This is what I have devoting a good portion of my free time to for about 3 years now.
There's still a lot to do, but it's getting close. The working title is currently "Seasick":
1: Departure [9.9Mb]
A single DX-7 improvisation HEAVILY messed with in Cakewalk with a fretless guitar solo imported from a completely different song.
2: Icebergs [10.8Mb]
Plunderphonics, using various samples from Edgar Varèse pieces as a foundation, plus cut-up of yours truly on guitar, plus some CSound.
3: Shipboard Scene I: Grog Party [3.9Mb]
One half of the "I don't know what to do with this" piece. Possibly to be deleted from the final lineup.
4: Squall [22.4Mb]
This is such an absurdly complicated piece that it may get its own page on this site eventually. Everything but the drums at the very beginning and the guitar at the very end is the product of a single Perl program that tooks months to write (and takes about 7 minutes to run!). MIDI-Perl rules!
5: Hydra [14.3Mb]
The algorhythm used to write the Vibrophone parts was what inspired me to get into Perl in the first place. It seemed a lot of busy work to roll dice hundreds if not thousands of times, and I figured a computer could do it faster. It's not a complicated algorhythm but it took me months to figure out how to express it with Perl; so the answer is no, it's not faster but I'm glad I did it. The weirdness going on in the background is my drum machine trying to interpret whatever I was playing into it on guitar as MIDI, and then playing the output with a sampler loaded with some things I found on a four-track cassette I found that I don't remember making. The guitar solo was just something I played on top of it to make it DO SOMETHING, but wound up being so odd I just had to keep it. The madness in the middle is just that - something to break up the first solo a bit. The fast part was written algorythmically (like, by hand) and played with a sampler.
6: Doldrums [7.9Mb]
Just a couple of synth things created with Reason with some guitar on top...
7: Natives [7.1Mb]
This is also on the "I don't know" pile. If this makes the final cut, it's going to be very different from this.
8: Shipboard Scene II: Seasick [5.2Mb]
"I don't know what to do with this piece", part 2. Some truly vile guitar, if I do say so myself.
9: Sirens [11.1Mb]
This is also bound to sound different on the final version, but not radically so. I'll probably play with the voice samples more, and try adding some things. I might even try to [*gasp*] make it shorter, seeing as the running time of this album is about an hour at this point.
10: Davey Jones' Locker
ARRRR, ME PRETTIES! YER VOYAGE'S AT AN END! Nothing complicated, just DX-7 noise, a wah-wah pedal on some harmonies, and some guitar pings.