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/

Solfeggietto by C.P.E. Bach

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This is a piano piece often used to teach students how to play using both of their hands without breaking rhythm, and it’s been used as video game B.G.M more than a few times.  This was entered in SounDevotion Round 41, the theme was to remake a (small “c”) classical music piece.

Video and wrap – Gamesboro near Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA) 8/28

I want to thank Gamesboro for having me perform on a very interesting night.

Most of the entertainment of the night could not make it, leaving only four of us with myself closing off the night to an audience that exceeded my expectations.  The store made a great venue, the staff were great, and the audience attentive; I would definitely do this again.

There were a lot of lessons that I take from this experience and I hope that this event becomes annual or semi-annual in some form.  Thanks to all that were there.

Gamesboro near Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, GA) 8/28

When I first saw the post advertising a chiptune show being set up so near to where I live, I knew I had to make  a point to attend it at the very least.  In the beginning, I didn’t think I’d be able to perform at it, but after some thought, I realized that I have plenty of material to draw from and I have the equipment to be able to perform. It’s an honor to have had someone select me to perform in a show that will be headlined by Minusbaby, and it’ll be nice to meet E.S.C. and Goatslacker and many others on the bill; I’m looking forward to August 28.

More details in the post that announced the show in the first place:

http://8bitcollective.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=222390#p222390

Edit 8/18- Ticket presales through the GSU bookstore:

http://www.gsubooks.com/product_info.php?cPath=107&products_id=6844

Past the Apex

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Don’t forget which way the road turns

The apex of the corner is the insidemost point, when you drive through the corner at the fastest possible speed at or beyond the limit of friction or the tires. A large corner may have multiple apices.

This SounDevotion Competition piece was not a good follow-up to Simple Things, it came in near last in a tough round that has far more excellent pieces. It betrays my influences like Kraftwerk and Orbital. I may yet work to improve this piece; it’s not too bad, it was up against very tough competition.

Simple Things

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The DSK plugins tax my poor laptop’s CPU so badly that I decided to make a terse solo piano piece. Sixteen tracks later, it became this. I created it by soloing the tracks as I went, then rendering to test the mix, over and over.

Drums are from mini drumZ if I remember right, the VST disappeared when I optimized.

I’m actually very happy with the result I got from this. I used automation on some of the VST parameters to control decays and bends and such in ways I never could with midi sequencers, and if they’re paying attention, I bet the DSK plugins wouldn’t be so bad on my PC if they didn’t have all those effects on them (which I shut off anyway!)

This tune won SounDevotion Competition Round 39!

Enjoy.

Hello world!

My music needs to be consolidated in a more unified home; it is my hope that this blog can do the job.

I got a complaint that there is no one simple way to collect music that I’ve made and posted to the internet.  Odeo.com was supposed to fill that need but people don’t seem to know to go to it anymore, and besides, its interface is a bit dodgy and this Xanga blog is becoming quite a mess with my ramblings, Twitter imports, and other junk messing things up.

I also got an unhub.com titlebar, so if you visit http://unhub.com/chunter you’ll see all my little social engines collected in one more organized place.

serpentspine

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The simplest VSTs always end up being the most versatile, to me, because they are not crowded in their own effects. The sound and tone of Medusa is really nice!

The goal of this Battle of the Bits contest was to make a piece using only a single VST, which was the single-oscillator (and unfiltered and un-reverbed) VSTi called Medusa.

Waiting At the Starting Line

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From #mod_shrine OHC on 5/23/2009.