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 | SmokeyVW said 268 days ago |
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EVP dude, EVP Sometimes drums played into an atmospheric synth sounds a little like this. But it goes on and evolves a little too much for me to believe that's all there is to it. Maybe an Apple programmer put an Easter Egg in GarageBand? The notes seem to be limited to a reasonable gamut. Too much so to be entirely random... This sounds soooo familiar. I remember making something like this sometime somewhere in some life. Too bad about the distortion. It would be perfect otherwise... |
| SmokeyVW said 268 days ago |
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pic that pic: is someone heaving into a rubbish barrel? i remember too much Sloe Gin did that to me once... |
 | MarkHolbrook said 268 days ago |
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Well its great! Nano bots recorded this for you! Take credit... It's pretty cool! |
 | pablatone said 268 days ago |
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so is it in the key of the song you were doing? I've had mystery noises but nothing that extravagant. It is too bad about the distortion that's a real cool composition, it would be great for a documentary about space or whales. |
 | Vic Holman said 268 days ago |
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when mistakes go good Has a neat 2001 space oddessey sound. This is a wild guess, but possibly infinite delay. Sometimes i create hidden washes in some of my tunes that I have a couple presets on one of my pedal boards that create something along this line. But why your computer did it, who knows. |
 | egobandit said 268 days ago |
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Cool beans I have had that happen not this beautiful mine are always dark in nature |
 | magnatone said 268 days ago |
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Phenomenon well, I can't explain it bud, but it's pretty cool. I'm going to go with either Mark's nano bot idea, OR Richard's oracle thought. OR - maybe both! The infamous "nano bot oracle" has made itself/himself/herself available to you - can't beat that! |
 | five_extra_arms said 268 days ago |
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Did You Hit The Yanni Button? Bizarre! It sounds like you had your elbow on the keyboard when the aliens transported you through your upstairs window. It was such a pretty light. Phone home. |
 | rsorensen said 268 days ago |
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whoa dont know what it is, but i like it! distortion and all! |
 | bud said 268 days ago |
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got this note in my mailbox - the sound is like someone on the page said- the ambient reverb from various cords stuck together and the source code can not recognize the stoping of the midi control playing the instrument. basically a glitch in garageband that i think is really cool (sometimes, unless you are working on a good track and it throws you off). sometimes it is caused by a band source connection between interfaces. sorry to send anonymous...my accounts kept getting hacked so i stopped signing up. have talked to simon about it already. |
 | Karmatoburn said 268 days ago |
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astonishing This is something like the beginning on a Yes album. Deep complex and totally cool. Sounds like you have a good thread going on the root cause. I too have experienced this! but my stuck notes are insanely annoying :-) This is simply incredible. |
 | Nick_Flash said 268 days ago |
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cool This sounds like a great background for a song. I can hear the drums and bass now. Quite the gift. |
 | jiguma said 268 days ago |
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Bud .. .. if that's who you really are! I suspect that this is the sound of aliens moving in to your computer via your brain and that by listening to it in it's entirity, all of us here have become slaves to the mother craft. Damn cool piece of alien trickery if you ask me! ;) Neil |
 | racerat said 268 days ago |
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it's too beautiful So why put your head in the trash can over it? P |
 | The Infinites said 268 days ago |
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I believe you have... ...experienced the joy of the Infinite Loop! Reminds me of Philip Glass stuff. I even liked the distort at 2.55 & 4.15 to the end. Sounds like 'they' are trying to ask for help to save the planet. The 'build' at 6.26 is scary and dramatic. Why do I really like this? The coolest thing about this is that you actually posted it and made me think about cyber music again. Let's have a beer and discuss further. Next Wed suit? Jim |
 | lengold said 268 days ago |
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So that's where the little sod went to - been trying to find him for days. Cheers Len PS: You might as well keep him now. |
| biba_nova said 267 days ago | |
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It sounds like a bibanova track to me - in fact cat and i have made a whole series of EVP tracks and this was going to be the next one i sent it to you as part of a collaboration for EVP series 6 :-) seriously - i would be very happy to make this into EVP6 if you were willing to let me |
 | Cori Ander said 267 days ago |
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Mysti meets Floyd Mystified meets Pink Floyd. Super cool track! Well done. Wish you knew how to do it. I wanna do it too. |
 | Bubowski said 267 days ago |
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Actually... quite beautiful! A found (audio) object. |
 | michael2 said 267 days ago |
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kevin it's actually quite beautiful. i'm downloading it and will undoubtedly throw it in a song. did you have a lot of delay on something? i've had weird stuff like this happen from time to time, sometimes i don't mind, others I'm tearing my hair out wondering what in the world is going on. |
 | apb said 267 days ago |
