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The Spids' Web

Music by AJ Matthews, AKA Spid 4

AJ Matthews records music and songs, plays about with sound software and puts the results on this site for your perusal. He's been known to play gigs on the Truro and Falmouth scenes. So far, he's made music with his voice and a flamenco guitar ~ recently messing with loopers and samplers he's broadened his palette. We should view these as kinds of collage with sound, because he finds that painters and pictures are a pretty useful source of working practice. A song could be a portrait or a landscape, but it's not going to be like a novel.

Use the pictures at the top and bottom to navigate around the site.

There are two pages of music on this site: On the Songs Page you'll find finished and polished numbers that seem like the kind of thing that might one-fine-day make up an album. On the Experiments Page you can experience material that might be less complete, more radical, or just not that great, like a sketch book.

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Max/MSP and Granular Synthesis11/19/2008
Geek news - the new song on the experiments page is a version of Blackbird I recorded with a Max/MSP patch that does granular synthesis on the guitar. I did write the patch but the hard work was done by Michael Edwards who wrote the mdeGranular~ external (for which, ta!). These details are fairly irrelevant to most earthlings but the results sound fairly lush to my ears. Hope you agree.
New Composition Methods10/1/2008
Have a look on the Experiments page at Car Song #1 and Dreadnought. I've been messing around with electronic stuff for the backing tracks ~ loops etc. It's be interesting to hear what you think.
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