Music

Oh yeah, the Doobie Brothers... but nothing like that

It’s a mix, really.... Mainly electronica. What? Dance, Trance, Ambient? Yeah, whatever... you really have to label everything - just means I use a lot of computer based stuff, but there are live bits of guitar, keyboard and bass.

Some of this comes out of working with a progressive rock outfit, some from home studio working with synths and audio samples. Still trying to find some good singers to provide vocals.

With thanks to Angelina Pratt-Whistlove for all the help.

“There are only two types of music...”, a quote by someone or other.

Some information...

Have You Ever Loved... : another trance piece at 140. Nice voice.

I’d Love To... : would you really?? Probably a bit naff, just larking around with the 4/4 beat at 140 bpm

Just Lay Back and... : yeah, close your eyes and drift off somewhere while 6 minutes of extemporisation washes over you (good word, that.. twiddling, really). There’s no real theme here, just a chord sequence (Am, G, Em, F if you’re interested) repeated throughout. Sometimes you just don’t want to be bothered with a tune...

Are You The One : the version here is the original, with lyrics written by ennay. A different version is played by the band Ipsos using the same lyrics but a different chord sequence. For information, we work with Ipsos, hence the use of the lyrics.

I Could Tell You : this uses a set of vocal samples, all of which have been altered via pitch shifting and/or formant alteration. Amy M. provided one of the samples, all of the others are anonymous.The male voice is real.

East : This was the result of producing music to be used in a theatre staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It’s the opening piece, a scene setter, where Titania and

the blue boy are made much of, hence the attempt to give an eastern impression. Nothing eastern about it at all, really, it’s just not standard western.

Goodbye To All That : What can you do with no musical instruments? Something like this.... Samples all over the place. The ‘vocal’, however, was a synth. If you listen carefully (if you can be bothered) almost everything shifts very slowly against everything else; so although samples repeat they do so in different places.