Category: Music
When I was in High School.
I firmly remember being sixteen* when my neighbour drove past me and some friends hanging out on the pavement outside my house. He had about ten years on us and had allotted a decent portion of them to experimental drug use. It was the only time that I have ever seen him excited.
He slowed to a halt and told me that he had just come from acquiring the new version of Reason 2.5 and asked if I wanted a copy. I said 'yes' not actually knowing what Reason 2.5 was, but noticed that I was excited as he was. His disapproval of sharing emotions kicked in and he quickly decided that he was wasting time even talking to me and drove off almost ashamed at having let a genuine emotion show.
An hour later I went round to ask for the disc. He was visibly annoyed with me for following through with his offer and at himself for letting me know that he had a copy (he takes pride in refusing to inconvenience himself). Within half an hour I had installed it on mine and my brother's computer so that my two friends and I could split up to cover as much ground exploring this program as we possibly could.
My team did not have any luck. Neither did Julian's (who was working alone). Julian told us knowingly that you would need to be a qualified computer engineer just to begin to understand how to use the program. Julian is now a qualified computer engineer. He unfortunately does not make use of these qualifications for their correct purpose, which is Reason. Earlier today I phoned Julian for the first time in maybe a year. I offered him R800 to pose naked while my ex-girlfriend oiled him up. He declined my offer.
The other witness to that day was Thomas. I haven't seen in him a long time. He always exhibited a healthy misanthropic attitude. He balanced it out with a genuinely brilliant and powerfully passionate creativity. I'm talking about the type of creativity that is maybe inspired by real psychological problems. He also chose not to harness Reason 2.5 and instead turned to isolation and then marriage. I've tried to contact him recently to no avail (Thomas, please get in touch with me).
I played around with the program for a bit and quickly worked a few things out despite my lack of a computer engineering qualification. And despite strongly negative reactions from every goddamn person that I pressured into listening to my stuff, I believed it to be special and innovative and continued meddling and mangling. I lost all of the earlier masterpieces because a power surge or something fried my PC. That was until a few days ago when whilst going through and throwing out a large mass of junk that was being hoarded in my house I discovered an old harddrive onto which my brother had backed up a bunch of data, including mine.
I quite enjoy the stuff actually and I think that you could quite conceivably enjoy a few of these here songs if you happened to be one of those people. I present to you an abridged version of all the music I've made since I was 16* ordered chronologically.
The first few songs are loops because it took me some time to figure out how to use the sequencer. But don't think of my crushing musical inability lacking technical background as detrimental though, think of them as being the absence of yet another set of filters carving away at pure aesthetic expression. For me.
Here we go:
16 - 19 years old (48mb)
My first album, titled The Mighty Moe Soundtrack. (Age 18) (29mb)
19-21 years old (17mb)
My second album, titled Laser Mice (Age 20) (27mb)
(*Reason 2.5 was only released when I was 17.)
(I also found a stack of rap lyrics that I had written at about the same time. I'm not going to post those. Ever.)
- ssssssssssssssssssssSebastiannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
