RSS Feed
In panicked response to the declaration by a kind Blosxom Group contributor that he planned to add my RSS feed to his aggregator, I have educated myself somewhat on the protocol, adjusted my RSS headline tags so that they actually bring you to the correct story, and become a bit of an evangelist to my luddite [...]
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Shame On You
I’ve maintained a firm but until now untested belief that the computerized, virtual, analogue, and electromechanical instruments here in the studio can be used to create a warmer modal type of electronica. A few sounds that I was looking for in particular were a live amp sound for the Wurlitzer using the UAD-1 Nigel plugin, [...]
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Going Home
Going Home is a composition from the Meh club demo recorded in 1998, featuring Gord Fynes on drums and Artie Roth on bass. Time: 7:40 Size: 7.1 MB Download MP3
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Increased In Strength
I maxed out my processor in order to bring you a celebration of the Stereophonic Victrola by way of Reason, Logic, and some very painstaking psychoacoustic stereo placement techniques. Excerpts of this piece have been adapted for the soundtrack of the intergalactic simulation game Yexi. Archival recording supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at [...]
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Modular Oblongata
Originally printed April 2003 — Before there were synthesizers in my house there were electronic music albums. Silver Apples of the Moon. Snowflakes Are Dancing. Switched On Bach. The cover of Switched On Nashville featured a miniature banjo player sculpted out of solid state parts and coiled wires. The cover of Switched On Country featured [...]
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A Brief History of Timbre
The medieval cornett (not to be confused with the modern trumpet variant) was a pretty popular instrument if you go back 500 years or so. Every Renaissance ensemble had one. It was eighteen inches of wood wrapped in leather, had a mouthpiece similar to that of a brass instrument, and finger holes along its length [...]
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Music Links page converted
The dynamic music links page has been activated. It still needs an index. But now that I’ve got the config plugin working for me, I don’t think that’ll be too far behind. I know these technical updates probably aren’t very interesting to you, but I’m finding the whole process quite rewarding. And the conversion of [...]
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�Audio� directory replaces �MP3s”
The audio directory is now live. New music and relevant discussions will be found there, and eventually the contents of the old MP3 page will be transferred there as well.
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�Programming Tutorials� is now �Articles�
The link to “Programming Tutorials” has been redirected to the Articles directory. I only wrote one programming tutorial anyway. That tutorial however led to a couple of articles for a users group magazine that was published by a software distributor, and I will upload those eventually. “Programming” means synth programming, by the way, and the [...]
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Harmonic and Melodic Resonance Programming
At the birthday party of subtractive synthesis, resonance is the quarter you find under your slice of cake. By its very definition, subtractive synthesis leaves you with less than what you started with. Resonance gives you something that you didn’t have before, at least perceptually speaking. Technically speaking, it gives you more of something you [...]
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