The Music of Airlynx

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.