So I sat down to do 'my version of a pop song', since Raz laid down the gauntlet. It went completely wrong for me.

I started by listening to radio in the car on my way home. Already here I should have seen it coming. Skip to the end.... I wound up feeling a bit nauseous, disliking the world and generally feeling a bit half-hearted/arsed.

So when I finally made it to my computer, I simply wound up doing a one take improvisation using my voice, my ukulele, and Gleetchlab 3. Which is a good thing too since it helped me feel a lot better about things.

Anyway, an incidental by product was this piece of ambient music, clocking in at a little over 15 min.
AnotherLongWaveGoodbye

This is why I love ableton! Feeling particularly happy last sunday I sat on the couch for two hours and messed around in ableton, mostly the arpeggiator in conjunction with analog - and still some reasonable interesting tune came out (at least cathing some kind of naive mood):

Arp Boy

No keyboard, no controllers, simply a laptop, ableton, headphones and some cozy mood. The funny drum beat is a loop from the ACE TONE FR-2L with the Rhumba setting. The boogie sample is from my own sampled "seventies disco vinyl" sample library. As another funny side note the analog setting is simply the default "no setting" setting. One more thing is that I turned quantisation OFF, trying to make it more groovy....and sloppy. I guess that also explains the badly arranged breaks...

Lately I have been thinking a bit on how "my version" of a pop song might sound. I think this little sketch is one of the stones in that pavement. How would "your version" of a pop song sound? (challenge, hep-hey!)

I've been experimenting with various DAW's and VST plugins, trying to make some sort of 'beautiful accident'.

None of that worked of course, I just wind up with lots of red meters, but the other day I was reading a typical music gear post on twitter which boasted of the number of reverbs some guy could run on his new Intel i7 DAW. So naturally I simply had to find out how many I could run. Silly really... however, suddenly a great sound emerged.

Generated entirely by Ableton Live pushing about 80 copies of Audio Damages Eos' (Eoses? Eosi?) reverbs in series. There is no input.
cpuAt11
(note- I also tried this with Reaper and about 120 duplicates of Breverb and nothing happened!... might be the fact that it was the 64bit version of Reaper)

In conclusion - anything can break the right way.... or at least in a musical way. Put it yet another way... yes, even CPUs sound great at 11.

Right, after the fright of the previous post, I've decided to implement a proper backup strategy! Like a real, responsible grown up... who doesn't want to lose all his recorded material from the last 10 years. (Warning- this post won't be music related in the slightest... just some good old geekin out).

I'm going for a triple whammy.

NOW BITE ME U EVIL BIT MONSTER DEMON SKRUNTER! (øh, maybe I shouldn't anger the information bishnu just yet, still gotta go through my scrapyard of dvd's and external disks, or or maybe just throw them all out?!)