synth Britannia programme earlier this month. Apparently Bernard Sumner said it never worked properly. Well, it's true. HOWEVER, I hope you'll agreee I've got some pretty rad sounds out of it.
Written for the people of Kings Square. This one is 90% Transcendent, with an EF303 effects unit and backing percussion from a 606. Is the Transcendent 2000 the best synth ever? Well, no, but it still sounds great.
A techno track I made. Think the bass needs a little boosting, but otherwise I'm happy. The StudioFex compressor works wonders with the Transcendent and sounds pretty good with the 606, too.
A synthesised version of Old Bach's only fugue with six voices. From A Musical offering, for King Frederick II of Prussia. Produced using a Transcendent 2000 and a classic 80s midi -> CV converter. Please note - I did NOT write this score. However, it's a tad over a quarter of a millenium old, so I think that pretty much puts it out of copyright by now.