Episodes
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ARP soup with extra cheese 2/13/10
Performed entirely on the virtual ARP 2600 analog synth. This is all messing with a stack of free running oscillators all rigged to modulate one another as well as the LFO, S&H and sequencer. I just kind of let it take me where it wanted to and put a little meat on the bones with some effects in...
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Bent Ears - Point Of No Return
Hi all. Yeah, I've actually posted another episode! And it hasn't been a year between the two of them! At any rate, I'm back to doing more film-ish, soundtrack/score stuff than any of that other weird crap I've been shovelling out. *A musician's lament* A great deal of my creative output depends…
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Bent Ears - A Really Bad Night In Swingtown
Hi All. Finally got around to tinkering in the studio... IRL issues keep me from my music a lot of times these days. Ah,so... the responsibilities of a dad and married man. Hey, I wouldn't trade it for anything... the married life, that is. Barb's a wonderful lady. This is it, boys and girls.…
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Bent Ears - Night Shift at Golpok Megas Spaceport
Here's the latest effort on my part to create the kind of moody and surreal trance or rave stuff I'm led to believe is the kind of stuff the other project I'm working with my brother on is supposed to sound like. This piece is 7 tracks deep and believe me its complex this time. There are a load…
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Bent Ears - Into The Out Of
Seeing as how the animated film I mentioned several months ago is still needing much preproduction work and won't need the scoring efforts of my bro and I for some time, I decided to see how long it would take me to throw out a rave-ish kind of dance piece so here it is: about 10 hours. I spent...
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Bent Ears - Ascent Of The Mountain
All that needs be heard is in the 'cast. Enjoy.
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Ayambaztaqaa (Martian High Priest)
This all started with the Moog Modular. I was working on a sequenced filter patch and began some experimentation. I was soon recording and laying additional tracks and ended up with this piece. Even being only 3 tracks, there are a lot of sounds in this one, using not only the Moog (bass and...
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Bent Ears - Fife Ore
Yeah, so its been a while since I posted music. Actually its been a while since I posted anything. I'm working with my brother on the soundtrack/score for an animated hi-fantasy IMAX film which is currently in preproduction. As the filmmakers come up with storyboards, outlines and scripting, we...
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Bent Ears - Lobsters On The Move
This is yet another piece I found in the seemingly bottomless files I have in my system which sat unfinished for many months. The work session was already titled but as to why I called it what I did, I have no idea. I suspect I may have seen something on some nature program which was stuck in my...
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Bent Ears - Dark Strut
I was listening to some Jimmy Smith and decided I'd try and do an old fashioned jazz club sounding thing. Yeah ok... I'm not Jimmy Smith. Or Klaus Wunderlich...or Keith Emerson either, but I did have fun with this. The Hammond was played live over the 2 sequenced tracks (drums and bass). All…
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Analog Synthesizers
Well, so. This is kind of a crash course and an explanation as to how the old-school analog synthesizers work including what exactly a "tone generator" is, as well as a "filter" an "envelope generator" and the "LFO". With actual sounds created by the synth, you can hear the difference between a...
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Bent Ears- E=MT2
The first application of the Virtual Moog Modular synthesizer. As much as I'd like to have a real Moog Modular in my studio, I don't have the 30,000 odd dollars to buy one of the 100-odd remaining original ones left in the world- or the room in my studio for that matter- so I'll have to settle…
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Space and stuff
The third in what I guess will be an endless series of unscripted spoken word shows. Today I discuss various space probes currently out there somewhere and what they are doing. I also touch on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, faster than light travel and other miscellany. The longest…
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Bent Ears- Percussion Suite
This is a piece that I've had laying around partially finished for a couple months and I finally decided to revive it. This is 3 sequenced tracks programmed on the ESQ but played on the Halo. I also turned the program select control while the sequences were playing to further vary the drum...
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Bent Ears - RotoTom Triplay
Just got around to doing some live tracks with my roto-toms. Laid 3 tracks and as usual FX'ed the crud out of them... Turns out to be a pretty odd piece but not too bad for all freehand. At least I thought of keeping this; my first two takes turned out less than acceptable.
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Hurricanes, earthquakes and mosquitoes.
Another spoken word ramble-unscripted, of course. Discussion concerning the relative merits of city versus country living and doing so in the Desert Southwest as opposed to the Deep South
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Sticking It To The Electric Company
My first spoken word 'cast. I discuss a few methods I've implemented in my household which have drastically reduced my electric bill. I also discuss how the electric company charges for the power you consume. An unscripted show; somewhat of a stream of consciousness ramble, if you will... but I...
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Bent Ears- Nightmare Alien Dance
Just an oddball I tossed together a week or so ago. It's pretty wierd, but strangely listenable. Go oooooonnn. You know you're intrigued!
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Bent Ears- Wounded Android Waltz
Whew. What a rush. Havn't had much of a creative output in the last few months but suddenly my muse bit again and guess what? He's Baaaacccckkkk! I started by playing with the Halo's feature called "randomize voice". It's a way to get completely new combinations of sounds that don't come with the...
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Bent Ears- Cavern of Crystal
Five days and nine tracks. That trumpet sound was a pain in the ass. Hope you like it.
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Bent Ears- Gloo Gun
My muse bit me on the ass last night; This was the result. Three seperate percussion tracks (kin ya tell I used to be a drummer?) The only two sequenced tracks were the bass (ESQ1) and the drums (PK6) everything else was played live against the sequenced tracks.
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Bent Ears - Emeralds
This is the very first composition I did back in the early 90s when I was forced to give up drums due to a wrist problem (ganglial cyst) developed by decades of hard fast playing. You can take the musician away from the music, but you'll never take the music away from the musician. After 13000...
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Bent Ears- Death in the Alley. Another composition which could be used in the as-yet-unmade horror film.
Also composed and performed on the ESQ1 (bass) and the PK6 (strings, percussion and other sounds) No sequences- this was performed live track for track. Total of 7 tracks as before seperately processed with effects and pan information then mixed down to standard stereo.
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Bent Ears- Dread and Deprivation. Closing Credits to an as-yet-unmade horror film
Recorded with Cool Edit Pro. Performed on Ensoniq ESQ1 sequenced (bass ) and an E-Mu PK6 (percussion and all other sounds). The overlaying trax were all done live against the sequence in what turned out to be a 9 track project which was seperately FX'ed then mixed down to standard stereo.…
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