• Title: coffee dub
• Artist: William Afham
• Time: 6:30
• Download: MP3 link
• Rights: composition and performance ©2011 Will Benton; all rights reserved

Liner notes

I wound up actually writing a few songs over February, but this and “like lions breathing fire” were the only two that I finished recording demos for. A lot of things I’ve written, in every genre, have been pretty dubby. Lately, I’ve been trying to work a little more with dub-as-process rather than merely dub-as-aesthetic, so this one’s all about the arrangement and the processing.

• Title: lapsus
• Artist: William Afham
• Time: 4:31
• Download: MP3 link
• Rights: composition and performance ©2006 Will Benton; all rights reserved

Gear used

• Ableton Live
• iZotope Ozone
• LinPlug RM IV
• Tom Erbe’s Soundhack
• various samples

Liner notes

Written for FAWM 2006. This one’s about the Fall, and I don’t mean autumn.

• Title: captain tournevis
• Artist: William Afham
• Time: 6:22
• Download: MP3 link (or original version)
• Rights: composition and performance ©2006 Will Benton; all rights reserved

Gear used

• Ableton Live
• GMedia ImpOSCar
• iZotope Ozone
• PSP MixPack
• WaveArts MasterVerb, TrackPlug

Liner notes

“Captain Tournevis” is the sort of absurdist super-antihero I would have invented to keep myself amused while studying French as a teenager. This song has a sort of “tinkering” feel to it, as if the antihero is futzing around with the eponymous screwdriver.

• Title: paralipsis
• Artist: William Afham
• Time: 3:55
• Download: MP3 link
• Rights: composition and performance ©2006 Will Benton; all rights reserved

Gear used

• Logic 7
• iZotope Trash, Ozone
• NI Battery 2
• u-he FilterscapeVA, Filterscape
• Wave Arts MasterVerb, TrackPlug

Liner notes

Written for FAWM 2006. This one is substantially grittier than previous efforts and uses a lot of weird synthetic percussion. The lengths of percussive sections are taken from the Fibonacci sequence: 1n bars, 1n bars, 2n bars, 3n bars, 5n bars, etc. You may be able to hear the entry of the initial percussive motive at the beginning of each section. (This formal conceit breaks down about halfway through.)

• Title: exophora
• Artist: William Afham
• Time: 3:03
• Download: MP3 link
• Rights: composition and performance ©2006 Will Benton; all rights reserved

Gear used

• Logic 7.1
• SampleTekk harpsichord
• EXS24, tuned with Fokker 12 Just intonation
• DSP-Quattro
• A lot of plugins!