Phi Sequence – Reason101

Dark & Light (2 CD Set)

The long-awaited new original Phi Sequence album and Phi Sequence Remix Project album are here. 30 tracks. Over 2 hours and 15 minutes of original music by myself and 8 other amazingly talented musicians and producers well known within the Reason community.

Dark: Original music by yours truly. 90% of this album was made entirely with Reason 6 and the Reason 6 FSB.

Light – The Phi Sequence Remix Project: Remix compilation of various tracks on the “Dark” album.

Buy CDs | Buy Downloads | “Dark” on CD Baby | “Light” on CD Baby | Phi Sequence

Dark: The latest album release by Phi Sequence. 16 Tracks and over 65 minutes of music. — Dark: New original music. 16 Tracks. 67 minutes.

Light - The Phi Sequence Remix Project. 14 Tracks and over 65 minutes of music. — Light - The Phi Sequence Remix Project. 14 Tracks. 68 minutes.

Dark: Original music by yours truly. 90% of this album was made entirely with Reason 6 and the Reason 6 FSB. You can listen to the tracks below and purchase individual tracks or download the entire album.
Dark by Phi Sequence

Light – The Phi Sequence Remix Project: Remix compilation of various tracks on the “Dark” album.

Light – The Phi Sequence Remix Project by Phi Sequence

And now, how about a few free MP3s? The first two tracks in the set below are two that didn’t make the albums, so I’m giving them away for free. The others are older tracks and demos from previous releases:

Phi Sequence Free Downloads by Phi Sequence

Here are a few videos I came up with for the songs. Have a look/listen and let me know what you think.

And here are two videos that Myk (aka: TheFatControlleR) did for his remixes of “Mid-Blank” and “Light”:

From the Liner Notes:

Dark:

Thanks to all the Propellerheads out there for producing great software, and to all those who contributed to the Factory Sound Bank. 90% of the material here came out of that sound library, except for “Enlightened,” which was based entirely on Bitley’s DeLight ReFill.

Special thanks go out to James Bernard, Ed Bauman, Kurt Kurasaki, Hydlide, Mattias, Leo, Jiggery, Robb at Patch-a-day, Ben at 3rdFloorSound, Selig, Theo (NAA), Koshdukai, Sterievo, Pushedbutton, Ned Rush, Jeremy Ellis, Lewis Filter, Grumo, Vish, Rob Puricelli, Chris Petti, Noel Gonzalez, Kibeja, Ces, Jeremy Wright, everyone on the PUF, SoundCloud, FB, Twitter, studio662.net, and so many others whom I’ve met in passing or perhaps forgot to mention.

Thanks to Holly Nelson for vocal work on “Twin Tines.”

Thanks to Nicolas Delmotte for mastering all these tracks with complete professionalism.

Thanks to everyone who contributes, comments, and shares creativity on Reason101.net.

Your ideas and designs always inspire, and contribute to my relative sanity.

– Rob / Phi Sequence – February, 2012

Light:

Art is not solitary. In order to grow, we must listen to others and open ourselves up to reinterpretations of our work. This project comprises the work of 8 musicians and producers who provided their talents and skills to reinvent my work. The concept was simple. I provided 20 songs they could remix in any way they chose. This is the outcome.

When I started this project, I had no idea how far it would reach, how much I would learn, nor how much feedback
I would get. What I received in return was innovative and inspiring. The work speaks for itself. And I am truly grateful to call them my friends. My eternal appreciation to them for providing their time and artistic vision. I am humbled for the experience.

– Rob / Phi Sequence – February, 2012

Vocal Artist:
Holly Nelson (A Million Tiny Architects) – amilliontinyarchitects.com

Remix Artists:
Brent Rossen (Dig Team One) – soundcloud.com/digteamone
Mick Comito (Dr. Soul) – facebook.com/Dr.Soul.MickC
James Hopkins (The Velvet Conspiracy) – facebook.com/thevelvetconspiracyband
Craig Hansen (Bashcoder) – bashcoder.com
Myk Ripley (Mr Meeks) – thenovalounge.com
Brian Findlay (EpiGenetik) – soundcloud.com/epigenetik-1

Mastering:
Nicolas Delmotte (Odarmonix)

Once again, a huge thanks to all who contributed and all those looking to purchase. Let me know if you have any questions.

Buy CDs | Buy Downloads | “Dark” on CD Baby | “Light” on CD Baby | Phi Sequence

A Word of Thanks. . .

