Chip Neville - Music
Performer, Multi-instrumentalist, Composer, Producer
I would most easily be described musically as a singer songwriter. A more acurate description must hit a couple highlights. I can comfortable claim I am both self taught and classically trained. Early on I used the drop needle technique to learn songs. Later, after acheiving an undergraduate degree in music, I became proficient in multiple instruments. I play keyboards, bass and sing. I more than proficient on a variety of guitars including acoustic fingerstyle, electric blues and rock, classical and free form experimental. I also focused on composition and recording and can read write and transpose in for different instruments in differet cleffs. Digital recording and post-production techniques have made a lot of that automated. It has always been this deeper knowledge and understanding that makes the difference.
Backwater Bayou Publishing • Dolphin Phardt Records
Backwater Bayou is an independent publisher of a variety of music and media from Roots and Americana to experiental film and animatiion. Backwater is streaming now on many of the major platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music.
New Original Music
Chip Neville - Flatlander: Songs From the Wild Of Florida
Flatlander: Songs From The Wild Of Florida, is a bluesy, folksy, rockin, lowland boil of humor and call to action. It is a set of stories in song to be played around campfires, hearths and taverns. This album of Americana style blues folk and rock was released in early 2024 to streaming platforms. Availability on Vinyl to follow.
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Classic Rock Covers
Echo Pulse - Classic to contemporary Rock cover band
Some guys play poker on saturday night, we play Jimi Hendrix. Echo Pulse is a classic rock cover band. The members have been several over the years with Chip Neville on guitar & vocals, Steve Searles on Bass, and Wayne Searles on Drums. Echo Pulse playes diverse sets of classic to contemporary rock music by artists like, the Black Keys, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Kings of Leon, and the Talking Heads.
Echo Pulse or as itsknown locally, The Saturday Rock and Bottle Club.
Echo Pulse Recent Sets; all of these performances are from 2023 and 2024.
Echo Pulse videos; Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression, Talking Heads- Psycho Killer.
Experimental Music
Dream Marina - Experimental Sound
Dream Marina is an aleatoric noise band. It is the Brain child of dynamic duo Chip Neville on Guitar and Greg LeSar on synthesizer. The band explores narrative improvisations with heavy emphasis on electronic processing for thematic effect. The direction is always exploratory and uses electronics for dynamic effect. Dream Marina most recently played in benefit for WSLR community radio in Sarasota.
Dream Marina logo, a still image from Growlers Pub in Sarasota
Dream Marina video from WSLR - LPFM radio benefit at Growlers Pub in Sarasota.
Digital Audio
I spend a lot of time loop editing and composing digital music. I have been the main digital audio Instructor for several colleges in my work history. I consider myself fortunate to have not only the ability but the accredidation to teach visual subjects,and audio and music. My use of digital audio centers around animation and film, recording and composing.
This composition was inspired by old stressed cassette tape.
