Great informative article from Ableton featuring Anna Disclaim (Anna Lakatos). She is such a talented young lady.
Project template update
Back on my pet subject. Here is the latest template that I generally use for my music projects. It is made in Microsoft OneNote, but other tools would probably be suitable. Let me know if you have other suggestions and processes.
Don't come to see me, I'm not here anymore
I’m pleased to give you a new work using some sounds from a new Native Instruments Kontakt library I’m putting together for the studio. The work features some dialog from the Barry Burmange & Delia Derbyshire piece - There Is a God from the “Amor Dei: A Vision of God” work.
Barry Bermange said that he himself thought of Amor Dei as ‘rather in the manner of a Renaissance painting with the believers in God in the foreground or centre and half-hidden disbelievers looking out from shadowy places round the edge of the painting’.
Why Cats Paint
A new piece of music and a new short film. Enjoy.
Magnetic Research Centre
I can no longer remember when I produced this piece together with David Lynch ... but it was long, long ago in a magical place.
Produced using totally analogue synthesisers and recorded onto a Teac Tascam 8 track through an Allen & Heath System 16-8 desk. Instrumentation used: Roland - RS-202, TR-808 and MC-8 Microcomposer sequencer
Lyrics
Time, unimportant
Subject, Samuel Brown
Place, South West Institute of Mental Health
The subject, Samuel Brown suffered a loss of mental and physical capability after an accident at Magnetic Research Centre 2201
The face he now wears has a cold vacant stare of undue concern
You'll always see him staring; staring at the walls, and at the lights
A brain probe will be required
[Required?]
Survival probability will be low
[A door, yes, it's closed. Through sunlight I reach for darkness]
Begin the operation
[I remember, remember my wife (Samuel!), my life. Before, before 2201]
Brain probe now engaged
[I'm fishing; Released, I catch a clock. The time.My hand filled with ever escaping sand; knuckles white, yet I cannot keep a grip. Who, and where am I. Footsteps. Jenny's footsteps. I must retrieve her ring. No, it's somewhere in 2201]
Samuel! Samuel Brown. Can you hear us?
[What's the use? I want joy, not life, and problems, and 2201. A door, it's open, it's light. So much. I can't. A face? Jenny? No. Help. Help me! Help me!]
Follow me!
Swarm reissue
Swarm is a piece of music produced to accompany a short film made mid 2017. Happily I now have permission to release the music separately from the film. This was a commission piece so it’s available for free so check the Catalog page for a download link. I’m not exactly sure why but the sections of the piece came together very easily and the writing process was an enjoyable experience.
A Walk in an Indian Forest
Inspired by the beauty of the Madhya Pradesh region of India. This new piece from 2201 features the plaintive sounds of the bansuri side blown bamboo flute which originates from India.
Check the Catalog page for a link to buy the piece on the 2201 Bandcamp page.
New 2201 single release
I’m pleased to announce that the first track from a forthcoming album has been released today. The single will become part of the ‘Numbers’ album and is called ‘15728’
15728 from the forthcoming album Numbers
At the moment the world seems to become more dangerous each week as our leaders seem happy to casually threaten others with little concern for the possibility and danger of escalating situations. With this situation in mind I took a look at the secretive and scary world of Numbers Stations.
The one-way voice link (OWVL) described a covert communications system that transmitted messages to an agent's unmodified shortwave radio using the high-frequency shortwave bands between 3 and 30 MHz at a predetermined time, date, and frequency contained in their communications plan.
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from a key nuclear treaty with Russia on Friday represents a significant "long-term" threat to NATO and its European allies, a former US official argued last night.