dvusMedia - When Darkness Comes

When Darkness Comes is a ambient-beat mix. It was released on my second mp3.com release "Neterland" in 2001. You can find a newly revised and re-mastered version HERE.

Store Window Reality

This song was originally written as a poem when I was about 15 years old [a long, long time ago (Fall of 1969?)]. It got a remake / re-do in the early summer of 2001 as a cyberpunk track.

 The plucked sounds I programmed using FL Studio. The Guitar is a processed loop of my Mitchell Acoustic [made in japan Martin D-28 clone] Guitar. The vocal effects are from Antares Auto-tune tweaking the vocal pitch... before it became a wide spread vocal processing tool.

I remastered it again today from the original mix files. The mix was put together in Sony Acid Pro and Mixed down with Sony Sound Forge 10.  You can find an MP3 of it HERE.

dvusMedia - Data, Seek, Data

Another track from the MP3.com album Chatsubo. It was inspired by someone in a.c.c. having a drive crash.

You can find a remastered version HERE

Yes that is the sound of a hard drive head seeking...

A Season Is Set for Everything

Sometimes I am overcome with hubris and attempt to do things I probably should not. Below is my take on Ecclesiastes Chapter 3... which you have probably have heard as Pete Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn". Obviously I'm not Pete Seeger.

I wrote this on  a long, long Yom Kippur day after having attended a break-the-fast. It was officially the Eleventh Day of Tishri, 5768 [2007]. I suppose that some time I will repost a essay about that particular day... but not today.

You can find a passable Mp3 recording of the song HERE. It was recorded with an M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 and then edited and mastered in Sound Forge.

The lyrics can be found over on my writings blog "Falling Thru Reality" which is where this was originally was posted.

Mirage Redu

Mirage was also on the Neterland MP3.Com album. It was the first mix where over 75% of the samples were created epecially for the track. Among the things used were a short wave radio, Propellerhead's ReBirth RB-338 software synth, and a Yamaha DX-21 FM synth. Thanks go to Mark in a.c.c.

You can find the remix / redux of this classic techno-noize track HERE

dvusmedia - Terpsechore

 Terpsechore is the Muse of dance.

This version is a remix / remaster of the track which originally appeared on my 2001 MP3.com album "Neter land" [Neterland being the abode of the Egyptian Neters or "godlike powers"].

I don't expect that everyone will like it... it is after all "electronic"... but for me it is headphone ear candy... even if I have begun to lose my hearing. ;)

HERE she becomes a rather odd of mix of samples and beats heavily influenced by the folks that were then hanging about in alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo. I am in their debt [but then I'm always in debt].

Enjoy!

dvusMedia - Chiba City Fugue

To return to talking about the tracks on the Chatsubo album...

Later in October of 2000 I returned to the adventures of  "Bang Bang" Johnny the "Outside Contractual Expert" created by Jacques Chester.

Thematically it is another "soundscape" framed by a synthesized version of one of J.S. Bach's Two Part Inventions.

This is a "remastered" version of the original recording. I would have liked to have done a complete re-render of the track but it seems that for now some of the files I used to create this are "lost". If I find them I will re-render the track.

You can find the remastered version HERE.

dvusMedia - Imaginary Skies blues vocal

I have covered the history of the lyrics of this song HERE. So I won't repeat it again.

As originally envisioned this song was intended to be a blues/rock song but I wasn't old enough nor "blue" enough to do the song justice. Well I'm a lot older and way bluer now...

So with the help of my digital audio workstation and a few stupid studio tricks, I present to you Imaginary Skies as it was intended to be played and sung... you'll find the MP3 right HERE.

dvusMedia - Meditation with Variations on the Theme

Today's track is actually a three-bee

At the beginning of October 2000 I composed / mixed a track which was a kind of ambient something or other. It included among other things clips of a thunder storm I had recorded, some excerpts of my fooling around with a Yamaha DX-21 FM synth, and clips of my playing a clay pot... slow... contemplative...  boring... meditative. It acquired the name "Meditation".

Cynthia, my spouse, asked me to put together a meditation something like "Meditation" but something more pleasant to contemplate so the track was remixed and morphed into "Cyn's Meditation"... But I wasn't quite satisfied and kept tinkering with the track until it morphed into another of my soundscapes which I named "Sunrise on the Saraswati"

You can find all three HERE remastered for your listening pleasure.

Now understand I had only been doing this kind of composing / remixing for a very short time [about three months at that time tho' I had been fooling with Electronic synthesizer music for about eight years by that time]. I had no idea [and still don't] know how to define the "genre" or "type" or what have you of these things I had begun to compose... To me if the track expressed what I wanted it to express why then I was successful. If a listener wanted to call it "ambient" or "techno" or even "junk" I am fine with that. Is this stuff music? That's in the ears of the beholder.

A music reviewer friend of mine, Gordon F of Audio-Bomb, could tell you far better than I whether this is of any value as a listener... At the time I was having a lot of fun as a composer and musician as well as a writer. The Chatsubo sure opened my eyes and ears to new things.. and so the music and mixes evolved.

dvusMedia - Chiba City Contract

About the same time as the Mission post [Early October 2000] there was another story thread about "Bang Bang" Johnny the "Outside Contractual Expert" created by Jacques Chester . Naturally Johnny lived an interesting life... especially when he visited Chiba to straighten out a problem with a Ziabatsu... or was it the Yakusa? Whatever the case, it led to Johnny using some of his talents in death an mayhem.

When I read the story line I loved the idea -- so I flipped on the music mixing app and off I went... the result [with a new remaster] is HERE It was announced as "officially released" in the Chatsubo on Oct., 4, 2000. I made a comment about maybe going back to writing a certain writer/music critic replied: "no no man.. stay with the music... we need a soundtrack for our stories."

Sometimes it was fun to write these themes and sometimes a drag... this was the beginning of my painting sometimes vast Musical Soundscapes...