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Wow! .. I had that happen .. something midi control related .. some duff info getting interpreted as midi .. but never sounded this good .. but then again .. I might not have as good things connected up via midi ..there is panning going on too.. there is moments of distorted passion .. really pretty darn good... nice variations too! :o) Perhaps there is some Apple code secretly neural netting all music you do .. and 'composing' on the fly...based on your compositions .. dun dun daahhh..:o) Incredibly new-age, spacey and atmospheric. Heck I couldn't write something this good intentionally. Kudos to random sw bugs! We can cite this the next time GB decides to evaporate the last 3 hrs of work etc ..;o) |
 | lavalamp said 267 days ago |
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Soundtrack Sell it to a studio. Peter Weir would love this. LL |
 | Mystified said 267 days ago |
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how very cool is this? VERY!! Love it! I could get lost in this and never return. Into the cosmos I go...singing.... |
 | Macaudion said 267 days ago |
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... Hey Bud, I think that this is that Bach or beethoven piece that's being played at some incredibly slow speed and it's supposed to take a few days (or quite a few hours or something like that) to play it in it's entirety. Someone had posted a link to it here quite awhile back. Gives ya the heeby geebies... |
 | Reinholt56 said 267 days ago |
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I think.... It's the musical equivalent of Pi. Seems obvious to me. It could be some feedback effect but the variability of the noise tends to negate that. I'll ask my invisible friend/buddy what they think. Usually if I ask a question they reply but it's always a blank page. Maybe this time it will be different or I might just not notice. Other than that I'm as baffled as everyone else. Take care and thanks for allowing us to listen. Take care. Paul |
 | DWL said 267 days ago |
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Varese your Mac is channelling Varese.......... Far out man :-) Truly staggering. This is the start of the next challenge. What can you do with this???????? Cheers Dick |
 | Youra said 267 days ago |
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lucky guy Well looks like you don't need to sweat a lot to create great music. Really sound as a Terry Riley loop. The ghost is REALLY in the machine ! |
 | tokai said 267 days ago |
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kool music of the gods. interesting story, and outcome. |
 | massa said 267 days ago |
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spooky! Veeeery spooky!!! :-) |
 | dajama said 267 days ago |
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Weird but very very cool. Someone is trying to tell you something. If only I spoke music...Peace. |
 | MKVX said 267 days ago |
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I know what it is But i wont tell you!!!! Before this sound happened, did you happen to change a track plugin or setting as you played it on a keyboard? In garageband and Logic the last notes you play on an a MIDI track will be carried on infinitely if you switch the AU instrument or plugin of that track as you are playing on it. This usually stops if you press play, but it's happened indefinitely till i force quit the app. BUT........ I would actually like to make this into a song! I love this sound. I'm picturing accompanying sounds already. Could I do that? |
| SmokeyVW said 267 days ago |
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Apple did it you recall how on the Mac one of the voices in System Preferences.. set to Cellos - the tune played by the cellos speeching is "Dovregubbens hall" by Edward Greig so there is precedent for Apple to hide stuff like this in their software (BTW i've found lots of goofy stuff in the drum kits in the Remix JamPack) maybe one of the atmospheric synths plays Beethoven if you hold one certain note for a very long time stuck notes in a common occurance for me on GarageBand - probably for you too? |
 | Ibstrat said 267 days ago |
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This happened to me once.I couldn't figure it out until I noticed that mice had built a nest in the back of my computer and were eating bytes which caused the malfunction. |
| The Infinites said 266 days ago |
Your secret IS OUT!!! |
 | davisamerica said 266 days ago |
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bud never look a gift from zeus in the mouth .... is the soundtrack for a new "space oddessy" .... amazing where ever it came from |
 | Doadars Uncle said 266 days ago |
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Neat stuff Cool! The decay of music... |
 | mvh9591 said 266 days ago |
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Hum........ They're making contact with you Bud. Awesome - I can't understand what they're saying but it sure sounds good to me. mvh : ) PS: This would probably sale in a fancy book store in the "New Age" section. (just listen to Ray Lynch this is his style - well, sort of) |
 | ageofthedeathtree said 266 days ago |
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holy crap... that's just too weird bud....i have no explanation, but i say you definitely have to use it on something. it's really quite beautiful and haunting! almost sounds like something heightened (joe) would use as a backing track for one of his space pieces. actually, sounds exactly like that. tell him your mac decided you should be part of his mars series... age -sons of hypnos |
| ageofthedeathtree said 266 days ago |
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holy crap...even more so! i just finally made it down to rschletty's discovery..... http://www.schletty.com/music/MJ41856_Phenomenon_10x_speed.mp3 sped up this does wound like beethoven....that's just too damn weird man! i still can't explain it, but this is damn cool! you were definitely contacted by some ancient gods...just smile, sit back, and tell them to compose your next tune....see what happens....heh heh. age |
 | guitapick said 266 days ago |
