Post your music!

Since people are showing off their artwork I figured I'd share some of my music so I can feel artistic lol. As I mentioned in another thread, my cat broke my guitar (the little jerk! lol) so I've been messing with my keyboard, production equipment and bass guitar while I think about what kind of new guitar I want.

Anyway, here's some of my stuff:

"Call Me"

A remix of one of Al Green's most famous songs. I did this a few years ago. No guitars or anything like that, this one is a straight-up remix using synthesizers and programmed drums:


"Like Tears In The Rain"

One of my favorite movies is Ridley Scott's Bladerunner (1982), based on Philip K. Dick's science fiction novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" In the movie, Rutger Hauer delivers this monologue that has become one of the most famous in movie history:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

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So I used the audio from the movie and combined it with an instrumental beat I had been working on:


"Starcadia Nights"

For this one I was trying to find something that would sound good over a funk rhythm guitar part, and nothing I tried was any good. So then I was just messing around on my guitar while playing over the unfinished rhythm track, and I started doing some tapping, or shredding, or whatever metalheads like to call it. Highly inapprorpriate for that kind of music lol. But because I'm emphatically not a metalhead and I'm a middling guitarist, I did it "wrong" by tapping melodically, and this is the result.

Then I filtered the lead guitar take with a bit crusher to get that electronic sound on the alternate guitar phrases, added some heavy boom bap drums, filtered those with a distortion plug-in, and added some tasty low-end bass. Here's the weird outcome of that experiment:


"Let Me Know!"

Another old one I did a few years ago. This is straight up, golden era, New York style instrumental hip hop with extensive sample work and an exaggerated low end meant to get booties shaking. This instrumental was used on a friend's album for a song extolling the virtues of piff, but this is a family site so I will post only the instrumental version haha. The sample is from an old Motown record IIRC. I'm very proud of the bass on this one.


"No More Mr. Nice Gaius"

Another attempt to make something funky. I don't know if it worked. Guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, the works...


"Triumph"

Okay, more funk. I mixed this one horribly so I highly recommend headphones. I tried to pull off an "anthemic" sound with this one. Just guitars, bass, drums and synthesizers.

https://soundcloud.com/rtilect/triumph

Do you make music? Post some, please!

Thanks for posting this.

I'm afraid I don't have any musical talent, but I enjoyed listening to your stuff.

Thanks, Nora!

I might send you a message with questions about Japan and kittehs if you don't mind. My brother works for the State Department and just learned he will be assigned to the U.S. embassy in Tokyo. He will be living in a huge (by Japanese standards) apartment in Rappongi, everything paid for by the government, and has invited me to come and live with him. I am seriously thinking about it, because I will never get an opportunity like this again -- and sure as hell won't get another opportunity for that quality of life, at least in Japan.

My big concern, however, is Bud. Leaving him home is non-negotiable, but I also don't want to be in a situation where I can't bring him back to the States afterward.

Roppongi is a nice area! Lots of great shops and bars there and one of my favourite art galleries.

http://www.mori.art.museum/eng/

I had a friend who worked for the JET scheme a few years ago. She brought her cat over with her from the US and he lived in Japan for about three years, then went back home with her. I used to cat sit for her. He was such a sweet cat.



I don't think there is any problem with bringing a cat in with you as long as he's had all his vaccinations and has been chipped.

http://www.maff.go.jp/aqs/english/animal/im_index.html

http://www.pettravel.com/immigration/japan.cfm

It's harder to get your cat into Japan (because it's rabies-free) than to get him back to the US. Coming back shouldn't be an issue at all.

Thanks for the good info and the links. I can't remember where I read it, but I thought someone had posted saying that it was a problem getting their cats out of Japan, which I guess is how I got that idea.

I won't have to worry about the flight for 10 months or so at least, but I think I would have to get Bud sedated for a flight that long. But yeah...I'm going to visit for a few weeks first, and if I decide to live there, I am definitely taking Bud with me. I don't even like being separated from him for a week or two when I got on vacation, there's no way I'd leave him with someone else for a year while I live in a foreign country.

I just saw this thread - somehow missed it earlier.  @Plan, I love your music.  You are so creative.  I'm a big Blade Runner/ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep  fan myself so especially enjoyed that piece.  

 I used to compose music for piano when I had one but no longer do so.  I don't even have recordings of my compositions so they are lost to time (which might be a good thing!)  I've been looking at electronic keyboards but my tastes are too expensive so I'm doing without.  Maybe some day.

Re:  your move to Japan.  My father was a foreign service officer so I grew up living overseas. The embassy life is fun, without question, and you're right about the lifestyle.  Bringing Bud back to the US could put a lot of stress on him, though.  We brought a pair of boxers home from Korea and they had to be quarantined after they arrived in the US.  It was pretty heartbreaking thinking of them in cages for all that time.  It was definitely better than leaving them behind, though.  You really do have a tough choice to make.

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I just saw this thread - somehow missed it earlier.  @Plan, I love your music.  You are so creative.  I'm a big Blade Runner/ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep  fan myself so especially enjoyed that piece.  

 I used to compose music for piano when I had one but no longer do so.  I don't even have recordings of my compositions so they are lost to time (which might be a good thing!)  I've been looking at electronic keyboards but my tastes are too expensive so I'm doing without.  Maybe some day.

Re:  your move to Japan.  My father was a foreign service officer so I grew up living overseas. The embassy life is fun, without question, and you're right about the lifestyle.  Bringing Bud back to the US could put a lot of stress on him, though.  We brought a pair of boxers home from Korea and they had to be quarantined after they arrived in the US.  It was pretty heartbreaking thinking of them in cages for all that time.  It was definitely better than leaving them behind, though.  You really do have a tough choice to make.

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Thanks, that's a kind compliment, Margd!

Electronic keyboards are expensive, but have you considered MIDI keyboards? You can use them to model any kind of keyboard, concert piano or synthesizer in the world, and the technology is so good nowadays that no one can hear the difference.

As for Japan...that's what I have to find out for sure, that there will not be a quarantine for Bud on either side. If there is, that's a dealbreaker for me. Bud stays with me.

Plan said:

 
Thanks, that's a kind compliment, Margd!

Electronic keyboards are expensive, but have you considered MIDI keyboards? You can use them to model any kind of keyboard, concert piano or synthesizer in the world, and the technology is so good nowadays that no one can hear the difference.

As for Japan...that's what I have to find out for sure, that there will not be a quarantine for Bud on either side. If there is, that's a dealbreaker for me. Bud stays with me.

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No, I hadn't considered MIDI keyboards and have just spent the last 30 minutes checking them out on Amazon.  This really might be the solution - thank you for the suggestion.   They look like a lot of fun and I actually could manage the cost of one in a couple of months.  So thank you again.     

I think I would make the same choice about moving and putting Chula and Paul in quarantine.     Bud is a lucky boy to have a human who loves him so much.  [emoji]128077[/emoji]