Mock Funeral - defunct and short-lived website about abanonded computer music software

”Mock Funeral" was a very short-lived website I made back in 2020 to document my findings when exploring abandoned computer music software, primarily late 90's through early 2000's, inspired by certain artists and albums from around the period.

https://www.marchasselbalch.com/mockfuneralblog

It features some insight into an old EMS Synthi Supercollider emulation by Bhob Rainey as well as the SoundMaker editor by Alberto Ricci for Mac OS9 alongside Michael Norris' SoundMagic FX plugin suite for that editor, which are especially fantastic.

I have begun writing up blogposts on my website to document my work and my process.
I am not a particularly huge fan of blogs, but whenever I encounter an interesting project I always appreciate when it comes with a write-up about the process itself.

One thing is the final result, another thing are the thoughts and processes behind it, which are very important to me. Giving some insight and context, which is usually very insightful. So I'll try to do that when it makes sense to do.

I'll write up some blogposts about future projects when they are released.
Hopefully it's of use to a few.

The audio snippet in the video is a small arrangement of processed audio made in SoundMaker with the SoundMagicFX plugins, running on a 2002 Powerbook.