steven’s
musical
meanderings
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27.10.03
in order to make space on my PC, I
decided to clear out all my unwanted n-track files. this involved going through
a load of them and keeping any things which were recorded but never put up. due
to difficulties I had in mixing this track down (a whole 2 years plus ago), it
never saw the light of day- which was a shame- given its very strangeosity in
the recording process and subsequent unlikeanythingelseonthesite-ness. kinda
loses its way towards the end-but only because the beginning is so fucking
excellent teeheehee.
29.08.03
well, its been a while. and
somebody has been listening to einstuerzende neubauten. a little crunchy taste
of one of the auricular possibilities achievable when using a bottle of
deodorant and a tin of sweets.
funnily enough, this marks the first appearance of an
electrified guitar in any of these recorded works. started from a simple idea
and kept expanding and growing. more sweet action, this time with tapping and
scraping performances.
29.03.03
you know, now that I think back on this past month, I realise an
awful lot has happened, and this piece of music pre-dates it all. it was
recorded the day before my granddad died, so I guess this one is for him.
hmmm……basically discovered that my recording program has a
built-in keyboard thing. to me, this sounds like something Captain Beefheart
would do, but I wasn’t setting out to get that effect. I really like it, and
there may be more fucking with keyboard thingy in future!
01.02.03
kinda
nauseating- idea being two figures that start at opposite places and end where
the other track started. produces a neither-here-nor-there effect which is the
interesting part. extra ascending track added- and a descending one was
supposed to be added too but I was told to stop making noise cause people are
trying to sleep. idea sprung from 03-12-02 because the slidey thing which
starts every bar of that is a track of a slide up 2 frets and a slide down the
same two frets simultaneously. in truth, it took you longer to read this that
listen to the damn track.
26.01.03
disjointed riff thing, jazz chords and the usual carton ending.
04.12.03
originally
wanted this to be 1 minute long, but I was off by 6 seconds, as it turned out.
that really matters. another sound layering experiment that culminated in my
first guitar-induced blister. and now you know.
27.11.02
various problems
with computer (and the ascent into level 3 of education) mean that this is the
first new work in ages. one of the rare rare appearances by my green/blue
sextar.
experiment with
using chorus line thru verse. I like it a lot, but ‘tis very short.
kind of
companion-y piece to 04-04-02. same deal- quiet, short, melodically based,
recorded at 2am……
28.09.02
originally had
lyrics, but it sounded, for want of a better word, ‘finished’ without them.
they didn’t fit either, I didn’t think.
01.08.02
something I always
meant to put up, but wasn’t sure exactly how to record it onto mp3. in it’s
original form, it was one of my favourites but in my procrastination and
fiddling, I deleted one of the core important tracks to the piece, which
royally pisses me off because I can still hear it in my head and it was quite
good. tried imitating the track but I couldn’t, but I still like it a lot so
it’s gonna go up. added keyboards and sent it on its way.
20.07.02
exercise in
combining many tracks (10 on this one) into some kind of order. most of these
pieces have no more than 3 or 4 tracks. just thought it’d be fun, ya know?
09.07.02
this one took a
bit of time to get right. some new ideas poking thru- expect some diverseness
in times to come.
06.07.02
back after my
winter break.
23.04.02
the idea was to
create a ‘50s tearjerker type deal. over the top lyrics, simple/overused guitar
cheese thing. this was a demo- I shall revisiting and record this properly at
some point but now you just got me laughing like a goofball at the end. ding told me to put this up, and I was
thinking I wont, but then I thought ‘hey- I wont get the chance to properly do
this in the foreseeable future, so I’ll just put it up :)
06.04.02
sound quality
suffers a bit as it was recorded at a low volume, what with it being 2am and
all :)
17.03.02
yeah, I like it.
realised later that I’m heavily ‘borrowing’ from “molly’s lips”- a song nirvana
covered for “incesticide” but I think it’s subtle and unintentional enough to
not be arrested for.
yeah- I was
thinking of not putting this up but I’m glad it is going up. I like when I
sound like I cant play guitar. and the second bit is really good methinks
cover country
again- this time neil young gets honoured. “ride my llama” was on his 1979
album “rust never sleeps”, and a fine piece of strangeness it is too.
this is really
“25-11-01” with some tracks added. david ding added his own electric guitar
part over the original and sent it too me. I add another acoustic track and its
done. too many cooks or many hands make light work?
22.02.02
from conception
to recording to posting, this piece was a very quick process. I like this, even
if the guitar for the second part (0.27) sounds a little fucky
this has been
floating around for a while in some form or other. finally decided to record
it- didn’t turn out exactly like I had wished, but that would involve nick
drake playing guitar 2 and jimmy page playing mandolin. oh well.
17.01.02 (site created)
recorded w/some
castanets that I got for christmas and with an appreciation for noize that I
got from a friend and musical ally. thankyous to doireann and david.
this was always
a favourite- despite the bad sounding second track w/all the mistakes. it’s the
changey bit that I like- I tried to re-record the second track but I just
couldn’t get it right. so I left it in, warts and all (lot of warts on these
tracks- most stuff gets recorded once and then forgotten).
it must’ve been
a cold day. cold and evil.