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YouTube Channel SPLIT IMAGE 137. Music Appreciation - Pop Rock and Rap music of the late 20th century. Playlists: Farrago Series; Isolated Tracks; Cool Videos; Original Music. Hi, my name is Mark and you've found my YouTube channel quite by accident, didn't you? Comfortably and perpetually out of fashion, I am a California hippie from the Bay Area and a bygone era. I listened to, wrote, played and recorded music from 1978 to 1988, all done heroically without recognition or compensation, in true countercultural fashion. Since then, I've proudly indulged in a little delightful autodidactic dilettantism and am now, in retirement, finding myself following in the avant garde by painting in a new retro-rococo-minimalist style. (I'm often praised with great praise, but I don't let such talk to go to my head anymore.) FARRAGO SERIES - Farrago is an irregular translation of the word “medley“ into Latin. (But what do I know? Even as a lyricist I don't have much use for the language arts.) I have a whole series of these that I've cooked up in the underground, all well worn and easy on the ears because I've sonically “adjusted“ each clip to minimize the difference in recording technologies and techniques over the decades to make a smooth flowing listening experience. ISOLATED TRACKS - Most music is recorded by dividing the recording medium into parallel channels, or tracks, which are then mixed together to create a master recording. This process can be reversed to varying degrees of success by a number of different methods. A lot of my source material comes from @DLD2 Music! but some of the tracks can be rather repetitive and boring. Although I used to play the drums, I don't usually want to listen to the entire drum track solo (unless it's Bill Bruford, Neil Peart, or Danny Carey) so I'll include only a small section of it. COOL VIDEOS - These are songs (typically my own remix) that I want to share with interested parties. Often, I will put a slideshow or some video clips to match the music. ORIGINAL SONGS - I started writing my own songs at age 16 in 1978 and had borrowed a Sony open-reel 4-track tape deck with various equipment for my first recordings. Later I would bounce tracks between two cassette recorders, and by 1985 I was able to purchase a 4-track cassette recorder. I stopped writing after a decade in 1988 with more than a hundred recordings. In the 1990s I played around with computer software like ProTools, which wasn't even in my dreams two decades prior, and recorded a few more tracks.
