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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

First attempt at 'producing' electronic music

I have spent the last few hours here playing around with some open-source music production tools. The fruit of this labour is a song I call 'Computer Breakbeat Science'. You can download the song in Mp3 [3.0 MB] or Ogg Vorbis [2.6 MB] format.

I used Hydrogen to create the beat, and used ZynaddsubFX to synthesize the bass. I used Audacity to edit the actual tracks together.

The spoken word bits were sampled from Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs video lectures.

Now really, the result is rather juvenile, and is not very high in artistic merit, however, if nothing else it should give some giggles and show that anyone with some time and some talent (read: not me) can produce professional results with free/open-source software.

In keeping with the copyright on the video lectures I sampled, the song is licensed under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which is almost certainly how I would have licensed it anyway.

Enjoy! That is all...

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