While I was a grad student in the Boston area, I performed regularly with an Afro-Caribbean drumming group called the Jah Jah Drummers. It was during this time that I first began making beats in hip-hop and dub styles. This was recorded at the…
From my first album of beats, "Tompkins Count Organic", this song samples the banjo and voice of Frank Profitt, from an old Folkways recording. Also sampled is a composition of mine for violin, played by Rolf Schulte.
From my first album of beats, "Tompkins Count Organic", this song samples the banjo and voice of Frank Profitt, from an old Folkways recording. Also sampled is a composition of mine for violin, played by Rolf Schulte.
A track created for a character called Rainy, on the North walk (entitled "Life Is Monumental") of "Charm City Remix", a site-specific narrative by Kianga Ford.
This piece grew out of a project in my digital music class at Oasis Charter Middle School (Cape Coral, FL) back in Fall 2006. I recorded some environmental sounds at night in the Four Mile Cove nature preserve in Cape Coral (the only bit of natural…
This one is amazing as well!. Are you still working with kids?
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This is my first attempt at merging the children's beats and rhythms with my son working the turntable.
The youth bring an entirely different perspective into the mix!
Make Music! Be Happy
One in a series of collaborations that I did with students in my digital music class, back when I was teaching middle school. These are 7th and 8th graders at Oasis Charter Middle School in Cape Coral, FL. We created the instrumental tracks together…
I love this collaboration with youth. You've done a wonderful job.
Great Stuff! I'm listening to the old turtle story right now.
Thank You
My joy comes from playing music with pre schoolers. I'm now beginning to lay tracks down on top of their rhythym and beats.
Such wild abandoned.
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This piece was written for the Vance Quartet, a student clarinet quartet at Oberlin in 2002. My wife is one of the 2 bass clarinetists heard on this recording-- we'd known each other for a few months at this point. The electronic sound collage…
It's seems guy loves the music of great Russian composer A.Skryabin (I'm not sure about spelling). I studied that music while I was leaning in music college. It's a great music! DJ Dubble8 - your music so close to me.
I recorded this short piece on guitar for my friend Andy Hulse's 2003 film "High Lonesome". This part is for a driving scene with no dialogue. Early morning in a southwestern Texas landscape.
I recorded this short solo vocal with a minidisc recorder while up in a tree. This is a one-take, one-track recording (with lots of delay added, to be sure). The bird you hear was actually accompanying me at the time. A later, expanded version…
Beat created for vocal collaborator Du Yun, mixed with a slowed-down Medieval recorder estampie. Created while dwelling in the suburban wilds of Cape Coral, Lee County, FL.
I recorded this short piece on guitar for my friend Andy Hulse's 2003 film "High Lonesome". This part is for a driving scene with no dialogue. Early morning in a southwestern Texas landscape.
A meditative space for guitar, harp, vibraphone, english horn, french horn, viola, cello, and double bass, from my large work "Mandala of the Four Directions" (2004).
Performed by my wife, Marie Rinkoski, on clarinet. Recorded in the woods around Ithaca NY, and layered with some scratchy vinyl pops. This clarinet melody is the introduction to a song I wrote on one of Pablo Neruda's Sonnets.
My music series, Mobtown Modern, just got a great write-up in the Baltimore Sun. Our upcoming show features music by one of the composers sampled in this beat. Can you guess who it is?
The article:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.mobtown07sep07,0,2400931.story
This piece grew out of a project in my digital music class at Oasis Charter Middle School (Cape Coral, FL) back in Fall 2006. I recorded some environmental sounds at night in the Four Mile Cove nature preserve in Cape Coral (the only bit of natural…
This project was done using a minidisc recorder and Sony stereo condenser mic (if it was done today I would probably use a solid state recorder like the Zoom H4), Audacity free software for editing the samples, and Reason software for assembling the field recording samples into beats (if done today I would use Ableton Live for both these steps). Finally I used Traktor DJ software to mix together the various beats that my students made, and their spoken narratives, plus a wildlife LP record to scratch in various bird calls.
The samples of the woman speaking were taken from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's TED talk, here is a link - http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
Very nice, Jake. That bass is so intense in headphones! I agree with Quetzalcoatus on the build-up. Can I put this on an alonetone playlist of featured work from the class?
Hey Faith, enjoying listening to this on headphones finally. Great progression of texture and rhythm with the found sounds in stereo. Would you mind if I included this on an alonetone playlist of work from this summer session of Sound 1?
Instrumentation: fretless bass, tabla, acoustic and distorted acoustic guitar, hang drum samples (courtesy of Sudara), soft synth (AAS Ultra Analog), ambient sample of the jungle (pitched down two octaves) a sprinkle of ebow (from my Sudara files).
