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C. Dotson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:31:26 +0000

I don’t know… you know.

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(3*guitar-loop + 1*elec-pno-loop) * processing-with-SC3 = this thing, enjoy.

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for an alternate perfect thursday

C. Dotson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:44:07 +0000

just some thoughts that somewhat do the trick. this gets about as close to the truth as i care to …

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guitar loops processed and recorded with SuperCollider; layered and effed-with with Digital Performer.
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the time when forgiven didn’t make it

C. Dotson — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:28:50 +0000

silence, etc.

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an awkward question?

C. Dotson — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:11:17 +0000

this just needs to be said, i guess. (there’s a moment at which we take a break)

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two somewhat similar melodies looped and processed together (pun intended), live with my now infamous SC3 toy. maybe the question is simply: where does one end and the other begin…

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ignorant noise kids might be better off just keeping their mouths shut sometimes

C. Dotson — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:33:33 +0000

inspired by a film

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built on a single synth note processed and manipulated live using SC3.

i think i jumped on a table at some point during the recording, and i might have blamed it all on my grade school teachers while i was at it.

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tymingue

C. Dotson — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:01:01 +0000

lets only erase that which does not become us

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this tidbit is built on a few processed gtr loops that i recorded and manipulated using my SC3 toy. i was trying to employ more silence again, but i always seem to fall victim to layers…

… nothing is accidental

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last hour National

C. Dotson — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:36:41 +0000

once upon a time, i held onto the past like a stake thru my heart.

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there’s a brief gtr and a few layers of synth. but mostly its abt repetition and pleasure. thoughts?

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uraynj

C. Dotson — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:38:36 +0000

i built up a nice little device in SC 3 for playing/recording/FX/looping live audio input in the past couple days.

did some house re-organizing during the day and made this during the night
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this snippet is a result of toying around with its capabilities. there’s a couple looped guitar bits running through reverbs, bit reduction and FFT filters; as well as a live melody on top thats is running through reverb and fft

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at least for now, this is definitely headphone music

C. Dotson — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:37:57 +0000

i finally dove into Super Collider 3 a few weeks ago and have quickly built a pretty substantial instrument for live performance; yeah i’m kinda excited, to say the least… this is just a tidbit of something i was toying with using the thing-a-majig i’ve created.

i was also playing some acoustic gtr on top, but i haven’t built anything to record microphone audio into SC3, so you only get the digital bits, sorry… (i promise i’ll do that this week!)

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the main tone is an over-processed electric guitar; using my SC3 software I filtered, looped and shot to hell the original to make it more mellow-ish.

the pure-tone that jumps in occasionally is just a digital tone i created a while ago and decided to loop and process with my SC3 thingy.

its all pretty simple, now that i can save sounds and rhythms for future reference … and thats so much more fun than before

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last[ing] words (unspoken)

C. Dotson — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:50:42 +0000

there’s another title to this, but i think i’ll keep that a secret for now.

also, i think this may be the track wherein i officially decide to drop the ‘MaybeRain’ moniker and just use my real name, finally. i suspect this is for a number of, possibly not so obvious, reasons.

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this track is a very simple set of guitar melodies given not too much treatment, just a lot of overlapping loops. i thought i’d go for using more actual silence this time. rather than my usual technique of hinting at silence while technically overloading the sound field.

ps. the length of this piece is purely coincidental, though slightly interesting nonetheless

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the protektr

C. Dotson — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:35:14 +0000

for movement and motion. or, time is at a stand.still.

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the original sound source for this piece is a very old recording of a single guitar note. i ran that original sound through various processes and loops with Ableton in order to degrade it into the multiple sounds in the final version.

there is some kind of magic in simply over-processing live audio…

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[control]shift

C. Dotson — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:13:47 +0000

attempting to distance myself from the sound, i think there’s something to be said for emotion minus the emotional ties.

. . . “you could call me a man of the cloth; without the cloth.” . . .

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these varying synthetic sounds originated from the Kinky Beep software which I’ve used over the years to generate varyingly complex sounds from scratch. It has pretty much disappeared for good, now that I’ve lost my copy of it and The Internets had lost their copies years ago.

in addition, the basic synth sounds were heavily processed with Ableton and a couple of my favorite Super Destroy FX plug-ins, which i’ve yet to give proper credit to after all the use they’ve provided over the years (thanks guys!).

underneath the repetition of tones is an acoustic guitar recording that was made directly to computer, live and improvised, then mildly processed as well.

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the wherewithall

C. Dotson — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:53:46 +0000

just a little looping back from the grave; tell yr friends, its awesome.

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fiddled around with various chords overprocessed and looped, with a few single note melodies sprinkled on top for flavor

all post processing on the sound files occurred in Ableton. i feel a little guilty for using this almost exclusively nowadays, but you gotta make due with what you have, and for the moment, its abt all i gots

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dog.eared or, one last chance

C. Dotson — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:15:44 +0000

[…] this is a dramatic dog-eared testimonial for every empty bottle in town; leave ‘em all twisting in the wind […]

i think this one is fun with both headphones and a large and loud speaker system…

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this piece began with the acoustic guitar part recorded direct through the computer’s internal microphone. the first section is the higher frequencies and static heavily processed, followed by the actual guitar part muddled up and mixed with itself in various ways.

everything ends with a resurrected, short acoustic bass loop that gets almost totally lost in the mix of reverb and silliness.

all post processing on the sound files occurred in Ableton.

