Colossal mp3 inventory giveaway! Everything must … uh … download!
KeithHandy posted in Lists on March 12th, 2007
I’ve uploaded lots of mp3s to my hosted space over the years. Some complete songs, some incomplete songs, some demos, some strange effects, and some category-defying rarities. Some of them are linked to from old LiveJournal posts that only a historian would ever look at again (and he would probably assume the links are broken by now), or were linked to from the old pre-blog Web 1.0 version of keithhandy.com. Some were put up temporarily just to be shared with someone else, and I never got around to removing them.
In any event, without any present-day links, they’re all up there collecting cyber-dust. So help yourself! Dig in! Mix and match! Make your own ultimate Keith Handy mashup album!
http://keithhandy.com/audio-coding_example_1.mp3
I wrote some code that helps to lay out a “grid” for a song with uneven tempo. It first finds the loudest beats in a recording, and then interpolates all the beats inbetween. This way you can start with a “squishy” human performance and add sequenced stuff to it afterwards.
http://keithhandy.com/audio-coding_example_2.mp3
This is interesting — a snippet from Momentum before and after an experimental transformation that would take a-whole-nother blog to explain. (Have you ever seen “a-whole-nother” typed out? Admit it, you’ve said it, just not written it.)
http://keithhandy.com/blahblahblah.mp3
New untitled song in progress. (”Maybe it’s not all it’s cracked up to be”, etc.)
http://keithhandy.com/brownacidpartridges.mp3
This was one of the more hilarious and surreal things I’ve ever experienced, putting my family members in front of the microphone and telling them to improvise. My father is doing the lead vocal, and he swears up and down he has no idea where “little black baby” came from. I assure you we’re more progressive than that.
http://keithhandy.com/C64-bleepies.mp3
A rhythmic sound I made with a Commodore 64 emulator (similar to what I originally did with a real C64 in my teens). Legendary computer with sentimental value, but I wouldn’t want to use one on a daily basis.
http://keithhandy.com/catastrophic_noises.mp3
A collection of “catastrophic noises” that I found in various places to use as part of a piece of music. They sound hilariously jarring out of context.
http://keithhandy.com/Exactly_What_You’re_Looking_For.mp3
Exactly What You’re Looking For (aka There Will Always Be More), recorded early 90s. The instrumental lead-in is actually the recycled middle of Lullabye For A Fallen Angel from that same time period, minus the embarrassing lyrics.
http://keithhandy.com/foulsong.mp3
Earlier demo of the aforementioned untitled (blahblahblah.mp3 - “Maybe it’s not all it’s cracked up to be”, etc.) song.
http://keithhandy.com/Insomnic%20Hallucinations%20(intro).mp3
Insomnic Hallucinations (first verse and creepy middle section). Old, old song.
http://keithhandy.com/Kid_in_a_Candy_Store.mp3
Kid in a Candy Store - cool experimental instrumental made by tossing a drum track onto a backwards orchestra, and then writing complimentary guitar and piano parts to make it sound like it was written that way on purpose.
http://keithhandy.com/Kim-mix.mp3
Backing harmony part for Curtis’ Classic Collection of Comforts, unwittingly sung by Kim Pinegar. I say “unwittingly” because it was just one note snagged from another song, and I used Praat to change her pitch without turning her into a chipmunk. It’s not music software, but it works.
http://keithhandy.com/Mana%20(overdub%20talk-through).mp3
The “commentary track” for my overdubs on Mana.
http://keithhandy.com/Mana.mp3
Mana. Originally recorded early 90s. Touched up a bit for this remix.
http://keithhandy.com/Momentum.mp3
Momentum.
http://keithhandy.com/onenote17.mp3
A demonstration of what one “bin” of an FFT sounds like all by its lonesome. A “horizontal slice of sound”, if you will. FFT breaks sound up into a few thousand of these, which can be mixed back together to reconstruct the original music. It’s useful for filtering. (You don’t need to listen all the way through.)
http://keithhandy.com/Open_the_Window.mp3
Open the Window - went by the title Layers in the early 90s. I could never get a satisfying vocal sound back then. The remix of course features a speech synth. This was not a musical speech synth, though, so I had to generate all the individual pitches separately and piece them together. Are you getting the picture here? Yes, I apparently love tedium. The tediouser, the better.
http://keithhandy.com/outflute.mp3
The solo section from Outside, remixed to feature sampled mellotron. Not necessarily an improvement, just something I felt like doing.
http://keithhandy.com/partialvox.mp3
A difficult four-part harmony with only about a third of the phrases actually sung by that point. I have finished all the singing since then, but to have told you that would have been like putting chocolate and graham crackers on my s’more.
http://keithhandy.com/skeletal_curtis_(with_cheezbass).mp3
Curtis’ Classic Collection Of Comforts. Just enough to get the song across. Don’t laugh at the drums and bass — they’re just temporary. I’ve put down a real bass since then. You get to hear the fake Kim in context, anyway.
http://keithhandy.com/soulpeer-demo.mp3
Demo for new song; the working title is Soul Peer.
http://keithhandy.com/t1.mp3
This is a test. This is only a test. I only had Tracktion out of the box for maybe ten minutes before I recorded this. Kinda charming in its brevity.
http://keithhandy.com/Thank_you_anyway.mp3
I’m not sure I should have this one up. I was really feeling awful that day (about a year ago, I think). And, uh … “poison darts”? Whatever. I did say “everything”, though, so I won’t self-censor.
http://keithhandy.com/The_Mark_Walnicki_Page.mp3
The Mark Walnicki Page (instrumental).
http://keithhandy.com/tv.mp3
A “chord bed” made up of random TV sound that has been re-pitched. I love the “freaking out about something” at the end — I think that’s Jessica from One Life To Live. Not that I would know who that is.
