Ian Tindale’s Music

...(some of it, anyway)

Here are some of the musical works I’ve created over the years. Some are presented as mp3 files, some as mp4 files.

They’ll quite likely need downloading in their entire form before playing can start but perhaps some players on some computers can begin playing a file that is only partially downloaded. Who knows.

June 2007: Old cassette, new finding!

The Waterfall Behind The Door — aac/m4a

© Ian Tindale about 1993ish? I actually can’t remember how I did this, when I did this, where I was living, and what I used to make it with. Now that I’ve heard it, I certainly remember it’s me. This would’ve been prior to 1994. This is dubbed from cassette into the digital domain (thanks Mark Boulton) from probably the only version that exists.

Greenwich

Waiting — (prototype 3) aac/m4a • Waiting — (final, fast) aac/m4a • Waiting — (final, slow) aac/m4a

© Ian Tindale about 1998ish. This was a final development of the “Pushing The Envelope” and “Futon The Break” works, and structured to accommodate lyrics (which never materialised). This final version has the 808 doing a samba.

Pushing The Envelope — mp3

© Ian Tindale about 1998ish. Early work on a concept created on my Yamaha QY20, abstracted from the main project.

Futon The Break — mp3

© Ian Tindale about 1998ish. Early work on a concept created on my Yamaha QY20, much of which was composed on my daily train journey.

Pointless — mp3

© Ian Tindale about 1997ish.

Ice Age 4, edit — mp4

© Ian Tindale about 1997ish. This was created using an all analogue arrangement, with heavy use of Korg SQ10, MS10 and analogue delay. The master clock was the CSQ-600.

Upton Park

Inglybinglydingly 4, edit — mp4

© Ian Tindale about 1996ish. This was created using an all analogue arrangement, with mostly SH-09, MC-202, TR-808, a Lexicon Vortex and Alex, and analogue delay — all dubbed onto a Tascam 4-track.

Track 5 — mp4

© Ian Tindale about 1995ish. This was one of many tracks done for an issue of Digital Dreams magazine. Not a hundred percent analogue, only mostly. Also, sequenced on a computer (Freestyle on Mac) before I gave up using computer sequencers shortly after the project.

Beckton

Strategy — mp3

© Ian Tindale about 1994ish. This was one of my own tracks, while I was otherwise occupied doing Digital Dreams music. Sequenced on a computer (Freestyle on Mac).

Chichester

Multiple Gravity — mp4 (or an mp3 version)

© Ian Tindale about 1993ish. This was created using a combination of recorded speech findings from Radio 4. One item is about the “fiddle tradition” and was timestretched using granular synthesis. Another item was Jo Brand interviewing Kathy Burke. This was recorded into the digital audio application Audiotrax on the Mac IIsi. The resulting audio track was cut and pasted on bar intervals into a complex pattern of re-cutting and re-pasting at various interval lengths.

Headline Picture Caption Text — mp3

© Ian Tindale about 1993ish. This was what the residents of Chichester were sounding like when I tried asking people the same question and recording their replies onto DAT. The question, should you be curious, was “what would you most like to hear when you sit down to watch the news this evening?”

Signing Off — mp3

© Ian Tindale about 1993ish. This was what I was sounding like when I tried hard disc recording in 8–bit on the Mac.

Exactly — mp3

© Ian Tindale about 1993ish. This is also what I was sounding like when I tried recording from a decade-old videocassette of mine that I found.

Macclesfield

Neural Fishnet (lunar extract) — mp3

© Ian Tindale about 1992ish. This was what I was sounding like when I was still in Macclesfield, with a minimal studio. This one — a reject, actually — was a feeble attempt to use familiarity as a compositional tool. Ended up not really sounding like me, though.