Music: Something new from me, Ambient Fear

I'm not wholly sure it can be classed as music... but it has a certain ambience about it and some kind of a rhythm that grabs the attention from the off... if I do say so myself...

The piece started off as just one noise, the horrible distorted one that clicks in and out and then stays for the duration of the "alarm" towards the end. I was looking for a scary sound that would fit a bit of video I took, of a spider taking down its web. I got a bit carried away and went off on a bit of a tangent. This was the result.

The sounds I started with were royalty free samples given away with various magazines. I altered most of them in Ableton Live using creative effects, like beat repeats, splashes of distortion and digital reverbs. All of the effects are running live, so you can grab anything and screw with it to change things up a bit!

The piece is by no means complete. More of a taster of a set of sounds. I threw it together quite quickly in Ableton Live 7. This project could probably do with a few tweaks. Here it is:

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Space out...

Work: Kasabian Tour!

This November, Kasabian are hitting the road and doing a UK tour. With any luck the guys over at Concert Live have or are about to get the go ahead for a deal to do their instant live CD thing for the tour.

They've told us that a verbal agreement has been reached and we'll be on it! Doing a recording for such a popular band is always a massive thrill. The crowd noise you get from those pure Kasabian fans is just amazing. Plus Kasabian's sound is just so cool. This cannot possibly be a bad product.

I'm well excited.

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