Brain Churn
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Track 1: Brain Churn You could call this my protest song against online life. There's quite a bit going on here: I created nearly a hundred samples using over two dozen different synthetic voices rattling off website names. It spawned this new album because I didn't feel it was "musical" enough for Harder Faster Stranger. Track 2: The Ew Song For your amusement, here's an absurd, mercifully short experiment in manipulating synthetic voices to simulate singing—well, sort of. Synthetic singing programs are available, and some of them are astoundingly good. But they also cost hundreds of dollars, unlike text-to-speech apps, which are freely available online. Based on the ridiculous, results, I doubt I will pursue this any further. Track 3: No Brakes After creating a wacky drum sequence, the rest of this goofy, freewheeling little tune fell together in an afternoon. Honestly, it was just an excuse to use a bunch of hand-assembled loops I'd made that had nowhere else to go. Track 4: Spacetime A mellow quasi-dance tune, "Spacetime" is dedicated to the late Stephen Hawking, who contributed the vocals—obviously without his (or anyone else's) permission, although I doubt anyone would come after me for pinching four words from a two-hour lecture. Unlike Hawking, it's simple and predictable. Track 5: Bang Here's five-plus minutes of your life you'll never get back. For a long time I'd wanted to create a track with nothing but drums and percussion, and having upwards of a thousand drum samples on file (with many thousands more available online), the challenge was choosing what to use. After months of tinkering, I finally got it to a point where it doesn't sound stupid (of course, it still might). For fans of drums and percussion, here's nearly 150 samples, all in one track. Track 6: Somewhen Else No drums, no percussion, no rhythm track... just lots of lush, dreamy synth chords—imagine an aurora borealis in sound—to carry you away. Track 7: Angina Undoubtedly a difficult track to listen to, this one is also painfully personal. It's an attempt to create a soundscape that expresses the way I've been feeling the last couple of years which, owing to heart failure, vacillates between so-so and not-so-good. Certainly not "music" in the traditional sense; play it if you dare. Track 8: Destination This one started out as a track for OST but kept growing, eventually becoming a pleasant, otherworldly trance-ish piece.
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