Medley (XIII), Riff of the Day #3

Ciao,

Today is a bit of an experiment in that I have been editing moving images when I normal put a couple of pictures together and be done with it. I was furiously trying to get my Easycap to work to record some game play just for the sake of curiosity. An Easycap if you don’t know is a capture card device which enables me to record my Xbox game play onto my computer. So once I realised I could only record in 50 pal and therefore most of my 360 games wouldn’t run on that setting I searched for my favourite Xbox game. XIII! Or thirteen if you can’t do roman numerals... I believe it’s a comic book adaptation and you play as an amnesiac who begins to unearth a conspiracy. It’s very good.

Anyway, I used footage from the introduction of this game as the video for my new Riff of the Day challenge (etc). The riff itself is aptly named Medley because it is comprised of four parts. I made it as a bit of a joke. It’s just a simple, largely improvised, on the spot thing that is edited quite crudely edited but I thought it was quite fun so I would upload it. 

  

Well I won’t ramble, here is the new riff of the day, Medley:

Thank you!

New Ideas, New to Blogs

I was at a friend’s house the other day and we were ‘jamming’ together, my friend on keyboard and me on the guitar. This atmosphere, along with some easy to use music software (Logic Pro 9), can lead to some creative output. However, when you’re at home and the Xbox is screaming out to be used or the endless trail of cables leading to nowhere or even some technical fault with the computer can make it hard to motivate yourself for the recording process. So I conferred with my friend the idea of a ‘1 Hour Song Challenge: It works!’ Aside from the convincing slogan, this would make for some short sample like songs and ideas that don’t require five hours of re-recording because perfection isn’t important.

I’ll admit my software is limited (Adobe Audition which is not too bad) and the drum machine I’m using is genuinely awful (DT-010), but then it’s in place of a real drum set that I don’t have.

In the last week I have gone all experimental with various reverb and echo techniques which are essential for anything experimental. This song is called 'Glooming':

I have also gone a bit ridiculous with computerised voice samples that seem to be reciting a robot bank robbery. Inspired I know! This song is called 'Put the Money in the Bag':

Thanks for listening, more updates coming soon.