These are, for the most part, in chronological order with the newer stuff at the top and the older stuff dating back to 2004, where I was using a demo of Reason 2.5 with no idea what I was doing. The majority of these are basically sketches, while a few feel like complete things, and a few are used as soundtracks in my video and animation projects. These were created using Propellorhead's REASON, Ableton LIVE, Native Instruments REAKTOR, a midi keyboard, and a Korg Kaoss Pad. You can read more about my set-up here.
I plan to organize these into a little downloadable "album" soon so stay tuned.
Using Ableton Live's "Electric" synth. Also has strains of the new Kaoss Pad. Used as a soundtrack here.
Reason version 4 has a new synth called Thor that I just really love. This tune and the next one ("Fonk") are taking advantage of it's nice sound.
It's the intro for something but I don't know yet what. I love the honky synth (Reason 4's "Thor").
Yet another version of the song "Drive." (See below) I bounced the main MIDI files into Live from Reason and sped it up by a couple of beats. Wilson thought it needed this drum track. I agree. This is working as the soundtrack for a little movie of Wilson riding his bike.
Originally created as a soundtrack for a robot movie that I didn't make. Actually used on a movie about a bike ride to Ocean Beach in San Francisco.
Years ago my friend Jay challenged me to learn The Pixies' Here Comes Your Man on my accordion. So, okay then. (This is recorded then sequenced with Live and some electronic drums.)
This is really just random stuff in Reason. I think it will eventually come together.
Mobile phones and video games. Originally created for a class at The University of the Arts.
A remix of HELP ME SOMEBODY, off of the 1981 David Byrne/Brian Eno album "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts." This was done for a compilation of remixes for Marc Weidenbaum's Disquiet. Find more from this project here: Archive.org and Bush of Ghosts remix.
I found dozens of old 45s at a flea market, so I had to buy a turntable. This is Habanera, from Bizet's "Carmen," sampled and looped. Oh l'amour.
Using Recycle, which basically is used to mutilate samples and loops for Reason. The sounds here are Elliot and me singing about us being robots, cut into pieces, and played with MIDI. I believe the technique is called stutter-edit. I first heard it in songs by Solvent and Lali Puna.
Too cute, maybe. This song dreams about being a soundtrack in a Molly Ringwald movie; at the end, where she got the boy.
My friend Jason said this sounded Philip Glass-ish. ok. It was used, slowed down a bit, in a little movie I made about crossing the East River in New York.
One of my inpirations in doing these little pieces are the educational animated shorts in Sesame Street. More recently, the PBS-Kids stuff that Bob Shea and Richrd McGuire have done. This particular one was used in a little animated piece I made with the kids one day out on the playground, also inspired by those same Sesame Street pieces.
Made for my brother. There are three versions of this, each with a different style. I... need to find the other two.
I originally made this without the delay effect, hence the name. It wasn't as good.
I used a VST plug-in in Ableton Live called Zoyd. The deveoper, U-He, isn't updating it for the Intel Macs, and it no longer works. I haven't been able to recreate the sound that this synth makes yet. I really miss it.
Using my voice for everything but the bells. Recorded as WAVs, dropped into Reason's Redrum, and stretched and bent and weirded-up. I like the way it turned out, as experiments go. Plan to do it some more.
Originally for an animated project. I didn't use it. Here's another version with more of an analog vibe.
This was the piece that got used instead of "Drive." Note the voice stuff again. Bom bom bom.
The first attempt using Reason and some WAV files I found, way back in 2004. Pick out the classic sounds from Galaga and Frogger!
all content © 2004 - 2008 Brian Biggs. This is a small part of the big world of MrBiggs dot com.