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I've had a bit of a love/hate relationship with this one.
I enjoyed making the beats and think that part came out pretty good but everything after that felt rather haphazard and didn't feel right to me.
I was close to abandoning the track…
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I am not BT, so no rain drops were quantized in this production.
Storm was recorded last night on my Tascam DR-07 (with wind filter and limiter).
Just a simple piano improv. That of course had to be tweaked far out of the improv stage.
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this is classical music half the parts are played live in one go then copied for other instruments. the original takes are three and a half minutes long then copied to make this 6 minute piece all the parts were played on the laptop keyboard…
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Small sketch, to be made into a real-life song, once the cellist takes care of his debts.
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Piano
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Ol' Banjo Bill kept playing this riff, so we decided to make a little ditty out of it. We're thinking of actually making it a song.
Instrumentation:
Banjo
Guitar
A Comb and a Pen
2 Fairly Drunk Singers
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Dedicated to the king of pop himself.
I would love to have Michael comment on this song.
Myself and a synth voice are on the vocals.
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I think it's too repetitive. The bass is too harsh. The beats are stale.
Don't agree with me though. :)
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This was a collab tween us and Sinergen Drug from Aukland NZ. Amazing deep vibes.
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Partita for solo violoncello was composed for Sumire Kudo in the spring of 2007. Although it is a single movement work, its form derives from a collage-like assemblage of diverse materials that can be heard as fragments of movements from an imagined…
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Just a quick conceptual sketch of a new piece we're brewing. 210 bpm, 5/4, with 6 bars per phrase. We'll probably take this down once we've got more there. Our poor pianist will probably get carpal-tunnel syndrome from this.
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I'm convinced that composing/recording daily is the best way to really find out if a DAW fits your workflow. And I think Ableton Live nailed its final nail in the coffin for me tonight.
See, if I weren't writing so much, so quickly, I would be…
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Recorded: August 8, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD/DADGBE - capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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This is how i wake up... this is how i fall asleep...
This is what i think about... when i'm trying to sound deep...
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So I still hate Ableton Live with a passion for anything piano related. But things seem to go better if I head straight to arrangement view once I'm out of the improvising stage and do my recording there, rather than trying to think that session…
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There's a note that sounds like it's getting abruptly chopped off somewhere in the song. Hopefully, you won't hear it, because I couldn't figure out what was causing it.
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I composed this string quartet on a freeware music notation program. It just kind of came to me. Pretty short, but I'm sure I could expand on it.
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We found a nice bathroom, and, moved by whimsy, decided to write this little shuffle for y'all. Took us about 15 minutes to write and record. It'd lose its spontaneity, otherwise, no?
Style:
Crosby-Stills-Nash-Young-esque Bathroom Folk
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Live mashup with Holly Bass on vocals, Jill Paige on piano. Recorded live at Playbill Cafe in Washington, DC.
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Li Bao's lament, ‘Fighting South of the Ramparts,’ was probably written in 751, a year of significant military defeats for the Tang Dynasty, which was approaching both its cultural and political peak and soon to face the rebellion of An Lushan…
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This is me playing the piano interlude of here's to life. Was finally able to upload it onto my computer using my Yamaha YPG 235 and some midi driver!
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So i sat in my room one day incense burning, with my $100 pawn shop 2nd hand bass guitar which i painted white with the same paint as my walls and i turned the reverb on full and started doing volume swells with the knob on my guitar.. i sat for…
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First post-24h tune. Music written and recorded throughout the day... and lyrics in the evening. WARNING: This one is another cliché romantic synth-pop tune; same *muse* as the last one.
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First, I did Voices. Then glu worked his magic. Then I hated my guitar part so I redid it. Here's the result.
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Brief musical sketch, to be transformed into a teary-eyed country weeper.
Instrumentation:
1 Dobro Resonator Guitar, played on both sides of a slide.
[If you give a page a dobro ...]
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This is a track that I started and glu finished (more like knocked out of the park).
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I got word this morning that my dog died sometime overnight, following his emergency surgery.
It's never easy to lose a pet, but I find it's especially difficult when they're young and you were expecting to spend many more good years with them…
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More solo piano. Yay.
I'm also doing my own version of the 24 hour challenge... the wrong way. This is day #1 of that challenge.
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A song I started writing the music for last night. Just got it finished so I thought I would upload. Words by Gordy Macdonald.
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August 24 hour challenge..
I couldn't pass up on the name. =)
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August 24 hour challenge..
Last track written, but I'm happy with how it came out.
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August 24 hour challenge..
Audio footage from a local flood -- listen midway through, and the reason for the name becomes clear.
