#Movuary day 3 brings you a classic example of why I should not be allowed to make music like this, whatever this is supposed to be. I don't know how to classify it, and I wrote it. Creapy broken jazzy dub and bass? I dunno...
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/03-Impulsive_Behavior.flac
#Movuary day 4 is far less complex or refined than anything I've done so far.
I had a bad night's sleep, and a roaring headache, so I woke up and made this thing. Pretty much just slapped it down and said "to hell with it."
HQ download: http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/04-A_Bad_Nights_Sleep.flac
Posting for the forth time, because I keep breaking stuff.
For #Movuary day 5, I decided to do something a little different. Thus, Cheap Plastic Oxygene was born.
This is a cover of Oxygene, Pt. 4 (1976), using slightly tweeked stock sounds from the Move, except for the drums, which I found from a sample pack of vintage drum machines.
I ran into a whole bunch of limitations making this one. There was more I wanted to do, but I ran out of space in the clips, and didn't have any spare pads left for resampling without further compromising stuff. There are a couple of glitches, which I left in there, because imperfections FTW, or something.
With apologies to Jean-Michel Jarre for butchering his fantastic work.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/05-Cheap_Plastic_Oxygene.flac
#movuary day 6. It's the log song from Ren & Stimpy Show. Some may recognize the first part from something else.
Short, boring, to the point.
I am just so pissed off today. I will make no further comments.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/06-Log.flac
#movuary day 7 isn't a track. Not exactly. It's an attempt to simulate shortwave radio conditions using a groovebox, which is, let's just say, not ideal, and certainly outside of the intended scope for such a thing. This was done by automating the parameters of a compressor, a phaser with it's frequency turned down all the way, and a couple of different high pass filters over time. The radio noise was sampled by plugging my Tecsun PL-990X shortwave radio into Move's line input, and tuning to a frequency somewhere around the 40m band with nothing going on.
I did this soon after I got my Move, but touched it up a bit since then.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/07-Radio_Move_International.flac
#movuary day 8 is a thing that I put together in about five minutes. I call it the Dance of Doom.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/08-the_Dance_of_Doom.flac
#Movuary day 9:
When Flipper the Dolphin (now known as Deejay Flippa) isn't saving people in the waters of the Florida Keys in the 1960s or whatever, he's in the studio making mad beats about the injustices of the world, with his man Calquale.wav from the 1995 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.
Yes, I was, in fact, rather bored a while back. Interestingly, by original Ableton Move broke while I was making this, so I didn't get to finish it until I got the replacement unit.
I have posted this before, but this is a slightly different mix with a couple of bugs fixed and new ones added.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/09-They_Call_Him_Flipper.flac
#movuary day 10:
a Total Loss.
Several years ago, I had a dream. In that dream, someone (not me) was standing, watching as everything they knew and loved was burned in a fire. There was a sequence playing in the background. This is my attempt to somewhat re-create what I heard, at least in part, in this dream.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/10-a_Total_Loss.flac
#movuary day 11: Ya Got Me.
This is based on samples from my Franklin Language Master 6000 SE talking dictionary. I sampled the really dirty pulse wave it produces in test mode, as well as some common phrases. This was all made with just three tracks, because I couldn't think of what to do with a fourth one. It's pretty busy as-is.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/11-Ya_Got_Me.flac
@BorrisInABox I had no idea there was a test mode. I read the manual decades ago it feels like now.
@cachondo ---p will play six very loud tones at octaves.
@BorrisInABox @cachondo I still have the Language Master manual in text format, because of course I do, and test mode isn't mentioned there. I had no idea about it either until a previous thread on here about the Language Master
@graham @BorrisInABox Can I get a copy of that? I didn't even get to keep my case, they threw everything away, box, adapter, the works. bad school.
@cachondo @BorrisInABox Oh no re throwing out everything re the Language Master. My own story with them was bizarre, too: I had a government-owned one (bought by our Vision Impairment Service) from age eight to thirteen, until it broke. When I was aged 11, a local charity raised money to buy me one of my own, but the volume control on it broke within three months and it became unusable. That charity also helped me buy a Braille Scrabble set, which I got much more use out of
@graham @BorrisInABox it felt like an incredible bit of microelectronics to me at the time. All my sighted friends had these ridiculous printed dictionaries where people had torn out pages and scribbled over things and I had this fantastic gadget.
@graham @BorrisInABox also I've never found a software version that is as good. I mean in terms of having the homophones, thesaurus, parts of speech and everything. It's mad that the best dictionary i have ever used across a bunch of metrics is a similar age to me.
@cachondo @graham @BorrisInABox Yeah. I've never been able to find anything that has something like the Classmates feature.
@KaraLG84 @cachondo @BorrisInABox Categories and sometimes lists on Wikipedia *can* be like that, when they're well done ... or maybe I think that because my favourite classmates groups were lists of random things