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Salame’! I am uploading two of my songs. Both happen to be from my Year 12 soundtech/arranging work.

Soundtech

This one is my soundtech. It’s meant to be pretty heavy I guess, but with a hint of pokemon music, some carnivale and a zest of JAZZZ.

Zelda Arrangement

This one is my arrangement of the “Lost Woods” music from the great and epic Nintendo 64 game Zelda and the Ocarina of Time. I arranged it into a sort of quirky style inspired by Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists - it is a guitar quartet. This recording features Scotta Ricotta, Jenna, Mr K and myself playing acoustic guitars.

Yours sincerely,
Jamie S

Sorry I’m starting to hate titles. Instrumental songs usually have crap titles also so I thought I better cop out. Anyway this uses a drum sample from Zep I that I processed heaps and cut up etc. It’s a little harsh I find but fun to work with. I tried to get a really goth piano sound using a spring impulse in a convolution reverb. Actually there’s one more sample. The high wailing sound is a chord I plucked from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring a while back. Anyway - please enjoy. I hope I have time to do more music soon.

Listen to Song 893582 (link)

Thanks.

Jacob

Hey buds. The Goat and I are just starting up our summer jobs that are comprised of using blogs etc for whoever will pay us for it. It is pretty mayhemIK but we hope to begin prospering in the near future. Basically we are trying to find a way to get people to pay us to blog for them instead of working at Maccas but we really have no idea what’s going on yet. We started with some little blogs to begin our empire and get the conversation going at wordpress.com. First stop seems to be with VAF speakers. Mr VAF and Jamie’s dad seem to be conspiring about something that is hard to understand but sounds a treat if we get cool work out of it. The new Wholesale Meat Mediablog is now existent in it’s very own subdomain. Links to our experiment below. Yakface (RSS feed) Salamano (RSS feed) WSE Mediablog (RSS feed)Salame!

Most of the Wholesale Meat people were involved in a year 12 subject this year called Music Technology where you can pretty much do anything you want that is either recording or creating music by electronic means. My plan is to try to post everyone’s projects here at some point so we can all listen to each other’s work, but I need to get around to finding copies of everyone’s stuff. I’ll post my stuff for now which includes one song length major project and short minor projects (in a zip file).

Jacob’s Major Project
My major project is a sequenced piece that uses a mix of straight computer sounds, recordings and melodic samples played in a sampler. All the voices were sampled from random AM and FM radio stations on various afternoons. Basically it’s meant to be about when you’re sitting in the car listening to random meaningless stuff on the radio. In a way it’s an irritating noise that distracts you from whatever boring activity is wasting your life away BUT the other side of the story (and the one I prefer) is that it’s also possible to kind of enjoy those pleasant voices when you’re tired and bored and half-conscious. It’s kind of a blissful way to waste time - I’ve grown quite attached to the pleasant old ladies and their waltz around the kitchen. I particularly had fun looping gong samples - I’ve always wanted my own gong so I could do that kind of thing. Tubular Bells would also be rad (while we’re on the subject of instruments I want).

Jacob’s Minor Projects
The minor projects are designed to try and showcase a couple of production techniques within a short excerpt of music.

Jacob

Hey everyone
These are some songs that eventuated from some family grooves at a beach house at Middleton last summer. Please enjoy. A couple of songs are jazz oriented, while “My Wee’s are Yellow” takes cues from popular music and Air Safety brings world music to the masses.

My Wees are Yellow
Written by Lucas Sly with some random family members featuring Lucas Sly on guitar and lead vocals

Slower Jazz Song
With Jamie, Miles, Lucas and Jacob

Happy Jazz Song
With Jamie, Jacob and Miles

Air Safety (Plane Taking Off)
With Jamie, Jacob and Miles

These recordings originated on a school music tour when we used our breakfast budget to invest in two capsicums which entertained us for most of the night. We were pretty inspired and so we quickly recorded some songs on mp3 players. This all happened ages ago, but Dazza and I just decided to process the files a bit in logic and I figured it might be nice to get some downloadable gifts up here.

The 7 Days of Capsicum
Capsicus
if u like 2
if u like 2 (Second Edition)

This is approximately the fourth Meat website so far. A meat website reappears courtesy of hosting donated by Mike Seyfang and the end of exams. It will probably change a fair bit in the near future while we work out the best way to do things. Also by the way we got a second domain - wholesalemeatenterprises.com - don’t know what to do with it quite yet but it’s pretty cool for now.