29 December 2021

Not William Shatner - music by Used Soyuz

I rashly chose to christen my new pop filter with some dodgy singing and a clumsy song. Composed in LMMS, with vocal and mixing in Audacity. The music sample is from 'Shatner' by The Wedding Present, and the royalty-free video is from videezy.com.

06 December 2021

My tricky third album is on Bandcamp!

05 December 2021

Pleasing Myself Parts One and Two - music by Used Soyuz

More beeps and bleating, using the wonderful VCV Rack, the free modular soft synth that has proved a dreadful time-soak. It makes great noises, but music? I'll leave that for you to judge, dear listener. I imported a quick bit of sequencer knob twiddling (thanks Omri Cohen for the tutorials) into LMMS on my Linux Lenovo, added a rhythm track, and then put self-indulgent reverbed vocals onto this first part in Audacity (but no singing thankfully). Royalty-free video from videezy.com. This is Part One (with vocals):


And here is the instrumental only Part Two: