{"id":3344,"date":"2012-05-14T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?page_id=3344"},"modified":"2012-05-14T01:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T07:00:37","slug":"creations-2000","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/musics\/creations-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Creations 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/creations.jpg\" alt=\"Creations 2000\" class=alignright \/>Creations 2000 is a CD-R of direct output from a Sony Playstation, specifically from a program called MTV Music Generator.  It was a surprisingly powerful loop-based music sandbox, one which could easily overload the PS1&#8217;s available RAM if you got too elaborate with stuff.  Some of these tracks, such as &#8220;Cut, Pasted, Wasted,&#8221; were all about figuring how to use the thing.  Later on, with the &#8220;I Got Yer Alien Ear Right Here&#8221; tracks (so named as a playful jab toward Alien Ear Music, a.k.a. composer Evan Chen, who did the music for the Babylon 5 spinoff series Crusade), I started really screwing with settings, which taxed the system but produced far more interesting results.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still torn about whether or not any of this constitutes real music, since I didn&#8217;t play a single instrument, but at the very least it&#8217;s fun to put together.  Since I was working on a copious amount of horse sales videos for the family farm at the time, a lot of the tracks are assigned to particular horses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cut, Pasted, Wasted<\/strong><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/wasted.mp3]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ballad Of Shel Hannah<\/strong><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/shel.mp3]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Song For Sultry<\/strong><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/sultry.mp3]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Voodoo&#8217;s New &#8216;Do<\/strong><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/voo.mp3]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Riyala&#8217;s Romp<\/strong><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/riyala.mp3]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve Got Yer Alien Ear Right Here #1<\/strong><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/ear1.mp3]<br \/>\nThis is where I started messing with multiple key changes within a specific sample, something which really starts to eat into Music Generator&#8217;s available RAM.  The &#8220;I Got Yer Alien Ear Right Here&#8221; tracks are meant to be strange, evoking something not unlike the cantina music from Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve Got Yer Alien Ear Right Here #2<\/strong><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/ear2.mp3]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Krista&#8217;s Trancey Prance<\/strong><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/krista.mp3]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve Got Yer Alien Ear Right Here #3<\/strong><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/ear3.mp3]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Running With Raquina<\/strong><br \/>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/music\/raquina.mp3]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creations 2000 is a CD-R of direct output from a Sony Playstation, specifically from a program called MTV Music Generator. 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