I love this track, how simple the rhythm is but how rich it is with the drum and guitar timbres. Build up is awesome, as Sister Savage & kirklynch said. The break to the sustained texture at the end is fantastic.
From the 24 hour album. Began this one 47 minutes into the 24hr session. Listen to the full work here: http://alonetone.com/glu/tracks/glus-24
I haven't touched this track in over two months. What does it need?
Instrumentation: Bamboo flute…
I told the [good Sister](http://alonetone.com/sistersavage) that I wanted to try using vocals in a track and she offered to do me some abstract, stylized, vocals that I could play with and this little number is the result.
Working with wet (pre…
Soundtrack for the video version of a shadow puppet show ("Awake", below, was an excerpt/prototype for this piece). A link to the YouTube video of the show is below!
Logic 9 - using samples from "8.5" and "8.8" by Supersilent, as well as some drum sounds from "No One Gives A Hoot About Faux-Ass Nonsense" by Don Caballero
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music to my ears!!! hooray for brave Baltimore! MAN this is cool.
WOOOOOOOOO!
Sweet, thanks for sharing this Dubble Erik!
I like my art cruchy like this.
I agree with ACL, really nice!
Like this.
Oh Yeah...Nice!
This one is amazing as well!. Are you still working with kids? Check out http://www.redgage.com/#rf:/videos/makemusic/welcome-to-the-underground-experimental.html:innercontainer:pageForwarder This is my first attempt at merging the children's beats and rhythms with my son working the turntable. The youth bring an entirely different perspective into the mix! Make Music! Be Happy
I love this collaboration with youth. You've done a wonderful job. Great Stuff! I'm listening to the old turtle story right now. Thank You My joy comes from playing music with pre schoolers. I'm now beginning to lay tracks down on top of their rhythym and beats. Such wild abandoned. www.MakeMusicandDance.com I sent a link in four mile cove comments: another gem Check out RedGage search videos: Welcome to Underground Experimental
It's seems guy loves the music of great Russian composer A.Skryabin (I'm not sure about spelling). I studied that music while I was leaning in music college. It's a great music! DJ Dubble8 - your music so close to me.
Very interesting. I'm fond of classic guitar.
I like it! Nice!
Nice. Man, really diggin these downtempo tunes
very cool. I love the atmospheric sounds of the guitar and when the percussion arrives.
Extra Fine!
I LOVE this!!!!
Ahh...Beautiful!
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.mobtown07sep07,0,2400931.story
My music series, Mobtown Modern, just got a great write-up in the Baltimore Sun. Our upcoming show features music by one of the composers sampled in this beat. Can you guess who it is? The article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.mobtown07sep07,0,2400931.story
this ep is just jaw-dropping. ouch, my jaw. wowzers.
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This project was done using a minidisc recorder and Sony stereo condenser mic (if it was done today I would probably use a solid state recorder like the Zoom H4), Audacity free software for editing the samples, and Reason software for assembling the field recording samples into beats (if done today I would use Ableton Live for both these steps). Finally I used Traktor DJ software to mix together the various beats that my students made, and their spoken narratives, plus a wildlife LP record to scratch in various bird calls.
Nice counterpart to the early morning thunderstorm outside.
Great piece Ryan, really beautiful. If you're alright with it, I'd like to put this on an alonetone playlist of featured work from the class.
My favorite track. Would you mind if I put this on an alonetone playlist of featured work from our class?
Counterpoint of layers after the 3-min mark is great. So Baltimore.
Very nice, Jake. That bass is so intense in headphones! I agree with Quetzalcoatus on the build-up. Can I put this on an alonetone playlist of featured work from the class?
Hey Faith, enjoying listening to this on headphones finally. Great progression of texture and rhythm with the found sounds in stereo. Would you mind if I included this on an alonetone playlist of work from this summer session of Sound 1?
I'd like to put this on an alonetone playlist of work from our summer Sound 1 class- let me know if you have any objection. Great synth textures.
nice!
I really like the changes to the drums you introduce after the 50-second mark. Thanks for posting!
I love this track, how simple the rhythm is but how rich it is with the drum and guitar timbres. Build up is awesome, as Sister Savage & kirklynch said. The break to the sustained texture at the end is fantastic.
Lovely.
Great movie soundtrack!
love the vocal processing and noise elements.
I keep coming back to this one.
Great track! Everything fuses perfectly.
Great textures!
Really like the stereo vocal polyphony at softer dynamic levels in the first section.
So glad I took a listen with headphones!
Great track, Niv. Really chill but energized throughout.