A Birthday Song

This is A Birthday Song for a friend of mine.

He's 40 years old (not 4 Years Old).

I used the following sounds from The Freesound Project (and they are, by the way, sounds he created and shared.): 

These Are Not Cutlines 

D137(hs)2(5.1.1)b 

4bpp ov1 

4bpp ov3 

Dd137 (hs+chmix) 

The Topology of the World - New Music

Dr. Tarrec, trying to explain the topology of the world...




I used one sound from the Freesound Project for this track:
Identify 

This Accursed Melody - Soundtrack

A couple of years ago I, along with my brother and a large number of my friends and coworkers, put together a short zombie movie.  We had a lot of fun with it.  I've shared the movie here on the blog before but, for whatever reason, I never shared the music separately from the film.

So - here is the music - three songs.  And all this, of course, gives me opportunity to repost the film.




This Accursed Melody from Brad Carter on Vimeo.

Click here if you'd like to check out the script / storyboards/ and production notes.

The Long Dark (new music)

The Long Dark has fallen.  And you can hear it.


In addition to the material I recorded, I used the following sounds from the Freesound Project:

The Long Dark
Owl
01 Ah

Beneath the Secret Shadows
Ringing Tense Melodic
Ghanta – Leather Mallet
02 Organ Noise 

Ruin Is the Floral Sword of Sadness
Frogs
Children’s Toy

Unforeseen
St. Louis Waltz 1
Death Valley Waltz 1
Mystery Bend FX 14  
Guitar Arpeggio 5
Guitar Arpeggio 2
04 Guitar Drivel

A Crescent Moon Their Chariot
15:4 Loop
Mystery Bend Loop 25
Future Sounds
05 Looped Toy Piano Drone

The Suspense or the Suspension
Reverb Guitar
Error 2
Bell Ping 1
06 Long Tones with Clicks and Clacks

Temporary
Aalto Drone
07 Ahs

A Step Into the Wind

It's cold out there.  Be brave.



I created this bit of music in Ableton Live (8) using material that I recorded as well as a few sounds from the Freesound Project:

Strange Technic Logo Reveal 
Attack Keys G#2
M30 Sound (16)
Dan River - Water Gurgling Under Path

Nothing to Lose but your Banjo

My wife will not allow me to purchase a banjo.  She says that if I get a banjo then I'll insist on playing it.  And she's right.

Here is a song about banjos that includes no actual banjos.


In addition to the material that I recorded, I used a few sounds from the Freesound Project:

M30 Pad 
Scratching Beep
Reverse Opera Rough and Glitchy - I have used this sound before.
Jsyd Windpluck 
Nothing to Lose Noise
Nothing to Lose Noise 2

White Rabbit Asylum

I have mentioned on several occasions that I contribute sound recordings to The Freesound Project.  This material is sometimes used by other artists in their work.  Recently SFXNinja used a few of my sounds in piece of music entitled White Rabbit Asylum.  
"Why don't we begin?"

What the Star Left Behind

Brand new music for you to enjoy.

Thatjeffcarter Was Here
What the Star Left Behind

In addition to the material I recorded for this album, I also used the following sounds from the Freesound Project: 

Pére Aventure
Fat Beat 
Trumpet C#4 
Trumpet D4
Trumpet A4
Trumpet A5
Bubbles 
Crazy Glitch 1
Crazy Glitch 2
Bell Synth Music 

Urmx – 7
Random Noise Drone (Poseidon) 2

Mezzo
McGame Start
Sh002 
Q Crystals
String Swells

Burned Over
Bending Voice 
Noises
Distorted Skip

What the Star Left Behind
Santur Aspma 2
New Year’s Eve 2015, Novi Sad, Serbia
Star Wash Synth

Strange and Mystic Weather - New Music

Along with the material I recorded I used the following sounds from The Freesound Project:

Attack Keys C1 

Whoosh Crystal Reverse 

Ceramic Wind Chimes 

Error 2 

Glitched Birds 

A Real Nightmare - a Freesound Project

One of the sounds that I have shared at the Freesound Project has been used in a short film. A very short film.  I mean, really short.  It's  a 14 second film.

