Found, At the Edge of the Forest

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For SounDevotion competition, round 44.

A snow flurry invites a walk, but a devil lurks in the woods.

A semi-orchestral progressive background music kind of piece.

This time around I accidentally rediscovered something I read somewhere a long time ago- slight delay can help individual parts (especially unison parts) stand out in a mix where playing the parts dead-on exact may make them disappear into each other, even when panned apart.

Enjoy!

REMIX – capslock by Mick Rippon

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SounDevotion round 43 was a remix round, the challenge being to remix any piece by classic and current module tracker Mick Rippon.  His great works can be found at http://mickrippon.com

This is more like a cover with slight rearrangement than a remix, though I have deliberately tried to create this from memory- some samples were taken from the .mod file but none of the note data was used. The note data was referenced only once because I couldn’t get the notes in the panflute hook right.

Listen to the original to find out how much better Mick is at note embellishment than I am, and also to study the masterful use of four columns.

I remember copying this to a tape with a handful of other .mod and .sid files I found in an FTP site. This was part of my introduction to what a tracker can do, and part of how I learned that music can be passed along and preserved in ways that do not require a record contract. It is also part of my appreciation for those that can do a lot with a little; when this tune was originally created I was still using MIDI sequencers and was trying to escape a sound that was called “cheap” and “quirky” when I should’ve worked harder at giving that sound more personality.

Mick Rippon’s music, and music like it, are influential to this sound; the notion of creating the best music you can with the equipment and software you have at the moment.

Compact Electronic Desktop Music

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This is for the Indamixx + Renoise + Create Digital Music contest, detailed here: http://bit.ly/4oB6Cm

Released under Creative Commons license by-sa ver 3 in accordance with the contest rules.  Please ask me if you wish to use the music and the license is not understood.

Enjoy!

(This Is a) Test

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This is a test

When competing to be the best, it starts when you arm the track (and press record.)

From Wikipedia:

The Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) was an emergency warning system in the United States, used from 1963 to 1997, when it was replaced by the Emergency Alert System.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_System

Inspirations for this SounDevotion entry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6gz1oQVBkw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VrqEdUPSpI

http://www.sdcompo.com/entry.php?e=545

Enjoy!

Release Zero featured at BLINK OF MEMORY blog

I wish I had noticed this feature while it was happening so I can say thank you and welcome to all the visitors from Japan that have come in the past month or so.

Thank you very much for the feature and recommendation, which can be read here: http://lifeweblog.exblog.jp/10196612/

The BLINK OF MEMORY blog is a nice electronic music blog that features many other netlabel releases from around the world, as well as occasional musings of the author. Its homepage: http://lifeweblog.exblog.jp/

Thank you again, and thanks to everyone that visits and listens.

Release Zero is found here: http://cedtm.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/chunter-release-zero/