Ian Craig (Music)

Emotionally homeless guitar redo for video (bass notes on screen that I wasn't thinking about when soloing, as I was feeling my way through it)

I added some new video & photos taken at Belfast Castle in January 2023 and a few new appropriate notes onto my track 'Castle (the CJ Approves mix)' from May 2019 & crossfaded the new photo & video elements with the original video (Ian Craig February 27th 2023)

(Best played in the background for relaxation purposes). I played some notes and morphed some sounds and FX. This lasts 59 minutes and has some loud high frequency (High Pitch) sounds in it, but it is very relaxing none-the-less (or all-the-more). The only problem is the big mouse blob as I forgot to configure Videomeld on this new machine before recording it. IC 24th January 2023

Recorded late December 2022 Produced early January 2023. Music & Video Ian Craig. Ian Craig - Korg (Triton Extreme, MicrokorgARP Odyssey), Arturia (SQ-80V, Mellotron V, Solina V, Analog Lab V), Cherry Audio (Eight Voice, Sines, Elka-X), GForce (M-Tron Pro, Oddity 3). FX - Valhalla (Supermassive), United Plugins (Morphverb), Melda Productions (MStereo Spread)

Originally in 3 parts, I've dropped the last part from this, remixed it and added video that I think is appropriate. Part 2 (which starts at 6:23) is made of four layers of M-Tron Pro (which has 2 Mellotron tape banks per sound layer).

00:00 Autumn Thought (Non Jobbie version) (4:14) 04:14 Autumn 2022 (11:52) 16:07 Marching through Autumn (Glitch 64 version) (6:29) 22:35 Autumn Falls (Emporium edit mix (4:56) 27:32 Darkened Skies of Autumn (2:36) +. 30:09 Eeriee 11-11 (Early version of Winter)(10:35) © Ian Craig 2022

I noticed the oraldiet box on my 'Under Assault 1j' video from March 2021 & it occurred to me I could make this freakish image out of it. I had to buy another box of them to do it, but anyway. Here's 2 short excerpts from the 'Under Assault' video where I've tried to mix the photo montage back in at the start and end (it really needs doing in Vegas Pro, which I haven't used in ages & so I can't be arsed) 😄 I'm calling it 'Smile & the World Smiles with You'

Getting different sounds to trigger in 'Analog Lab 4' on the last day I worked on my track/Video 'Vortex of Time Memory (more pleases me)' on January 24th 2020

"Music recorded around 3rd January 2019. Video recorded 1st March 2019. v2 4 Don't you think of it the way you want it ? Don't you think of it the way you need ? Don't you think of it the way you should now ? Don't you think of it, the way it bleeds ? Just you take control and there you have it Just you take control and there it is Just you take control, it's all on you now Just you take control, it never gives an inch Don't you think of it the way you want it ? Don't you think of it the way you need ? Don't you think of it the way you should now ? Don't you think of it, the way it bleeds ? Just you take control and then you have it Just you take control and there it is Just you take control, it's all on you now Just you take control, it never gives an inch Don't forget, it will return. Step around the lines and then you're in it Step around the lines and then you'll know Step around the lines, you're right in it Step around the lines, it didn't go that way. Oh No. It should have been there, But you'll find in the end it's not there Where is it ? You don't know now It's always somewhere else, under somebody else's control What kind of world is this we're living in ? What kind of world is this ? I'd like to know Did we want it ? I do not think so It's all the same, on and on, On and on. What did you ? Went to go now I can't find my way Oh, where did it go now ? Oh no, I can't find my way back home again. Home again. Outside there in the mess that's all around us Do you wanna look outside ? How long have you got ? How long is left now ? Do you know what it is going to ? Oh little dreamy head It's all on you Sooner or later We're all falling down dead Oh, I didn't want it this way but in time we will all be gone and it won't matter anyway",

Castle 1.4.2 h - The ""CJ Approves"" version (WARNING - contains flashing images) Music & Video - Ian Craig 30th April - 3rd May 2019. Ian Craig - Arturia Analog Lab 3 (Mini, Modular, Solina), AAS Swatches & VS-3, XILS 4, Thorn, FM8, MT Power Drum Kit, Blue Jay Drums, Omni Sampler. (FX used made by PSPAudioware, Kilohearts, Signal Dust, Plugin Boutique & Infected Mushroom). Video produced in VSDC Pro using 2 layers of Winamp's Milkdrop visualisation plugin's interpretation of the music. © Ian Craig (3rd May 2019)

(7:07) Early 2020. Like a kind of loose early 80s Progressive Rock improvisation. Uses the same footage as 'The Pharoahs lived under the Same Skies' "42 hours of doorbell camera footage captured December 2019 & January 2020 sped up 100 times with lots of colour channel blend effects added for another video, then sped up another 3 times, reducing it to 7 minutes, 7 seconds, to accompany this track in 15/8 that I've been sculpting over a couple of days . Worth putting on anyway." © Ian Craig 19th April 2020