Fantastic Mysteries

I created this music in Ableton Live (8) using material I recorded and the following sounds from the Freesound Project:

01 – Short Wave Signals

02 – Secret Warnings
VyRa_01 

03 – Shore Road
Drone 2
Floating Synth Pad
Champagne Flute 

04 – The Tower
Ventilator
Mystery Bend 6
Mystery Bend 19 

05 – A Clue in the Embers
Cellos Three Chords
Steel Fence Resonation (Long #3) 

06 – Melted Coins, Crooked Arrows
Test Signal Chord Pythagorean Ratio
Reverse Opera Rough and Glitchy
Tape Start 

07 – The Lost Tunnel
Beneath Ambient 2
Fool Synth 08
Supra Beat Straight Floor Tom Rock
08 – A Figure in Hiding
09 – What Happened at Midnight

Metal Creak
Singularity Sky 

The Four Visions of Dr. Tarrec - New Music

It was in the 38^th year of my life that I was given a series of four visions, strange and bewildering dreams that foretold in symbolic fashion the future history of our world.  I recorded my impressions and memory of these visions but was told, at the time, to keep them sealed and hidden.  But now, these many, many years later am permitted to disclose what was revealed to me.

The First Vision
An angel having six wings came to me in the night and stood by my bed.  He said to me, “Doctor, it is given to you to see and to know of what must be.  Behold; the end of this present age is not far off.”  The angel stretched out his arm and pointed to the far wall of the room, and there upon the surface of the wall a saw a woman, dressed in silver pursued across the desert by a man (who was not a man) with no face.  She was fleeing from his wrath and his fury toward a glowing city on the horizon.  When this faceless man (who was not a man) realized that he could not catch her, he rose into the air and sprayed the sky with a sparkling poison.

The Second Vision
I saw a sorrowful woman of surpassing beauty weeping, for she was in great misery.  Her tears formed a pool around her feet.  But then she was transformed into a great horned owl.  And when she expanded her wings to their full length, they blotted out the moon and the world was submerged into darkest night.

The Third Vision
The angel showed me a violent storm over the ocean.  There was much lightning and loud wind.  Suddenly a sea serpent broke through the surface of the waters, roaring louder than the winds of the storm.  He stretched his neck up through the clouds and began to devour the stars.

The Fourth Vision
There was a well secured castle, with fortified towers and gates floating upon a bed of fog.  And a guard and the gates called out to me, “None shall enter this city.  No one, by any means shall pass through these gates.”  Then the seven arc-angels of heaven came down and began to chant one of the celestial songs.  The words were strange and unreportable.  I watched in amazement as the castle began to disappear and the fog dissipated into the dawn.

And after the visions had been shown to me, I asked the angel, “What do these things mean?”  But he did not reply.  No answer was given. 

Sound Samples from the Freesound Project 

The First Vision
Off Charger 

The Second Vision
Crickets 

Owl 

The Third Vision
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Vinyl Scratch
Kernel Crash 

I Have Two Words For You: Predator Drones (You Think I'm Joking)

I don't think it's funny that he's not joking - and making a joke of it at the same time.

You can download it here.

Created in Ableton Live (8) using a few sounds from the Freesound Project: 

Totalwreckmix
Military Helicopter
Norwegian F-16 Passing Overhead
Whistling Firework
Police Siren
Distant Tank Shots
Ghost Carnival
Glitch Speech Beep

There Is Something in the Wind

The patterns have shifted, the circuits have changed.
We cannot trust the forecasts;
our predictions are skewed.
There is something in the wind.









I created this musical piece in Ableton Live (8) and used a couple of sounds from the Freesound Project:
Dull Metal Wind Chimes
Start Beeps

A Sound Abundance of Rain

The title is derived from 1 Kings 18:41
I created this in Ableton Live using material I recorded myself as well as a few sounds from the Freesound Project:

circuit bent 1 2 

our chimes 

horrible glitch beeps

rain storm

Garbled in Transmission - New Music from Thatjeffcarter Was Here

It's an inexpensive download - and the money goes to support the work of The Salvation Army in Newton, Iowa.


Created in Ableton Live using material I recorded and the following sounds from the Freesound Project:

Random Recording 2 

Digital Glitch 28 

Digital Glitch 26 

Digital Glitch 24 

Digital Glitch 22 

Digital Glitch 15 

FX3 

Timpani Epix 

Broken Machine 1 

Poppy Violin Sustains 

Rhythm Beats Loops 

Icing Nicely 

The Third Time - New Music

Some new music for you.  Feel free to download it.





I used a couple of sounds from the Freesound Project:
Ambient Drum + Percussion Loop
Synth Sounds

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent - Music for the Great Sabbath

Download it here if you like.

I used the following sounds from the Freesound Project:
Synthe grave sourd
Coyote from the front door
Raven calls
Cheap flute
Lobby with laughter

Ritual at Eleven (Punch and Cookies to Follow)

Modernist composer Edgard Varèse (1883 – 1965) described music as “organized sound.”  This is an example of that.  Created in Ableton Live (8) with material of my recording, a sound sample from the movie The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974) and one sound from the Freesound Project.

Bell Synth

Bitter Water / Smoke