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DATE |
TITLE |
NOTES |
| 7.23.10 |
Piece072310
|
Turns out I ended up with the
Gaia for one more week, so figured I should use it for my
ImprovFriday
piece again. For the past few weeks I've wanted to do
something with a bit more "energy" but it never went where I
planned. This time around I decided that I would stick with
the plan of having an up-tempo track to start off with
(which I did). However something else came into play.
Yesterday I was listening to "Who's Next" and have long
admired the hard panning on that record (and other Who
albums). So in addition to deciding that I would make a
piece with some energy to it, I also decided that I would
make a piece that only had two tracks, one panned hard left
and the other hard right.So here's what I did: I made the
left track first, messing with the cutoff knob a bit while
recording. Then I muted it, picked a different sound, and
recorded the right track, messing with the rate knob while
recording (without listening to the first track at all). I
intentionally wanted to second track to feel that it was
moving at a slower speed. Then I brought the left track back
in, adjusted the levels a bit, and there you have it.
Probably more than you wanted to you know, but there it is. |
| 7.16.10 |
Piece071610
|
Probably my last
ImprovFriday
piece made with the Gaia synth (for now), as I have to give
it back. Once again, three tracks played live, and once
again, not what I was originally thinking of doing. That's
the fun of it, right? |
| 7.9.10 |
Piece070910
|
Another
ImprovFriday
piece made with the Gaia. Three tracks played live. I came
up with the rhythm part first by messing around with one of
the presets. I had no idea what I was going to put down over
it, but I didn't think I would end up where I did. Maybe I
should have known better. Like in life, the beauty is often
found in the dichotomy of things. |
| 7.2.10 |
Piece070210
|
Got my hands on a new Roland
Gaia SH-01 synth to mess around with, so what better way to
start off than using it for an
ImprovFriday
piece. What you're hearing is three monophonic tracks (it
does do polyphonic though) with some knob twisting while
playing. Nothing is sequenced - all first takes played live.
Just scratching the surface with this thing. Can't wait to
find some real time to dig into it. |
| 6.25.10 |
Piece062510
|
Feeling electronic again for my
ImprovFriday
piece. I recorded two monophonic tracks with my SH-101
(which is all you can do with it in the first place),
duplicated one of them and added some different processing
to each track. |
| 6.18.10 |
Piece061810
|
I guess because I've been so
busy lately, I've focused on acoustic music using just one
instrument for my
ImprovFriday
pieces lately, and once again, I did the actual recording on Thursday night
in anticipation of a busy Friday. I decided to use the
Melodica again, so that's all your hear on the three tracks.
The first track is actually a ten-second drone I recorded,
then stretched out 16x (with adding some partials). I then
processed it with a chopper plug-in to add some rhythm to
it. The second track is a short harmonic thing that I
recorded, then copied and pasted 5 times (with some silence
in between) and added some reverb. The melody track is the
first and only take, with a bit of delay and reverb. |
| 6.11.10 |
Piece061110
|
I knew I was going to have a
busy day today, so I decided that I would at least start
recording my
ImprovFriday
piece on Thursday night. It was warm in my studio, so I had
the window open. While thinking about what I wanted to do, I
popped on to the IF site to see what was going on and saw
that Paul Muller did a piece for piano, so I figured I would
do the same, on my somewhat out-of-tune upright. I used the
same MO as last week, improvising one mono track and then
improvising two more tracks over it. While recording, I
realized that I could hear a cricket outside my window.
While it didn't really show up on the piano parts, I thought
you should hear what I was hearing, so I put the mic by the
window for the fourth track. You're hearing all first takes,
with a smidge of reverb on the piano parts. |
| 6.4.10 |
Piece060410
|
I have a busy day ahead, so when
I started thinking about my
ImprovFriday
piece, I thought that I should do something quick and
acoustic. I'm in an "acoustic guitar" mood today (probably
from listening to the Swell Season yesterday), so I grabbed
the acoustic, fired up the mic and recorded some tracks in
Cubase. What you hear are four tracks, first and only takes,
with some reverb on the top. |
| 5.28.10 |
Piece052810
|
This past week I was doing some
voice-over recording for Roland and had the microphone still
set up. When it came time to do my
ImprovFriday
piece, I figured I would record something "real." For
a while now I've realized that one of the few musical things
I hadn't yet tackled here was doing something with my voice.
