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Jub Attack   3:23 / 6.2 Mb
The Return   3:32 / 6.5 Mb
Untitled (March 17-28, 2007)   5:22 / 7.4 Mb
Mind-Erasing Kit   3:59 / 7.3 Mb
The Last Word   5:59 / 11 Mb

selections from the TENSE LADY EP
She Said It All   3:30 / 6.4 Mb
And I Get   3:33 / 6.8 Mb
Unfinished Duchess   1:56 / 3.5 Mb
But I Believe   3:34 / 6.6 Mb
Everyone Moves On Eight Toes   2:47 / 5.1 Mb
My Looks, Your Ennui   2:18 / 4.2 Mb
Expand Memory   3:02 / 5.6 Mb

remixes by Andrew Luckless
But I Believe (Luckless Mix)   3:35 / 4.9 Mb
She Said It All (Luckless Mix)   3:30 / 6.4 Mb

less recent
Borrowed Gold   3:16 / 6 Mb
The End of Wisdom   2:35 / 4.7 Mb

          mubwhat ?

Mubba is me making music.

In particular, music I wrote using software that I also wrote. All these songs are the output of perl scripts using a non-realtime synthesis library written in C and perl.

I don’t think you need to know that in order to appreciate them, though.

Please if you would like to know more.

I’ve been known to make less electronic music, too.

        mubhistory

2001
Shut Em Down (Mubba Remix)   3:14 / 5.9 Mb
    lyrics, vocals by Public Enemy
The Sauce Is Awesome   1:03 / 2 Mb
Right, Right   2:51 / 5.2 Mb
That Was It   0:52 / 1.6 Mb

