the youtube alter-reality is about to move forward out of my primitive stages. i feel these primitive stages have earned me a level of notoriety that i would have no doubt craved at that age, so in terms of this game (does this qualify as one of those games?), i suppose it's accomplished it's purpose. but, this only represented a year of my life and i have a much longer musical story to tell, or game to play as you may have it.

1997 was a year spent of a lot of learning how to utilize technology with music. i started playing with tab writers, notation writers, sequencers, drum machines, synthesizers and digital wave editors, which i took a particular liking to.

over the fall, i had everything i needed to record except a recorder. i started experimenting with samples using very primitive tools - the windows 95 sound editor and recorders - and a lot of napkin math. like, you couldn't even loop with these - you had to manually paste each copy in and calculate the entrance points. i deserved a credit in algebra for this, really.

i pasted this together at the end of 2013, but it's the sum total of these sample collages, made out of just any random sounds i could find on my hard drive or the internet - civ2 and doom sound files and simpsons quotes, mostly.

it's going to be the lead-off in the alter-reality now for several months and will bridge to a period where i was interested mostly in synthesizer pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeRFfBTqlEQ&list=PL3JSjmqp0cbsyQ4cQbszNBKo5GW4Ouz38&index=19