That's probably because I'm not much of a vocalist. However,
today I figured what the heck, so here you go: 3 tracks of
my voice (with delays, reverb, etc.). Again trying to
balance the chaos. |
| 5.21.10 |
Piece052110
|
I was recording a sax part for the modern dance piece
I'm working on, so since I had it out, I figured I would use it for my
ImprovFriday
piece. There are three tracks here, all me playing the tenor
sax. The first part you hear is a rhythm created by key
clicks run through a delay. The second part is also run
through a delay and processed with ring modulation. The
"melody" is sax again, with distortion and reverb. |
| 5.14.10 |
Piece051410
|
Had to do another quick
ImprovFriday
piece this week, so I decided to do something I've wanted to
do for a while. Loaded up Cubase, put a mic up in front of
my old upright piano and played. I recorded this in mono,
panned it hard left, copied the track, processed that a bit
and panned it hard right. Here it is - enjoy! |
| 5.7.10 |
Piece050710
Piece050710_NoMelody
|
Once again, not a lot of time for my
ImprovFriday
piece this week (and with possible things coming up in the
future, maybe even less and less time). Anyway, this time I
was feeling like using a "real" instrument, so I busted out
one I don't think I've used yet on IF - my Melodica. This
was a quick one. I recorded the first track and then put
some delay on it. Then I played a melody on top (again with
some delay). Put some reverb on it to give it a nice "feel"
and there it is. Both tracks were first takes, with no
edits. The reason I have two versions here (one with just
the first track) is that I like them both and think they
both work in their own way. |
| 4.30.10 |
Piece043010
|
Not a lot of time for my
ImprovFriday
piece this week, so I made another two-track improv with the
Bebot app on my iTouch. Sort of a companion piece to last
week's piece, I suppose. |
| 4.23.10 |
Piece042310
|
So last week I saw a video on
YouTube with Jordan Rudess (from Dream Theater, among other
things) talking about this iTouch/iPhone synth called Bebot.
It looked like fun so I got it. Needless to say, my
ImprovFriday
piece this week is a two-track improv using the Bebot. The
only processing outside of the app is a smidge of reverb in
Cubase. |
| 4.16.10 |
Piece041610
|
My
ImprovFriday
piece this week has its beginnings in a modern dance piece
I'm working on. I took a couple of bits from it (the water &
the drums) and then improvised a one-take part over it using
a VST plug-in. Well, there it is. |
| 4.9.10 |
Piece040910
|
I'm sure that my
ImprovFriday
piece this week materialized as a reaction to the crazy week
I've had running out to the Imperial Valley three times (all
the way to Mexicali twice). I spent a lot of time driving
through the desert by the Salton Sea. Once again, testing my
theory of opposites - do I make music that attempts to keep
balance in my life? This is all from the Korg Triton with a
delay inside Cubase. |
| 4.2.10 |
Piece040210
|
My
ImprovFriday
piece this week is inspired by the day. The "environmental"
sounds are created by my SH-101 and the melody is (once
again) a Korg Triton patch with a little bit of processing
in Cubase. |
| 3.25.10 |
Piece032510
|
Due to illnesses and crazy
schedules, I did my
ImprovFriday
piece on Thursday this week (which counts in IF world).
I'm continuing my exploration through my Triton. Here's
another drone piece using a bell-type sound, with an
improvised part on top. |
| 3.19.10 |
Piece031910
|
Must be another
ImprovFriday.
So last week, a good friend of mine gave me his Korg Triton
ProX (which was perfect timing, as my faithful Roland U20
was giving out). It's an amazing instruments with lots of
sounds. I figured that this would be a perfect way to start
learning the instrument and discovering the sounds. I'll
probably be using just this for a while to come. Anyway,
this piece is pretty straightforward. I'm using an organ
patch with just two tracks. The first one is a drone-y
thing, and the second one is the "melody" (ran through a
stereo delay). The tracks were each done in one take, and
there are no overdubs or edits. I've had a chaotic week, so
here's a little peace. |
| 3.12.10 |
Piece031210
|
I've been thinking of doing this
one day for
ImprovFriday
and I guess today's the day. I have a few percussion
instruments lying around in my studio so I thought I would
use them. What you're hearing is a doumbek, rebana,
gonkogui (agogo), Navajo rattle
and a kalimba. The rhythm parts were recorded in small units
and then copied and pasted. The kalimba part is completely
improvised in one take. |
| 3.5.10 |
Piece030510
|
Well,
ImprovFriday
is a year old. I wasn't in on it right from the
beginning, but have been a regular participant for quite a
while now (as you can see by the pieces below). Now, about
this piece. So this week I was talking to a good friend of
mine and he was saying that he didn't "get" a lot of my IF
pieces (which I assured him is ok), but that he really liked
the last one (from 2/26) and he appreciated the explanation
of how is was made. As a result, I thought I would start
including a brief explanation of each piece from now on.
This one's pretty straight-forward. It's a one-track sonic
meditation played on the electric guitar (tuned to
E-A-E-A-B-E) loosely based on "Happy Birthday" for IF. One
take, no fixes (which I think is quite apparent once you
hear it). Play it loud! |
| 2.26.10 |
Piece022610
|
So here's the story behind my
latest
ImprovFriday
piece. Last week I made my ImprovFriday piece. Last Friday
night I took my son to a friend's house for a blues jam
(which I did ended jamming in at the end). An old
friend from school posted on Facebook that I should do a
"blues improvfriday" piece (thanks Chuck!). Well, if you're
reading this, you should know by now that my ImprovFriday
pieces don't exactly fit in the blues/rock/pop world.
However, being one for a challenge, I figured out a way to
incorporate the blues into the piece. The drone that your
hear is actually one 12-bar blues progression, played on my
sax, then stretched out (approx 11.5x) and then adding some
upper and lower harmonics (which makes it sound like more
than just 1 tenor sax). Then I played a solo over it, copied
the solo to a second track and processed both tracks
differently. Probably more than you cared to know, but there
it is. |
| 2.19.10 |
Piece021910
(feat. Steve Layton)
|
My
ImprovFriday
piece.
Steve Layton is one of the members of ImprovFriday, and
quite well-known an respected in new music circles. A lot of
his IF activity is taking pieces by the rest of us and
mashing them together (with some amazing results I night
add). It is his birthday today, so I suggested that for fun,
he put up a piece of us and we could do something with it.
For this piece, I took the last 30 seconds or so of his
piece and stretched it out approx. 5x (while adding some
upper and lower harmonics). Then I put some tubular bells on
the top. Celebratory icing on the cake if you will. |
| 2.12.10 |
Piece021210
|
My
ImprovFriday
piece. After I made it I started wondering if there's any
connection between my moods and the music I make each
Friday. Maybe they're opposites? It's all about
balance.
|
| 2.5.10 |
Piece020510
|
My
ImprovFriday piece
- inspired by a rainy SoCal day and a couple of sounds.
|
| 1.29.10 |
Piece012910
|
Here's my
ImprovFriday piece.
There's been all sorts of analog synth stuff around me
lately, so I felt inspired to use my SH-101 again. It's the
only instrument used, and the only processing on this piece
is a bit of reverb on the "melody" track. |
| 1.22.10 |
Piece012210
|
Got my
ImprovFriday piece
done on a Friday again, which somehow feels "right.". While
I saw many cool toys at the NAMM show last week (including
one or two that are now on my "hope to get some day" list),
I'm working with what I got. In this case, it's all NLogFree,
a synth for the iPhone/iTouch. That's all you hear, with no
additional processing. |
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1.14.10 |
Piece011410
|
I have a busy couple of days
ahead, so I figured I better get my
ImprovFriday piece
done today. While it is Thursday here, it's already Friday
in Australia, so I'm going with that. Anyway, here you go. |
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1.8.10 |
Piece010810
|
Well, it's that time again -
time for my
ImprovFriday piece.
I have been anxiously awaiting today, as I had some unused
sounds from last week that I was saving for today's piece.
This piece uses those sounds plus a new free VST synth for
the melody(ies). |
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1.1.10 |
Piece010110
|
My first ImprovFriday piece of the year.
