Note that I know nothing of web design nor do I particularly care what this page looks like.
Remember to check out the sites of my online musician friends down on the bottom of the left-hand column. They're the best examples of what kind of music is now suddenly possible with all these new computer music-making tools we have.
Here's a link back to KVR forums' my latest topics since that's where you probably found this link and certainly where I'm returning after I check on things here.
March 15th, 2007
I have a homesite at last, thanks to justin3am who provided me with a subdomain on 3amnoise.net:
November 30th, 2007
All new mp3 links posted over here for now:
November 23rd, 2007
New song time. Missed out on the turkey day festivities through various snafus (I'm a USAer and it's always nice to join my fellow indigents in sitting alone on a holiday, though this year I got to make a song). Here it is:
VSTs used:
doveraudio beta onion VSTi > midiWah > Envfilter > d'incise multiPB1 > doveraudio 6xod antihuman edition > multi modulator > Combscape demo > deavl.triptych > ModernVGME > dfx Transverb
Sputnik > d'incise multidelayPB 1.2 > Binaural Simulator > ADopplerEn > d'incise LPfilter bpm sync v1.0 > jb PC-2 psychoacoustic compressor > dubbox
kl tract > BuzMaxi3 > Stepcomb > Buffer Freezer > Z-FilterDub > SpexSpatial > Blockfish
noisemo > daevl.threep > doveraudio Quiet > Binaural Simulator > Danger Flanger > Daisypusher Extended
Grizzly > d'incise LPfilter bpm sync 1.0 > Classic Reverb > Lost Technology > SpexSpatial > Spex Transient > Overtone GEQ
Master Bus > Ferox > Overtone GEQ > PC-2 > BuzMaxi3
November 22nd, 2007
Here's a shoddy payapl link for buying a runagate album from me.
I have a lightscribe CD burner, so it'll look wicked sweet.
Just hit the donate button, add your shipping address and leave me a personalized note so I know who it's for.
I won't actually know how much it costs to ship a CD somewhere until I try it, nor how much making a little liner note sleeve will cost, so I'm not sure what the minimum "donation" will be yet - any guinea pigs? Let me know in your note whether you want a "Voidoid" or "ew" lightscribe pic on the disc - or both, if you want 2 CDs. I certainly have enough songs for 2.
NEWS November 20th, 2007
Two new songs today:
This is a downtempo little ditty which shows off the possibilities of a new type of dub delay on the snare, and dsp so lucisous on the Hardwood Clave that it sounds like an electric splash of mind jello. A huge amount of processing went into trying to solidify the mix into a cohesive sound space, as there's a lot going on which conflicts with one another. Binaural 3D fx which pan upwards and downwards in the depth of field help out a lot.
VSTs used / signal chain
Side Stick, Tom, Ride Cymbal > Hula > SpexSpatial > SpexEnhancer > SpexTransient > Stereo-Enhancer
Hardwood Clave > Geometer > daevl.threep > sp3crt3 > daevl.triphase > SpexTransient > AriesVerb 0.4 > 3D DMP > Compressive
Hi-Hat > Z-BandSpin
Snare > daevl.sixcylinder.twoshot
Kick > 50 Hz Kicker
Crash > Dronebox > daevl.sixcylinder > Stereo-Enhancer
Drum Aux > MdspDuckVerb > Spexnhancer > SpexSpatal > Binaual Smlatr
Raspier > Helian 2ndBass > DepthII > Stereo-Enhancer > daevl>sixcylinder > Binaural Simulator
Janus > PolyComb > TimeFrame > SSP Mix > Beatfckr > Delta Space > Rescue
Master Bus > Ferox > PC2 psychoacoustic compressor > BuzzRizer2 > Overtone GEQ > BuzzMaxi3 > Compressive
Here's an attempt at making music for my new live electronic band. I went a little overboard and it's not exactly just backing tracks. Judicious use of gating effects, including doveraudio's STFU, give a lot of the rhythmic characteristics to this song.
