Category: Composition
Trepidation
No Alcohol was harmed in the creation
Quick G&T
Division 2023
Musings on how grotesquely divided the global population is at a time when unity would make such a huge difference to our survival.
Kirke Godfrey: Original Idea, Drums, Percussion, Bass, Guitar, Keys, Arrange, Produce, Mix, Master.
James Gardner – FM wrangling, Guitar ‘Figures’.
Jeremy Mayall – Etherial Pianissimo.
Patrick Higgins – Sax(ish)
Jimmie Reid – Monologue
Dan Brownridge – Vox
Derrick C – Vox
Nathan Young – Vox
Hill Ryder – Vox
A quick look back at … The State Of Things………
Kirke Godfrey: Original Idea Drums, Percussion, Bass, Guitar, Keys, Arrange, Produce, Mix, Master.
Dan Brownridge: Vox Guitar solo.
Nathan Young: Vox
Hill Ryder Vox
Patrick Higgins Flugel(ish)
Peter Miller assisted with the AI Artwork prompts
Week one of night classes level Video created by Kirke Godfrey :+)
The current state of the world is incomprehensible to me as what seemed like accepting scientific facts, and expectations of common decency fell away as billionaires, selfishness and disease continue to tear the world apart.
Obvious tip of the hat to Gil Scott Herron’s ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’
The State Of Things
The current state of the world is incomprehensible to me as what seemed like accepting scientific facts, and expectations of common decency fell away as billionaires, selfishness and disease continue to tear the world apart.
Remembering the first time I heard Gil Scott Herron’s ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ and what an impression that track made on me, and looking back at the last few years, and conversations with fellow musicians it seemed reasonable to voice our discontent. I was noodling around and made a groove to try to relax one afternoon, then asked a few people to add to it expressing their views of…
The State Of Things…
I’m responsible for the banging and booming and clanging noises, Production and Mix…
Dan Brownbridge wrote and sang his vocals, and played the guitar that’s under his vocal.
Nathan Young wrote and sang his vocal
Hill Ryder wrote and sang his vocal
Patrick Higgins provides the mellifluous top line.
Dan Brownridge:
Listen to the speaker claim to Cut a little deeper Same people still ain’t equal Promises they’ll be a sequel
But what’s a promise from a criminal And the righteous subliminal It’s only political
There’s gotta be a reason that it rhymes with hypocritical
The water rising, women’s rights flicker like lighting
Children in cages, militias are frightening
The lawnmower trims the blood from the grass leaves And spits out the sins for another school funeral
There’s much too much blood to get blessed
How’s a man to hydrate with all these bullets in his chest
An overhead bowling ball hanging from a string That’s the state of things
Who can marry who What should we do It ain’t nobodys business To judge or to choose Classified emails lock her up Classified documents fuggetaboutit Get wise, inflated chicken thighs Bitcoin highs, Nuclear skies, Ukranian cries
Slip another ship of oil through the embargo
An overhead bowling ball hanging from a string That’s the state of things
Nathan Young:
The revolution will not be televised, it will be livestreamed, tweeted, and viral-ized, caught crooked corporations close door underhanded lies shared and discussed On every social media platform device. a grassroots movement, demanding some improvement from a system formed against us, the disillusioned but now the will of the people will not be denied organized online plugged in and amplified The revolution will not be controlled, By those who seek to keep us from being in the know. toned down freedom of reach This is the state of things, a call to action reduced to hashtags and memes The algorithm schemes to keep some certain things unseen just keep dumbing them down with the next big thing untouchable elite dance their way out of mind with their catchy choreography and throw away lines Times up tik tok, social credit score, ready or not hope you’re up to date with acceptable thought Big tech may try to censor and suppress, But the people will find a way to express the truth.
Hill Ryder:
If you’re talking from prejudice Shut your mouth
If you’re speaking without listening Shut your mouth
If you’re coming from hatred Shut your mouth
If you only got opinions Shut your mouth
If you haven’t done the research Shut your mouth
If you’re shouting over others Shhhh….
