This site will remain here for as long as the Internet allows;
however, I've moved my interests to http://www.van-dan.com


The Music of Airlynx

This site will remain here for as long as the Internet allows;
however, I've moved my interests to http://www.van-dan.com

 Home of my experimental electronic music, created almost entirely with GNU/Linux.

You may play my music with the embedded flash player
or you may right click and "save as" on the links below to
download the mp3s.



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Digital Impressions of Airlynx
Apparitions - notes
The BaBa Song - notes
Blue Silence - notes
Chillin - notes
Evening Dreams - notes
Johnny2 - notes
Mach Zero -  notes
MiniBeats - notes
Perfectly Normal - notes
SpaceRocks - notes
The Machine - notes
Persistance - notes
Until Death - notes
Little People - notes
Retitled - notes
Morning After - notes
Halls of Valhalla - notes
NexGennotes
Flight of the Airlynx
Nowhere To Go - notes
Project - notes
Valkyrie Tears - notes
Uruz - notes
Hourglass - notes
Open Your Eyes - notes
Sol - notes
Sigil - notes
No Laughing Matter - notes
Frost - notes
Lead The Way - notes
Resist The Pull - notes
Tidal Symphony - notes
Date Last Compressed - notes
Progress - notes
The Airlynx Has Landed
Miracles - notes
Lucid Dreams - notes
Dawn - notes
Money - notes
Freya - notes
Other
OCS Alma Mater - notes
Bravo - notes
My Love - notes

The Music, the Musician, and the Instrument

All music here has been created almost 100 percent in GNU/Linux using various methods, with the exception of a few borrowed samples from Freesound.  I have been actively involved with making music in Linux since about 2005 and still do not know everything there is to know about it, and I imagine I never will.  The inspiration usually comes from discovering a new way to make noise or new ways to put things together and is a constant process of experimentation.  I currently have 2 computers set up for production.  One is an older model desktop with a  Pentium III processor and 512 MB RAM, with Fedora Core 3 installed with all available audio packages from PlanetCCRMA.  Before you inundate me with questions about why I still have FC3 installed long after it has been obsoleted I will explain that it works just fine and I have spent far too much time customizing it and compiling strange projects to bother 'breaking' it by upgrading to something newer.   I recently joined the U.S. Army and found myself in need of a more mobile production station to keep up with me.  I installed Ubuntu Studio on my Toshiba Satelite A205 laptop with practically no hiccups.  The only thing I'm still having trouble with is getting the microphone to work, which is why I haven't completely ditched the old clunker (that and the sentimental reasons listed above).  I had to use NDISWrapper to get the wireless card to work, but otherwise I would definitely suggest Ubuntu Studio to the beginner.  I occasionally employ a cheap Yamaha keyboard with a USB MIDI cable to add improvisations to otherwise robotic compositions.  I used to have access to a full 88 key Yamaha Clavinova but since joining the Army I've decided to leave that with my parents for safekeeping.  A lot of the music from Digital Impressions of Airlynx was composed with the Clavinova and it is even directly featured on microphone in Blue Silence.  The music from Flight of the Airlynx was solely composed on the Toshiba while away from home, usually in some barracks room on caffiene fueled weekends.  The music on the newest album is taking what I've learned from both systems and applying them while continuing to experiment with the software.  As for myself the love affair with open source software continues daily and with great applications like Firefox and OpenOffice.org the movement will never die.




Artwork
Digital Impressions of Airlynx album cover (800 x 800)

Flight of the Airlynx album cover (800 x 800)

Phoenix Burst desktop image (1280 x 800)

Phoenix Fractal desktop image (1024 x 768)

Phoenix in Flames desktop image (1280 x 800)

If you have any questions about my music you may email me at airlynx99 [at] yahoo [dot] com.
Most of the work here is copyright by Christopher Van Dan, but don't worry about that, download and enjoy, but if you use it in some project let me know so that I can check it out and say 'cool'. 

ZynAddSubFX voices - Download 50 of my voices for ZynAddSubFX. Most were created by heavily modifying other voices, although there are some that were created from scratch. This is the result of 5 years of working with Zyn, so I would give credit where credit is due, but honestly I have no recollection what sounds were modified to make what sounds. If you know, let me know!

This site will remain here for as long as the Internet allows;
however, I've moved my interests to http://www.van-dan.com


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