Locust Canasta! - JeffCanasta

JeffMinute045: Canasta


Well, I would say that this is quite lame compared to the Canasta! of the Iwan, but so be it. What's done is done. Just was going for the feel of a lighthearted card game.

A minute for my mom

Today's my mother's birthday so i dedicate this one to her.

LawrenceMinute0073: MinuteMom

JKT044: Faster it is, then.

Started making this in reason. Was much slower, more laid back. Then I opened it in Cubase to record some sorta vocals, and the default tempo was suddenly much higher. Sounded cool though, so it stayed, and became this.

JeffMinute044: Accidental acceleration


Oh, and if you happen to have Reason 4.0 installed, you can try opening the project file here:
01-10-2009.rns.
Refills used:
Orkester
Reason Factory Soundbank

(just to document stuff for myself: I just took the reason output, recorded 3 vocal tracks with it in cubase, then exported it all to wav and ran it through the "Mix Master" preset in Izotope Ozone 3 to make it all sound huge)

Rain

Yes, i remember it well. That day it rained here too. I had aimlessly been roaming the neglected outskirts of the city when the first drops started to fall. I found shelter underneath a ramshackle shed near an abandoned factory. As the rain grew more persistent, hesitantly from behind the vats and barrels these small beings appeared. I suppose i would describe these odd little flying fellars best by calling them water nymphs. They danced around me as they pointed, seemingly amused and amazed by such a grotesquely shaped creature. Their strange chanting became more rambunctious and then suddenly... they left. Just like that. This is a glimpse into that moment.

LawrenceMinute0072: Rain

JKT043 - raining

Thank god for the Iwan, otherwise this place would be a ghost town. This isn't a minute so much as a quick glimpse into a moment. In this moment, rain is pouring down in sheets. That is all.

JeffMinute043: raining

Haamphist 002: The Return of the Phist!

Here's another sweet minute by the Haamph himself.

Haamphist 002

Creative minds...

First off i want to thank the two creative minds, Azo and DJ Haamphist, for their spicy contributions. It wasn't until today that i gave their minutes a closer listen and i have to say that i was thoroughly amazed. DJ Haamphist's page leaves me in a state of musical wonderment. His take on composition and sound sculpting is original and inspiring. I can only be jealous of his musical sensibilities.

Azo, your new minutes are incroyable! Really avant-garde stuff. Your music exists in its own weird little universe. The way it seems to warp and distort reality reminds me of Dali somehow. You are truly an artist; i love your strange ears!

I hope both of you keep contributing to this blog because i'm dying to hear where your musical endeavors will lead you. Anyway here's something that i did today...

LawrenceMinute0071: roboDisco

Locust Canasta! - LawrenceCanasta

LawrenceMinute0070: Canasta


This is my Canasta. I haven't melded it with the Locust yet because Jeff still has to do his Canasta. When he's done we can have a simultaneous presentation of the two finished Locust Canasta! minutes. How is that for a motivator!

At first i had assumed for no good reason that canasta was an amazing and dynamic game. However going by my research i must now draw a tentative but opposite conclusion; it seems to be no more than a crummy rummy clone.

Now rummy makes me think about my grandma who loves to play that game. In years gone by her memory has gone from bad to worse. When we play she'll sometimes get confused and for instance out of nowhere ask what the trump is. Yet at the same time the confinements of a familiar game form a safe haven from a frightening and hostile world outside. So in conclusion, this inadvertently went from dynamic and fun to bleak and depressing. Yea!

Introducing... DJ Haamphist!

We're lucky to have minutes streaming our way from across the ocean! DJ Haamphist, coming to you from the Estados Unidos, doing some interesting experimentation with Reason. Here's a minute from him, followed by a little introductory message. You can check him out at http://www.beamychron.com/djhaam/ if you like...

DJ Haamphist: 012


'Twas right around Christmas with ham in my mouth - DJ spinning nothing, not even house. Behold! Propellerhead's Reason came unto me, a digital Jesus, from the privates of my virgin computer. And I drove to Guitar Center and purchased a floor model M-Audio MIDI controller with a plastic knob missing for well below retail. And it was good.

I returned home, excited but also afeared that I would quickly loose interest and settle into my natural state on the couch, PS3 controller in hand, the Reason gathering dust along with my other hobby gear. So my buddy's wife challenged me to a musical duel! We would meet at high noon on Valentine's Day to feud it out with our jams. Pride would fuel me or whatever! Well, turns out I can play video games and make bad music at the same time.

So unawares of The Daily Minute project I embarked on my own semi-daily project and dj haamphist was born, swaddled in the endless possibilities of Reason, with no idea what I was doing. Now a few weeks later, I have several sketches to share. Each just a quick study of a piece of the software. If a 'song' ends abruptly it's because I didn't yet know how to end the audio export function. Or how to work the Transport thing. Not that knowing that makes much difference in my case. And if it sounds like I might not be able to play the piano, that's because I can't. Or any instrument. But maybe something will come out that we can all enjoy. And maybe my beats will fucking demolish my buddy's wife at our Valentine's Day Battle Royale! oooooOOOOOOOO!

Azo's 2009 minutes!

Well, I've been a bit lax in posting lately. Azo has been kind enough to send along a few creations, here they are at last!

Azo005: Ratrel



Azo006: Lima Hongle

The noisy minutes

This last week i've been designing a noise synthesizer. I was curious about the scope of sounds one could get just from processing noise. I've used self-oscillating filters, frequency modulation, down sampling, bit-crushing, saturation and some weird reverberation effects and i think the scope is quite wide indeed.

These minutes were made using the noise synthesizer. I'm just scratching the surface here and these aren't the most enticing arrangements but i believe there is some potential. Check it out.

LawrenceMinute0067: Noise trilogy I


LawrenceMinute0068: Noise trilogy II


LawrenceMinute0069: Noise trilogy III

Rite of the Anthropophagite

LawrenceMinute0066: Anthropophagous Ritual


For days only the thick of the jungle has greeted you. For days you've traveled down stream unsure where this meandering river will take you. Civilization exists only in memory and in the days gone by has become but a vague construct of your imagination. The loneliness of the jungle is overwhelming. One can only be intimidated by the darkness that lies beyond the trees. Everything here is dangerous. Relentless.

Is it your imagination or are a thousand hostile eyes staring back at you from that wall of black? Suddenly in the sweaty dusk you start to hear something. Soft at first but steadily growing louder. Is it a tribal ritual of some sort? The hypnotic rhythm draws you in, urging you to succumb to its pulse. Eating away at your will to resist. You notice that your muscles have gone soft and your mind feels like pudding. You see the spinning lights slowly coming towards you...

You are powerless.

Locust Canasta! - Jeff's Locust

At long last! It's a crappy locust compared to that of Iwan, but oh well. It vaguely seems locustlike somehow to me at least.

LocustCanasta: Jeff's Locust

A minute for the new year

Well, it's been a while for me, eh? Time to get back into the groove, i suppose. Here we go!

JeffMinute042: New Year, New Minute.

Concoctions from the Laboratory

LawrenceMinute0064: O.R.P.

The Ominous Riddum Prospect.



LawrenceMinute0065: Amorphous

Amorphous.