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MMI gave me one of his loops to play with (maybe he'll upload the original loop for comparison). Anyway this is my first real attempt at using a loop so I butchered it pretty liberally. Let me know what you think.
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"We Know Everything (A Requiem for a Rock Band) is just what it says. It's a requiem for a rock band. We all knew, and most of us were in, that greatest rock band that no one ever heard.
Those stories are full of sad clichés like the deal…
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"Burning Anna Rose" is a murder ballad. it's about a man who's love takes him out to get him drunk and in so doing, seals her own fate. Despite killing here on a snowy, winter afternoon he knows they'll always be together.
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One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield.
I said to myself, "Sweet Rain."
I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…
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Michael Jeffrey showed me a progression on the guitar. I wrote words to go with it.
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We were shooting this movie one day when they needed a song for a dance scene. I said, "I wrote a song that might fit here." The director agreed and I ended up getting to write all the music for that movie, RED DESERT PENITENTIARY. directed by…
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...after reading John Steinbeck's IN DUBIOUS BATTLE and watching the John Ford movie of GRAPES OF WRATH. The opening and closing statements are quotes from the Preacher in the movie.
A friend said he wanted to do a video of this track. I…
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I listened to Emilie's music on her MySpace site and was prompted to write this song.
Emilie
She's been there. She'll be there.
She's part of the landscape
At old Uncle Calvin's she's grandfathered in.
She'll be there when you need…
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This song tells about a guy I know named Gene.
GENE
AGFE
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Gene had a girlfriend. The band would play and they would dance
A…
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I was trying to find an image that expresses how lonely and abandoned I feel. This was it.
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Rick Babb came to me with this song he had written thinking it might express how I feel about the person missing from my life.
It did. I rewrote the verses.
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Something just broke and I think it's my heart
It wasn't an arrow. It wasn't a dart
It mighta been a meter that tore it apart
But, something just broke and I think it's my heart
G.
A bedside bomb with no alarm…
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I went into the studio to record something I wrote... I came out to find out that 32 students had been gunned down... I already had the mandolin song and melody with a writing direction... and this senseless evil really derailed the whole thing…
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are you listening tonight?
or am i talking to a wall
a stone wall in your heart
will you talk to me?
just say anything, i will hear it
in my heart
night after night i sit here and listen to you
night after night i speak to myself
day by…
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deeper and deeper i fall to sleep
and i am with you again
i can't wake up and face the loneliness
i won't feel love without you
hear the shattered lines, miles and days
didn't want to go away
nothing i can say
now the only way
fall into…
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tomorrow i have sold my soul
i saw you, you were alone
i saw me, white as a bone
can we feel the distance as much as the empty hearts?
it wasn't too easy yesterday
i tried to talk to you, but my mouth was so sore
it burned with words that…
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here we are, for the very first time
is it safe to touch you
or am I way out of line
now it's over, and our embrace was far too sweet
is it safe to fall in love or is this a game that can never be beat
here we are in my bedroom all alone…
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Based on the work of Janet Cardiff, my final is an audio walk through of the Digital building, the Brown Center, at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I weave fictions and truth, with recorded sounds and sampled, manipulated and natural. There…
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one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old band mate visiting after moving away.
when is how, and don't begin
silent thoughts and long lost friends
goodbye for now
just and wise and kind and true
from earth to sky, from me to you…
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this is one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old band mate was visiting after moving away. we drank alot while he was here.
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one of 5 songs written July 5, 2005 re: an old band mate visiting after moving away. this is actually about my wife.
close my eyes and fall asleep
and dream of you
hold you close and your kiss your face
and lick your thighs and realize…
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one of five songs written in July 2005 re: an old band mate was visiting after moving away. he took me for a ride in his single engine sesna.
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one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old bandmate coming to visit after moving away to Indiana. this is a true story.
remember me
when I slept with your wife
and you didn't kill me
remember me
when we played in that band
and toured…
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this was a song i wrote and performed a couple times with a former band (kill.pop.), but we broke up before it ever got recorded. i had to save it, though this version is aweful.
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a song from a previous band (kill.pop.), i took the metal out of it and made it more dreamy. this is actually the 3rd version of this song that i've played.
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the reprise is actually the way the song was written.
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this is the first song I wrote for my wife. it is an actually step by step of our first date.
she opened the door and stood there smiling
this exchange between us lasted forever
so i took her in my car and went to eat some vietnamese food…
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originally a fast tempo tune, i started slowing it down to add variety. it's hit or miss really.
first you say, that you don't believe me
then you say, that you cannot trust me
then you say, that you can't forgive me
then you say that it…
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based on a poem from Charles Bukowski. the bass part is from an older song i wrote with a band call black water. i hate wasting good parts.
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rpm song from 2007, my wife's father had just died and i had to drive 4 hours to be with her, then spent 2 days with her and her family, then drove back home and left her there. this is the song about that journey home.
the house is cold…
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this is improvised song that i just made up on night. the words always change and the length as well. it's not really about anything in real life, i just like the "lies to the sun" part.
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the first new song written for the RPM challenge, i love the guitar part, but the words were last minute. some people get tired of my anti-religion diatribe. oh well
Judge me, I want everyone all up in here
cast your stones for slandering…
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this is 4 bass tracks and drums
the 3rd song i wrote about my wife. maybe someday the second song will show up somewhere.
like a hunter hunts its prey
eyeing me, hungrily
can't keep her paws to herself
and i'm not about to fight it
it…
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a song about my first house, after bouncing around rentals for 20 years.
this is the way to my new house
through the city and past the park
it's not quite as far as you might think
this is the way to my new house
there might be a bus that…
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I wrote this piece over the course of 2006. Though the majority was committed to paper during that year, the project continues to evolve every time I come back to it. I'm still struggling to find the perfect avenue to represent the composition…
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Durning the recording of this it was 3 in the morning the fog had rolled in thickly and a fog horn was blowing. When I was monitoring the track I could hear the slow beat 6 bpm of the fog horn.
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
This is my personal favorite of the 5 jams.
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
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just keep your chin up and fuck the rest of the world.
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some think urkel was funny or stupid.
i know the truth.
he was living in pain.
now the world can know too.
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sometimes you don't even notice how high you are... or how stupid your voice sounds.
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Just messing around with some amp tremolo and a drum loop.
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it is perhaps of Oriental origins. however, the pentatonic music becomes dysfunctional as it begins to fixate on two notes. it is almost humorous. it was considered a failed experiment. however, it is retrieved from the waste bin, as version 0x01…
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This is another song snippet from my experimentations with Reason 4.
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This sound was originally scored with a video provided by our professor, and the piece was longer, however I feel after the point that I have abruptly cut here, it gets a little lost.
All sounds are recorded and manipulated.
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Second piece I did for the installation, one that was less altered and created more natural atmospheres.
Btw the cops came and got us, if thats not art success I dunno what is.
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Our Sound 1 teacher, Eric Spangler, organized a coup of Baltimore's Penn Station via sound. We recorded from the enviroment and then took those samples back into the studio and reworked them. We then took the finished tracks and secretly, from…
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This is a short experiment with the music program Reason 4.0. As I develop my chops in Reason I will be posting my short experiments on here for your feedback! Thanks for listening!
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24 hour EP more than 24 hours late. I was going to title it "Perpetual Interruptions EP" but I went for something more positive. Due to weird bug in some part of my set up, there is a kick drum in only one side of the stereo for the first few…
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Just a fun sort of chunky syncopated thing set to a reflection I wrote for a friend.
Enjoy!
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an experimental piece,exploring the musical landscape,which is a palindrome,given that the second track is the first,reversed
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