What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

An audience member recorded the concert I sang in a couple of weekends ago:

https://youtu.be/cKi_o-_spMk

I'm in the quartet singing Brahms' "Quartette" (Op. 92) at the beginning; the solos I did are at 46:30 ("The Little Horses" arranged by Copland) and 1:13:08 (most of "Stars" from Les Miserables)

You've got a powerful voice! Sounds great.

We have a new house track out today with some beautiful sax by Brendan Buss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9w4FXSjMnU

DJP I've been curious to hear what you sounded like for years.

always thought you probably sounded great, but this still exceeded my expectations.

reminds me of the ole choral days. love that vibrato and resonance.

finally motivated my isolated ass to play the guitar today. recorded the Beatles's "In My Life":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9TVzSGoWl4

also if anybody missed the Hooked on a Feeling in the COVID thread, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b79bCaZpTM

Nice!

Indeed

'Back To Normal'
(I decided at the end of last year to release it today, nothing to do with the current situation)

Dude! Your songs are hilarious.

Oh I missed this when it was first bumped. Your 'In My Life' cover is as awesome as its predecessor, Neanderthal, please post more!

Doing these little polyrhythmic improvisations/exercises:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-4njPnDI-G/

Which inspired me to write a piece on the computer using similar rhythms but actual notes, and it sounds great in that it ends up sounding like a carbon copy Steve Reich rip, which has no reason for existing. Maybe I'll try again just recording those percussion sounds and doing a produced version, and maybe that will sound a little more fresh, idk. I know it's well-trodden territory but feels like comfort food rn.

Although you know what, it turns out that putting Valhalla Space Modular on everything instantly makes it more interesting, go figure

as someone who routinely works in polyrhythms and reich rip-offs, keep going

Thank you, I have kept going and now I'm very excited about this project.

I have a remix out today too, done pretty quickly under quarantine conditions: https://open.spotify.com/track/2iWGqeJcFXusnE4ji7XAQ2?si=F4M3EFyLRjuzOl0qWW51yQ

Oh and coincidentally I also have a collab out today on this compilation, very different:
https://awesomeagency.bandcamp.com/

Love that rolling drum sample in the second one.

Thanks! I played that part myself.

I think the mastering compression is a little weird on that with the bass stabs, but they wanted a mastered version submitted on very tight timeline, so it is what it is.

I have a couple new things!

First one is an instrumental for guitar with Mel9 box (clarinet setting), guitar with Big Muff, ukelele, and Casio (organ voice).

Second one is a little vignette song about my high school era rock band.

https://soundcloud.com/timellison2

just finished a 3 hr beat tape... whew

https://soundcloud.com/crackd-sophtware/sets/crackd-sophtware

You wrote all those tracks? Pretty sweet!

thx 😃

Real guitar or programmed/sampled?

sampled. most of the tracks are sample based, except for about 10 that i made with software synths

New recording, streaming on Soundcloud for a limited time before this year's album release - my electric arrangement of Montreal composer Shawn Bell's 1995 classical guitar composition Currents II. I started doing an electric version of this in 05 but hadn't really played it for 10 years before picking it up for a December gig. I've been moving towards just accepting and leaving in some of the imperfections in my playing.

https://soundcloud.com/sund4r-subramanian/electric-currents-ii
4=a

Can't see it. Did you already take it down?

Did you replace the "4" with an "a" in the URL?

Tried a few variations. It's possible Im dum

you're not like them ,but you can pretend

Got to it. Turns out I AM dum.

Someone posted a song from a concert my group did in 2015 today on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atI53TooU8w

V cool.

Just saw this today: https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/04/ibrary-of-congress-open-source-hip-hop-dj-citizen/

Gonna try it out tonight.

got another noodley kraut-y stoney quarantine jam for ya

https://pimm.bandcamp.com/track/gh4k

Downloaded the free trial of Izotope Ozone 9 and I'm really liking it, esp the vintage compressor. Remixed/remastered the recording I posted a week ago and think it sounds a lot better; also mastered two other pieces for the planned album.

The band got our first quarantine song/video done, apparently we're going to keep doing them:

https://www.facebook.com/mamadigdown/videos/3043741569039500/

Very happy with how it turned out, although it's not fun at all to record drums in a small room, by myself, with a headphone cord that's way too short.

And then we did another one in a day, because someone wanted to make a Mother's Day thing, this time with a muppet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZRUHWwjzC4

Those are great! Did you guys all record to a backing track or click or something? How did it work?

I started off recording bass drum to a click (just keeping the form in my head), then snare recorded to me, and then the horns one at a time. So one person was creating mixes as we added parts, and sending it to the next person. Maybe not the most efficient method, but it's working for us.

Of course most civilians think we're recording over Zoom or something, but I just don't see how that would be possible in terms of hearing each other, latency, etc.

Also that way we can put little things in for the next person to play off of, to make it feel more live.

That’s so cool! I’m impressed your band has been together so long. That’s really something.

I made a new recording by myself w a field recording of humming insects that I recorded last summer when I was super sick. It’s melodica, maraca, recorder, drum set, and bugs. https://m.soundcloud.com/marshmallowy/may-2020

Nice bugs! Thanks.

I will say, the secret to the band's longevity is that it's not a democracy.

That was awesome, LL. Props!

thank you! it's not professional or perfect but i feel like it does what i want it to do. it feels like sounds i made, and that's satisfying :)

I will say, the secret to the band's longevity is that it's not a democracy.

:)

From over a month ago, "Planet Caravan". Didn't record enough guitar riff so i had to end a few lines early

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q3kqi_LvoM

Hellz yeah! The split screen is a nice touch and kind of mirrors the album cover in my head.

who wants some -iso-australiana-junglism

coupled with WDYLL and feat former ILXor MCDKeith

https://youtu.be/wmz4r2oBOBE

I’m pretty happy with how this turned out

https://mixcord.co/acapella/p/8e0yfw0URMnKJM8h7U6AyQ/

that is GREAT

says you arranged it? if so, I really like the arrangement, the chord choices, the part writing. great intonation too throughout.

how is that ACapella program? i've been looking for something like that.

Thanks! I had the option of singing to a recording of the accompaniment from the Burleigh arrangement but my Mac wouldn’t render the two audio tracks together when I tried to put them together in iMovie, so this route ended up being easier. The Acapella app is pricy but worth it, especially since I did this for my church gig and can write it off. My director suggested I start a YouTube channel called I Am My Own Barbershop for maximum Covid-19 SEO, which I think is hilarious