it’s on random

silence, etc.

the time when forgiven didn’t make it [4:47] | download

this just needs to be said, i guess. (there’s a moment at which we take a break)

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two somewhat similar melodies looped and processed together (pun intended), live with my now infamous SC3 toy. maybe the question is simply: where does one end and the other begin…

an awkward question? [6:50] | download

inspired by a film

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built on a single synth note processed and manipulated live using SC3.

i think i jumped on a table at some point during the recording, and i might have blamed it all on my grade school teachers while i was at it.

ignorant noise kids might be better off just keeping their mouths shut sometimes [7:17] | download

lets only erase that which does not become us

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this tidbit is built on a few processed gtr loops that i recorded and manipulated using my SC3 toy. i was trying to employ more silence again, but i always seem to fall victim to layers…

… nothing is accidental

tymingue [6:20] | download

once upon a time, i held onto the past like a stake thru my heart.

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there’s a brief gtr and a few layers of synth. but mostly its abt repetition and pleasure. thoughts?

out last National [6:28] | download

i built up a nice little device in SC 3 for playing/recording/FX/looping live audio input in the past couple days.

did some house re-organizing during the day and made this during the night
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this snippet is a result of toying around with its capabilities. there’s a couple looped guitar bits running through reverbs, bit reduction and FFT filters; as well as a live melody on top thats is running through reverb and fft

uraynj [9:37] | download

i finally dove into Super Collider 3 a few weeks ago and have quickly built a pretty substantial instrument for live performance; yeah i’m kinda excited, to say the least… this is just a tidbit of something i was toying with using the thing-a-majig i’ve created.

i was also playing some acoustic gtr on top, but i haven’t built anything to record microphone audio into SC3, so you only get the digital bits, sorry… (i promise i’ll do that this week!)

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the main tone is an over-processed electric guitar; using my SC3 software I filtered, looped and shot to hell the original to make it more mellow-ish.

its all pretty simple, now that i can save sounds and rhythms for future reference … and thats so much more fun than before

a quick thought [2:27] | download

there’s another title to this, but i think i’ll keep that a secret for now.

also, i think this may be the track wherein i officially decide to drop the ‘MaybeRain’ moniker and just use my real name, finally. i suspect this is for a number of, possibly not so obvious, reasons.

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this track is a very simple set of guitar melodies given not too much treatment, just a lot of overlapping loops. i thought i’d go for using more actual silence this time. rather than my usual technique of hinting at silence while technically overloading the sound field.

ps. the length of this piece is purely coincidental, though slightly interesting nonetheless

last[ing] words (unspoken) [4:33] | download

for movement and motion. or, time is at a stand.still.

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the original sound source for this piece is a very old recording of a single guitar note. i ran that original sound through various processes and loops with Ableton in order to degrade it into the multiple sounds in the final version.

there is some kind of magic in simply over-processing live audio…

the protekr [6:16] | download

attempting to distance myself from the sound, i think there’s something to be said for emotion minus the emotional ties.

. . . “you could call me a man of the cloth; without the cloth.” . . .

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these varying synthetic sounds originated from the Kinky Beep software which I’ve used over the years to generate varyingly complex sounds from scratch. It has pretty much disappeared for good, now that I’ve lost my copy of it and The Internets had lost their copies years ago.

underneath the repetition of tones is an acoustic guitar recording that was made directly to computer, live and improvised, then mildly processed as well.

[control]shift [10:48] | download