MeFi Music

More microKORG experimentation, this time a Gillian Welch cover. I've finally gotten around to listening to this album recently, and a lot; it's really latching on to me. The title track is gorgeous and where I can't match Welch's vocals I can get weird instead, so: vocoder time. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jul 24, 2020 - 5 comments

After coveting the things for 15+ years I finally went and bought a microKORG synth/vocoder from a person in town who was selling it slightly used for cheaper. I have been playing with it all morning and here is an attempt to put several pieces together in a hastily improvised song. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jul 11, 2020 - 8 comments

Somehow the idea of doing an alternate podcast theme riffing on Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger got into my head a while a go, and here it is. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jun 3, 2015 - 10 comments

This is an endlessly rising Radiohead cover vignette; a section from Paranoid Android rises a whole step and repeats itself, and does so again, six times total, before returning to where it started, as a kind of large-scale take on the Shepard tone. [more inside]
posted by cortex on May 9, 2015 - 4 comments

A synthed out, vocoded take on Beck's extremely non-synthy song off of Sea Change, as an excuse to fiddle around with Reason 8. [more inside]
posted by cortex on May 5, 2015 - 6 comments

A recording from 2004 of a song from 1998. I really like vocoders: I think that they are very awesome. More inside!
posted by cortex on Apr 5, 2007 - 5 comments

Post-band-breakup collaboration rock + VST experiment.
posted by cortex on Jul 1, 2006 - 2 comments