Monthly Archives: April 2016

Do-re-mi.

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Abba is highly logical.

Rondo is ABA, ABACA or ABACABA.

“Abacab” isn’t really ABACAB, nor ACCAABBAAC. It’s actually ABABCABD.

WHEN YOUR MIND GOES CRASH BANG WOOSH is AABCCBACCBA.

Abracadabra is a powerful word, not to be confused with “Debra Kadabra”. It’s also an album by everybody.

“Pioneers Over C” is ABCDEABCDFGABCDEH, a really nasty bugger.

“Space Shanty” is ABCDEFGHIJKCLMB. Yeah, those fellows sure didn’t like repeats.

Humans repeatedly think the darnest things.

Degeneration.

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I first started dealing with computer music in the early 90s, on my dads Macintosh. At the time, Mac started to surpass Atari ST as THE music producing machine.

Those were the days of General MIDI.

GM is a “standardized specification for music synthesizers that respond to MIDI messages”. (Thanks wikipedia). Those sounds tried to simulate real (acoustic) instruments, from agogo to xylophone. At the time, they were great. The whole orchestra at your fingertips!

Today – of course – that stuff is as relevant as bloodletting or fax machines.

Anywaay, I wanted to take a little trip to the past. The result is INCARNATION IN A CARNATION, which utilizes only GM sounds. And it’s kinda metal. Kinda.

Unnecessary fact of the day: I played the tune for a friend. After listening about 1½ seconds he said: “Doom.” (Meaning the computer game, not the metal genre, or the final judgment.)

That’s exactly what I was going for.

It is!

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I wish I’d have more to say about NAMED AFTER YOU than this:

I really like the tune!

As a composition, It’s not particulary clever. Just an ever repeating drum & bass thingy + some strings. The sounds are ok. The wholesome feels both modern and retro. Typical for me I guess.

It’s just that… Somehow the tune sounds better than it’s supposed to… All the little pieces fit together flawlessly, forming a moody tune that’s just… solid and really nice and good and fun!

And I like it!