Tag: Music

Morphine in C

Ok, so driven in from the garden by a plethora of wasps and one annoying neighbour, I was planning to stick my head in a book, but sadly my synth got a hold of me. So, without further ado, I present Morphine in C – the music I image would be played in a psychiatric

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Dresden Amen

Anyone familiar with Wagner’s Parsifal will know this one. It’s a short 24 second snippet of exquisite loveliness, using my nice warbly theremin sound. John Dow – Dresden Amen

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Vangelis / Blade Runner sound

This is a gorgeous gorgeous rich sound and I use it all the time. The patch is pretty straight forward on a microkorg: Turn off write protect and initialise a sound bank to the defaults Add a second oscillator (Saw wave) and set the level to 127 Detune the second oscillator – I set it

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Flyby

Another simple one, with some dodgy timing. Flyby

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Hello World

Programmers are allowed to write a “Hello World” program to learn about a new language, so I’ve made a “Hello World” to learn about a new synth. This was played on a Korg MicroKorg. It’s not Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, just a few notes to get the hang of the tiny keyboard and to try out

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Top 5 Albums of 2009

For those of you who may be reading on facebook, you might be better popping over to http://www.nelefa.org to read this. If you’re already here – well, that’s alright then 🙂 Ok, so these weren’t all necessarily released in 2009, but some of them were. They’re albums that affected me in various ways throughout the

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Ratings in iTunes

Further to the last post on this subject, I have a new smart playlist. It’s everything with a rating of one or less despite having five or more plays. It’s called “Stuff I really don’t like.” I reckon by the time it has enough material in it to fill a DVD-R, I’m going to start

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bye bye beautiful

did you ever hear what I told you? did you ever read what I wrote you? did you ever listen to what we played? did you ever let in what the world said? did we get this far just to feel your hate? did we play to become only pawns in the game? bye bye

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