  2000
Wet / Dry (for Stale Urine)   3:14 / 5.9 Mb
    courtesy Pacific Recording and Trading Company

1999
Melon   1:15 / 1.1 Mb
Vegetable Peeler   2:58 / 2.7 Mb
Qualm   10:06 / 9.3 Mb
Ugly Gnomon Adapter   6:05 / 5.6 Mb

mublog
November 18, 2008 In honor of Jubber’s 30th: Jub Attack (instrumental).
October 11, 2008 More progress. Perhaps a bit thick on the cheese?
October 7, 2008 Just two new notes, but way forward.
October 6, 2008 A little morsel from the weekend.
August 11, 2008 Done! The Return.
August 10, 2008 Getting closer . . . . Notwithstanding many unfinished plans, I could be happy with it just as it is. (A pleasant surprise.)
August 9, 2008 A groovy middle section takes shape, with a bit of residual awkwardness towards the end.
August 3, 2008 More fine tuning, still leading to an abrupt ending.
August 2, 2008 Starting to mub it up.
July 31, 2008 A way forward perhaps?
July 30, 2008 Mixing in some more traditional Mubba elements.
July 29, 2008 More.
July 28, 2008 Is Mubba with presets still Mubba?
March 27, 2007 Getting closer.
March 27, 2007 Added skeleton of a percussion breakdown and then a cheesy recapitulation . . . almost too raw for mandatory release, but at least Jubber may appreciate it.
March 26, 2007 Scrapped some annoying parts, added some ethereal harmonies, and made the scraper more aggressive: today’s version.
March 24, 2007 Still working on the third section.
March 23, 2007 The germ of a third section.
March 21, 2007 More progress.
March 19, 2007 Somehow that little project for Benedetti really got the juices flowing. This one could take a while to finish.
March 17, 2007 A small St. Patrick’s Day Eve “remix” project for Snow Ghost: Legal Assistance. (The original came via Benedetti, who claims he wants it to be the theme to some legal advice show on public access cable, or something like that.) Also a weird version.
August 2, 2005 Thanks to Erik de Castro Lopo, author of libsndfile, for making my life easier. Now I can write AIFF files and use a better MP3 encoder on the Mac. (Still, MP3 and AAC both screw up the very high frequencies.) Anyway, this one is “done.” For now.
July 30, 2005 Almost done . . . it’s at the point where I’d be tempted to say, “you get the idea,” if anyone else had this idea. New ride cymbal sound.
July 29, 2005 What happened after The End of Wisdom? “Here’s what we do. We order one of those mind-erasing kits.” It’s getting annoyingly catchy.
July 26, 2005 Funny how it seems to have just sprouted out of nowhere even after working on it for several nights.
June 8, 2005 More sonic improvements, and a title: The Last Word. Also another piece of fallout that evaded mandatory release.
June 3, 2005 Minor sonic improvements.
May 30, 2005 Sometimes I feel like I’ve painted myself into a goofy corner. At least it’s “done.”
May 26, 2005 Already more than four minutes and I haven’t started the last section yet.
May 25, 2005 After spending many days reworking the cache subsystem so I can synthesize a 3-minute song without bringing my Mac to a screeching halt, started on the song again by resurrecting the fractgrain scraper.
May 8, 2005 Just how I left it again. And again.
May 7, 2005 Blah, blah, blah.
May 3, 2005 Tonight’s entry. This mp3 encoder sucks. I like the way the song is progressing, though.
May 1, 2005 Four bars of inspiration plus twelve of implication.
April 25, 2005 Another minor variation.
April 22, 2005 It gets weirder.
April 21, 2005 It’s just a few bars of percussion, but it’s something.
April 12, 2005 That was easier than I thought. Now all I need is more RAM.
April 11, 2005 It’s the third anniversary of the main riff in this song. I’ve been trying to get the software to compile and run on the G5 the past few days.
September 25, 2004 I love it when a plan comes together.
September 22, 2004 Hmm.
September 21, 2004 Been working on But I Believe for the past few days, but for now I don’t feel like complying with mandatory release. Hmm.
August 28, 2004 What do you know, all I needed to do was slow it down a bit and add some of those nagging parts my brain was always singing along with.
August 3, 2004 The scrap, integrated, and other “improvements.” Ouch, hasty mix.
August 2, 2004 Hmm, I’ve been avoiding mandatory release. A scrap addition to Everyone Moves On Eight Toes.
July 10, 2004 Working title: She Said It All.
July 9, 2004 Tried a bunch of little ideas during the morning all this week, but none of them made it into the latest version. Ah, the fractator . . .
July 6, 2004 Falling asleep, adding noodles and cheese.
July 5, 2004 Another scrap for the TENSE LADY EP materializes out of nowhere.
June 20, 2004 Letting out more slack. Sometimes it seems discouragingly thin, sometimes impenetrably dense. I will again predict this is done, barring the appearance of some heroic part to lead its culmination.
June 16, 2004 Do bug fixes deserve a log entry?
June 14, 2004 A small change.
June 13, 2004 Hmm, Consolation Prize? The Gilded Age? The Borrowed Decade? For now I’ll go with Borrowed Gold.
June 10, 2004 And now it’s starting to make more sense in a goofy way.
June 9, 2004 But still it continues to haunt me.
June 7, 2004 May have to let this one lie dormant for a while. I did accomplish the original goal of using the awkward figure in the final third.
May 16, 2004 Delayed entry -- forgot about mandatory release.
April 26, 2004 Up with a toothache. Seems like I should just say fuck it, give it a title, and call it done: The End of Wisdom. Heh, heh.
April 25, 2004 As it starts, I keep thinking this sounds like the theme to something. I like this “mandatory release” policy.
April 22, 2004 Before it’s a majestic pine tree, it’s a big brown stripe covering the happy little stream. Sometimes you just have to stick with the stream for a while.
April 19, 2004 Now that’s better.
April 12, 2004 Expansion continues apace with a half-baked B section. Hopefully no one is listening.
April 10, 2004 Another scrap. And a trial addition to the previous scrap.
March 25, 2004 The beginning of something.
March 22, 2004 Looks like I spoke too soon. This weekend I made enough progress on Everyone Moves On Eight Toes so I don’t mind sharing it.
March 12, 2004 It’s been forthcoming for more than a year, so I think it’s time to put the TENSE LADY to rest. Enjoy.
April 24, 2003 Put up this page.
April 23, 2003 *** empty log message ***
       

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