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The 16th was published every month on the 16th from March 2006 to October 2008. This podcast featured an experimental mix of Techno, IDM, Drum'n'Bass, Illbient and Ambient, created by Guy David.
Download The 16th #032

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 16, Micro Composer.

Track listing:
  1. Just Rain
  2. Digging Holes
  3. Space Song 2
  4. Fate On Wheels
  5. C
  6. Insomnia 100%
  7. Space Song
  8. TE
  9. Dump!?
  10. Junkyard
  11. Short #1-20
Episode length: 47:37

This is a collection of recordings from the early 90's. Just Rain was the first track I have written on the Multi Timbral setup. Most of the tracks on those recordings have a Sci-Fi and an experimental feel to them. I end this set with a series of 20 short pieces inspired by The Residents, each less then a minute. I have written 19 of them. The one I didn't write is a compressed version of a famous Bach piece you might recognize.

This is the last episode of the 16th. It's been a fun ride, but now I'm moving on to other areas.
Download The 16th #031

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 15, Electro Warp.

Track listing:
  1. Electro Warp
  2. T
  3. Light Bulb
  4. Eggs on the Bell Tower
  5. There Is There Is
Episode length: 37:13

During 2001-2002 I started working on some new music, intending to write a new album and publish it as a print on demand album at MP3.com, then two things happened: MP3.com as it was stopped existing and my brother bought me a computer as a gift. I stopped using the Multi Timbral setup after that since the computer fit more with my way of writing. Those are the last tracks I wrote on the Multi Timbral setup.
Download The 16th #030

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 14, Flight.

Track listing:
  1. Flight
  2. Flight (Space Mix)
Episode length: 11:58

Flight is a track I wrote back on the mid-late 80's. Those two versions are from the late 90's. The first one is very similar to the 80's version, while the Space Mix version takes it to a completely different place.
Download The 16th #029

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 13, Buildings EP.

Track listing:
  1. Buildings (edit)
  2. Under Water
  3. Buildings (Z mix)
  4. Mind Control Machine (exaggerated remix)
Episode length: 21:04

The Buildings EP was going to be the third and last release from the Legend Music Part II CD, but it was never published.
Download The 16th #028

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 12, Awake EP.

Track listing:
  1. Awake (short edit)
  2. 19th Century
  3. Optimistic
  4. Awake (extended remix)
Episode length: 23:27

The Awake EP was going to be the second release from the Legend Music Part II CD, but it was never published.
Download The 16th #027

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 11, Hope and Victory EP.

Track listing:
  1. Hope and Victory (edit)
  2. Fate on Wheels
  3. Still Life
  4. Hope and Victory (mixed to pieces)
Episode length: 25:22

The Hope and Victory EP was going to be the first release from the Legend Music Part II CD, but it was never published.
Download The 16th #026

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 10, Legend Music Part II.

Track listing:
  1. Awake
  2. Mind Control Machine
  3. Buildings
  4. Legend
  5. Flying Lessons
  6. Counterattack
  7. Graveyard
  8. Zombies
  9. Oggy
  10. The Wedding
  11. Hope and Victory
  12. Rebuilding
Episode length: 53:10

While Legend Music Part I was my first full length album, Part II was never published. I am now publishing it for the first time.

Legend Music also had a story line, and... here it is:

* * *

Legend Music - Part I

Not far from the system of Orion, there is a planet, simply called by its inhabitants Our Planet. Its inhabitants are simple folk called The Gnome. They live in a land called Xaria. Their loves include water and work. They take special pride in their love of water. They swim in it, drink it, and throw it at each other all of their free time. Their unfree time is the time of work. Their work is known all over the land.

On another land called Nightland there is a forgotten cave. The cave belongs to a forgotten evil sorcerer called The Dark Lord Dnuos, manipulator of sound. Dnuos has been awakened from a magic sleep, lasting a thousand years. The first thing he does, as a fully awake sorcerer, is to release an evil magic army force called The Forgm, and a fleet of winged lizards from a magic NoMovement spell.

Meanwhile, in the land of The Gnome, a special celebration is made. The Gnome have built a flying machine, and they are ready to fly. A special march of Gnome Dignitaries is made in honor of the brave Gnome pilots, and the whole event is named "The Xarian Hope".

Back at the Nightlandish cave, Dnuos, using his magic powers, seeing it as an opportunity to conquer Xaria. He releases his Forgm forces and his winged lizards on the Xarians. The Gnome are captured, and Xaria is ruined. The captured Gnome are made slaves, and Dnuos uses octagon sounds to control them. He puts them to work on a machine called The Night Dnuos. It's designed to put The Gnome to sleep, until he'll make up his mind what to do with them. The Gnome, finding themselves asleep, dream of freedom, work, and water.

* * *

Legend Music - Part II

Dark Lord Dnuos awakes the Gnome. He puts them to work on a new mind control machine. When it is finished, he has them building some buildings. A hundred years go by.

Meanwhile, at Xaria, some Gnome have survived. The Gnome flying machines have become a legend among them, but now they are found again, and the surviving Xarian Gnome learn how to fly them. They give other surviving Gnome flying lessons. Their goal is to launch a counterattack on Dnuos from the air, and release the captive Gnome slaves. When they try this, Dnuos turns them into Graveyard Zombies. Now all the Gnome are captive slaves.

