Music

Void In Quebec

Late last year, I started writing some NES-inspired 8-bit music—I say ‘inspired’, because I used OpenMPT and YMCK’s Magical 8bit Plug instead of the original hardware. The method might not be much like the real thing but the sound essentially is, including all the original constraints (e.g. being limited to one noise channel, one triangle wave channel, and two pulse wave channels).

I was planning on putting together and releasing an EP-length collection of these ersatz 8-bit tunes but my focus shifted onto other things. It’s been months since I last worked on them, and the odds are most won’t be properly completed. A couple of tracks have been finished, however, and so I packaged them up along with an alternative version of the title track to come up with this:

Dashiell Dunn & The Odds - Void In Quebec

Download

You can download the entire Void In Quebec single (zip, 14 MB) or download the individual tracks:

  1. Void In Quebec (mp3, 7.55 MB)
  2. À Consommer Avant (mp3, 3.98 MB)
  3. Je Me Souviens (mp3, 2.74 MB)

License

Creative Commons License
Void In Quebec by Dashiell Dunn & The Odds is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

I love derivative works! Let me know if you’ve made one.

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Void In Quebec is a three-track single featuring NES-inspired 8-bit music.

Russian Caravan

While most of the music I’ve been composing has been for one project or another that in the end may or may not get released, this little (39 seconds) piece came about by sheer happenstance. So, I’m throwing it up on the blog.

Russian Caravan

Russian Caravan (920 KB)

No sequencing or trackers involved. The acoustic percussion is based on a couple of ~5 second bits that I cut from a recording I made, edited and stuck together in Audacity. The bass and accordion parts are MIDI but were recorded ‘live’ on the computer keyboard (with Virtual Piano).

You too can play along at home with the chords F# minor, E major, A major, G# diminished, and C# minor. Funky percussion not notated.

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