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New Album Release; A Lil Experimentation Vol. 2

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5/01/2024 - New Album Release; A Lil Experimentation Vol. 2

Another mixed bag of experimental music and unreleased stuff all made quite a while ago when I got bored and started to experiment with sound and music which is my favorite thing to do when making music or at least one of them. I would say I have been experimenting with music for some time and started with cassette tapes making loops from them and to see what you could do with a cassette tape. One thing I discovered is that you can back mask with a cassette tape and is something I did a little bit. To be honest, I can’t remember all the things I discovered but I knew as a kid it blew my mind and left me wanting to experiment with the tape a bit more and I did. It’s one of my favorite ways to experiment and used to start with some sort of tape ritual even though most of the time more than not I wished I didn’t use the tape as the sounds sometimes come worn and like it’s under water which isn’t good for quality wise. I find a lot of tape saturation which can be found on a cassette tape works well for eerie and experimental music and when I can be bothered to get the cassette tape out which is partly broken which is why I don’t use it so much but when I do I make some good sounding tracks and has interesting wobbles and stuff on it which would be bad for a normal use of a tape player. Another favorite way of making experimental music is going to the charity shop and buying toys and things that tend to make noise and experimenting with the sounds I selected. That’s fun and I could be there for hours experimenting and using hardware filters and FXS like delay and reverb those are the top two I use. As I said before I made the songs quite a while ago back in 2020 and onwards and was just me messing about one day being bored and thinking I can experiment with music again as it keeps me entertained for a while. All the songs from the A Lil Experimentation series weren’t going to be released but as I was making a new and another artist name for my experimentation stuff and also game music I thought it would be perfect to add them all and hopefully get them heard as I thought they were good enough for people to stream and buy. My favorite on the album is Time Slip a song I made whilst live on YouTube, Rabbit Hole is a dark and sort of glitchy track that I made in the past but have rediscovered but I’m sure it sounds different from the original, sound quality for one. I was making music for the Earth and is all about the frequencies blown out of the speakers. I was told that in the future this was in the 2000s speakers would blow out the right frequencies enough to make it rain spontaneously for example and start with the tribes banging on drums to make it rain. The rain dance is a classic example of a popular dance with drums that can make it rain and is due to the frequencies from banging on the drum. The panting of my dog on the track Rabbit Hole is what makes the earth think or do something that I can’t remember but panting from dogs is good for the earth. The other Earth song and favorite on the album is Dougie, it’s another old track I recreated and is jazzy I think, and has the strings to calm the earth down or there would be some sort of explosion lol. I should explain even further by saying the earth runs on a hum which is a frequency or hertz if you can accompany the frequency you could make it rain for example or even heal the earth a little bit by easing tension. The classic example of easing tension is a thunder-like rumble in the sky which is loud but muffled but is distinctly heard but the effects do vary around the world depending on how far you are close to the center of the earth IE the core. My other favorites on the album are Scratch Card a found sound experimental drum and bass track, Vito a synthy experimental track  Harvest The Day, and Clear Out the last two are more melodic experimental and were something I just put together. 

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New Album Release; A Lil Experimentation Vol. 1

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5/01/2024 - New Album Release; A Lil Experimentation Vol. 1

A mixture of experimental music which is all single sessions that I made throughout the years and was under my other artist name Gas No Light but is now under my new name Game For Experimentation and all in album form. I like to put on FL Studio, the DAW I use, and experiment with sound and music. The album has synthy vibes, House music, and Drum and Bass/Jungle music, and mostly sounds I found around my house like spoons, electronic stuff I found in the charity shop, light switches sounds, cocktail sticks rattling and dog biscuits dropping in the metal bowl. It also has some unreleased tracks on there that are sort of experimental but don’t feel like it with tracks like Carry On and Moo Goes The Cow which wasn’t meant to be on this account but it’s up now so I leave it and anyway  it’s something different and like my other artist name Gas No Light where I make House, Jungle/Drum and Bass and Synthy vibes which isn’t experimental and is more of my serious stuff.  It also has some of Baby 3000 which is a unique baby doll that generates synth sounds from the built-in oscillator and makes noise with knobs on the head that molds the sounds one is an HP and LP filter depending on which way you turn the knob. For those who don’t know what an LP and HP filter is it stands for Low Pass and High Pass and it filters out the noise for a more smoother and harmonic tone and is how you make synths sound partly I think it does a good amount of work with the FXs and the messing about using Serum but it works for any I think. My favorite tracks on the album are Bombs Away and the last track Duck Duck Hoose which I made sometime in 2020 actually when we were in isolation due to COVID-19 well thank goodness that is over lol. I like Bombs Away as it’s a bit Jazzy and reminds me of Blues or Jazz and has an upbeat and jolly feel to it and I think is good for dancing or at least makes you want to dance. It’s a pretty fast song at 130BPM and is a mix of Found Sounds I recorded and music.  The other favorite on the album and that I mentioned before is the last Duck Duck Hoose the correct saying or game name is Duck Duck Goose which is a game you would play in school you ran around a group of kids and select someone by touching their head and saying “duck” you have to say “goose” as quick as you can or you will join whoever lost and is running around in a circle and around the children or you are out the game and sit out the circle is the alternate way to play it but the game might vary in different countries. I like the roughness of the song and the duck quack which is all over the track. Also, it’s a play on the word House which in Scottish pronunciation is sometimes pronounced Hoouse as in house but sounds more like goose which I made into Duck Duck Hoose instead of goose.  