VSTs used /signal chain:
Grizzly > dfx Rez Synth > AriesVerb 0.4
rain & thunder > mini Voctopus > daevl.noise.pitched > MidiStutter > DeadringerX3 >: BuzMaxi3
Vectrave > daevl>cerberus.bite > daevl.triphase.isolate > 2-Thi > d'incise trem bpm sync v1.1
Cluster > STFU > daevl.triphase.isolate
WaveSphere > mjRotoDelay
Master Bus > Compressive > PolyComb > 0-X Maximizer
NEWS November 18th, 2007
A teaser of music for my new band: bass, organ and drums, with no melting fx chains!
runagate-tryingtomakenicedemo.mp3
NEWS November 16th, 2007
I'm linking a new song I made last night which is an experiment in vocoding drums, a circuit-bending plug-in, spectal monkeying with synth claps and some rhythmic fx tomfoolery with a great spectral filter making an overtone melody atop the normal pitch of an instrument.
CosyingUpToPericynthianremaster3.mp3
VSTs used in this sonic peristalsis:
Altostratus & FPC > Mini Voctopus > Multiband Stereofaker > Metallurgy > minitorn > minisoundkill
Stealth > Speak&Pluck > Spattle
Clapofluxury > Spactral Monkeyage stereo > Daisypusher > Smear Campaign
JBM Digiwave > Rhythmic Tangent > qWarpFilter >
NEWS November 13th, 2007
Here's a demo tune I made for Ugo's upcoming updates to Ironhead morphing drum synth, Metallurgy multifx, Tunguska multifx and the beta to M-theory, a brilliant physical model string synth.
Here's the signal chain/VST list:
FL BooBass > Metallurgy 1.5 beta
Ironhead 1.5 Beta > Rescue > AriesVerb 0.4
M-theory beta > Rescue > SH-1 Delay
Benedict Roff-Marsh SSP Cluster VSTi > Solidverb > Tunguska > Bouncing ball delay
NEWS November 11th, 2007
Experimenting with DSP I made this little ditty.
The lead synth is Mr. Alias VSTi
runagate-SelectedFebrility.mp3
NEWS October 30th, 2007
I made some user profiles for my Belkin Nostromo Speedpad N52 for the DAWs I use: FLStudio, Usine, and Reaper.
FLStudiorunagateNostromoprofile.n52
UsinePro3.330runagateNostromoprofile.n52
ReaperrunagateNostromopreset.n52
ReaperrunagateNostromoMap.ReaperKeyMap
(the last link is to the keymap file for Reaper's shortcuts, it's the default key mapping plus some macros I entered which are mapped to the Nostromo but without this file the extra shortcut commands wouldn't do anything)
NEWS October 30th, 2007
In addition to me, a touschreen monitor GUI Midi player, and a keyboard player today I was contacted via the internet by one of the most incredible uneven-meter drummers in my city saying, "I'm your new drummer" inasmuch as a Trigger Finger midi drum pad instrument is a drum. I'm damned excited.
Here's a loop I made (acidized for those who care to use that functionality). I'm only making incidental bits of music while preparing my live band as I'm still fully involved in sound design preset creation for a bunch of VST developers.
Here's the VST signal chain used:
xoxo's urom > keFIR 2 channel > Transilient > Stereo Enhancer > C3 Multiband Compressor
Ironhead 1.5 beta > FL Reeverb 2 > 3D DMP > Stereo-Enhancer
Oli Larkin's Groove Modulator > d'incise pulser v2 var4 > CoFX SpectRing > Rezon8 > BuzzRizer2 > SSP BandWerks > Metallurgy 1.5 > Binaural Simulator
mastering: C3 Multiband Compressor
NEWS October 23rd, 2007
I made a song which started out as a demo for Benedict Rolf-Marsh's Synth Studio Packs but took a turn into soundscape madness. I've uploaded the song, and all of the tracks that comprise the song in .wav format (warning: the wavs are very large!). Feel free to download them and use them in any way you wish, just please contact me over on KVR with a link of what you've made so I can hear it, too. The 7zip program I used to break up the .wavs into .zip archived named them weird things - the extensions end in .zip.001, .zip002, etc. I've no idea what'll happen if you try to unpack them. Manually re-naming them made them unzippable with 7zip on my PC, but unpacking them with 7zip as-is, with the weird extansion names intact, worked just fine.
I've included a text describing the VST plug-ins used and how the signal chains were used to design the sounds in the song.
Cleft Emulsion signal chain text
Here's the complete set of wav tracks. Remember, they must all be selected and decompressed as one group:
NEWS October 22nd, 2007
Audio clips from last night's sound design projects.