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August 24 hour challenge..
Started out as a parody track, but gradually got more and more demented..
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August 24 hour challenge..
Irving Finkelstein wanted to rap, but the 1 BPM tempo was just too much for him.
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August 24 hour challenge..
Full name is Ray Bradbury's Cursed Bionic Orchestra, but it wouldn't fit.
Lone improvised track (musically) during the session. Listen with headphones for best results.
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August 24 hour challenge..
It was really humid when I wrote this one.
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Warning - uses Brainwave Generator for samples - so if you feel a little groggy listening to it, that's why.
Don't play while operating heavy machinery.
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August 24 hour challenge..
Pretty cohesive tail for a 57 second track.
[Compare to "Firecracker" recorded for RPM 2010. This was the initial kernel that led to that track.]
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August 24 hour challenge..
This was the first track written in the early morning hours.
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NOT FINISHED. shining up old songs. this one is headed in this direction. if i put it up on here, i have to finish it.
love,
masochistic super ego.
Here's the old version:
http://alonetone.com/ttworkman/tracks/tiny-little-babies
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a re-worked version of next (the second tune i ever made) still full on and now more mad !
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This is just an untitled electronic/dance/house thing I started a couple weeks ago and a little stuck on what to do next with it. Any ideas? Also uploaded to Kompoz.com to see if there's anyone out there that would like to add to it.
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Just one of those passing moods. Just finished today - august 2 2009. I resisted the temptation to try to develop it any further and just let it be what it is
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I hesitate to upload this, but there are a couple folks around who like this sort of thing. This is an edited down version of a jam I had with myself back at the end of 2007. Live to 2 tracks with the aid of the Jamman. I think it was the first…
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Jonathan Thomas looks at how God is faithful even though we are unfaithful.
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Okay I need to say a few things. Please read before listening!
I did not do the 24 hour challenge but I did try and hang around in the chatroom as much as possible with Glu, SisterS, and ChrisM while they battled through it.
At about midnight…
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Written, recorded, and mixed in 24 hours. August 01-02, 2009, from 6am to 6am.
Instrumentation: Two acoustic guitars, electric guitar (picked and bowed), fretless bass, about 7 different flutes, two tabla drums, rattles, tambourine, didgeridoo…
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One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the last track I did, and it shows.
I was pretty tired after finishing 3am chill, and had to mess round for ages mangling loops and trying out different things before…
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One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the second track I did.
I'm an old trance head, so I had to have a go at making a trance tune during the 24 hours. This had the advantage that I could stretch out the breakdown…
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One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the first track I did, when I was still fresh.
I'd wanted to play around with Guitar Rig 3 since getting it at the weekend. The guitars are ableton loops mangled with guitar…
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One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. I'd just finished the trance track, it was 3am, and I wanted something completely different.
It's 110bpm, the piano is NI AkousticPiano Steingraber 130. The bass and organ are done…
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The average person thinks as many as 50,000 thoughts a day. Many of these thoughts are negative and self-destructive. I believe that all of the inner tension in your life is created by your thoughts. Your thoughts make you ill and your thoughts…
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Recorded: August 1, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo II), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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Second movement of my Concerto per violino e piccola orchestra, Andantino Op. 20
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This song is about the Celebrate Recovery program at our church. Everyone is recovering from something; pain, addiction, grief, etc.
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NOT FINISHED. another draft. just putting it up here so that i kick myself in the pants to flesh it out and write verses and whatnot and redo everything. great!
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NOT FINISHED. another draft. just putting it up here so that i kick myself in the pants to flesh it out and write verses and whatnot and redo everything. great!
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NOT FINISHED. another doo-doo draft. just putting it up here so that i kick myself in the pants to flesh it out and write verses and whatnot and redo everything. great!
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NOT FINISHED. another doo-doo draft. just putting it up here so that i kick myself in the pants to flesh it out and write verses and whatnot and redo everything. great!
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NOT FINISHED. doo doo vocals. just figuring out how this song is going to go.
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So I was sitting on some wanker's loungesuite watching Across The Universe in a big orange woolly jumper and it came to me! What do i want to say to you? " ??? You're Very Pretty". It just stemmed from that line, but instead of revealing your…
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This song is about my current state of seemingly perpetual virginity. But more than that, it's my sorta twee manifesto, for now any way. I really like black tambourine, tintin, kittens, big wolf on campus, poetry and that's what it's about. I…
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This is the first song I ever wrote that I was proud of. and I haven't matched it since. I had the first line in my head for like a year, then I switched it round and had the second line. With that, I sat down at my guitar and played the first…
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