Infected By Viral Marketing

I've lately been enticed into dabbling in electronic music over at cokemusic.com. I've always liked digital music, and how it can enable people of even modest resources to produce professional sounding tunes, such as 'Big Mighty Drum Cake', performed by the German Duo 'Sea of Tranquility'. It sounds orchestral, but was done mostly with computers. Similar music and links to these artists can be found here.

Anyway, I'm too lazy to do real composition, so when I found out that I could mix up some tunes for free, I signed up for cokemusic.com. It's a chat-room world where each room is a game-like avatar scene with at least one place to show off your tunes. Rooms created by individuals have a mixing board where you can assemble canned clips into your own compositions.

Anyway, Here is what I've done with it so far, playing as Rampant Raven, of course.

BirdBrain: This mixes some of the rock beats with cowbells, bells, and a violin riff called 'magpie'. It introduces itself with the magpie riff and then builds in with the other rhythms, then it tapers off again, ending just as it starts.

Good ol boy Duel: Originally to be titled 'Redneck Duel', it emulates the concept of dueling banjos, but with the more typically techno style of the cokemusic samples. The name was changed because Coke seems to consider the term 'Redneck' as a bad word.

I haven't guzzled enough code-cap bearing coke to buy much virtual furniture, so the cokemusic version of Raven's Roost is a tad barren.