Category Archives: Music

Cyberlama is on the one

This is out of left field. I decided to play around with Live, which I’ve never used before. This is what happened. 2005-12-03 I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but I used to have a funk band in New York in the late 80s – early 90s called, “Your Monkey’s Not Funny.”

Duet for Cyberlama

Here’s another Delay Lama/joystick track because they’re so much fun to do. This time it’s two voices a fifth apart with harmonizing and filtering that are also controlled by the joystick. 2005-12-02

Variation for marimba

And here’s the version for marimba. There are two lines here, each doubled and phasing. 2005-12-01

Variation for piano

This is a piano variation on the original track. It’s different than yesterday’s variation in that it is not a layering of the same melody line – instead, the piano is playing the lines from all the voices. 2005-11-30

Variation for voices

This is a variation of the piece using only the voice line. It’s back in the cistern. 2005-11-29

Faster decay

I took yesterday’s structure rules and applied it to a reverb with a shorter decay time. The piece is much faster and much shorter, but it still retains the space and feeling of slowness. 2005-11-28

Slow decay

This is a generative loop piece. Each instrument plays one of three notes, and then waits for the sound to decay to silence before playing the next note. The whole thing is placed in the reverb from the cistern which has a 45 second decay. 2005-11-27

Cyberlama chorus

Here’s six Delay Lamas singing in Upsalla’s Domkyrkan. 2005-11-26

Cyberlama

Delay Lama is a free VST instrument that is perfect for using with a joystick controller. I had a great time with this one and want to do more. 2005-11-25

Still playing

Another joystick track. I’m just enjoying playing free and not thinking about structure or key right now. 2005-11-24