Life continues for The Gnome, and new Gnome children are born. One of then is Oggy, a deaf Gnome. Dnuos uses sounds to control The Gnome, but Oggy can't hear. Oggy learns how the Dnuos machines work, and he uses his skill for reversing the machines. The Gnome are now free from the control of Dnuos. They kill him, and make Oggy their leader. His first act as their leader is to make their freedom day a special celebration day, calling it The Day of Hope and Victory. Xaria is rebuilt, and The Gnome live happily ever after.
Download The 16th #025

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 9, Legend Music Part I.

Track listing:
  1. Water
  2. Gnome Work
  3. Dark Lord Dnuos
  4. March of Hope
  5. Forgm
  6. Winged Lizards
  7. Ruins
  8. Octagons
  9. Night Dnuos
  10. Sleep
Episode length: 58:51

Legend Music Part I was my first full length album. It was released on March, 2002 through the MP3.com print on demand service and the original recordings are now available on the Internet Archive. This is an improved re-mastered version of this album created especialy for The 16th. Legend Music Part II was written but never released. First, I didn't have the budget to record it and later I moved into different musical territories and the Legend Music project was abandoned.
Download The 16th #024

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 8, Dnuos EP.

Track listing:
  1. Dnuos
  2. Python
  3. Melancholy Calm
  4. Spacial Air
  5. Mixed Dnuos
Episode length: 27:51

Dnuos was released on December, 2001 through the MP3.com print on demand service and the original recordings are now available on the Internet Archive. This is an improved re-mastered version of this EP created especialy for The 16th. It was the last release before my first full length CD.
Download The 16th #023

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 7, Octagons EP.

Track listing:
  1. Octagons (radio edit)
  2. Plasma
  3. Levels
  4. Octagons (aye carumba mix)
Episode length: 20:34

I was already planning my first full length release by September, 2001 and on the 4th of September I recorded what became my second official CD release, and the first of two releases to precede my first full length album. This was published through MP3.com print on demand service and the original recordings are now available on the Internet Archive. This is an improved re-mastered version of this EP created especialy for The 16th.
Download The 16th #022

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 6, Legend Music Demo EP.

Track listing:
  1. Under Water
  2. Ork
  3. Winged Lizards
  4. Gnome Work
Episode length: 20:42

On February 23, 2001, I recorded what became my official first CD release. This was published early 2001 through MP3.com print on demand service. MP3.com have closed down since then and reopened as a completely different website, but the original recordings are still available on the Internet Archive. This is an improved re-mastered version of this EP.
Download The 16th #021

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 5, Boogadoo EP.

Track listing:
  1. Boogadoo
  2. Animation
  3. Realization
  4. Boogadoo (Shock Mix)
Episode length: 19:58

On 1997, I was thinking of releasing my Boogadoo collection as a collection for kids. Though it didn't materialize, I did write two singles for this release. Boogadoo is the second of those, and it contains two remixes of Boogadoo, two tracks that weren't on the original un-released release.
Download The 16th #020

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 4, Curiosity EP.

Track listing:
  1. Curiosity (Short Edit)
  2. Embryo (Industrial Mix)
  3. Game
  4. Curiosity (Extended Version)
Episode length: 20:05

On 1997, I was thinking of releasing my Boogadoo collection as a collection for kids. Though it didn't materialize, I did write two singles for this release. Curiosity is the first of those, and it contains two remixes of Curiosity, a remix of Embryo and a track that wasn't on the original un-released release.
Download The 16th #019

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 3, Boogadoo.

Track listing:
  1. Embryo
  2. Birth
  3. Evyatar
  4. Boogadoo
  5. Curiosity
  6. What a Kid
  7. Song With A Feather
  8. Don't Say No
  9. All of the Children
Episode length: 44:44.

My son was born in December, 1996. When he was very little, I wrote a few songs for him and decided to make a cassette recording that would help him sleep better at night. Those tracks are Evyatar, Boogadoo, What a Kid and Don't Say No. I also added to the cassette some tracks I wrote back in the late 80's about childhood. Those are Embryo, Birth and All of the Children. Those three tracks are part of a concept album I never finished, depicting life, from the womb to death. All of the Children also had some lyrics that I rerecorded, so it's the only track with singing. Song With A Feather is a track I wrote when I was a child, at the age of 13. Curiosity was added because I was thinking for a while of releasing this as a commercial release, and I needed a single.
Download The 16th #018

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 2, Nightfall.

Track listing:
  1. Nightfall 1
  2. Nightfall 2
  3. Nightfall 3
  4. Nightfall 4
  5. Nightfall 5
Episode length: 26:32.

In 1989 I wrote an untitled musical piece that later became Nightfall 5. In 1992, when I purchased the new multi timbral synthesizer and a sequencer, I decided remix it and that remix became Nightfall 1. In 1997, when I came back to writing music, I decided to take those two pieces as the base for a longer five part piece, and that is what you're going to hear today.
Download The 16th #017

The Multi Timbral Sessions - Part 1, Do.

Track listing:
  1. Do
Episode length: 55:19.

In 1992 I purchased a multi timbral synthesizer and a sequencer. A multi timbral synthesizer can play several parts at once. You do that by playing the parts into the sequencer, adding another part each time. This way, I was able to play up to 9 parts at once. On the Multi Timbral Sessions I'll be playing you the music I wrote between 1996 and 2001.

Can you write a book using only one letter? Can you write a symphony with only a single note? That is what I'm finding out in Do, a highly minimal musical piece. This was one of the first pieces I wrote on the multi timbral synthesizer and it uses the "Do" note exclusively.
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