Presented here for your listening and downloading pleasure is a collection of songs from Scot's solo project, The Prayer Capsule. They are rather on the rotund side, so the downloads on dialups may be lengthy, but they are definitely worth the wait. So, go to it, and Enjoy!
The Prayer Capsule is:
S. Murray Solida
synths, programming, percussion
and perhaps any number of unwary bystanders.
Frightening The Elastic Commissioners
A malevolent slice of psychedelia, performed live on 7/13/03. Tune in, turn on, cry out!
Discography
We have Liftoff (with Todd Rundall)
Space is Displaced
The Prayer Capsule presents:
Skimming The Hydrogen Sea
an album's worth of electronic excursions for free. Download and enjoy
Enter a temple in the mythical city of Shamballa, high in the Himalayas, where ancient rituals take place, shrouded in mystery and incense smoke. This song was done entirely with the ethnic samples Scot has created for Computer Music's sixty-third issue.
A new track exploring the hidden beauties lying under the knob-laden panels of a pair of new additions to The Electronic Garden, a Roland Jupiter 4 (think Gary Numan, circa "Telekon") and a Roland JX8P (One of these gets a workout on Tangerine Dream's "Underwater Sunlight".
This song was done entirely with VirSyn's Cube. This new synthesizer from the makers of the superb VirSyn Tera uses additive synthesis to take synthesis into entirely new directions. Scot has supplied many of the synth's presets, which are showcased in this new track.
A track made solely with RGC-Audio's fabulous z3ta+ waveshaping synthesizer. Find out more at www.rgcaudio.com
A fast-paced slice of electronic rock, made with Cakewalk's Project 5 software studio. Featuring the debut of Scot's modular analog synthesizer, B.IL.B.O. (Bob's ILligitimate Bastard Offspring).
The Moons Of Barsoom was created using exclusively the samples and patches Scot created for the CM Studio bonus disc to be included with the April, 2003 issue of Computer Music magazine. This tune demonstrates the power and diversity of the free Computer Music plug-ins included with each and every issue.
Here's a little taste of what is to come. Quite something isn't it? Brace yourself....it's gonna be a bump ride.
A song performed solely with LinPlug's fanatastic VST synth, CronoX 2. Or by six-armed insectoid Martians outside the oxygen factories...
"A Sklar!" said Har, under his breath, "in the yard..."
"What was that, dear?" came his wife's voice from the hall.
He could see the skulking figure of the Sklar from his sitting-room window, but thought the better of repeating himself. No matter, he would not be believed. His physicians assured him that the Sklars were just figments of his over-stimulated imagination. And they were probably right. Thinking it was probably best to ignore the creature, Har returned his attentions to his morning paper. He would erase the Sklar from his thoughts. Still, it would not be easy to vanquish the image of the beast gnawing hungrily on the neighbor's children...
At the request of a Fine Upstanding Group of Gentlemen at Linplug, we have included the following tracks at a higher bitrate of 192kbs. They're bigger AND better!
Another track done
entirely with the Rob Papen/Linplug Albino synth plug in...If you ever thought
that a software synth could not sound as good as hardware, Albino will change
your mind.
A short
Tassman interlude. All done with
Applied Acoustics' lovely Tassman software, with a touch of their Lounge Lizard
electric piano.
An excursion in
software modular synthesis, featuring the masterful creations of DASH synthesis.
A sequel to the earlier "Skimming On The
Hydrogen Sea", composed in Sonar. The
only sound source was the Fat Machine VSTi synthesizer. Yep, EVERY sound is from Fat Machine.
An experiment in otherworldly echoes. Sit back and breath deep the alien atmosphere. An archeological expedition to uncover a once great technological civilization... For this track, much use was made of PSP Audio's Lexicon PSP42 and PSP84 effects plug-ins. Sound sources consist largely of Applied Acoustic's Lounge Lizard and Tassman synths, while the guitars were made with Sonic Reality's Sonic Synth through IK Multimedia's Amplitube. Also heard are LinPlug's excellent Delta III and CronoX synthesizers, as well as Muon's Electron, and Maz's VSampler. No hardware.
These songs were created with a single plug-in synth. Top secret, stay tuned for details
Even more brand new is this...a little bit of the old interstellar ice dancing.
Brand spanking new and practically glowing with electronically pulsating goodness.
A bit of musical love from the amazing slightly
bend to the left mind of Captain Scot "I make Red Shirts look cool"
Solida. You can even dance to it.
A track comprised almost entirely of a single Korg Wavestation patch I
created in a marathon programming session. Add some acoustic instruments
in the form of Tibetan bells, bowls, chimes, flute, and an analog lead
from a battered Roland SH-09, and follow along on a surreal journey to the
mythical city of Shamballa... Remastered, 2002.
"Captain's Log entry: After a freak antimatter accident which resulted in
the ship being hurtled through a rip in space and time, we have found
ourselves catapulted to....where?" Remastered, 2002.
A swirling burst of deep red in the utter darkness. A malevolent,
relentless march towards oblivion, performed with an Ensoniq Mirage, a
Chroma Polaris, a Univox Rhythm Generator, and my first home-made
Theremin. Remastered, 2002.
Put out the lights, and let the gentle percolating spacewaves carry you to
an imaginary landscape, where there is no solid ground. You are
surrounded by creatures of gossamer and filiment, who are held aloft on
clouds of hydrogen. Performed primarily on Applied Acoustics' Tassman
modular software synthesizer, with a track of LinnPlug's CronoX, and RGC
Audio's Triangle II.
Sunstroke
Space rock out post modern largely improvisational psychedelica.
Skimming the Hydrogen Sea
One of the newer offering from Mr. Solida. Yes, it is that good.
The Electronic Garden...Where all the magic is made. Well, most of it anyway.