I love my new PC/hardware controler set-up!
runagate-EspectralCarolling.mp3
runagate-SnackingOnPetroleumRainvers.mp3
NEWS October 16th, 2007
Whoa! It's been a while since I had any news.
I spent the last 2 nights designing patches for de la mancha, a freeware VST developer whose plug-ins I dearly love. Here's a little loop as a preview. It's a subtractive synth with wavemorphing and a lot of other cool features I don't want to spoil here.
Also involved were erratic (random drum machine VSTi), Ugo's Ironhead (morphing drum synth), daevlplug's hilbertspace fx (and, yes, I questioned my beliefs while using it as per the EULA), xoxo's channelswap (a sort of insane autopan) and some FL multiband compression.
NEWS July 18th, 2007
Justin, aka 3am, someone of whose music I'm a huge of, has just released what started as a remix of my Ciselante Dirigible but ended up being a masterful re-working and something that, even after only 5 listens (in a row, mind you, I can't stop listening!) I'm totally in love with. Behold Plague Locked Loop by 3am:
http://www.3amnoise.net/plague_locked_loop_feat_Runagate.mp3
NEWS July 5th, 2007
Here's a nifty ditty, a happy-go-lucky number for the kids:
runagate-CiselanteDirigibleRemix.mp3
NEWS June 28, 2007
gigawatt, aka pattonfreak on KVR, sent out a call for remixes.
Well, my laptop simply isn't powerful enough to pull off what I had in mind.
It's close, but micro-editing parameter automation on 27 tracks, even rendering them all the time
apparently is too much for my hapless PC.
Here's the un-mastered result:
gigawattrunagate-ElReyDaMuerterunaga.mp3
NEWS June 23, 2007
Posted new patchbanks for PhysiX and Richman2 physical modeled synthisizers over there on the left column.
PhysiX is by Obertone http://www.obertone.com/
Richman2 is by the always-genius krakli!
Both are freeware VSTi.
NEWS June 17, 2007
3am, who recently did an absolutely brilliant job remixing some music I made, made available material of his to remix. It only took 3 days from awakening to sleeping working full overtime to produce this mindnumbing remix. It would have been crazier but my laptop had a nervous breakdown from the gajillion VSTfx and parameter automations in 21 consecutive versions and bounces:
3am + runagate - Delphic High Remix
So here's justin3am's remix, as well as Jazzyspoon's, another friend from KVR, remix of my same music. It's interesting to see what they did and I'm impressed how Jazzy brought out the hidden ragga within the audio I uploaded. Their homesites are linked below, too:
NO WAY NO HOW (the Jazzyspoon Runadub Remix)
Addendum:
There's a little media player applet way down at the bottom of this page which will play my most recent tracks, one of which is actually a nice, civilian-friendly song that even people who haven't gone mad on mescaline can enjoy
As is true of many such things on the internet, allowing the song to pre-load a little before actually trying to listen to it helps - hit play then after a little loads move the progress bar back a bit so that the part is playing prior to the part that's still loading.
NEWS June 14, 2007
Decided to make a dance track to help people exercize to:
runagate-FebrileJazzercizeMonotremeM.mp3
Oh, yes, and also this I made in hopes of inspiring a collaboration.
Dunno wtf I was thinking on that one...
NEWS June 12, 2007
Here's my entry for the June 2007 KVR song contest:
runagate-GhoulishForeplayremixed.mp3
Here's the freeware VSTs I used to make the track:
Rhythms v3.6 > Broadcast Processor (sp3crt3 on KMT Synth drum)
e-phonic Solo String & Richman2 > Bouncy
Gargoyle > Nulear Cranium > Madshifta > nonameyet > Drum Mic Positioner Stereo
Rorang3 > qWarpFilter > Kriptonia > Envelope Designer > Barricade > doversstutterer > Stereo-Enhancer
Master Bus: Shattershot Lite > TLs Pocket Limiter
NEWS June 9, 2007
Happy Birthday to my favorite white girl!
Check my myspace page for a link to her page and see the comments - it's worth the trip to see the awful picture! Here's a little demo song to promote the Audio Garden's new free patch downloading feature:
runagate-PhysicalRichnessdemo.mp3
PhysiX VSTi > Fragulator > Beatfckr
Richman2 VSTi > Reverb-O-Matic
Cubix > Vibrato Cauldron
plus Braindoc's Stereo-Enhancer
promoting free patchbanks at:
Audio Garden Free Patch download
NEWS May 20, 2007
Day 3 of sleep deprivation.
