UPDATE: August 1307 - my first live music video! 

D.A.M.I.A.N.'s Auf wiedersehen Delta 1010 - a 15 minute long improvisational Noise genre piece, recorded live on August 1207.  To keep the previous 500+meg size of this audio/video piece down, I've reduced it from it's filmed 720 x 480 format to 320 x 200.  The audio has also been reduced from stereo to mono.

It's not as violent sounding as some of my other Noise pieces in my tunes section, but it does well with some of it's irritating-ear nodulations!

If you're into Experimental / Noise genre pieces, I hope you're able to enjoy listening to it, as much as I were in improvising it! 

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The equipment used for composing D.A.D. includes:
- D.A.M.I.A.N.'s:

  • Voltage Controlled Oscillator 1 - version Tom Gamble 4D
  • Voltage Controlled Oscillator 2 - miniature adaptation of Ian Fritz' VCO
  • Voltage Controlled Oscillator 3 - modified Ken Stone VCO V2.00
  • 3 x triple input AC/DC Summers - my own version
  • Modified Cynare - modification of Ken Stone's Hihat section from his Cynare Drum Simulator
  • Multi Voltage Controlled Filter - State Variable VCF: Low Pass and Band Pass sections
  • SSM2044 4 pole Low Pass Filter - Barry Klein's, modified for Voltage Controlled Resonance
  • SSM2164 Voltage Controlled Amplifier - Charlie Lamm's version
  • 2 x Sinewave LFO - Barry Klein's version (Sine from 1 and Square from the other)
- 2 x Korg DRV-1000 reverb units
- Korg Kaoss Pad KP1 Dynamic Controller effects including:
  • Delay
  • Filter
  • Pitch Shift
  • Ring Modulation
- t.c. electronics M300 delay set to approximately 1 second long stereo pingpong effect
- Zoom Player 2020 effects including:
    • Compressor
    • Pitch Shift
    • Delay #1
    • Delay #2
D.A.M.I.A.N.'s Auf wiedersehen Delta 1010 is the first live improvisational Noise genre piece that I've recorded since 1997.
I had just purchased my Korg Kaoss Pad KP1 Dynamic Controller on our U.S. vacation and was dying to play with it!    Having barely any idea of it's functionality, I read which effects were setup already in each of the 6 quick-select buttons and went with them, controlling their parameters with my finger on it's ~3"x3" surface control area.
Setting up the equipment though, took just a WEEEEEEE bit longer than I had expected.    1st, I found that my computer's motherboard's audio card, wouldn't accept any audio in, at all.    I fought with that for at least an hour, before hooking up my problematic Delta 1010 audio interface.  The troubles with 60hz ground hum that it had before, had amplified all the further!!    Until that unit is fixed, it's comPLETEly worthless. 
Finally - I went and dug out my vintage 2001 RME Digi96/PST 96k/24 bit audio card that I had been under the impression had died, a couple of years ago.  I took a chance and cleaned the card's interface pads with a pencil eraser, then cleaning them.  Shore enough, she resumed working as beautifully as she had for her 1st 3 or 4 years!  Woo hoo!    Work on hooking everything in my studio up, for the first time in my studio's rebuild occurred; I set up the camera after having connected together the above modules on D.A.M.I.A.N. and hit record! 

There will be many more experimental and noise compositions in D.A.M.I.A.N.'s future as well as the other usual genres of music that I compose in, over time.  It feels great to be composing with HARDWARE again, for the first time, since 2000!  It's great, to be back!

In time I plan to post my entire 1982 to Present, recorded history of songwriting as mp3 files, for all viewers to download for free. 

I've written in many genres over the years which you'll find songs within here, including: Progressive Rock; Industrial; Progressive Industrial; Punk; Pop; Ambient as well as mixtures of influences from many other genres of music.

UPDATE: June 1807 - I've moved all of my mp3's to the following page:

My mp3's page

so that I could more easily manage the Table that they're located in rather than limit myself to the options available from this webpage template's Table functions. 

For anyone that may be interested in ordering a CD from me, lemme know which tunes from below that you'd like on it and done it shall be.    For $10 U.S., you'll receive a custom built CD with a full colour glossy CD insert and case, mailed (regular post) to anywhere in the world.  Paypal preferred.

Email me at rykhaard@deathlehem.com if you be innerested. ;)

Also - any tunes that were written in Propellerhead's Reason can be written to DVD at 96k / 24 bit sample rate - FAR improving the audio quality available on CDs. (44k1 / 16 bit. :P ) $15 for a DVD instead. :D (For tunes written BEFORE I used Reason (pre-2001), they're only available in their original 44k1 / 16 bit format.  )

All tunes available for free download on this page are:

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