Music Projects (amateur)

An attempt at making industrial, or at least harder sounding techno. I no longer wanted to bother with making ambient. I also wanted to start using hardware synths instead of software. Boy does the hardware feel much better. Originally I did this work under the name "Statik!" but later realized that the name (sans exclamation point) had already been taken and some people were confused as to how this shitty music of mine fit into Statik's catalog.

The Nature of Nurture MiniEP

• We Are Nothing but Incredible Machines - Another song, like Conduit, that just came out of nowhere. I like the piano part, I like the grainshifting effect alot, so I really use the hell out that effect.
• Tolswipz - A random song, I use the "ice" instrument too much in this (you'll know the one I am talking about)

Feather in my Throat, Plug in my Spine EP

• Polybius - My first track attempting
• Back in the Lab - My immediate second. Written to be quick, dirty and harsh. It is.
• Conduit - A bit-to-dancy song that I ended up writing. Was not at all planning to write it though, it just sort of happened.
• Lady Marseilles - A cover of a song by a band called "Franklyn Silver and Oliver Brask" that I am in the process of trying to make. This link is just the most recent version of it. It is a work-in-progress that I come and go to. I should note that one of the members of FSaOL, Elliot, is currently part of the Madison local band Moorebeck Stellar which is, incidentally, or not so incidentally, quite good. I suggest checking it out, some of the most genre-defying music I have heard in a long while, and great to relax/dance/sleep/read/drive/drink/hump the floor/etc to.

My first music project. Okay, that's a lie. But my first music project was really just me mixing factory loops on a friend's MC-505, not really creative. Not at all. Thus it is not included anywhere on this site (in fact, I couldn't if I wanted to, I lost the CD). This was done (with the exception of Clove Deck which was done with a microKORG) completely using software synths. Oh yeah, I got the name 'Inebriated Assistant' from The Wu Name Generator. Note that I don't really know the music of Wu-Tang Clan well, I just got a kick out of the name it generated. The following list is in the order that I wrote the songs, so you can trace a progression from crappy to okay.

Aural Prozac

• Pollen - First track. Very minimal. Nothing much at all.
• Arbor Vitae - Originated as a track for The Shock Project, but I spiced it up a bit.
• Crop Circle - This one is repetitive but cool. Shuffling sound in the background is a bit creepy.
• Gestalt - This one never ended up how I wanted it.
• Gestalt (Reprise) - This was the piano revision of Gestalt. A bit self-indulgent really.
• Sintered Glass - My attempt at making a beat-oriented techno song. Breaks the entire style of IA, and really sounds weak as well. Oh well.
• The Reason - This is my favorite song. Slow, sad, and written from 3am to noon after a night of partying.
• Dead Gods - I wanted to explore some more orchestral stuff after making 'The Reason'
• Clove Deck - I started acquiring hardware synths, and used one to say goodbye to IA by making a counterpart to Pollen

This is really just a repository for failed experiments and/or songs that went nowhere. Some early versions of songs may wind up here for the hells of it.

• Gap Junction - Just playing around with a Kaoss Pad and my Electribe's appreggiator.
• Funk as Funk Shit - I was playing around with a cool little beat and doodling around with the Reed Piano and decided to hit record.
• Dark Stream - Just a cool little scrap of something I don't even remember making that I found on my hard drive. It was made in Reason.
• Conduit (Demo) - The initial version of Conduit, written while relaxing at Motherfools or Company of Thieves coffeehouse. I don't remember which, so I thought I would just plug them both, as they are both my favorite cafes.

A long time ago, in a different life, I signed on to work on something called "The Shock Project", it was to be an unofficial sequel to the videogame System Shock 2. Unfortunately, the project imploded about 2/3 the way through. It was taking too long, and most of us had lives to attend to. Anyway, I signed on there as music guy, and a few good songs, and a bunch of not so good songs. Fortunately, another music guy joined, and helped uncrapify some of my music a bit. Later a third person joined the music dept. and we had the trifecta, then he wrote songs that, to say the least, made me feel like less of a man. His work can be found at The Shock Project website. I dare not post them here. Anyway, here is what I made. I never really named any of them when I wrote them, except one. And two track were reworked into Inebriated Assistant song.

• #TSP-FLT1A - A really boring synth loop. Never ended up using it. File has since been lost.
• #TSP-FLT2A - This one was reworked by Crimson. File has since been lost.
• #TSP-RET1A - Also known as "Coffee Black as Your Fucking Soul", this song later became Arbor Vitae.
• #TSP-RBT1A - Created for the 'Medical' level of the game. Simple, kind of fun.
• #TSP-RET2A - Created for the end credits. Later became the song 'Sintered Glass'.