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?
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
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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I sent a link in four mile cove comments: another gem
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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
Narrative: A lonely scientist was stationed to Tundzha Glacier in Antarctica to study fissures.
Instrumentation: I stretched, repitched, and looped two sections…
great record crackle timbre at the beginning.
:45 to 1:10 is the high point for me.
sound gets distorted around 1:10- too much boost in the equalizer there.
like that beat sample around 1:30. would like too hear more of this juxtaposition, and continued cutting up of your main loop.
Welcome to my 300th Alonetone upload! I sit with a pile of books to read in a house full of boxes and my studio is not even completely set up; however, I had no choice but to write and record this tune today once the sun went down. This song is…
well its nearly there. I like to put stuff that I am working on up so that I can listen to it in passing for a day or so, it gives me the chance to hear it with new ears. And maybe get a little feedback/ suggestions. I need to finish the vocal…
Great reverb on those vocals- takes me back to my discovery of my parents' "Surrealistic Pillow" LP at age 7 or so. Love the switch up after the first minute, especially the high theremin-like synth line.
2:45 very nice too.
Welcome to my 300th Alonetone upload! I sit with a pile of books to read in a house full of boxes and my studio is not even completely set up; however, I had no choice but to write and record this tune today once the sun went down. This song is…
The song was constructed around a field recording of Lacandon men paddling across the lake in Métzabok, Chiapas (Southern Mexico). The Lacandon speak "Hach T'an," which is a Mayan dialect-- this is the language you hear in the track. Unfortunately…
This is my 12 hour song (written, recorded, mixed, mastered) ... I pined away all day at it while a storm kept me company.
instrumentation:
a man lost his house and sold me his fretless bass for next to nothing. a family friend gave me…
nice song. i'll have to come back and listen to more.
hey thanks for your comment.
i programmed the drum patterns for "Anniversary" from samples in Reason, added effects in that program as well.
very cool! i would prefer to hear real saxophones though. great texture and treatment of spoken text. the piece seems to end at about 3 and a half minutes. then surprise!
This song was written after moving into a new apartment. One of the movers put a coin in the door hinge to keep the door open so that he wouldn't have to bother me for keys. I thought it was so cool and smart and sleek and simple. I wanted him…
hey could i get an a cappella of this one here?
also i like your idea of building a new beat from chopping up samples of my "Baltimore Celebrates Obama Win" field recording.
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:21 the introduction of distorted guitar layer is awesome
maybe an alternate/contrasting pitched loop at around :32 would be good, to continue to build.
nice ending!
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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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fantastic sound.
great record crackle timbre at the beginning. :45 to 1:10 is the high point for me. sound gets distorted around 1:10- too much boost in the equalizer there. like that beat sample around 1:30. would like too hear more of this juxtaposition, and continued cutting up of your main loop.
love the rhythmic evolution at around :20 great light rail sound too.
gotta tell me about your drum production tricks some time. love the sound of the chorus, the bass and the breakdown. sweet.
hey, i was just writing a comment on "Imagine Us". then it disappeared as it moved on to this track. anyway, was really feeling that.
Great reverb on those vocals- takes me back to my discovery of my parents' "Surrealistic Pillow" LP at age 7 or so. Love the switch up after the first minute, especially the high theremin-like synth line. 2:45 very nice too.
Beautiful and brave. Your new ventures with vocals remind me a bit of RJD2's recent move in "The Third Hand"- except I think you have a better voice.
great morning music!
love the use of the field recording with the floating instrumental parts.
Yay, work from Sound I class on a glu mixtape! Great piece, Anna.
reminds me of j dilla. so nice with a glass of red wine.
gorgeous melodic layering, perfect garden of timbres.
nice song. i'll have to come back and listen to more. hey thanks for your comment. i programmed the drum patterns for "Anniversary" from samples in Reason, added effects in that program as well.
A soundtrack for the Twitter Generation ;) Very interesting evolution as it progresses.
very cool! i would prefer to hear real saxophones though. great texture and treatment of spoken text. the piece seems to end at about 3 and a half minutes. then surprise!
hey could i get an a cappella of this one here? also i like your idea of building a new beat from chopping up samples of my "Baltimore Celebrates Obama Win" field recording.
Hey would I be able to get an a cappella or two from you? Feel free to work with any of my beats up here as well. Thanks for listening!
gorgeous sampling, great beat. i love the little surprises you bring in while still maintaining the groove.
wow, this is fantastic. just keeps getting better.
:21 the introduction of distorted guitar layer is awesome maybe an alternate/contrasting pitched loop at around :32 would be good, to continue to build. nice ending!