Semi-Improvised "Keystep Pro improvisation in the early hours of 5th March 2021, Guitar improvisation recorded later on the same day, then I worked on the sound a bit. © Ian Craig 5th March 2021

(Kaleidoscope of about 2,500 photos in 5 minutes, mostly from 2003-2007, originally combined in 2017 to accompany the wall of sound I was constructing - now made of 3 different versions of the video layered) 'Time Fragments 1 in 3 layers.mp4' (10th July 2017) 'IC Photo collection 1g3 No Tint.mp4' (Kaleidoscope of about 2,500 photos from 2003-2007 in 5 minutes)

The music began on 5th October 2016 and got finished here on October 24th 2018. It began as a sequence played by 4 different virtual instruments (Corona, Blooo, UVI Digital Synsations Bass & Tal Uno LX) put through 2 instances of MConvolutionMB reverb with an instance of GSpace in between them. It sounded so good that I had to work it into some usable form, so here it is. I added some VSM, M-Tron Pro, Minimonsta to it during October 2018 and created the ending to it also. The video is from Time Lapse footage recorded about 2013. © Ian Craig 24th October 2018

(2018-12-02) Remixed reworking of my 2011 track 'Sunrise Over Saturn' accompanied by 2 different Winamp 'Milkdrop' visualisations of the music, one of which was crossfaded gradually over the other. The 2011 version the track can be found here https://iancraig1.bandcamp.com/track/sunrise-over-saturn

The music began with my first serious improvisation using the Beatstep Pro when I added it to the Keystep, both feeding Virtual Instruments. That was 16th February 2017. I was not really sure how to control the Beatstep properly so it dwelled too long in places but I always liked it. I applied spectral filtering to it in iZotope RX and worked on it in various ways with various tools at various points over 2 years. I decided to try making a video for it, but the first version didn't work at all. I finally got the visual FX I wanted using Vegas Pro, but I'm still learning to use it. Anyway, I liked the visual result in this version, but decided the music didn't have enough variation clarity to justify the 21 minutes length of it so I added a further layer of improvisation last week and over the last couple of days I've added some layers to increase it's sonic and structural depth and clarity. It definitely gets mesmerising and is worth putting on. © Ian Craig 24th January 2020 (version 2a5)

© Ian Craig November 8th 2018. [Original video title - No Longer Aligned (New Tritik Sequence 1d9d7c)]

New track, explained on screen released April 25, 2022 the background of this recording - basically it was Voltage Modular containing 8 melodic sequencers playing a single channel each of the Waldorf PPG 3.V software (Embedded in a VM Plugin host instance) and one global Key controlling sequencer. After that it contains guitar FX representing tracer fire and atmospheric disturbances and vocals in the first half of the track. The rest about the track is contained in the on screen video elements. Ian Craig - Music written, recorded & produced between April 22nd-25th 2022, up to this stage version anyway, I think Words written 23rd April 2022 https://iancraig1.bandcamp.com/track/bio-labs-early-version

We're going backwards, we're just not getting any younger. Welcome to Year Zero MKII (2022), Year Zero MKI being when the Khymer Rouge took over Cambodia from 1975 & killed millions of their own people in 4 years, the 1st year being 'Year Zero', according to them. - Various ideas recorded live, including trying to work some lyrics in over the guitar,. I back the Guitar up with some synth pad sound, then I thought various versions of the guitar probably sounded better in reverse, so the video plays in reverse

Edit of composite version of 3 different versions developed from the one idea, recorded in parts between 2016-2019 © Ian Craig 11th January 2019

Music - Ian Craig - Beautiful Modular/Making Smile Memories (May 2019) Remixed with additions (end of February/start of March 2021) Video - Ian Craig (end of February/start of March 2021) © Ian Craig 2nd March 2021

Music and video by Ian Craig 24th December 2021. All the music was constructed in one sitting & was played based on sound synthesis workings from the preceding period of days, weeks, months or years (depending upon the definition of the sounds' source workings) For the video I layered several video clips from my mate Colin Jones' Pexels account

Music was constructed as part of a long series of improvisations on 19th November 2021. Words Written 24th November 2021

The music was conceived during initial covid19 pandemic lockdown in March 2020, but went through various developments before it's appearance here. The Video is made from 42 hours of doorbell camera footage captured December 2019 & January 2020 sped up 100 times (reducing it to 22 minutes) with lots of colour channel blend effects. it then has slight layering of visuals from my previous video 'Vortex of Time Memory (More Pleases Me) 23rd January 2020 2a5' lightly blended in to certain sections (Personal note, video - Pharaoh 3)