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Lost & Found – Finding Time

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I like making found sound tracks and making videos to put on this website and YouTube, so I thought it would be good to make a found sounds based track and made a whole page for it as I needed an extra page anyway. I recorded the audio on my video camera this time as I used the video clip to make the video which took a long time but was worth it. It was also fun to record the sounds which they all are from around my flat from spoons to cocktail sticks to an annoying pig ornament that is also a bell might as well call it a bell. As always I enjoyed making the video and track and also recording the samples which you can download for free it will be in the last tab on this post or in the free downloads menu. It was a bit of a mission but not really I haven’t got an SD card slot in my computer or at least I don’t think I have and luckily I have an old laptop so I used that, I do have a lead but  I don’t know where I put it to and it looks like the 100 other cables I have that don’t work for my video camera. The video took a day to make and I’m quite pleased with it I was saying in the YouTube video description I was going to make another one, one day, as I didn’t find it stressful apart from the app, crashes that happened every now and then but it was fine as I saved it and it restores from the last place you was working on and it doesn’t take too long to reload the app I use Pinnacle Studio by the way. It was kind of weird not doing a visual though there is a visual element in there but it was a bit weird as the video was mostly video I used to make music videos to my music but I always run out of ideas and resources so I choose visuals as it’s something I can spin a couple of times as in there are lots you can do with it. Below is the video, the bits and bobs like the raw video, the audio and the gallery also the last tab is the free download for the sample pack I will release the tracks one day on Bandcamp or a proper release I just need more tracks to go with this one and they will all be found sounds songs and hopefully all different topics not just like this video and all related to these posts I make on here. 

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Melodic Distortion

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Melodic Distortion is a synergy synthscape of synth, drums and percussion. I started it by accident as I was making mixes for my Soundcloud page and this website when it came out all weird and mangled only one luckily and I managed to fix the problem but I had this idea of making a long soundscape or synthscape. I used a lot of plugins from Artuia and one from Roland I would have liked to add more synth stuff in there but I was worried about my CPU and I was recording at the time as I recorded the whole making of which can also be found on my YouTube Channel where I post frequent feel free to subscribe if you want. I do enjoy experimenting with sound and I have dedicated a few pages right here on my website which can be found in the main menu in Videos and Music Creations. I added more sounds to the hour-long file I had of the mangled audio, but I couldn’t resist making something out of it as I heard it playing it back and thinking I could use this for something and I’m glad I did now as I had so much fun making the audio and the visual which I did after making the audio. I always wanted to do a soundscape never thought about synthscape before but I always wanted to make something long and changes a lot and coming across this audio I made I found just the thing I hope to see if I can make another one following the steps I did when I was making the mixes. I hope it comes out the same as I do intend on doing another one soon as this turned out quite good and I enjoy listening to it and I hope you do too. I would describe the synth as a 70’s to early 80s synthscape throwback mixed with Hip Hop beats and lots of different patterns and twists and turns to keep you entertained for a while.  I am a bit of a synthesizer addict and I have quite a few plugins now some I use more than others but I do try and make use of all of them including the ones that I don’t really like but my favourite plugins are from Artuia the V Collection they are replicas of old synthesizer hardware including the Fairlight CMI one of the oldest synthesizers out there and used a lot by artists like Kate Bush. I also like Diva, Replica and Repro from U-He which are all out of bounds at the moment I swapped computers and can’t get them to work on my new computer but I will have to get in touch with them so I can start using them again as I do like the U-He products, especially Repro which is one of my favourites to use for synthy stuff but other stuff as well.  I like to experiment with sound and when I can be bothered I like to record sounds on my recorder and see what kind of patterns I can make and luckily I have a few filters which help with the job but I didn’t use one filter on this synthscape the parts that sounded like that came out like that already but I’m happy with it and didn’t mind the hours spent on it. Below are some fun things I put together including the making of the video and the actual final video itself. The making of videos is a bit long so you don’t have to watch them all but there are there if you want anyway enjoy.   

