barryvan

Category: EDM

  • [Music] Juggernaut

    A piece in the same vein as Fluorescent. My wife describes this piece as “dystopian”. I, of course, had to reply with this rather witty riposte: “Dystopia? I ’ardly even know ’er!”.

    This piece is somewhat heavier than some of my other recent endeavours, but hopefully not too much so. In terms of VSTis, it makes use of the usual culprits: Reaktor, Massive, FM8, and Kontakt.

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/Juggernaut.mp3]
    (Download)

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    Juggernaut by Barry van Oudtshoorn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

  • [Music] Fluorescent

    So I’ve been playing a bit of Unreal Tournament 3 of late, and UT3 happens to have a pretty awesome demoscene-inspired soundtrack. I guess it was inevitable that I should would go down that path as well! This piece is the result. It gave me the chance to dust off some of my less-often-used VSTis; Reaktor, Absynth and Battery all get a look-in on this track.

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/Fluorescent.mp3]
    (Download)

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    Fluorescent by Barry van Oudtshoorn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

  • Piece-a-week: The subtle monkey

    This year, I’ve decided to try something new with my music. I’m going to endeavour to produce something each week, and put it up here for public consumption. The idea is that it’ll force me to write more music. Bear in mind that I can’t guarantee that what I put up will be any good! 🙂

    So, to kick it all off, here’s a track I wrote in not very much time, entitled “The subtle monkey”. (Track nomenclature has never been one of my strong points.) Let me know what you think!

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/The subtle monkey.mp3]
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    The Subtle Monkey by Barry van Oudtshoorn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

  • [Music] Ventilate

    Well, it’s been a fair while since I last uploaded a piece of music — over two months, in fact! So here’s my latest piece.

    This piece actually started out as an experiment — I recently got my hands on all sorts of shiny new toys, and my DAW got an awesome upgrade, so I couldn’t resist seeing what I could do with them.

    I managed to use all but one of the products that came with Komplete to make this track — FM8, Massive, Reaktor, Guitar Rig, Kontakt, and Battery. Much fun. 😀

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/Ventilate.mp3]

    Hmm… For some reason, the version of this uploaded to thesixtyone gets some distortion on the bass during the intro section. I’ve tried uploading at various bitrates, multiple times, but it still keeps on happening. I think they must be doing some re-encoding. :/ Very annoying.

  • Songpack #1

    [Download archive]

    I’ve uploaded an archive of my music for easier download. This archive currently contains eighteen tracks, eight of which are no longer available anywhere else! The tracks included in this pack are:

    I may well create other ‘songpacks’ for download, so keep checking back. There’ll always be a couple of exclusive tracks in each pack, so it’ll be worth your while. I hope. 🙂

    Download all eighteen tracks now!

  • Twelve Nineteen

    This one’s actually been sitting on my computer for a month or so now — I just haven’t been able to render it to wave, because my system just wasn’t fast enough. Today, though, I got a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and everything just purrs along, barely touching the processor. Very Happy

    Anyway, about the music itself. This piece is basically me having fun with Kontakt — each of the eight instruments has fairly complex insert effect chains, a couple of send effects, and a couple of modulated group inserts, too. Smile Basically, lots of effects, for some nice sound degradation.

    Because I’m still not a fan of OpenMPT’s automation handling, I managed to find a nice little workaround, that I used on a couple of instruments: I modulate various effects using the MIDI volume. This means that working with the modulation is much more immediate, and it also means that I can modulate a couple of different effects simultaneously completely independently.

    The piece is, hopefully, quite fun to listen to — it was definitely fun to write. Let me know what you think!

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/TwelveNineteen.mp3]

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  • Evening with you

    Completed: Friday, January 23, 2009 (Download)

    I admit, I didn’t envisage this track going quite the way it did. 🙂 Comments and criticisms are, as always, more than welcome.

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/Evening%20with%20you.mp3]

  • Rebellion

    Composed: Monday, October 27, 2008 (Download)

    A glitchier, more off-the-beat track based around a C# pedal point. This one was fun to write, because I got to play with the various sound effect and drum kit libraries I have, and slice up some effect loops from my libraries, too.

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/Rebellion.mp3]

  • The call

    Composed: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 (Download)

    This track tells the story of a conversation between two people, with very different characters.

    It also tells the story of how my musical output soars when I have lots of other work to do for university. :/

    [audio:http://test.pbc.wa.edu.au/music/The%20call.mp3]

  • It’s quiet at home

    Composed: Friday, April 18, 2008 (Download)

    I came home one afternoon really stressed out: it hadn’t been the best day, let alone the best week. The house was empty; I dumped my things and sprawled on the couch. As I sat, I realised just how soothing a few moments of quiet can be. With the opportunity to simply relax, I felt all the stress begin to fall away. This song is how I felt when it was quiet at home.

    [audio:http://test.pbc.wa.edu.au/music/It%27s%20quiet%20at%20home.mp3]