The other day I downloaded a bunch of
free samples
with the hope that I could find something to use for today's piece,
and that's pretty much what I did. I found a few that I liked and then threw down a little guitar over the top. |
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12.25.09 |
Piece122509
|
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
I "cheated" and started this one on 12/23, anticipating a couple of busy days ahead.
The only thing I didn't do was the solo Xaphoon part, which I recorded this afternoon.
It's a piece for the day (and the last one of the year for IF!). |
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12.18.09 |
Piece121809
|
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
It's interesting how things work out sometimes (well, to me anyway). I started this one using a
hurdy gurdy VST but I had issues when it came time to exporting it to audio. Not one
for throwing in the towel right away, I used the same MIDI file but switched to a VST that
emulates the Commodore 64 chip (which, btw, was my first computer).
I then added a couple of voices to beef it up and some
reverb and here you have it. |
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12.12.09 |
Piece121209
|
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
Well, I didn't make it on Friday (hence 121209 and not
121109), but better late than not at all, right? Also, I had
some tech issues today, so couldn't work in my usual
fashion. Not one for giving up too quickly, I ended up doing
this one in Finale - super fast and nothing fancy. The piece
feels like a rainy December day to me. That's a good thing. |
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12.04.09 |
Piece120409
|
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
Last week I was telling folks at the site that I never listen to other people's
compositions first, as I don't want to get unduly influenced (or discouraged) by what I hear.
Well, for the heck of it, I checked in early and listened to the first entry, by J.C. Combs,
which is a found sound collage. For the fun of it, I decided that I would use his piece as a
my starting point. A little cutting, reversing, stretching and adding a purposefully out of tune piano
(with delay and reverb) later, here it is. Don't turn the volume up too loud. |
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11.27.09 |
Piece112709
|
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
I heard the opening drum beat in my head a few days back and planned on using it
for this piece. Everything else showed up today. |
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11.20.09 |
Piece112009
|
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
Definitely electro-acoustic (or vice versa). |
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11.13.09 |
Piece111309
|
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
An electronic meditation made with only my Roland SH-101 (and a
little reverb on two tracks). |
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11.6.09 |
Piece110609
|
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
This piece is made entirely with instruments on my iTouch (SrutiBox, Steel Guitar and NLogFree). |
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10.30.09 |
Piece103009
|
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
Not at all what I was originally planning, but I guess the
time of year had an effect on me. |
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10.23.09 |
Piece102309
|
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
Last night I was thinking about seeing what I would come up with using three mallet instruments. Here it is.
As a side note, This is the first piece that I am posting
from this new site. Hopefully there will be more
activity here in the future (from both me and people looking
for my music). |
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10.16.09 |
Piece101609 |
My weekly ImprovFriday piece.
I guess I'm feeling industrial today. Percussion (sampled) + 2 tracks of me on my Fender Jazz bass.
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10.9.09 |
Piece100909 - for the Mighty Noah Bailey Dowell |
Another ImprovFriday piece.
I know Noah Bailey Dowell and his family from a church we all used to go to.
He is known as "The Mighty" and he died on 10.3.09 after a battle with a rare form of cancer.
He was 8 years old. He and his family are an inspiration. They are all mighty indeed!.
This piece is for Noah. I don't know what else to say.
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10.3.09 |
Piece100209 |
Yet Another ImprovFriday+1 piece for NetNewMusic.
I'm grateful for the +1, as I didn't get this finished until today. All sounds come from the same
softsynth (Mystic) that comes with Cubase 5. The melody you hear is the first and only take.
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9.25.09 |
Piece092509
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Another ImprovFriday+1 piece for NetNewMusic.
My most improvised one yet. No forethought. Just played few a through sounds
until I found this one. Once I found it, I messed around for a minute or two and
then hit record. No click track. Just played by feel, based somewhat on the
silences.
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9.18.09 |
Piece091809 |
Another ImprovFriday+1 (people are now free to put them up on Saturday too,
but everybody liked the "sound" of ImprovFriday) piece for NetNewMusic.
Two weeks ago I was wanting to do something with bells, but "it" just wasn't there. Today I decided
that I was going to limit myself to one sound. I went hunting through a few options of mine and the
sound that inspired me today was . . . bells. Tibetan bells to be exact. Well, samples of them anyway.
When I do these things, I try to go in with no musical ideas (hence improv) and get inspired by the sound(s).
