Blame Apple. First Soundtrack, then Garageband - these easy audio edit programs are just begging for abuse. Sci-Fi Sample Project tunes are made from the finest premade loops, seasoned with audio clips from old radio and TV shows, stuffed with filler and uploaded direct & fresh to you.

The "Original Music" section contains songs I wrote and played. Most of the beats were taken from Garageband, but everything else was played by your host.

Enjoy. And apologies in advance.

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The Trek Series #1 Doctor Poppycock. The first Trek sample-o-rama. Simple objective: put a bunch of McCoy’s “I am doctor not a” lines together. This one builds nicely, then turns into a Southern hoedown. Hickno, I call it. Proudest moment: timing that medical scanner sound just right. .  
The Trek Series #2 Captain Clanton. That would be Kirk. All drama and storm and bluster at first, then it switches to a porno movie soundtrack. Fitting, eh? Then it’s back to lecturing aliens about the inclusiveness of the Constitution. I can never listen to this one without remembering the drive home from the bar with Tim Blair, who pronounced it brilliant. Which is probably Australian for “not entirely embarrassing.” Spock’s cameo is my favorite part. .  
The Trek Series #3 Your Agonizer Please. Less successful, perhaps because Spock just isn’t that quotable or dramatic. I mean, how do you set Spock to music? Use that stupid harp? I added some literal Vulcan sounds – lots of anvils reminding you were the beat was. I like the groove at the end, a lot. Talley ho! .  
The Trek Series #4 Up Your Shaft. If you haven’t been following along: I’ve been doing compositions about the main characters in Star Trek. I have no idea why. This was the final one, and I saved the best for last. Like McCoy, Scotty had a tick: predicting DOOM any minute now. So let’s find a beat and put ‘em down. Alas, this one has a big dead period in the middle, because Scotty’s classic drunk talk had too much background music. But it leads to one my favorite parts: “can’t change the laws of physics / I don’t know if it can be repaired!” is a damn catchy sequence. By Bleatophany standards, anyway. .  
Soylent Green Mix. What Is the Secret? The secret of Soylent Green, that is. .  

Lights Out: Chickenheart Doom Mix. Samples taken from a famous old radio suspense program about a chickenheart that took over the world. Really. This was the second one I did on Soundtrack – a testimony to how easy that program is.

 

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Happy Robot (Uniblab Mix) Childhood memories finally purged. (March 09)

The Fair 2010 Soundtrack for a video I did for the newspaper Works better with the visuals, which are here.

Creampuff Symphony I had to come up with six minutes of music to go along with a cooking video. Seriously. This is the result.

Staccato Manana This is a poor Harold Budd imitation. Old-school synth left in for your 70s prog flashback pleasure. Slight guitar distortion at the end has convinced me to get a new amp and a better microphone. Don't mind the needless 8 seconds of silence in the beginning. (June 08)

Headin' to Eden Soundtrack for buzz.mn video on driving to Eden Prairie. Contains a small dollop of non-Herbert future hippie.

Twilight. Music used to accompany the final 2007 Fair video.

Dragnet Mix. Samples taken from the famous episode in which Friday argues drugs with a Timothy-Leary stand-in. LSD is the Bomb.

Orchestral Maneuvers in the Bush I had a reason for calling it that, but it seems less applicable as time goes on.

The Dervish. No lawsuits from Rick Wakeman yet.

Rain Rolls In End of the summer; had the keyboard out and the window open as a thunderstorm approached. This was intended as a direct steal homage to the Eno / Lanois "Apollo" album.

The News, Again

Four Yoni Call Day

Summer Morning

Summer Song		 .