Yes, I've managed to craft out some more of this oddness in sound I've been conjuring and co-conjuring out of the nothing...

First, collaboratively-

My "first" cover (I did a version of Land of the Silverbirch, a traditional folk song, so it was more of a rendition than a cover ;-)) is, of course, of a song by a friend- Tammy Lin Foreman of Original Plastic (www.originalplastic.com)- you can have a listen to the original song - Overwhelmed - over on Zed. I used a sample from the original version in creating the bedtrack for my cover- gave it a good dollop of dark cheese- and then jammed out on it vocally :-)

You can check out the parts in individual tracks here.

And grab the finished track here.

I've been working with an odd fellow named Murno Gladst- we are working online, he sends me a file (or files to be assembled) and I do some layers on it as a bed track- so far, he's sent me some base tracks and I've made some tracks to go with them and sent them back, I await a response...

At this point, I do have this as a current snapshot of this piece, you can have a peek at the source tracks here.

An interesting thing developed out of this work with Murno's piece though- the process I followed was this- while playing the bedtrack he sent I would jam out for the length of the piece, mute what I had just recorded and then do another track, repeat. The first couple tracks I did were vocal, then I started using a software synth- the ZynAddSubFX, which I played with the keyboard on my laptop. I chose to use only 4 keys on my keyboard- rv57- these actually correspond with 3 notes- F (the r and v are both F, just one octave apart), F# and A#- this way I could comfortably lay semi-conscious and twitch while the bedtrack assaulted my senses.

After completing this volley of the exercise, I muted out the bedtrack and listened to the rest of the tracks together- each of which was recorded without listening to the others- while recording I only listened to the bedtrack. What resulted can be found here.

And onto the solo stuff-

This first one is an experiment in using the ZynAddSubFX synth with LMMS the first release of this song, 2bMoody, is on Dancing Circles- check out the new version and the old version- and have a peek at (or a play with) the source tracks for it.

And these last 3 are done with varying combinations of LMMS and ZynAddSubFX:

Spikey Matter (source tracks)

This is the Eye (source tracks)

Zyntheticvox (source tracks)