One of the things that is beautiful to do on the Amiga, and for which an Amiga is a beautiful choice, is music construction.   Obviously, an Amiga is not the only way to generate music; neither is it the only way to do it on a computer.   If I need to tell you this, then I'm glad I have, for certainly, there are few computers that can't generate some form of music, particularly if you take music in the most fundamental (please forgive that pun, music theorists :^) sense.   In fact, there are numerous programs written for nearly every extant computer platform with their purpose being to generate some type of music.   Many of them are of "tracker" style, which is, in essense, laid out like a representation of a tape, on which there are marks which indicate notes to be played via synthesized instrument, samples, or MIDI.   Most of the rest attempt to recreate the traditional music notation with staves and cleffs and Latin words in italics to denote various things.   Unfortunately, the latter style (which is sometimes merely an option of the former :^) is far too restrictive, because it is usually written within a narrow understanding of the essence of music.   That is to say that the programmers feel proud to offer you a variety of time signatures, which will allow you do just about anything ­ or so they think.   In reality, what you get are the most common time signatures (sometimes only 4/4 and 3/4 8^[), allowing you to computerize sheet music, or write pieces with a traditional sense to them.   This, to me, is a nothing more than a nice-looking fetter of innovation.

Yes, I realize that this is naught but blasphemy against everyone who's managed to write good, valuable music without straying from the path of traditional duality.   Nonetheless, I strive to escape this, and avoid writing such things myself.   Unfortunately, my compositional prowess is unhoned, and my continuity is often little better than disjoint; however, this doesn't bother me extensively, since I can derive great pleasure from disjointedness ­ now if only that were always my intent....   ;^)

Here are a song and a half from solder.   See what you think.   Be warned that these, as you should note yourself, are in MED format, so if you haven't a MED player, then you may have to suffer.   There are a number of them for the Amiga, but i can't speak for any of the other platforms....   It also really helps if you've set up a MIME type for .med files that utilizes octamedplayer (or some equivalently functionaly med player) as the viewer for it....   This is absolutely not to say that you can't just DL it to a file to listen to it, you multitasker, you; I just think it's cool to click and listen....   ;^)

The complete song (the first one) is the first venture into the above-mentioned departure from tradition.   The second, incomplete song is not so exemplifying of that, but that is due to it's intent as a sequel to some other songs written by cybergrind.   Understand that there is no shortage of intricacy and complexity in much of cybergrind's composition; it is merely an example of a brilliant composer with the mental capacity to function very well within the establishment.

Here are some really sad examples of some of the best music I've ever heard.   As with the solder songs, these are MEDs, so be sure you have a MED player before you waste your net time DLing these.   :^)   This is your [re]introduction to cybergrind.
This wee song takes advantage of the freedom to write a very simple, but catchy snip.
Here is a tale of the cessation of assimilation.   ...now if only you got to hear the mix with the vox....   :^)
...and now for the best of these dinky, simple songs ­ a true amuser ­ that does not require anything made by digital, cadaver or quick.
If you have anything to say about any of these songs, then please let us know.
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