Well, here's what the inspiration was for today. With bells, I can't decide which I like most - the attack or the decay.
I think it's the decay (and the harmonics you hear from it).
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9.11.09 |
Piece091109 - In Memoriam |
Another ImprovFriday piece for NetNewMusic.
The date says it all.
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9.4.09 |
Piece090409 |
Another ImprovFriday piece for NetNewMusic.
Another real improv. I wanted to do something with a bell sound but nothing was jumping out at me.
I ran across this sound on my Proteus 2000, which I've been messing with since it can do a variety
of tunings. The sound you hear is exactly as it sounds originally, including the delay. I purposefully
left off a click and played with/against the delay of the drone (which
functions like a tambura part). This one uses a Just Minor tuning.
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8.28.09 |
Piece082809 |
Another ImprovFriday piece for NetNewMusic.
This piece truly is an improv. Here's my day today: Wake up - find out water heater is leaking bad -
go buy new water - start replacing water heater - do a quick improv while water heater starts draining -
go coach saxophones at band camp at my son's high school - come home and finish installing water heater.
For what it's worth, the improv is in Just intonation. I like it. It reflects the peace I need right now.
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8.21.09 |
Piece082109 |
Another ImprovFriday piece for
NetNewMusic. How can you go
wrong with a toy piano?
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8.14.09 |
Piece081409 |
Another ImprovFriday piece for
NetNewMusic. I had this bass
line written down on a piece of scratch paper on my drafting table, so I grabbed it and a little
while later ended up with this little piece.
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8.7.09 |
Piece080709 |
So I belong to this group called
NetNewMusic, and they do this cool thing called ImprovFriday. This
is where members improvise a new piece on Friday and put it up for all to hear. I've wanted to
participate since it started,
but the "day job" got in the way. Well, seeing as I am still unemployed, I thought I would give it a go.
The skinny on this piece is that I've been working with my son on an industrial song. He's 14 and it's our first go
at really trying to make something (mostly him, with help from me on the
technical side). I have a sample cd of all sorts of
sounds and loops, and that was our jumping off point. Well, the other night I was up editing samples to load into Halion
for him to mess with. As I sat down today, I thought I would use those sounds to get started. Once I
had the "rhythm track" going, it took on it's own life. I put down a couple more tracks, but
realized it was still missing something. So I pulled out the tenor, with my new Otto Link mouthpiece (which I love),
and laid down the melody track. I limited myself to one take, with no fixes. A little processing and viola!
Once I was done mixing and just listened back, I came to the conclusion
that I ended up with some sort of tango. Sometimes it's fun to just follow
things where they go. |
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4.12.09 |
Piece041009 &
Piece 041009 Version 2 |
So this past week I upgraded to Cubase 5 (thanks Steve!), so of course I had to check it out.
There are many wonderful things about the program that I have yet to mess around with, but
I wanted to at least make something to get started. Using my usual MO for these things (3 tracks, approx.
2 minutes long), I wanted to start to work with some of the VSTs. There are some great sounding
synths in here, and the way the sounds are organized makes life much easier. Anyway, I found some
sounds I liked and laid it down real quick. I felt that something was missing, so I added the drums,
which I think was a good call. As for Version 2, there's a little more to the story. I got some money
for my recent birthday and decided to spend it on something musical. I had read about a wind instrument
called a Xaphoon and it intrigued me. If you're interested in seeing what it is, you can read about
it here: www.xaphoon.com. I bought the green plastic one from
Lark in the Morning (a great music store!).
When I was reading about the xaphoon, I read mixed reviews. It's called a pocket sax, but it sounds more
like a clarinet, so some people were not happy about that. My hope is that it would sound more like
a duduk, which is an Armenian instrument. If you don't know what it is, hunt it down. While
you're at it, check out Djivan Gasparyan - he's the man! Well, I got it, and while it's a challenge to play,
mostly in terms of intonation, I think it's close enough to what I wanted to
stick with it. Version 2 includes me playing the Xaphoon.
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12.7.08 |
Harbor Pearls |
This one is a little outside my usual MO, but I had fun making it. There's a little story behind it.
A talented student in my world music class at Santiago Canyon College would periodically give me
copies of music he made. When I heard the opening of one of them, I heard it go in a different direction.
