This page is dedicated to a song I wrote with Jeremy Squires for our electronic music class back in 1992. Although we were never able to finish the song, it is something that I'm very proud of and will always remember. The song is special to me because it brings back a lot of fond memories from years gone by. I remember staying up all night long a couple of nights during "dead week" working on this song with Jeremy, despite the many exams both of us still had to study for.
There are two versions of our song, the original one that we did together, essentially all night long one evening, and the version Jeremy did for his CD "More than words". The reason that there are two versions, is that the original work we did, which was stored on a computer in the electronic music lab, was lost via deletion by a third party. The original work was done using nine synthesizers, and it used to take us almost an hour of custom wiring and setup in preperation for work on our song. It was a MIDI nightmare to say the least *smile*.
Here's a list of the synthesizers used, maybe someday I'll even figure out which patches we used.. Someday I'd love to redo this with the right gear. There was an entire section of this song that I still remember that we never finished enough of to actually record :-)
Alesis QuadraVerb+ reverb+effects Yamaha ??? reverb+effects Alesis D-4 susp cymbals E-Mu Emulator Oboe melody, Tympani Ensoniq Mirage bell tree, bassy synth near end Kawai K1r airy synth pads, harder synth sound at the end Korg Digital Piano piano Roland JX-8P string synth pads /w aftertouch at beginning and end Roland MKS-50 thick synth pads, especially /w aftertouch towards the end Roland D-50 pluck sounds, 5ths, pitch bent bird cry sort of sound Yamaha SY-77 bass line at the beginning, washy synth sounds, bass with bite at the end.
Here's what Jeremy wrote about our song in the liner notes to his CD, More Than Words.
ECLIPSE Written by JEREMY and John Stone I wish we could have finished this one. This actually is not the original version. There was a magic in the studio that night.... Wires and cables strung across the room in a tangled mess, blinking red and green lights of the keyboards, and only the glow of a computer monitor to work from..... Two minds working in complete sync. The original sequence, however, was lost along with sounds, and a creative effort that can never be recreated. Only two cheap tape recordings exist of the original version. I did the best I could with what I had.