The Cacophonous World of Professor Whimsey

Here's a little mini interview with me about the preceding track in iOS Music And You.

Sounds To Confuse Your Dog #2 by Victor Lams

As threatened, here is my latest track. The theme was provided by a friend as the track was commissioned to be a site theme song (more on th...

Just learning my way around a new library (Garritan's World Instruments), I did this in half an hour this morning. Because, you never kn...

I'm still on my archive.org old 1950s educational film short kick. Here's a new song inspired by one of the films, along with the fi...

This isn't a real song, just me messing around for an hour or so with some synths and a new channelstrip plugin (TeamDNR's Mixcontro...

There's never been an easier way to learn the "Pater Noster"! I'm not sure what I was thinking when I had this idea, becau...

Here is a delightful instrumental / percussion amuse-bouche to whet your palate. Nothing too profound here, just playing around with variou...

Just migrating the ol' podcast. New music will be arriving shortly!

Sorry about the lack of new music these past two months. I've been focusing on learning how to draw comics, and you can see my first sel...

No synths this time (a first for me)! Used only the instruments pictured above (plus my voice and our kitchen wok-lid as a gong, not picture...

If you're offended by this, you're not wrong. http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Popcicle_Man.mp3

I realized this past weekend that I hadn't done a two-minute rock opera yet about a mechanical engineer who steals a tank. So I fixed th...

Here's my attempt to do an old-school-style baby-maker (extended slow jam) in an age of embryonic stem-cell research. I think it's o...

It's a traditional evening prayer chant for Advent in Latin ("Creator of the stars of night"), done here as kind of a downtemp...

Fun with some new loops, mercifully short. http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Celestine.mp3

I'm going to post some odds and ends from this year, things I haven't posted yet. Starting with this one from February's KVR con...

A little anti-redistributionalist Calypso for you! I play the ukulele on it. Enjoy! http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Spreading_...

This song was written to award the top pledger for the quarterly Catholic and Enjoying It Tin Cup Rattle pledge drive, Irenaeus. The idea w...

Playing around with some new effects today, needed a vocal line, so got our six-year-old son in front of the microphone and said "Come ...

Nothing is more depressing than reading an inciteful blog or forum post, having the perfect reply, and then being denied because either the ...

It's new music! Inspired by current events! It's longer than 2 minutes! http://www.victorlams.com/audio/Victor_Lams_-_Shill.mp3 Shil...

Dr. Apostrophe X and The Kornhole Krew present: "Pop Corn" http://www.victorlams.com/kvr-vst/0808-DrAX-Pop_Co rn.mp3 It's ...

Well, I thought it would take a few more weeks, but apparently three days is all it takes for Amazon MP3 and Lala to post your new album on ...

Here's another from our poking-around-on-my-harddrive file, a requiem for the Sega Master System. NOTE: This song is now available on th...

Going through the hard-drive looking for some stuff to clean up for a possible future release, and found this experiment (probably messing a...

Song #75 on our 100-song odyssey is a collaboration with the eminent 1-2-Many , who is a fixture on the KVRaudio.com website , particularly ...

Since I guess we're on the retro tip, here's another old song; this song is possibly from late 1998 or early 1999? I can't remem...

Here's an oldie, from 2001 (right after the "Robot Love" era). It's about all those people who pretend to be cops... that...

...in which our singer recounts his final moments inside the eye of a tornado (it's a Midwestern United States thing, you wouldn't u...

I'll be posting the version of this new tune with vocals in a day or two. In the meantime, enjoy it in all its pristine, unbesmirched, M...

Song #70 on our 100-song journey is from early, 2003, when I found myself laid-off. It's named in honor of Michigan's Automated Resp...

UPDATE (02/19): I've tweaked the mix a little to make the vocals stand out a little more (maybe too much -- yes, I've heard of EQ, b...

One of the rare pleasures of working on music so randomly over the years is that once in a while, while searching for something else, you ha...

Yeah, I shot the freak. http://www.victorlams.com/audio/VLams_-_I_Shot_The_Freak.mp3

http://www.victorlams.com/audio/VLams_-_Kennedy_vs_The_Final_Boss.mp3

Always Ever Only Just December 28, 2007 Always Ever Only Just the things we say Seem to make it better each and every day Wouldn't it be...

Here's an experiment in found audio (the recitation is from Archive.org, and the ambient cafe sounds are from Freesound.org). Computer M...

A few years back, the Center for Disease Control approached my free-jazz quintet, "No Boundaries", about doing a little project fo...

I've begun to re-enter the monthly contests at KVRAudio.com . Here is last month's submission. I have to apologize in advance for th...

Here's another new one for you. It's a Phreakbox dance remix of the Sock Monkeys ' instant classic "Everybody Poops"....

After a long break, it's time for Song #60, and it's a new one. With the coming of Spring my musical mojo is starting to thaw and I ...

In honor of the Feast of the Epiphany comes another track from the ill-fated Christmas project. Like most of my interpretations of classic h...

This is another demo I did for the Christmas Project That Never Came To Be. I don't know who wrote this song (I think it's in the Ga...

About four years ago I was asked to start work on producing some tracks for a Christmas CD. While the project never really came about (some ...

It's been almost three months since I've written any music and they always say that the first tune back isn't, well, it isn'...

I'm back! And I bring a new tune. This tune is actually a collaboration with the excellent Rockstar_not who, in addition to coming up w...

I did this song in August of 2004. It's difficult to say what it's really all about (if you have any guesses, let me know!). As near...

This song, written for the August, 2006, kvraudio.com contest, is a statement on our culture's obsession with teaching everything didac...

Greetings! We're back with another song for you, this one in honor of and to get you in the mood for tomorrow's Feast of the Assumpt...

Well, that was a fine break. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Now we are back and in honor of the truly unbearable weather outside ...

