dacca

Let's live on Mars in 3D printed ice houses! Check out the concept here: http://www.marsicehouse.com ---------------------------- Image sourced from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_Ice_House.jpg (Labelled for re-use with modification)

Let's funk! One of my Apple loop compositions. I hope you like it...it's free!

I was inspired to create this original piece because of one of my all-time favourite guitarists, Steve Hackett https://soundcloud.com/steve-hackett-official. Equally at ease with acoustic, classical and electric guitars, he is amazing. I saw him several times in concert, and met him once. ------------ Image taken from: Hermia and Lysander by John Simmons (1870) ------------ I used some of these in...

Space is art. All synths played manually.

I was reflecting on Trump's visit to China 9th November 2017. I'm not a Trump fan, nor a fan of Fascism. I'm not a fan of Communism either. But there is still much to admire in both nations, over time as well as now. I want peace, and I hope against hope that these two great nations can maintain peaceful and prosperous relations. Your life may depend upon it. ----------------------- Yeah, another...

All synths played manually, with Apple Loop acoustic guitar and delayed electric rock guitar arranged to suit the synth tracks. I wanted to create a track that initially met our expectations regarding cold machine intelligence, but then introduce some warmth and emotion - through both the synths and acoustic guitar strumming - that ebbs and flows just like human intelligence. The understated elect...

The hip hop beats were created using Novation Launchpad, to which I added a manually played "Playful Melody" synth, koto and guzheng stringed instruments, taiko drums, and Chinese percussion. Combined with the Asian instruments, the hip hop sounded extra cool to me hence the title.

With this track imagine you are the RAF observer looking at the tiny remote aircraft battling high above in the sky back in World War Two. I've tried to capture the fragility of life that the chap on the roof in the photograph might have observed on that particular day - one of many during the Battle Of Britain - back in 1940. I have tried to create a track that is respectful. At the same time, I...

This is (mostly) one of my Apple Loop compositions, with a little supplementary manual playing on power guitar and drum kit.

"More human than human", that was their motto. It didn't save them...in fact, it brought about their downfall. ----------- Image: The original Tyrell Corporation Model From Blade Runner, Ilona Gaynor, Flickr ----------- Created using the awesome Dystopia pack from Novation Launchpad, ThumbJam electric guitar (with a lot of sustained notes), GarageBand hard rock guitar on my favourite dacca setting...

I just threw this together using various guitars, electric P-bass, grand piano, a vintage drum kit and my favourite rock guitar sound from GarageBand. I was feeling sad, disconnected, but thinking about the sad state of affairs in our world. I believe in freedom of thought, which makes me - and people like me - a terrorist in Saudi Arabia (a nation that exports actual terrorism), and so freethinke...

With Halloween 2017 coming up I thought I'd try for a scary rock track. Our protagonist cannot resist a call - a whisper in his mind - to walk deep into the fog, though his pace slows when he see the apparition before him... The track features three drum kit tracks, electric bass, some cello and upright bass, a Sunriser synth (I had a lot of fun playing with the settings on that), ThumbJam electri...

What we do in life...echoes in eternity. Sounds familiar? It's one of Russell Crowe's lines from Gladiator...great movie but that line sometimes feels a bit corny. But what if, like gravity waves, our lives are writ in space-time for all of eternity? I don't mean that your future is pre-determined. I mean that your life is woven into space-time as you live it, based upon the choices you make and t...

This is one of my Apple loop compositions. It's a fun and somewhat quirky reggae track with a "spooky" feel. I hope it gives you pleasure!

I used an FX repeater and staggered double-tracked guitar lead to create that Groundhog Day blues feel. I hope you like it. ------------------- Music: David Coutts (roots guitar, hard rock guitar, Liverpool bass, vintage drum kit [manual], vintage drum kit [smart instrument], FX Repeater) ------------------- Image modified from: 'Groundhog Day 2016' by 7th Street Theatre, Flickr

I'm approaching 200,000 plays and I created this new version of my track Shooting Stars https://soundcloud.com/dacca/shooting-stars to celebrate. ------------ Interestingly, for me at least, I discovered a "feature" (problem) in Logic Pro X whilst creating this version of Shooting Stars. I normally start with a blank slate in Logic Pro X, and select the option to add a software instrument. Logic P...

Creating this made me think back to some of my tracks on my "I ♥ Stars" playlist https://soundcloud.com/dacca/sets/i-stars, so I added it that collection.

Trust me, I know the signs when space melancholia sets in. Mine started soon after the unfulfilled promise of the Apollo program... ------------ Don't me me wrong, I am a HUGE Elon Musk fan. This is not any form of criticism of Musk, this is my agreement with his throwaway statement "It’s 2017. We Should Have A Lunar Base By Now." The 'Space Melancholia' concept is my own sad interpretation of tha...

Inspired by the very successful - IMHO - sequel to Bladerunner. I was lucky enough to see it in 3D IMAX, on the world's largest screen, in Melbourne. I wanted to create a majestic synthesiser piece backed by various machine drum kits. Enjoy your future. The future is theirs. ----------------- I revisit the world of Bladerunner, Blackout 2022, and Bladerunner 2049 in my epic 18 min piece "The Fall...

Two of my favourite things to think about are...nothing and infinity. These are most certainly mathematical concepts, but to me they are also questions of philosophical significance. Zero to me represents nihilism, a belief in nothing. This is a devastatingly powerful concept, I feel. Infinity, on the other hand, is a good numerical symbol for human creativity...especially when it comes to music,...

As I was creating this ambient rock piece I kept thinking about our memories, and how they sometimes cry out to us when we least expect it. The backing track was created recording live loops from Blocs Wave, to which I added manually played GarageBand double bass, and ThumbJam guitar played through the "Metal On A Mountain Top" amp from AmpKit. With the guitar I turned down the volume and switched...

The young sorceress gathers arcane energies around her, focussing on the dark runic stone in her hand. An ancient evil stirs, answering her call. But can she control the creature? ------------ Artwork for inspiration: "dark magic" by furk on DeviantArt (image proportions adjusted by me to square the image, and I added the runic symbol in her hand).

"Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies, But stranger still is Lost Carcosa. Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa." "Cassilda's Song" in The King in Yellow Act 1, Scene 2 from "The K...

I am a space explorer...a space traveller...some call us star finders. It's a lonely life sometimes, exploring distant sights only accessible through the ancient transit points. Star gates - nobody knows who built them, but they still work. I am one of thousands of star finders that map the transit system. Yes, we star finders may number in the thousands, but the universe is unimaginably vast and...

Once again Paul Racle and friends https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends have produced a wonderful open collaboration: https://soundcloud.com/paploviante-and-friends/the-dust-has-gone-paploviante-open-collab I've taken the idea of missing dust and turned it into regolith...on the moon! Who stole that moon dust? Thanks guys! ---------------- Image: Apollo 11 bootprint, NASA