Artist:
GEOFFREY NEWCOMB

About This Artist:
This version of Cars is pretty faithful to the original, and incorporates 3 separate MIDI versions of the song, my own, and two others which I downloaded from the Internet. I'm afraid I don't remember now where I downloaded the other two MIDI files from, but I think they're pretty much the only two out there.

I did both these songs entirely myself directly on my PC (not counting the incorporation of the two other MIDI files on Cars), using Cakewalk and Sound Forge mainly. All the instruments are the General MIDI sounds on my sound card. I have been a MIDI hobbyist for years, but I began working with digital audio only in the last two years. It's a slow unforgiving process, and that's what orginally inspired me to do Noise Noise. It started out in life as a test file for Noise Reduction programs. The bleeps and bloops you hear occasionally are from the Demo version of Sonic Foundry's Direct-X NR plug-in, and are supposed to be destructive, so you can hear how the program works without being able to use it, but I thought they fit the character of the piece (at least my version of it) so I just left them in, shuffling them around a little to add emphasis in certain places.

Cars was from my first home-cooked CD, appropriately titled "Newcomb: Digital". On this album I redid a bunch of songs I had originally covered using just 4 Track tape. I deliberately selected songs that would appeal to a wider audience than I usually go for, (like ten people instead of five), so I did Cars since I felt I had to get something by Numan in there, but wanted to do something people might recognize. Of course, I like the song very much, too!

I've been a Numan fan since the '80s. My favorite Numan album is Dance. Some of the other acts I have liked and covered are Bowie, the Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Lou Reed, this list goes on and on, but Numan is definitely a favorite. I also do an album of MIDI piano music every year for XMAS. This year I'm working on music by Liszt.

Full-Length Songs:
Cars MP3 28K RealAudio
Noise, Noise MP3 28K RealAudio