What about the music?
Making music with computers is one of the main things for me to waste time on.
All this started in 1995, when I bought my first soundcard (which was Gravis Ultrasound). Soon after I found out this card was excellent in terms of music tracking. I started making all kinds of small pieces of music which, of course, sounded awful. Time passed, the clips got better. I ended up second in Skenery '96 music competition and made it in the finals at Abduction '97 and Assembly '97.
Nowadays I make music in my own small home studio using a couple of hardware synths. Unfortunately I'm either too lazy or too busy fiddling about web projects to produce anything meaningful, but it's nice to whip up some über-cheesy pop tunes now and then.
The present studio gear:
- Yamaha EX5
- Waldorf Microwave XT
- Mackie 1402-VLZ3 mixer
- Alesis Midiverb 4
- Logic Studio 9
- Emagic MT4 midi interface
- Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 audio interface
- Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro headphones
- Behringer B2031A Truth monitor speakers
Old tracks online
There are some of my ooooold songs on the Scene.org server. The address is ftp.scene.org/pub/music/artists/rook/. All songs are in Fasttracker 2 format (.xm). Some of the songs play correctly on FT2 ONLY. Thus, use it if possible.
MP3 audio
It's called Stigma. It's the FINAL version. A slow depressive tune I'd refer to as "ambient pop" (128kbps).
It's a sibling to Stigma, it's titled Smudge and is now online (256kbps, 7.96MB)!
Dowel is just another song in the same odd genre.
Proceed is a quick song with slightly different sound.
NEW! Norn is an experiment with only three instruments (no pads, strings or such this time around). Muzak-ish.
Do you think the songs suck or rule? Write me feedback by email -> rook (at) rook.fi.
You can also download
the songs from mikseri.net
and comment on them there.