Re: [LAU] Declination: Music made with Linux

On 01/31/2010 10:09 AM, james morris wrote:
> On 30/1/2010, "Patrick Shirkey"<pshirkey@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> On 01/31/2010 12:32 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>>
>>> I was fiddling about with various bits of Linux audio software and came
>>> up with several hours of recordings into Ardour. If I don't go quite as
>>> crazy with remixes as, say, Moby, then there is probably about 17 months
>>> of music in there. I've picked out one that I feel stands up on its own
>>> without further processing, and uploaded it to my server:
>>>
>>> http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/declination.ogg
>>>
>>> If you have time to download it (it's about 26 minutes long, 21Mbytes)
>>> and listen, I'd appreciate some feedback. I tried using a homebrew
>>> fuzzbox and a guitar amp, but that just made the neighbours bang on the
>>> wall (and they live half a mile further up the farm track).
>>>
>>> I consider this track to be in the Techno Reconstructed Yurt genre, with
>>> influences from Vangelis, Pierre Schaeffer and James Bilsland (the
>>> latter using a huge industrial pump to deliver heating oil to the
>>> 1300-litre tank at my house). If that is the kind of sound you are into
>>> or you wish to make people think you don't listen to "normal" music,
>>> then I think you will enjoy the track. If you don't or it's a bit too
>>> "experimental" for you then clearly you are an imbecile and you wouldn't
>>> know genuine avant-garde talent if it bit you on the backside.
>>>
>>> Enjoy, and I look forward to your feedback. I hope you get as much of a
>>> kick out of hearing it as I got off the anode caps of the power amp
>>> valves in my HF radio transmitter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> At least we can reliably count on your for a caustic, demeaning and
>> generally negative response.
>>
>> There's never any surprises in your emails.
>>
>
> If it's any consolation Patrick, I got bored of this piece too. I quite
> liked it to begin with, but then it goes on a bit. It's not
> particularly original either.
>

I realised some time ago that Gordon usually posts whne he has nothing
nice to say. I figure that it is his buzz. He often gets a large number
of people upset and must get a kick out of it.

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd

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Received on Sun Jan 31 04:15:06 2010