It's song number 50! This song I did a couple of weeks ago for the July, 2006, KVRAudio contest. The subject of the contest is "Ge...

Here's an evocative little tune I put together - judging from the file details - in September, 2003. Not much to say about this one, exc...

I recently uncovered a hidden trove of audio I did in Spring, 2003. Many of the tracks are unfinished (some tunes I look forward to getting ...

Our second "Buried Folderol Week" concludes with a short tune from (I'm guessing) 1997. This is the result of another one of t...

I guess it's time for another Buried Folderol Week here on the old Cacophonous World (you in the back! stop groaning!). This distinctive...

My weblog recently celebrated it's fifth anniversary (though it's kind of weak now). Around the time I started the weblog (2001), I ...

Let's take a trip back to the early 1990s when everyone was techno-ing up a storm. I did this track a couple of weeks back for a KVRAudi...

I know "Weird Jazz Week" was last week, but I just remembered this song and wanted to slip it in. I did it in September, 2004, for...

It's song 42! Time for something extra special: the first song to feature our son who provided not only the ferocious roar but (obviousl...

I did this tune in early 2003 when I got my first "ROMpler" (a virtual instrument which plays instruments which have been sampled ...

Time to let the Professor pick the theme . I, Professor Whimsey, henceforth and without further skiddoo decree this week to be "Weird J...

Our second "Buried Folderol Week" concludes on the same note it began: that of incredibly rare favorites (of mine, anyway) made wi...

To kick off our second Buried Folderol Week (which features songs which use samples that are, shall we say, hopefully covered under the fair...

Another song written and performed by our neice, but this one was done five years ago. Enjoy! http://www.victorlams.com/audio/KK_-_Do_You_Ha...

This song was written and performed by our neice, KK, for her mom this past Mother's Day. All I did on this pretty much is work up a spa...

Does Kyoto have a subway? If it does, does it sound anything like this? I don't know the answer to either question; I've never been ...

Every evening here, in Summer, as the days grow longer and there is the need of such a thing, the Time For Bed Truck makes its rounds around...

"Unmitigated Disaster Week" concludes (a day late, naturally) with this deservedly forgotten gem from August, 2004. A former co-wo...

Yes, I realize it's Tuesday and I'm a day late posting the first song of this week. But, sometimes, when you try to do art, things g...

The first part of 2003 really sucked and I guess this song was in response to that. This may be one of the songs I go back and re-record at ...

I declare this week to be SYNTHPOP WEEK! First up, a fine track from November (I think?), 2003. This really isn't based on the theme to ...

While searching my hard-drive in search of this Friday's tune, I came across this buried gem. There's really not much to say about t...

Based on cryptic download stats, this song remains popular after it's conception in November, 2005, as a KVRAudio contest entry (the th...

Another song for the Easter Season (I suppose). This is a Catechism Rock song. I really must do more of those. http://www.victorlams.com/au...

Happy Easter! In honor of the day, here's some Synthpop/Gospel for everyone, straight from 2003. http://www.victorlams.com/audio/VLams_-...

I think this track would fall into the realm of self-parody if I hadn't spent so much time on it. If this tune were on the WB it would g...

Retro Robot Song Week (well, the first one of them, anyway) wraps up this week with "Tuesday Morning at the Robotics Factory", one...

There's just one week left for me to complete my submission to the 2006 Pieces Of Flair Robot-Song-Off so while I work hard on that, I...

This Friday's tune, wrapping up our eleventh week here in the Cacophonous World, is "Shaker Funk". This tune has been describe...

One of the more common themes in my music, when I'm doing what I like to think I do best, that is, is the elevation of the common or the...

Before you get too excited about this, an instrumental track from Decemeber, 2005, I should explain that it was mostly done as a demo track....

This track, from 2001, is about Missionaries (of a sort). It's some of the finer songwriting I've done (though some disagree) and wa...

Cop shows and cartoons about animals who solve crimes and are in bands were big in the 1960s. Also big were shows about ghosts and witches. ...

January 1, 2001: Food Network shows a 24-hour marathon of the Japanese culinary battle show, "Iron Chef". Aspiring songwriter Vict...

We wrap up an unusually weird week with an unusually weird song. I did this track, judging from the last modified date on the file, August 1...

Professor Whimsey's Logbook: June 12, 1927 The most amazing discovery: upon finally arriving and entering into the Love Hive I was trea...

This is probably one of my more "commercial-sounding" tracks, which should tell you something about the overall commericial appeal...

New music today! This is the first of a new series of songs about the Love Hive. What is the Love Hive and why should you care? Over the ne...

There is not really that much which can be said about this tune other than it was inspired by true events. http://www.victorlams.com/audio/V...

Walked into work today to the shocking and sad news that one of my coworkers had died over the weekend. For some reason this song seems the ...

Our first Buried Folderol Week concludes with this rare gem from 1996. When asked in college what my ideal job was, I would often reply (and...

We kick off our first ever Buried Folderol Week with a trip all the way back to 1995 (or 1996 - I'm not sure of the exact date but it wa...

This song first appeared on Catechism Rock! last year, and you can read the entire saga of how it came to be by clicking on that link. One ...

For this Monday's song, we take a strong left turn into uncharted territory (for me anyway): the remix. "Have You Dug His Scene?...

For the second tune of the week we turn the pages all the way back to September, 2003, and a cheerful little Goth tune. I forget exactly wha...

This, one of my longer songs, is a sort of homage to Parliament/Funkadelic keyboardist extraordinaire Bernie Worrell. This is also about a c...

This song, ostensibly combining the 1980s style of Hall and Oates with Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl", which was originally compo...

For the first tune of this week, we have a completely brand-new tune that I just now put the finishing touches on. It's a dreamy electro...