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The Magnificent Seven: More new music.

Hi there, it’s time for another round up of my musical output from the last few months.

I am continuing to learn more about my pair of virtual modular synthesisers and I have also become more adept at mixing the resulting strange noises with beats and melodic samples.

Today I thought I’d pick a few of my favourite compositions and their accompanying videos, to give you a taste of how my sonic experimentation is progressing.

We begin with something rather restful and relaxing, called Spiracular 0902

The second piece is a more ambient affair, featuring my first attempt at creating synthesized voices, this is Dystopia Feedback Loop

Now for something a little more lively. This is a synth/sample hybrid which I remixed from one you’ll find further down the list.

This is the Cyber City Mix of Electocryption

The next genre-defying epic is a combination of both my synths and some added samples, which took me an entire weekend to produce, with a suitably portentous name and a maximalist video to go with it.

There’s no getting away from it, this one is just a big chunk of noise and is appropriately titled DefCon 10

Then there’s this, the original mix of Electocryption

And we end with a dark and downbeat soundscape, complete with some truly cinematic visuals, it’s time to experience the Post Industrial Clubland.

I hope you find something to enjoy amongst that lot, stay tuned for a new album on Bandcamp in the near future, thanks for listening.

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New music: Skiffle Clangers.

I have been making a lot of music recently, the rest of which I shall update you on in the not too distant future; but for now here’s a new tune made using two of my modular synths and some creative post-production mixing.

I also mucked about with an online AI image generator for the first time to produce the artwork, so don’t blame me for your nightmares.  ;~}

As ever, if it takes your fancy when you’ve listened for free on the embedded player below, purchase this or any other of my musical output via my Bandcamp profile.

And here’s the video to go with it

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New EP release.

Hello there, I’ve just dropped in to let you know about another new musical release, this one a two track EP of extended modular synth pieces.

Not only can you listen to and purchase my two latest compositions via the embedded player below, but you can watch the accompanying videos here, too.

Enjoy the full audio visual experience and don’t forget you can check out the rest of my music on my Bandcamp profile

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New album; “Synth Asylum”, out today.

Good evening, I hope your week is going well, I’m here to announce the release of my latest collection of musical projects; Synth Asylum.

Over the last few months I have been getting to grips with some new synths and sequencers, while expanding my music production techniques and exploring ever more peculiar sounds.

But in a good way, obviously.

So here it is, play for free via the embedded player below, or purchase the album or any individual tracks at my Bandcamp profile.

Also, here are some videos which I made to accompany tracks on the album.

Have a great Christmas and a fabulous New Year.

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Another new musical collaboration: Carbonates On Mars.

I have been Facebook friends with Gareth J Farmer, aka Carbonates On Mars for years, but it’s only since I started experimenting with more peaceful, ambient music that it occurred to me we should work together.

Gareth is a veteran at making the kind of minimal, delicate and, above all quiet music I rarely have the patience for. So collaborating with him on these new pieces has been an interesting exercise in musical restraint and subtlety for me.

First here’s my remix of Carbonates On Mars’ Space Fields…

…followed by a second mix we called Entering Mechanical Worlds

Our third cooperative composition is this spacey soundscape, Graviton Waves

And finally, one of mine, At The Event Horizon

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Audio visual round-up.

Hi there, it’s time once again to update you on the recent highlights of my musical ouvre, accompanied by the usual mind-bending videos.

First up, a down tempo ambient soundscape called 16.666%

The next one is equally ethereal, but more organic, as suggested by the title; Autumnal Ambient 1612.

Switching gears now, it’s remix time; with a completely bonkers rework of Westbam‘s version of …And More by Krautrock godfathers CAN.

After all that insanity, let the warm, soothing tones of my modular synth mesmerise you, with the first of two new compositions, Quantum Dots.

More trance-like multimedia immersion now, with the punningly titled πano

And bringing us right up to date, here are a trio of tracks from this weekend, starting with a satisfyingly squelchy drone, called Amorphous 0049

Then we go in the opposite direction, featuring more percussion than anyone could sensibly need in one track, this is Minimal Blip.

