barryvan

Category: Free music downloads

  • 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!

  • Clockwork

    This track is rather unusual for me; it doesn’t really fall into any of my usual styles. I personally find it quite relaxing, especially when I listen to it with headphones. Perhaps it’s a bit too relaxing: my wife had to go and have a nap after she heard the complete piece. 🙂

    Let me know what you think about it — any and all opinions are, as always, more than welcome.

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

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  • Just to say

    I would die a thousand times,
    cross the deserts, tear the skies;
    oh I would do it all

    I would do it all for you
    just to say that I love you,
    that I love you.

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

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    Comments transferred from Trax In Space and Modplug Central.

  • 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]

    Comments transferred from Trax In Space and Modplug Central.

  • Quiet Rituals

    Completed: Thursday, April 16, 2009 (Download)

    Finally, after quite a while, I’ve got a new track out. 🙂 It’s been sitting on my computer for a couple of weeks now, and there are still a few things in it that I would like to iron out, but my inability to get the time to do so means that it’s just been bugging me. So now I’ve decided to just put it up as is.

    Anyway, the track itself is quite a simple piece: I did, in fact, try to make it simple. It’s somewhat influenced by Ravel’s Bolero and the Newsboys’ The Orphan, in that it is constantly building by both adding and removing layers. It’s also, perhaps, influenced a bit by some of Coldplay’s stuff: I was listening to Viva La Vida and Prospekt’s March recently, and I was interested to note that in lots of those tracks there’s the same ‘kick on every beat’-type thing going on.

    Let me know what you think.

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/Quiet%20Rituals.mp3]

  • Spheres

    Completed: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (Download)

    Composing an ambient track is a very soothing experience for me. There’s complexity, experimentation, and simplicity, and I find that my mood is sharpened, made clearer, in the writing.

    This is how I’m feeling.

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

  • 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]

  • Ink and parchment

    Composed: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (Download)

    I have wrapped my heart in ink and parchment,
    and cast it into your sea.

    [audio:Ink%20and%20parchment.mp3]

  • Nightfall

    Composed: Monday, August 18, 2008 (Download)

    A companion piece to “Drifting”. Also in 7/8, with many of the same stylistic elements. It’s much more brooding, however, and simpler in its execution.

    [audio:http://test.pbc.wa.edu.au/music/Nightfall.mp3]