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mine is missing

C. Dotson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:10:54 +0000

im not really tied to this title; i think this one maybe should just be Untitled, but i cant decide.
i was also debating: .never gonna (be)fall.

oh and i think for the first time this one might be better suited for use with headphones, rather than the usual ‘really loud in a car’

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all sounds originated in the acoustic guitar recorded directly to the computer through an internal microphone. all processing and layering done in Ableton.
talk about restricting yrself, eh?

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the clouds looked like mountains; some of them were

C. Dotson — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:30:19 +0000

the old becoming new, or vice versa

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these were older audio files of live recordings i recently found and reworked in a different way from how i had last left them (does that mean something?)

the cut-up piano was cut up using Super_Collider and i think the original layer of guitar delay was created with that as well. again, things were mixed and effected using Ableton. pretty simple actually

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the irony of crickets

C. Dotson — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:30:25 +0000

this piece is dedicated to a season’s changing and collaborative poetry

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this originated with three or four guitar loops created with an actual delay pedal, then stretched to varying degrees in Peak just like in the good old days, and finally tossed into Ableton and layered to obscurity.

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an odd weight to have lifted

C. Dotson — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 06:26:17 +0000

this one is for MamaRain, because she knew that these are all better real loud in a car, and without it having been recomended that way, too. i’ve delayed this audio-post for her birthday.

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[[ i knew a girl who knew a boy who would have suggested drums on top of this piece : : : and he would be right. ]]

this is a simple piece for a simple time (ha ha!, these are the jokes, kids).

for now, i’ll choose to think of the color pink, gotham city and falling off cliffs (or just biscuits-and-gravy-admission-fees, maybe)

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a not-so-standard guitar melody (very rare in these parts) run through Ableton effects. simplcitiy is its own excuse, tell your friends, period.

i like it.

and as always i hope you do, too.

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one or two things you ought to know

C. Dotson — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:12:47 +0000

no comment, if you know what i mean.

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i’ve been sitting on this one for a while and finally put the last touches on it. the basic sounds are a combination of Korg synth originals and Super_Collider generated sounds. after that they were all mixed and matched in Ableton with various plugin effects.

hint: theres some low tones that yr computer might not pick up, so maybe headphones, eh? tho, i prefer the car stereo

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america west is decadent and depraved

C. Dotson — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:45:03 +0000

its been a while, and i needed to sit down with some instrument and record something, anything. i like this one loud, but then again, they are all supposed to be played loud.

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this piece is a simple improv with the acoustic guitar sitting in front of the computer. the original part was then tossed into Ableton and attacked with a pretty standard fare of effects and general jerkiness. some of the effects are due to the crappy microphone i used to record the gtr - but we’re used to that by now, right guys?

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sillysisill

C. Dotson — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:05:20 +0000

this piece lives in that nether world of not really being “brand new” exactly, but also had not been posted to the ol’ myspace blog; so call it what you will in that sense, i promise not to argue abt it. its a good hearted piece that was the result of a long night and lots of energy and tea, most likely topped with a little rum, so there that is.

this one goes out to the Sacred (and spray-painted) Cow.

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my memory of this piece’s technical birth is a little foggy, but i can tell from the sounds that there is at least one pilfered sample that had been run through the The Method gauntlet. also i think a majority of the processed sounds originated in and passed through my own personal Super_Collider rough housing. then there are the improv bass and Korg melodies, and it all got mixed and mashed up in Ableton. see the pattern?

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rec7

Igor — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:14:12 +0000

reposting from Myspace, etc.

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a thought for those afraid of their thoughts

C. Dotson — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:26:00 +0000

originally dedicated to a number of abstract ideas, the only part i remember now was a vague reference to those moving and moved to Jersey … which is too bad bc i think i really liked this dedication.

oh well, we can make the new title: burned bridges and fuck the moment!

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this piece was made by cutting up a very short piano melody using The Method and then piecing it back together in Ableton along with some fine tuned reverb … mix gently with a late lonely night.

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phone calls and regrets, wishful thinking and long distances

C. Dotson — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:25:12 +0000

i recall a long drive home, thinking abt having not played enough bass recently (which is once again true).

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all sounds here are processed from the original bass improvisation, most likely using Ableton because, well, i like it.

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something, everything (spring forward, right guys?)

C. Dotson — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:21:30 +0000

an oldish one from spring time, me thinks … its all just in jest, really.

i recall making this on a happy night sometime, just to see if i could make something that i thought was friendly; not sure it worked

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i think this was made entirely with found samples, generated sounds and my SuperCollider software. do you hear the hand-claps?

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Line; no sound; the 24th letter

C. Dotson — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:22:48 +0000

calgon, take me away …
its a simple piece for simple entertainment, so get over yrself. or maybe theres more to it … …

[[ implied: its night-ish around now and the summer is creeping yet not quite fast enough (repeat ad infinitum) ]]

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pretty sure this was made (relatively) quickly using software written by Espen Sommer Eide to cut up some samples of unknown origin and then pieced back together in Ableton. i think i hear my Korg buried in there a little …

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and we’re back

C. Dotson — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:22:11 +0000

so after the fun little snafu of MySpace.com deleting our old audio-blog for reasons we have yet to determine, here we are once again kicking and screaming for attention.

and gosh-darnit, we plan to get it this time!

so my first order of business is to go and upload all of the previous entries and list ‘em all out for ya to ponder over while we get ready for the new and improved it’s on random