Telepathic Audio Slices - album out Aug 23, 2023

Telepathic Audio Slices on YouTube

REkzkaRZ now has Telepathic Audio Slices, an album with 10 more tracks out!   Album is up on Spotify, Apple music, SoundCloud, Youtube, and others!

Mostly created on iPad with Drambo, AUM, Turnado, FabFilter Q3, Koala Sampler, FAC Drumkit & Maximina plugins, & others.  Published thru CDBaby after getting a $100 album deal years back.

As always, the music is pure experimental and political, with lots of anti-capitalism sprinkled with artistic turns of phrase and sonic stereoscopic audio field exploration.

Telepathic Audio Slices on Soundcloud

Android & iPad views & app recommendations 2023

I have never been committed to a brand, but instead to computing or mobile.  

Android

Android has huge advantages in openness, file system access, and an ability to change launcher and default apps.  Weaknesses seem to be audio latency, less quality games available, and less willingness by developers to make high quality pro apps.

Apple iOS

iOS / iPad on the other hand is a compute platform where it's been pointed out many times that the hardware is far more powerful than the software available.  That said, apps & games on iOS are incredible and genre defying.  Music creation possibilities are astounding.  But the weaknesses - Apple limits other companies production of hardware, so there is little variation hardware-wise.  But locking down hardware allows developers to rely on consistency, and then can build for a less varied landscape.  The locked down file structure and software is very frustrating for some as well.

Amazing Games:

Magic the gathering Arena (both)

XCOM (both)

BattleHeart (both)

WazHack (both)

Heroes & Castles 2 (Android)

Amazing Apps:

GarageBand (iPad)

Drambo (iPad)

Koala (iPad)

AUM (iPad)

Turnado (iPad)

FabFilter Pro Q 3 (iPad)

FAC Drums, Maxima, Transient (iPad)

Various Synths - Mela, Mogue, Korg, and more (iPad)

iPad 2022 - rekzkarz

Working on an album using iPad as creation tool.  (Pic is Drambo.)

It's amazing -- while Ableton Live on computer is really straightforward and I made a lot of neat stuff, the iPad method is completely different.

Making music on iPad is harder, it's more chaotic, and I can't do things the same way -- more performance-based 'luck' and less focussed strategizing around a timeline.  I really love it.

So far, my tools are:

Drambo

Aum

Koala (sampler & AUV3 update)

Turnado

FAC Drums and Maximina

Perforator

and a bunch of other plugins.

It's been interesting to watch some of the tools I thought I would use (like Cubasis 2 & 3) and Beatmaker sit unused, but some things I never anticipated being important are essentials.

I will change this as I continue creating, but so far (already 2023) I have 10 tracks.  They aren't complete, they aren't perfect, and most of all they are missing the standard song construction -- but they are passion projects.

Lastly,. I bought a CD Baby album for $100 awhile back and never published.  I have a bunch of older tracks, I'm considering throwing them all into a massive compilation.  Not sure how that would work.  Exciting to make music!!!  

Heres a track: Product Equals Profit

Wonder how many people will think my stuff even is music?  I'm not expecting to quit my job or make money, just doing a passion projects.  Soul food!