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FAIRLIGHT MEMORIES - Contents Of The Pay​-​Jar (double album)

by Roger Doyle

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    2 CDs in single jewel case (double-sided tray), originally released on the Silverdoor label in 2000, with 4 page booklet. Includes the CD The Love Of Don Perlimplín.

    Includes unlimited streaming of FAIRLIGHT MEMORIES - Contents Of The Pay-Jar (double album) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Track 19 is a 'name your price' bonus download, not on CD.
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Seresa I 02:34
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Seresa II 02:12
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Seresa III 02:09
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Why Orange? 03:34
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Contempo 04:41
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FAIRLIGHT MEMORIES - The Love Of Don Perlimplín can be heard here: rogerdoyle1.bandcamp.com/album/fairlight-memories-the-love-of-don-perlimplin-and-belisa-in-the-garden

The music on these 2 albums was composed on a Fairlight Computer Music Instrument between 1983 and 1988 (ok - not track 19, done on a DX7). Together with the Synclavier (made famous by Frank Zappa's use of it) the Fairlight was the first synthesiser controlled by a computer. It had a digital sampler, a sequencer (called 'Page R'), on-screen wave-form display and a central processor unit (CPU) that took 2 people to lift.
In 1982 I was involved in a studio that bought one, and after 2 months of throwing the manual against the wall I gradually was able to teach myself how to use it. The sequencer held up to 8 momophonic lines, forcing me to think contrapuntally. This 8-voice polyphony was like having a constantly changing octet at my disposal. Also, you could only compose one bar at a time.
By 1988 it was gathering dust in the corner of the studio, having been superceded by newer technology and fashion, so I made an offer and bought it at one tenth of its price for my own embryonic home studio.
In 1990 I sold it and it drifted out of my life. I made great use of it and have very fond memories of the Fairlight.
The earliest of these pieces appear as they came out of the Fairlight, recorded straight onto tape (the first 4 tracks here for instance), except for some editing on the old Ferrograph Series 7 tape recorder long since gone. Say Yes To The Nice Lady took a month of editing and experimenting - mainly using the same sequenced notes but substituting the samples (chameleon octet). I am grateful to Lucy Vigne-Welsh and Elena López who came into the studio as I was working, and who produced extraordinary semi-improvised texts in response to the music.
Ordained For Grave Dancing is the same as Sideways And Pinkwards, except it's at one third the tempo.
The later pieces, composed in the new home studio, now with an 8-track tape recorder, were layered with no edits ( Arminarm, Fire On The Water, Why Orange?). In those days I hardly ever got paid for any composing, thus the pay-jar was empty, but the Page R was full.

credits

released September 9, 2012

In October 1983, on the Irish TV 'Live Arts Show,' I demonstrated the Fairlight Computer Music Instrument, and also there was a song sung by Olwen Fouéré, when the 2 of us were Operating Theatre. See colour stills above and this video:
www.rte.ie/archives/2021/0728/1237764-roger-doyle-synthesizing-sounds/.

All music composed and produced by Roger Doyle ℗ and © 1983-88 on a Fairlight Computer Music Instrument. Total time: 73'15 (download); 70'00 (CD).
Tracks can been downloaded at CD quality and have been uploaded from original masters.
Text and voice on tracks 2,3,13,16: Lucy Vigne-Welsh; and on tracks 5,10: Elena López.

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Roger Doyle Ireland

Roger Doyle – composer, keyboardist and producer of own music, in concert and in the studio. Likes to work on large projects and to collaborate with others. Works with a multiplicity of musical languages and evolving technologies.

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