ALTERNATE REALITY -THE CITY - MUSIC RECREATED - Thoughts?

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JACE

I was google-n AR for the heck of it one day and saw a link to your AR version. When I saw your picture, I thought hmmm that guy looks familiar...

But didn't know why till later when I read your bio.

I was back in Hawaii for a bit after Monolith but then was... Well, a lot of places. Currently, I am in Newport Beach, Ca.

Hi to the other guys on Jace's post... As you can imagine it's a thrill to hear different versions of AR songs and listen to the ones inspired by them.

Btw Jace... Do you remember that Kurzweil 2500X you gave me? It still works! Recently I added a Kurzweil Forte.

Seems you guys have got me (now with some spare time), motivated as well haha.

 

 

Awesome!

 

Looking forward to hearing your new compositions! Do you still keep in contact with Mr. Price?

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This is Gary. Couldn't remember my password... Took awhile to get in haha.

 

GARY!

 

How are you?

 

I haven't seen you since our time together at Monolith Productions. Did you move back to Hawaii after that?

 

Jace

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I liked your version! Just remember, it was 1984 and I only had 4 square wave voices (good ole pokey chip) and had to write in hex so it could be compiled into binary for the old atari which had a clock speed of 2... (the apple at the time had a clock speed of 1 hehe).

 

Wait. Are you Gary Gilbertson or Philip Price? From your post it sounds like you made the original song. Is that accurate?

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track is very nice, but i can hear SID instruments inside, some drums, bassline and synth . . . it is not pokey

No its not designed to be pure pokey. Just supposed to capture the complete feel of the intro when I head it as a kid.

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I did a cover of "Waves" in RMT a few months ago, but I don't want to steal Jace's thread; also, I am not completely satisfied with the slowdown at the end, which I could not reproduce very well.

Lets hear it!! Feel free to steal the thread!

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THE Jace Hall, lately of Twin Galaxies fame? Wow.

 

I really like your remix, but let me challenge you a bit. The tone of your rendition is dreamy and surreal. To me, however, Alternate Reality has all the scary madness of a circus fun house and the things you find there can and will kill you. The adventure is never entirely voluntary or at all certain to end well. If you want to try an Alternate Tonality, give us something less soaring and inspirational and more thinly-veiled insanity.

 

That's some challenge! Perhaps if I ever get more time I will attempt it!

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Hello everyone.

 

Thought I would share this:

 

I've always thought that the opening music the Alternate Reality on the Atari 8-bit computer was one of the best pieces of music ever created during that era.

 

I recently took it upon myself to go listen to it again, and while it still was amazing, it did not have the same impact on me that it once did back in the late 80's.

 

It just didn't sound as EPIC.

 

So I looked and looked all around the internet to see if anyone had made a version of the song that was worthy of the original, and unfortunately I couldn't find anything that satisfied.

 

I then decided to re-create the song to be as close as possible to the original using modern technology while at the same time enhancing it to what it sounded like to me (or how I actually perceived it) when I first heard it in my younger years.

I think I got pretty close to the actual sound of an Atari computer - of course, this "Atari" has stereo fields, so... umm.. yeah....

 

Anyway, the intro is kind of long, so I am only presenting the last half of it. If you want me to provide the whole intro with the spaceship I can do that later no prob.

 

If you have a good sound system / headphones you will be able to hear everything - your phone speaker wont really be able to do express the full range.

 

If you have any questions you can reply here, but it will be faster if you tweet me at @jacehall

 

Hope you enjoy it. It was very fun to make.

 

Video is here: