Why not? Some incomplete original music tidbits.

[Fire Walk With Me]

Lots of great artists on DU, across all of the fields...I love seeing your stuff.

I used to have a 30-year old analog modular synthesizer from Buchla and Associates, with a metal plate touch keyboard (sticky and the calibration drifted, as can be heard in what I'm posting), patch cords, the whole enchilada. I'm very slowly working on a complete piece of music that I'd recorded a few years ago, which still needs lots of new bits and ideas, but I just felt like putting it out there. Percussion was played by computer, and the melodic bits are by hand, as the instrument doesn't easily communicate with computer control of pitch. Definitely needs more "notes", and I'm working on it. The point being, this is one of those devices with raw oscillators and filters, etc., no computer memory, no digital assistance, no press play and it makes noise. Hand-crafted sounds, just like in the good old days. (Back in my day, we had to trek across the glacier, fighting rabid wolf packs with machine guns, just to get to make a sound- kids today with computers don't know how good they have it. Dagnabbit!) ;) And yes, some things were left out of tune in tribute to the days when you couldn't actually get things in tune.

Incomplete intro rough mix:

http://electro-music.com/forum/phpbb-files/buchlaeteaser_683.mp3

Incomplete middle section rough mix:

http://share.ovi.com/media/Peake.public/Peake.10007

Incomplete end rough mix:

http://share.ovi.com/media/Peake.public/Peake.10006

Completion date should be sometime in 2012 ;)

Thanks for listening. Post your stuff too!

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. I just adore a lively thread!

:rofl:

[JeffR]

2. I hope you do finish this. The middle section especially is great.

The sounds a piece of kit like that can produce are incredible.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. It's infinitely easier to do in software, so I'm an anachronism.

Thanks to everyone for posting. I'll check out the links tomorrow.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. And silly- these sounds aren't incredible. They're standard

in software and other machines, but I've not heard the machine I was using, ever used to do them. It was fun to stretch it a bit. Sort of like using sporks to make modern art ;)

[DarkTirade]

3. Patch cords... that's something I haven't heard in a while.

:)

*edit* Listened to it, I like it. Nice ambient stuff. The last part seems to have the most promise.

[DarkTirade]

4. Here's some of my stuff.

No synthesis or computer work on this one, just two instruments, an amp, a microphone, and the only part the computer was involved in was recording and mixing.
http://www.stickmanltd.com/practicesessions/indarkness-shortversion.mp3
Funny thing about this one... I wrote this song several years ago. But just the voice and two guitar parts. It wasn't until about 10 minutes before I recorded it that I sat down and worked out a bass part.

One-shot recording, no editing on this one. My cover of a cover of a song. :)
http://www.stickmanltd.com/practicesessions/hurtfinal.mp3

And my 'trippy' song. Written under the influence of absolutely NO mind-altering substances. Just written at a ridiculously early time in the morning when my brain was only half engaged.
Plain version
http://www.stickmanltd.com/practicesessions/room-plain-strongvocals.mp3

Electronically fucked with version (headphones recommended for the weird effects. :))
http://www.stickmanltd.com/practicesessions/room-strongvocals.mp3


And for the other end of the spectrum... completely done on computer. No instruments, not even MIDI recording. Just wrote out the sheet music, saved it as a MIDI file and then ran it through a free MIDI to wavetable program I found.

Renaissance style theme
http://www.stickmanltd.com/mymusic/renstyle.mp3

Some themes for a video game I was working on (these themes are made to loop, so there's really no beginning or end for them)
http://www.stickmanltd.com/mymusic/breakinvaders2asteroids.mp3
http://www.stickmanltd.com/mymusic/breakinvaders2turrets.mp3
http://www.stickmanltd.com/mymusic/breakinvaders2bosstheme.mp3
http://www.stickmanltd.com/mymusic/breakinvaders2theme.mp3

This was an attempt at strange ambient music
http://www.stickmanltd.com/mymusic/underworldtheme-final.mp3

[Dr. Strange]

11. In darkness...

very nice.

:thumbsup:

[DarkTirade]

12. Thanky.

I think I need to work out a better solo guitar part or something, it's a little repetative. Then again, 90% of the music out there is a little repetative... so maybe I'm not doin' so bad. :P

[enigmatic]

5. That's good stuff, bro

The middle section is great!

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Thanks man. Let me again offer my great appreciation for your Canadian Gothic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW7rMKZeYYY&feature=related

It gives me major goosebumps, which is the highest category of compliment that I can give.

[ZombieNixon]

8. Marking this thread.

It's late, but tomorrow evening, I may get around to uploading some guitar recordings or videos to YouTube, in which case I'll post them here.

[DarkTirade]

10. Kick. I like to see what else is out there.

:)

[Dr. Strange]

13. I love the intro.

More, Peake, more!

Are you familiar with Marc Pullen's stuff?
http://www2.fanaticalproductions.net:8080/