music

UJAM Public Beta (Ego Sum Abbas latino mix)

Kruge — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:08:21 +0200

UJAM opened their tools to the public in the open Beta. If you like to toy around with music and interesting tools you sure should give this one a try!

Basically it does this: You upload or record an audiotrack of either a singer or a single voiced instrument and UJAM then will analyse it and create a backup track for it. The result is quite good - check out the example track I made:

I took a piece from Carmina Burana (I can't really sing myself) and just removed the orchestral and choir bits (since the tool can't work with chords ind the raw material), selected a style for it and went past all the additional tweaks right away - this is what I got. :)

Michael Briel - Chill (2009)

Kruge — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:15:18 +0200

Okay - this is my very first experiment with using virtual synthesizers, to be more exact the WusikStation. I will add some more info later - but here's the tune already - completely done on the computer without any "real" synthesizers. All instruments are from the WuSt. :)

Michael Briel re-arranging Modeste Mussorgsky - The complete 16bit pictures at an exhibition

Kruge — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:16:55 +0100

This one goes *way* back - to 1988 or so, actually. The "16bit pictures at an exhibition' is what will happen if you let a student alone with the piano notes to Modeste Mussorgsky's classic masterworkand and a 4 audio-channel homecomputer, the Commodore Amiga, for too long. ;)

The idea was to create an own electronic version of this classic music without copying the previous electronic arrangement by Tomita - which was not that hard, given the completely different quality and level of the hardware involved: The Commodore Amiga had only four voices, not allowing for a 1:1 adaptation of all the tunes and chords, so some major cutting had to be done there. Also the software I used back then was pretty basic as well, for example not allowing for such simple thing as in-tune-tempo-changes, also a big minus when working with classic music.

On the other side the Amiga with Sonix running allowed for the use of samples as well as a nice little own synthesizer, enabling me to give my version it's very own little atmosphere and style (including, for example, samples from Front242 or Invincible Spirit in Baba Yaga).

Michael Briel - Tubular Setup

Kruge — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:10:47 +0200

FINALLY! Some new music! NEW as in "made and recorded just now". :) The first time I sat down with cubase in over five years! :)

Man, that feels good - and now I don't even know why I stopped in the first place!

The tune is quite obviously a variation on the finale of Tubular Bells by Mister Mike Oldfield, I thought that was the best way to give all the instruments, cubase and the new mixer a good final test. And it doesn't sound too bad either. ;)

Elektrojudas remixing Michael Briel - The Void (Elektrojudas remix)

Kruge — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:31:32 +0200

Ladies and Gentlemen!

I'm proud to present the very first remix of one of my tracks in more than 10 years! My friend Elektrojudas asked me for some loops and sounds from The Void and made the track into his own! He takes it in a completely new direction from the original and it works just fine imho - check it out and leave some feedback for him and me. :)