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~ Music of the spheres...no need to question it...what a fantastic visitation...seriously...so happy you caught and harnessed it...many would just have discarded it...fine ear, Kevin...great piece. |
| guitapick said 266 days ago |
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Oh... ...and the artwork's to die for...perfect. |
 | Heightened said 266 days ago |
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I know what happened! Total sheer unmitigated magic!!! |
 | paul f. page said 265 days ago |
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Here's my take... ...you channeled Stanley Kubrick and are the final journey to the stars in 2001:A Space Odyssey. Surely you will end up a star child of some sort if you are not one already! Paul |
 | regulus said 265 days ago |
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Have you tried to play it backwards for the decoded message yet? An other thought, somehow get it to where it can be played for the whales and see what they do. Try for a repete. Set up the progam as you did that one and see if you get a modified replay. There're watching you.......... |
| regulus said 265 days ago |
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I remember, I like the art also. Very Fitting. |
 | craft said 264 days ago |
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tricky THis could feat some outer space movie!! Nice soundscapes. Nicely done |
| bud said 263 days ago |
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This is really getting strange Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to listen, comment and speculate on this tune. I find it very amusing to have it garner this much attention and be in the fan picks - considering that I did nothing but figure out how to record this phenomenon. I love that the piece has it's own life and continues to surprise and entertain more people. |
 | willnlf said 263 days ago |
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Aguirre I can't explain it, but I agree with Vic. It's either Kubrick's essence or Werner Herzog's Aguirre the Wrath of God sailing down the Amazon. You've channeled Klaus Kinski! I'm spooked! |
 | TheSkankBrothers said 263 days ago |
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41 Fans Sounds like quite a breeze! I couldn't resist pushin' this song over the top! 41 fans!! Hank Skank |
 | composerclark said 262 days ago |
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Fav'ing frenzy! Why is everyone fav'ing this track? Who cares, I just fav'ed it too! I think Beethoven is a reasonably talented up-and-comer regardless of the speed one plays his music, and I bet he's going to be really well-known in the next few years. |
 | Go_Turtle_Go said 262 days ago |
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The Dead Texan, aka Stars of the Lid (Requiem for dying mothers). My all time favourite ambient artist and albums. This piece is just grand. Dissonants that make me feel eerie and still soothing, tranquil (especially when those low distorted strings kick in). A terrific Ambient piece. Well done Keith! The turtle's shell is all soft and flexible, now. |
 | obbster said 262 days ago |
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weird ive seen this happen loads of times, but certainly not as melodic as this |
 | Diviner said 259 days ago |
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Wow That is brilliant. A self-replicating computer making space ambient music that I would love to make. Thats amazing and very creepy. |
| Go_Turtle_Go said 252 days ago |
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i wrote keith... sheez, sorry kevin..errr. Bud...;-))) I so dig this masterpiece, a damn fine tear jerking piece of music. Marc |
 | sloparts said 252 days ago |
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Very spooky, but also very beautiful, That's quite a Muse you have there Kevin. What ever it's cause, don't let it get away from you. You do remember "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" don't you. Ed |
| sloparts said 127 days ago |
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I'm not sure, but I think this is a midi synth running on some stuck midi notes. I've had this happen before, or something very similar at least with my midi gear recently, and years ago. How it kept sounding after the tracks were shut off is somewhat more of a mystery. On that, all I can think of was you had the system or a track set to listen on a submix or return line to the mains. The variations could be part of the particular voice that was playing the stuck midi notes. Yo wouldn't normally hold the notes down this long so they may never have shown up before. Sometimes, at least on my older setups, the only way to shut it off was to actually turn off the offending synth. Now days most DAW's have a send all notes off switch or option to send out on all channels and all midi interfaces. Just a guess on my part, but I do like the way it sounds, it is very ethereal to be sure. Great sounds and a happy accident. Ed |
 | Char said 95 days ago |
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So, what was done with this gift from you know not where? Did anyone play with it, clean it up and make a song? It is mesmerizing. Stanley Kubrick and Carl Sagan were trying to send a message that there are more things that are beyond our experience or imagination and that a tiny push can build to monumental force..or not. I had to listen to it a couple times. Wow! |
 | WildlifeAnalysis said 40 days ago |
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What?! Holy crap Bud, we were thinking the same thing - Char just sent me a link to this song. Check this one out: http://www.macjams.com/song/48096 Great minds think alike? |
| Char said 37 days ago |
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Hi, again... Have you considered a reading of a poem over this, or children explaining what they think God is or the sounds of children laughing? I am addicted to this. Perhaps, a guided meditation... I so wish you'd find a use for this. Well, It is putting me in a mellow state of mind, right now. It is a gift, as well as a phenomenon. Thanks! :) |
feelin high ...that mac was feelin high ..I dont blame
it !!
its cool !