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27:19

In a Lonely Club, by Patterns of Life

3:51

Alight on a Moonlit Flower, By Patterns of Life

3:29

Live on An Island, by Patterns of Life

2:32

The Jury's Out, By Patterns of Life

4:09

Do You Feel This Magic? by Patterns of Life

2:23

You Don't Know My Anxieties, By Patterns of Life

Uptempo Instrumental. This one started off from an old idea I hadn't written down correctly - I didn't have to start again but the original idea was unrecoverable. The main problem was lack of knowledge on a couple of synth sounds I intended, and that has a massive impact on melodic work etc. I only had about 4 bars of music written, with the wrong or no sounds... The thing I find best to do in these circumstances is to see where the journey takes you, and extremely pleased where I ended up. This is my newly laid out studio in full flight - well at least 4 of the synths in it, some FX and my Akai MPC. Hope you enjoy.
If you like my uptempo stuff, I have a new playlist:-
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27:19

1 versus the X, an Akai MPC discussion

Просмотров 75914 дней назад

A video missive/essay about adding an Akai MPC X to my studio after 2 years with an MPC1, (the studio run by an MPC2500 until the X purchase). Just a bit of a comparison, why the price difference and what my initial contact with the X has been like (after approx. 3 weeks of owning it). Some of my first tracks with the X are included here:- patternsoflife.bandcamp.com/album/uptempo-stuff And I a...

3:51

In a Lonely Club, by Patterns of Life

Просмотров 6321 день назад

Quite funky Instrumental. Rather pleased with this one; written on the bed in the spare room! The studio was undergoing re-arrangement... The name came from the feel of the music; I didn't intend to do a video as the obvious thing to do is show an empty nightclub and stuff like that. I felt some of the AI generated images from a previous project suited, and also there's a snippet of AI generate...

Alight on a Moonlit Flower, By Patterns of Life

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Alight on a Moonlit Flower, By Patterns of Life

Просмотров 48Месяц назад

A more gentle instrumental. The video is all AI images from me playing with the song title and words associated with my composition process, courtesy of www.craiyon.com/ I didn't mention robots however.... There are a lot more images, it was quite fun for an hour or so! I hope to you them in future videos but not as 100% of the footage like this one. The thumbnail is not AI, photography is also...

2:32

Live on An Island, by Patterns of Life

Просмотров 90Месяц назад

Instrumental about the emotions being on an Island, I love the West coast of Scotland, the Orkneys, Lindisfarne and many other islands around the UK which is, of course, a large island itself. Much as we love moaning and running ourselves down, the UK is a great place to live, especially when near the sea - I live about 5 miles from my nearest coastline. There are several music videos of mine i...

4:09

The Jury's Out, By Patterns of Life

Просмотров 75Месяц назад

Uptempo instrumental. This is essentially me just jamming over a drum/bass pattern I rather liked; I even got a little lazy and just transposed the bass sequence rather than playing new bits like I usually do. I added the percussion and organ sound to make more like a regular piece of music and all done! Very quick and great fun. If you enjoy it half as much as I did playing it I will be very p...

Do You Feel This Magic? by Patterns of Life

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Do You Feel This Magic? by Patterns of Life

Просмотров 752 месяца назад

Released "early" as a thank you on reaching 100 subscribers today! THANK YOU!! An old, old, old song I'm still very proud of. It is from the days I played, recorded and sang live to stereo. I still do now in some ways but usually get everything recorded and then do the mix. I wanted my next video to be a song with lyrics for a change; I had intended it to be one from my Bandcamp album, A Song S...

3:46

Cosmagasm, By Patterns of Life

Просмотров 352 месяца назад

Uptempo instrumental, possibly even a bit rowdy. This was an accidental video in that I was using it to learn how to use Shotcut, (a free video editing program), better - particularly the use of keyframes and liked where it all got to! www.shotcut.org/

3:25

MPC One CV/Gate playing

Просмотров 1452 месяца назад

A very rough and ready video testing out triggering gear via the CV/Gate outs on the Akai MPC1.

4:17

Witches Butter, by Patterns of Life

Просмотров 682 месяца назад

Instrumental. This started as an idea during a walk in a woods in Tennessee with a friend; doing a song arrangement around the lifecycle of Witches Butter. Most of the photos and video is from that Tennessee visit, but thanks go to Mix-it and Pexels for a couple of clips. I would have had more photos of Witches Butter but had a little bit of an accident.... I didn't know that Witches Butter eat...

Lifting the Sonar Eclipse, by Beaucarnea

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Lifting the Sonar Eclipse, by Beaucarnea

Просмотров 272 месяца назад

An Instrumental collaboration between @maydonpoliris and myself. Our first to not feature any AE modular at all, more by accident than anything else. Maydon started with the bassline and we grew from there, mostly using the Akai MPC1. I did the final mix and Maydon created the video, hope you enjoy. Our video playlist ruclips.net/video/1sCwl97mFOE/видео.html This video on his channel:- ruclips....

Random Bits of Life, by Patterns of Life

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Random Bits of Life, by Patterns of Life

Просмотров 503 месяца назад

Instrumental, mostly uptempo and a it more lively than some of my more recent ones. This song was only completed a few days ago, and got the urge to do a video for it as the title created a few options.... The music actually started out not as a song idea, but just something I wanted to try with the bass, and it evolved into this. The video does a few things I've not done before, including usin...

You Ran in the Wrong Direction, by Patterns of Life

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You Ran in the Wrong Direction, by Patterns of Life

Просмотров 413 месяца назад

Instrumental. A recent completion from loving the weird bell-like lead sound (from an Arturia Minibrute 2), fiddling in the studio, and an idea for the arrangement. It was never intended to be a video as not one of my more accessible tracks, but I had another idea and here we are... There are several music videos of mine in this youtube playlist:- ruclips.net/p/PLajTKEdGJ1LeXe3AjgGxXBsf75AmXKyD...

Wrapped Up in Everything, by Pattern of Life

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Wrapped Up in Everything, by Pattern of Life

Просмотров 365 месяцев назад

Rowdy Instrumental. When I got my first MPC many years ago, I went a bit mad with adding samples to my music, some songs have never been published/released because I feel the music is spoilt by too much ear candy/ distraction. The MPC however, did lead me to a new era of being able to do much more with arrangements, and part of this was me having several attempts at doing rowdy songs. This was ...

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The Sky is Falling, by Patterns of Life

Просмотров 1015 месяцев назад

Rowdy, uptempo Instrumental. I bought a new plug in for my Akai MPC1, an FM synth which I quite fancied as they made some of the best sounds of the late 80s, early 90s. I particularly liked some of the synth bass sounds, and this plug in came with some crackers as "presets" (you can adjust them). This song was the result of jamming with my favourite, which was then arranged into a complete piec...