The Cheap Imitation
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[edit] Introductape
The Cheap Imitation was the name I used for my original musical recordings from approximately 1983 up to 1994 or so. (The idea is that the recordings are mostly just me, overdubbed, and not a real band at all -- just a cheap imitation of one.)
In 2005, I decided to start using the name "Woozalia" for solo recording, and set up woozalia.com. Most of this stuff has been moved over there, though not all of it.
[edit] Recordings
These tracks are freely redistributable under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Permission may be given for small-scale paid reproduction (as in listening clubs), but do ask first.
| Track Title | Type | Downloads |
[edit] 2007 | ||
| Your Brilliant Career | song w/words; demo | MP3 |
[edit] 2003 | ||
| 2003 remixes of old stuff | ||
| Not Your Chameleon | song with words | OGG MP3 |
| All The Beautiful Girls | song with words | MP3 |
| Don't Call the Doctor | song w/words; demo | MP3 |
| Going Through the Motions | song w/words; demo | MP3 |
| Time For You | song w/words; short | MP3 |
[edit] 1991 | ||
| Analog mixes circa 1991 | ||
| You or a Reasonable Facsimile | song w/words; demo | MP3 |
[edit] Time For You
- Type: song with words (short)
- Version: demo
- Download: MP3
- Posted: 2003.12.22
- Comments: Anna wrote this spontaneously when she was seven; the tracks were recorded in late October of 2001. We did one take of about one and a half verses, I think, and then she decided that her voice sounded too horrible and she wouldn't record anymore. So I had to patch together what I had.
- Credits:
- Words, Music, Vocals: A. Staddon
- Arrangement: N. Staddon
[edit] 2003 remixes of old stuff
These were all originally done on a quarter-inch 4-track reel deck from roughly 1983-1991 and then remixed digitally in 2003. (Currently only one track; others are in progress.)
[edit] Dana Auditorium 3AM
- Type: Instrumental (piano)
- Download: MP3
- Comments: There was this enormous Steinway concert grand sitting in Dana Auditorium at Guilford College for a few days, and I just had to do something with it. So I sat down and improvised this bit. Turned out rather better than expected.
[edit] Analog mixes circa 1991
These were also done on the quarter-inch 4-track reel deck, but mixed using a hand-wired patch-bay thingy made from a cigar box.
[edit] Daydream of the Psychoanalyst
- Type: Instrumental with weird speaking parts
- Download: MP3
- Comments: This was originally part of a sequence of tracks; I've decided I don't like the first two, at least not as they are currently recorded. The second track blends into this one; you can hear the fade-out at the beginning. The music starts after about a minute and a half if you want to skip the weird stuff. My-sister-the-mathematician does the psychiatrist bit at the end. (She's quoting "Eliza", an early attempt to fake verbal interaction with a computer. The machine pretended to be a shrink by asking leading questions without really understanding what you were saying to it. It ran on an Osborne portable.)
- The song happened mainly because of the really short sequencer on my Ensoniq Mirage; the darn thing only had about 128k and its sequencer had an upper limit of about 15 seconds. The Mirage died in 1995 and I got an EPS-M (rackmount version of the EPS), which is still very cool even if it is now also out of date. I expect I will be using the EPS for future recordings (it was used on one track of the Xmas CD Project, 2001).
[edit] Interlude #1
- Type: Instrumental (short)
- Download: MP3
[edit] Monorail to Nowhere
- Type: Instrumental with weird noises and effects
- Download: MP3
- Comments: Another track that emerged from the very short Mirage sequencer (as did "Daydream" and "Interlude #1"). I like all the weird sounds in this one, but after listening to it about 500 times over the last few years I can't tell if it succeeds artistically. Digital remix is in progress.
[edit] Hell's Hotel
- Type: Song (well, sort of) with words
- Download: MP3
- Comments: The guitar is acoustic, distorted by a very advanced technical process called "turning up the gain too high". (Can you tell this was recorded in the 1980s?) I have an idea for this song which might make it really "kick arse", but I don't know if it will work... I have to locate a certain MoG recording.
- Credits:
- Words & vocal: S. Talton -- but give her a break; she was only 15 at the time.)
[edit] Distortion
- Type: Instrumental (piano, solo guitar)
- Download: MP3
- Comments: Mixed circa 1983
[edit] Pineapple
- Type: Original audio weirdness
- Download: MP3
- Comments: This should probably also be in the Top 10 Weirdest Things I've Ever Recorded (along with "Summer Nights in White Satin" -- see Woozle's Audio Weirdness). It started innocently enough when I was trying to get an interesting rhythmic Moog noise against which to play something, and then someone who didn't know I was recording started noodling around on the other Moog (an Opus 3), and there was already some odd stuff on some of the other tracks, and it seemed like a good excuse to assemble a bunch of odd sounds and try to make them go somewhere. ("Said fed head" is my paternal parental unit, from a recording presumably made for a psychology experiment sometime in the 1960s.)
[edit] License
All the audio on this page is released under the Creative Commons license (same as the wiki, even though the files are off-site). For the purposes of the license, the author is Woozle Staddon; attribution should include a link back to http://woozalia.org (or to this page if you prefer). If anyone does want to produce any derivative work, I'd be interested in hearing about it -- and I'd probably be willing to share source files so you have a higher-quality original to work from.