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Trial & Error – Session 2

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I’m back with another experimental and sampling post with more free downloads. These two tracks are from a holiday video from Black Gang Chime which is an amusement park on the Isle Of Wight and also I used clips from the film Pink Flamingos. I have made three tracks from the samples from the film and I got one Jungle, one House, and now one Experimental, and probably the last one I might make four though and release it as an unreleased EP on SoundCloud. Once again I used my cassette recorder and it’s coming out more wobbly but I actually like the wobble to it and have cleaned it up a bit I might have to switch over tapes or stop using the same bits as they weren’t the best quality tapes but sounded good on the first couple of recordings. I didn’t use many filters not the heavy-duty ones but I did use Fabfilter on them to make them sound better and less harsh I also did use a lot of delays, especially on the last track Divinity but I did use some heavy-duty filters on one or two tracks. I like to go in blind and not have any expectations except to make it good and mess about with FXs like delay and reverb and also those heavy-duty filters from Arturia and SoundToys. It’s a whole lot of experimenting which I love to do and is just a break from the main genres I make but I do enjoy making experimental music and also sampling which I did for all the tracks and are some of my older tracks I made and also I made the samples too. 

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TAPE RECORDINGS

Here are the tape recordings of the samples I recorded onto the tape and are from another holiday video when I went to the Isle Of Wight in 2018 and a place called Black Gang Chimes another amusement park.

FINAL SAMPLES

Here are the samples after I cleaned them up I only used Fab Filter and I didn’t use any effects also the samples are a free download the link is at the bottom of the page to the final samples from both tracks. 

DEMO TRACK

Here’s the original track I got the samples from, I found them all on my computer, and is a short intro to a track called Long Cross a place where I lived and is off the EP also called Long Cross I made it quite sometime now and is now unreleased but all on SoundCloud home to all my unreleased stuff.

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Here is what I recorded onto the tape and from the cult classic film Pink Flamingos starring the late Divine and if you know you know lol, also some of my older tracks I resampled from a track called Angry Days off my album called Mental Tape.  

FINAL SAMPLES

Here are the final samples from what I recorded and that I Eqed and compressed not any effects on this one too I’m trying not to use the filters all the time as it will make it sound different.

DEMO TRACK

Here is the demo track I got the samples from and are old tracks the first one is from an album called Mental Tape and the track is titled Angry Days and the second is from the original Jungle track Divinity and off the album Inner City Ravers both now unreleased and can be found on SoundCloud. 

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Trial & Error – Session 1

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This post is an experimental post all about the experimental music I made using a cassette player, Tascam and FL Studio. I recorded the samples onto the tape player and used the Tascam device to get the sounds from there. The sounds are from my holiday videos and were when I went to a place called Flambards, an amusement park in Lizard, Cornwall in 2017, and also I used a public information film from the 70s. I also used RX7 to clean the file up a bit. This is the start of a series I’m doing with all experimental tracks using the cassette player and more experimental fun and is me trying to make use of the cassette player as I still haven’t used it that much I mean a couple of times. I’ve done some experimental tracks in the past so I thought why not do more with doing the Baby Bot and everything, also I posted quite a few experimental tracks on SoundCloud recently as I noticed I’ve done quite a few in the past but this is all for my website but all the links are in the description. It’s not one of the main genres I do but I thought I make more but something different from the Baby Bot 3000 and make something out of it on my website which is what I’m doing.

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TAPE RECORDINGS

Here are the tape recordings of the samples I recorded onto the tape and are from my holiday videos when I went to Lizard Cornwall in 2017 and a place called Flambards, an amusement park.

FINAL SAMPLES

Here are the samples after I cleaned them up I only used Fab Filter and I didn’t use any effects also the samples are a free download the link is at the bottom of the page to the final samples from both tracks. 

DEMO TRACK

Here’s the original track I got the samples from. I found them all on my computer and is a short intro to a track called Flam Bars off my holiday album Rebitten By The Lizard I made quite some time now and is now unreleased but all on SoundCloud home to all my unreleased stuff.

FINAL TRACK

Here is the final track made from the samples and will be soon released once I have enough tracks for a album but for now it’s on SoundCloud.

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TAPE RECORDINGS

Here is what I recorded onto the tape and from the public information film which I think is called Dark And Lonely Water and is a PIF about the dangers of swimming in lakes and other water dangers. The other samples are from what I made ages ago and still have the samples of and some of my older track samples.

FINAL SAMPLES

Here are the final samples from what I recorded and that I Eqed and compressed not any effects on this one too I’m trying not to use the filters all the time as it will make it sound different.

DEMO TRACK

Here is the demo track I got the samples from and is an old track from my album called Unsafe Dummies the samples are from a public information film which I think is called Dark And Lonely Water and from the 70s.

FINAL TRACK

Here is the final track with all the samples from the tape recording and will also soon be released on all major platforms once I have enough tracks for an album.

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