And finally, here’s my ’80s Garage Meltdown Mix a big, bouncy burst of electropop nostalgia; ’80s inspired synths and drum machines, with added garage beats and strange glitching noises.

I hope you found something to entertain you amongst that collection, check out my Bandcamp page for previous releases and stay tuned for more new material soon…

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New ongoing musical project: dalecooper57 – In others’ words.

For my latest audio visual project, I have been taking words out of other people’s mouths and using them as integral components of my compositions, even if they’re not entirely intelligible.

I began with vocal samples of notable cult figures that I isolated from YouTube videos; Philip K Dick, David Lynch, Timothy Leary and Alan Ginsberg, which I then treated with effects and built the music round them.

Here’s Philip K Dick talking about the concept of living in “The Matrix”, long before Neo met Agent Smith in the movie.

Next up, David Lynch explaining Transcendental Meditation via the humble donut.

And now a potted history of LSD, with ’60s counterculture heroes, Leary and Ginsberg

Once I got the hang of this new ouvre, I requested volunteers from the many writers and poets on my social media feeds, hoping they could record some original material to further inspire me.

The first to offer his services was Al Jagiello from Chicago, who sent me some clips from his podcast, “Population”, which I turned into this jolly little number; Katz & Dogz.

There will be more where that came from, I can assure you.

Watch this space…

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New music special – Part two: Sampling Twin Peaks.

In case anyone missed it, I’m a massive fan of David Lynch in general and the unique soap noir which is Twin Peaks in particular.

By extension, I’m also a big fan of the late musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist, Angelo Badalamenti.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before one or other of them featured in my musical endeavours and at the weekend I embarked on a project which involves them both.

I began by extracting just the vocal tracks from two Lynch/Badalamenti collaborations, “A Real Indication“ and “The Black Dog Runs At Night” and fed them into my sampler. I applied layers of effects to the vocals before adding a lot of industrial electronica and even more effects, then started on the video.

The raw materials were just a few clips from Twin Peaks and its prequel, Fire Walk With Me, which I chopped and blended and sprinkled with electronic fairy dust, before adding the newly recorded soundtrack to produce An Unreal Indication

{Contains flashing and potentially disturbing images}

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New music special – Part one: Modulators and psychedelia.

Welcome to part one of this, my latest roundup of an increasingly prolific musical output.

First up, here’s another new tune composed on my modular synth; a burbling ambient soundscape, with some added sample sequences for a bit of structure, this is Thrumm.

Next it’s an epic techno odyssey called Conduit To Sector 17, made using the same technique, with another bespoke synth framework.

Followed by a big orchestral production number made from samples and sequences, with a video editing spectacular to match.

Stay tuned for part two, a Twin Peaks inspired multimedia masterpiece…

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Music project: The Next Generation.

The time has come for me to move on up to the next level of music production, using programmable modular synthesizers.

Now, having no idea how any of these things work (as usual), I once again embarked on the experimental stage of a steep learning curve.

The first synth app I treated myself to is called HEAT; featuring a bewildering array of switches, sliders and knobs with nothing in the way of instructions…

…however, with a lot of fiddling and twiddling and many hours of making unlistenable noises, I started to get to grips with the huge number of variable sonic parameters and worked out how to control and manipulate the sounds it produces.

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If possible, the second virtual synth I bought is even more complicated and goes by the name HEXEN. It is described as a “eurorack modular synth” and allows me to build an unlimited combination of modules (sequencers, samplers, oscilloscopes, tape units, effects generators, etc) on the rack’s six shelves, using an endless supply of patch cables.

Having eventually discovered how to add modules and record the resulting output with a tape unit, I’m now learning to incorporate the infinite possibilities of Hexen into fully mixed tracks, but for now here’s a video of it running my first attempt at a programmed sequence.

And finally, here’s my first completely original production using the HEAT synth, also featuring drum patterns and samples which were added at the mixing stage; ladies and gentlemen, I give you the decidedly colourful video for Puls8.

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