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Cleopatra's Theme
(6:29) 18K Zipped (177K Unzipped) |
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My First Midi, so don't
expect too much! Notable for a verse that
used inappropriate instrumentation to
achieve an appropriate effect and the
discovery of a simple chord that I could
find no referance to anywhere else in
musical theory - but that sounded
absolutely great...... The song sounds
absolutely apalling on an SB Live
soundcard, unfortunately. |
2 |
Audible Sensations
(?) n/a |
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Original Midi #2, lost in
the PC crash that ended this period. I
can't remember the tune (or I would have
recreated it) but I can remember thinking
how great it sounded at the time... |
3 |
Big Bangs
(?) n/a |
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My third original midi was
a piece of pure power pop that owed a lot
of it's sound to early Bon Jovi,
especially "You Give Love A Bad Name".
It was almost complete when the file was
lost in the systems crash. I still mourn
it's loss; it would be a long time before
I came close to a work that matched it in
appeal. |
4 |
Penny (6:02)
41K |
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Not available for copyright
reasons. This was a remix of a demo tune
that came with the sequencer software
that I use to this day. The result always
sounded like a Bread song to me. |
5 |
Funky Cauldron
(8:23) 176K |
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Not available for copyright
reasons. Another remix of a demo tune. |
6 |
Dangerous Times
(7:04) 103K |
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Original #4. This was
inspired by the music from several
computer games, and whenever I hear it I
can't help but picture sci-fi combat of
the type made famous in the Star Wars
movies. Still evocative of moments of
quiet terror, tension, and anticipation
interspersed with the crash-bang-boom of
all-out action - with a somewhat
regretful overtone. Sounds almost OK on
the SB Live, but at it's best on the Awe-32
soundcard. An SB-Live remix will
be forthcoming at some point. |
7 |
Camelot (6:24)
103K |
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Not available for copyright
reasons, this was another remix of a demo
tune. I should explain that by "remix"
I mean taking the basic melody and
percussion and tearing the rest apart to
rearrange it in my own way, resulting in
what is virtually an entirely new song -
but one that is clearly derived from the
original. |
8 |
Just Another Pop
Song (1:32) 21K |
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Not available for copyright
reasons, another remix of a demo tune. |
9 |
Hotmix Slowburn
(4:35) 64K |
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Not available for copyright
reasons, another remix of a demo tune. |
10 |
A Ditty Of
Distinction (10:26) 119K |
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Well, it's length is
certainly distinctive! This tune relies
VERY heavily on a blend of sounds only
available through the Awe-32. Even so,
this has not really aged all that well -
so the title is actually something of a
misnomer these days. But at the time, I
was quite proud of it. |
11 |
Confontations In
Real Time (21:22) 350K |
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No, that time is not a
mistake! A combination of two different
pieces of music from a game, each having
something the other lacked - a melody
line in one case, and some internal
variation in pitch in the other (as
opposed to plodding along playing exactly
the same notes for over 4 minutes).
Mixing the two (and making a few changes
in instrumentation) produced this epic,
which internally was the most complex
piece created to date (1 July 99), with
large-scale variations in balance, stereo
effects, and a large number of
instrumental variations from section to
section. There's even a change in tempo
in the middle! Loses an awful lot if you
can't hear it in stereo, and doesn't work
very well on the Soundblaster Live.
Unfortunately, I can't make it available
because the original ten-second loop was
undoubtedly copyrighted. |
12 |
Dot's Father
(5:29) 95K |
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This was my first original
piece that held all the hallmarks of what
would become one of my characteristic
styles, which has been described as
"cinematic", by which it was
meant that the piece tells a story.
Inspired by the context of Aerosmith's
"Janies Got A Gun", this is the
story of an abusive father and his young
daughter - and what happens when he
pushes too far. |