If you’re quoting out of context Shut your mouth
If you don’t have the knowledge or experience Shut your mouth
Kirke Godfrey:
Racism!
Human Trafficing
Endemic Corruption
Alternative Truth
Science Denial
Crypto Ponzi
Toxic Positivity
Fascism
Climate Denial
Billionaires
Opiated Masses
Mindless Social Media
Sock Puppet Journalism
Credits:
Released December 23, 2022
Kirke Godfrey: Drums, Percussion, Bass, Guitar, Keys, Brass, Arrange, Produce, Mix, Master.
Dan Brownridge: Vox Guitar solo.
Nathan Young: Vox
Hill Ryder: Vox
Patrick Higgins: Flugel(ish)
Peter Miller: Assisted with the skilful AI art work prompts!
Terminal 9
(wallpaper to drink to)
A noodle turned into a track¬
Bass, Gtr, Keys by Kirke Godfrey
Flugelhorn by Patrick Higgins.
Drums by “Levi’
Produced and Mixed by Kirke Godfrey
with some welcome input from Neil Aldridge and David Rolfe
Just more chilled noise
just more chilled noise
A Slam Edit… then the Exhausting version…
A Review! from the ever inquisitive sonic explorer Marc Weidenbaum who runs https://disquiet.com/ an essential site and mail list for anyone interested in sonics.
“Thanks. I dig this. It’s spacious and succinct at the same time, It’s got a Bill Laswell vibe a bit.”
Just very VERY poorly edited (NeedleDrop) set of moments from a 2 and a half hour improvisational session with Patrick Higgins, aka… Badrico.
We are both contributing synthetics, and percussion etc… Patrick via a wind controller and keys, (I think), im playing Bass, El guitar, µFreak and percussion and sound effects.
Mix is a mess because its a live performance and we have to manage as we go…
Just Hit Play: and trance out for 23 mins.
Or… if your a sucker for punishment, or need a longer time out…
The 90 min version, Still some bad edits…
Some nice work from some members of TriangleKult
Some serious skills from Badrico, Foid, SlowGaffle and … me.
Panama 1989
So back in1989 a friend (C Giles) and i did a STEINSKY inspired track, all done on a Tascam 4 track cassette, Ensoniq, SQ80, a DX7 and an Akai S900. We created a beat track, then performed the rest in live to tape then sampled bits of the radio news reports as it was coming in live.
The way the reporter was expressing totally justifiable fear, (understandable) but also some indignation that he was not ‘TOLD’ really spoke volumes about US entitlement!
We finished the track 45 mins after the news report had ended ran off a normal cassette and walked down to the national radio station, 2JJ.
We told the on air DJ what we had done, and he playefd it (unlistend) to Australia 10 mins later. One of the best experiences of my musical production life.
THIS WAS IT:
A Certain Throb…
Some really lovely work from very lovely people.
SOFT DROPS by Robbie Duncan
FONK
An unexpected little FONK with bananepoep
More Binaural messing around.
I’ve been using a couple of old mixes as test benches for LogicX’s new ATMOS PlugIn. I only have a quadraphonic setup, and obviously, most people are NOT set up in 7.1.4, so I’m rendering these out on Binaural.
First go, so pretty clunky and Not to spec, but quite interesting to play in.
(Headphones required)
Composed and performed by Trevor Richards and Kirke Godfrey.
Lyrics by Trevor Richards.
Production by Kirke Godfrey.
Messing with the ATMOS. Smoke (in the wind). HEADPHONES NEEDED
I’ve been using a couple of old mixes as test benches for LogicX’s new ATMOS PlugIn. I only have a quadraphonic setup, and obviously, most people are NOT set up in 7.1.4, so I’m rendering these out on Binaural.
First go, so pretty clunky and Not to spec, but quite interesting to play in.
HEADPHONES Essential.
Composed by Trevor Richards and Kirke Godfrey
Lyrics by Trevor Richards
Sung by Trevor Richards
Played by Trevor Richards and Kirke Godfrey, feedback guitar solo by Tony King.