Here's a little demo for dover's midi stutter plug-in:
NEWS May 19, 2007
A beauty that pierces is the pinprick on consciousness for those of whom have slipped the noose of hypnosis.
runagate-ShudderingDewdroplet.mp3
NEWS May 18, 2007
Here's something I'm working on that I'm actually going to try to make into music civilians would want to listen to:
NEWS May 15, 2007
Something fairly straightforward and funky I'm working on:
NEWS May 13, 2007
For Mom's Day here's some Soundtrack-IDM
VST effect chain:
Drum samples > E-Phonic LoFi > d'incise sync up/down delay
Gargoyle VSTi > mb's Mashit > pfilter > Drum Mic Positioner
Texture VSTi > dualdelaycloud > 2WarpDelay
Oh yeah I made this one, too:
NEWS May 12, 2007
The results of my experiment today, utilizing the plug-in chains:
cylinder VSTi > CopyShop > Gum
Mr. Alias VSTi > pitchfork 1.4 > Zero SpShift
Saxi Player 1.01 VSTi > Zero Ringer
Analog Warfare VSTi > Metallurgy > Flange Mayhem
NEWS May 9, 2007
Another motiveless lob at the KVR monthly contest:
Using:
Foorius VSTi > Mettalurgy > Grancomp3
BrushStrokes VSTi > qWarpFilter
Heavee Plastique VSTi
NEWS May 4, 2007
OK here's another example of me at play, excited about getting back into making avant pop by, stubbornly, making twitchy nonsense. I am experimenting with composing for redirecting attention from foreground to background and inciting consciousness to notice compositional elements that wouldn't ordinarily catch the notice of the layperson:
NEWS May 3, 2007
I'm finally back online with an operating laptop (more powerful than ever) and online. Here's my first sonic glop of nonsense in celebration of being able to make noise again after almost a half a year in abeyance:
Addendum: rachMiel, creator of ooTray and netifriend, managed to post this lyrical remix of the song less than half a day later:
runagate-BustedMovementrachMielremix.mp3
NEWS February 13, 2007
I'm in a new town, creating a new music production set-up using Usine and live looping of vocalizations effected by VSTs automated live, with a new music-making partner.
The news is that there's 3 mp3-playing widgets at the bottom of the page if you scroll down, free and easy to make like this googlepage here, from www.musicfreedom.com. Obviously I'm no web designer so I love stuff like this. 45 songs you can stream from this pageº¡¡º
NEWS Decemer 30, 2006
Here's the links from my CD release party.
runagate 3 CD release listening party
runagate album notes page
Song Links as my file hosting sucks
runagate_Outrgeous_BeehivEeyore.mp3
runagate_Grotta_della_Pace_Discothque.mp3
NEWS October 19, 2006
I just had a Synthedit license donated to me!
So hopefully my obsession with creating physically modeled VSTfx will come to fruition soon.
I also posted a new song on my BriarmonSmetrach5 myspace page (link over there to the left)
NEWS November 10, 2006
I've got (edit: several new songs) for download here:
BriarmonSmetrach5 myspace blog
NEWS November 15, 2006
rachMiel has invited his zirkler friends to join him in the netlabel he is creating: www.ooTray.com
The site is currently under construction but as it seems I may not be on the web for a while I thought I'd post the new now.
I also added an mp3 player of a bunch of my more recent songs to my main myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/briarmonsmetrach5
NEWS December 15th, 2006
rachMiel has invited polyslax to join the ooTray family!
His homepage url is over there in the left column. I love his music!
Also, I've been hatching plans for my local CD release party (which is funny, to sell actual physical CDs). I've got 3 whole albums bursting with avant-psychedellic soundscapes. I'm doing this in hopes of raising enough money to get a powerful enough PC to power my live band which will be playing a much more souped-up brand of runagate avant pop. A pipe dream? Perhaps. Tis the season for charity, though, and I've got some wicked personel in mind.
Many of my colleagues on KVR have contributed album/liner art to this 3 CD release and you can take a peek at the pics on my BriarmonSmetrach5 myspace page. Scroll down, it's on a slideshow there on the right, above the fractal veggies.