I asked him if he would e-mail me the opening organ and synth bits so I could mess around with an idea I had.
He was cool with it, and here it is. It's all soft synths except for the guitar. I made it in two nights.
Oh yeah, the little part that comes in at 1:16 was composed and performed by my 7 year-old. He
jammed over the basic tracks and then I cut this part out and put it in (but did not alter it
in any way). |
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4.9.08 |
Piece010608 / 040908 |
So how's this for depressing - I was originally hoping to put something up once a month, and I haven't put
anything up in a year and eight months. Time sure flies by and I sure have been busy with life. I'll
have to figure out a way to revisit this more often. Anyway, back in January I started a little piano and
melody idea that I liked, but had to stop as it was getting late. My plan was to finish it the next day.
Nice plan, but I finally had a chance to get back to it tonight. Seeing as I challenged my song writing
students to get something done this week (Spring break), I figured I could do the same. As usual, here's
something short, simple and (I think) beautiful. With life the way it is these days (2 jobs, 3 kids -
2 of them teenagers, etc.), simple and beautiful is what I need. I hope you feel the same way.
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3.19.06 |
The Haunted Boy - Cue 1 Rough Demo 1
The Haunted Boy - Cue 6 Rough Demo 1 |
OK, so I know it's been a while, but what can I say? Anyway, I'm finishing up the score (just mixing
left!) to a short film being produced at Chapman University and I thought it would be fun to put up the
rough demos of 2 cues that didn't make it.
The first one is the first thing I came up with for the opening and the feeling was that it
wasn't "haunting" enough. I agreed, wrote a second cue, and got it right. The second cue was the first
try for a cue near the end of the film, and the feeling was that it was beautiful, but too "jubilatory."
I was a bit taken back at first, as I thought I hit the mood right, but in retrospect, it was too
sentimental sounding and I hit the moment too soon. Since I wasn't sure where to go next, musically, I
started two different cues and sent them in for feedback. Fortunately for me, both cues were well like and
they became cues 6 and 7 (of 7 cues).
Regarding the procees of writing for this film, I had a copy of the
film (without the temp score, of course) loaded into Cubase SX, and I would start cues at my upright piano,
and then work between pencil and paper and writing right into the software (from my head). I had already
decided on the "ensemble," which is violin, viola, cello, clarinet, guitar, celesta and piano,
so I set up a program in my JV-1080 (using the Orchestral module) to give me a quick, rough mock-up of the
group (which is what you hear in these demos). Once I finished (I hoped) a cue, I would save them in mp3
format and e-mail them to the man in charge. I would usually get the thumbs-up or thumbs-down (which
only happened twice) within a day, and then get back to it as time permitted. |
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10.7.05 |
Piece100705 |
Wow, that took a long time to get another piece done. I finally got around to tuning (well, sort of)
the kalimba I bought earlier this year in Sacramento. An African shop in Old Town Sacramento - go figure!
Anyway, I'm going to be talking about African music in my world music class, so I thought that I
would get the Kalimba ready to bring in to show and tell and play. I started messing around on the
piano and then went from there. Just a couple of takes to get something down for fun. Oh yeah, the
"drum" is the kalimba as well. |
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3.10.05 |
Piece031605 |
Although this piece took only 4-5 hours to write, record & mix, the process
was spread out over two nights. I started it on the 16th, so that's where the
title came from. I had all sorts of possible titles for this one (much more
interesting ones than what I ended up with), but one of the reasons I love instrumental
music so much is that you can say so much without using any words. |
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1.23.05 |
Piece012305 |
Wow, two in one month. Crazy! The reason I got around to a new piece so fast is that I wanted to show off my new guitars.
What you're hearing is a Gibson Les Paul, a '57 Strat, and a Godin Artisan. OK, so they're not "my" guitars, but really nice samples
of real guitars from Vint Audio. |
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1.9.05 |
Piece010905 |
Music from a rainy Sunday. That's my three-year-old son Joshua on the piano. |
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10.24.04 |
Piece102804 |
What can I say? Another 2 minute 3-track synth piece. I just felt like making something. Besides, I just got DSL
last night and I was dying to upload something new. Dial-up never again! |