With the latest release of my “Generations” refill, there’s been a flurry of activity on other boards to help me promote it and showcase it to the world. I just wanted to take a moment to say thanks to everyone for putting all of this together. Thumbnail and picture credit: Cristóbal Vila (http://vimeo.com/eterea)

Thanks for all the Flowers! — Image credit: Cristóbal Vila

With the latest release of my “Generations” refill, there’s been a flurry of activity on other boards to help me promote it and showcase it to the world. I just wanted to take a moment to say thanks to everyone for putting all of this together. I am always humbled when people come together to help out. And you guys have certainly helped me out.

First, a word of thanks to Hydlide. Not only did you do an amazing job on the demo songs for the refill, but you put together a great series of videos to help show off some of the sounds inside the refill. If you missed it, you can find the full article here:

http://evanderheide.demon.nl/reason/reason101+generations.html

Another word of thanks goes out to Lewis for his great interview of yours truly. You did a wonderful job pulling all the elements together for this posting, and even shocked me to see some pictures up there that I thought had long been forgotten. So thanks for that. Those that missed out on the interview can find it here:

http://resonantfilter.blogspot.com/2010/08/10-questions-with-robert-anselmi-of.html

Another great thank you goes out to Robbneu from his Patch-a-day blog. He put together a wonderful testimonial. And his help along the way with some of my constructions was also a huge part of the whole refill process. Here’s what he had to say:

http://reasonpatchaday.blogspot.com/2010/08/reason-101-generations-refill.html

Without all of you guys, this project would never have been completed on time and I want you to know that your help was invaluable. And thanks to everyone else out there who helped me out in one way or another. It does not go unnoticed.

And a word of thanks to everyone out there on all the forum boards that ask so many interesting questions. Without those questions, I wouldn’t have such a great source of inspiration for these tutorials and patches. So thanks to all of you as well. Keep all the questions coming!

What’s in a Name?

Now another thing I’d like to bring up since we’re chatting. Some people have asked me where the moniker “Phi Sequence” comes from. In case you didn’t know, that’s the name under which I do most of my recording and CD/mp3 distribution at http://www.phisequence.com. The name actually comes from the golden rule of proportion, otherwise known as the Fibonacci sequence of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and so on. More info about it can be found at the Wikipedia article for the Golden Ratio. The Golden ratio is expressed mathematically as 1.6180339887 (approximately).

There’s also another resource online which shows just how important this concept is, not only for mathematics, but also for music, science, the stock market, life, and nature. This number is a fundamental idea that permeates almost all aspects of physics and life as we know it. Read more about it here when you get a minute: http://www.goldennumber.net/

Also, my thanks to Guidosh at the Sound of Reason community for pointing out this amazing video. It’s a very short introduction to ways in which the Fibonacci sequence of numbers works in our world:

Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

Dream Sequences EP / Video

I was just way too excited not to post this here. I just released my new Dream Sequences EP with 5 tracks. 3 are remixes of tracks found on my Qxotc Slp CD and 2 are brand new tracks that have not been released yet. You can find both the CD or MP3 downloads at CD Baby. As the description says on there, these tracks are “Sonic sequences that came from a series of ambient glitch dreams I once had.” That sums it up nicely! Leave some love here or out there if you order or listen to the tunes. All comments and feedback are welcome and very much appreciated!

I was just way too excited not to post this here. I just released my new Dream Sequences EP with 5 tracks. 3 are remixes of tracks found on my Qxotc Slp CD and 2 are brand new tracks that have not been released yet. You can find both the CD or MP3 downloads at CD Baby. As the description says on there, these tracks are “Sonic sequences that came from a series of ambient glitch dreams I once had.” That sums it up nicely! Leave some love here or out there if you order or listen to the tunes. All comments and feedback are welcome and very much appreciated!

In my opinion, it’s one of my best CD/mp3 offerings yet and my favorite by far because it incorporates not only some of my favorite Ambient Glitch tracks, but also because my good friend Matt Pearson from zenbullets helped to collaborate on it. He provided the artwork for the cover and the CD itself, and he’s such a talented guy that I was really truly priviledged to work with him. If you have some time, you should also check out his Abandoned Art site, which is devoted to his generative art.

You can see what Matt has to say about the music in his Phi Sequence post on his site. Again, I can’t thank him enough for working with me.

To kick off the release of this EP, Matt has also kindly put together this video. Note that the video is a much better quality than this, and Youtube tends to squash the actual quality to make it fit for internet consumption. But still, I think he did a stunning job on the video.

Let me know what you think, and as always, thanks for looking and listening!