Produced by Kirke Godfrey
Badly ATMOS mixed by Kirke Godfrey
This mix is a very hasty port from a Stereo mix…
into Binaural output of ATMOS as compared to a 5.1 or 7.1.4 etc.
Original Stereo mix is… https://www.shapednoise.com/site/archives/5857
Neither Sly, Nor Robbie
Feels very topical
Global jamming…
These stunning vocals are from the sonourus Ahmed Mongi
Still messing with it…
Some Rather FUN(ky) moments
Massive THANK YOU to:
FancySpectacles, AndyMac, Andrej Avramovic , Luke1248* and Swinney* (*links please)
This was KILLER, before I started ruining things
Horns, stand please!
Getting somewhat Huge
Ok reset…
Keyboards revenge…
Nice line…
Settling back down.
THEN ya log in the next day and its … Boggling work by LOOP, Bananapoep and Swinney
small vid HUGE vibe!
Smoke
Loca Minima
with the ever charming Drew Mackillop
Its Raining, so…
#Endlesss
Had a rather dizzyingly early start a few mornings ago to jam with Imogen Heap via Endlesss
People : Meet Matt and Imogen…
The session was about an hour of absurd noises and some fun, it was an honour and delight to be involved …
I need to point out this was a collaborative effort, so also very much involved were: Jim Mclure, Rick Sands, and Jeremy Michael Skjevling.
Thanks to all!
Got asked, so…Setup was: OBS collecting my 2 vid streams (laptop and Phone cameras) and intercom audio sending via Google Meet to the very gracious Matt at Endlesss, then music via Ableton Live ‘blackhole’d‘ to the amazing @EndlesssFM Studio, synching all the audio from the UK and USA to me. My Toys were a few NI soft synths, a Microfreak, with a tokai tele and a stingray bass via GtrRig.
Still Working on this…
Covid 19 Hard Times
if your on IOS and into sound…
borderlands iOS app
is a mesmerising art project, that also happens to be quite amazingly fun to make sounds with.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/borderlands-granular/id561369733
Transmission: The Distance Between Us Matters
Created as part of the Transmission: The Distance Between (Us) Matters project (2020).
Snapshot Demos for SoundDusts recent release
Your Weekly Bleep
Yep… Useful
If your interested… https://www.modwheel.co.nz/waveskimmer
Been Playing with Endlesss iOS app
3 players, never met, no words spoken.
More old idea Junk
TechnoCheese
Going through my drive throwing various pointless experiments that I can’t even remember WHY I did them, out so …
Something to chill with.
Noodling…
Some things just Resonate.
its a Plinky Plonky type of day
Distractions in the time of … C19 plague
Brains too fried to be clever so reverting to a combination of old pathways and completely inconsequential tweaking…
Apologies to Jon H
Exploring the touch response of the MicroFreak. Tip of the hat to the boggling Jon Hassell.
All part of the 1 pass, no edits and 3 mins to make the sound series
Kia Kaha! Stay Strong!
Thought id try to learn Ableton, but it became more about the #MicroFreak
So, Sitting around Self Isolating …
Thought id teach myself Ableton LIVE
Yep is Music for old people, buy hey IM OLD so …
Made this track using its 909 kit and an Arturia MicroFreak.
Excuse the less than inspired drum part, got lost in the Synth:+)
To make things interesting, made some rules:
All sounds from Default on the micro freak had to be made in less than 3 mins and the parts had to be played in with no edits.
45 mins later;…
By request. the no crappy beats version, you can REALLY hear the bad playing now!:+)
Trace…
Is anything ever really ‘Finished’ now? Not sure, but in the mean time…
Really soul restoring to be playing real bass again, kicks in hard after the second chorus. #RiffyFun.
The Only Good Reich, is a STEVE Reich!
Time Out,
Been head down in instrument design, needed a short spell thinking in a different way to clear my head so…
Cutting Edge Film Fest Win for DoKtor
LowDown V2
SO SO good.
Time Machine in full effect!
How Things Are
TechnoCheese
Teaching aid… When trying to learn a bit of software, i make scratch tracks.
Heres one of them:
Chase Sequence that just Fizzles out?