piano solo and I made it longer - score is here https://www.chrisvaisvil.com/friends/syncopated.pdf

UPDATE: I remixed this. I replaced the plate reverbs with rooms. Another song from the 2022 RPM Challenge, re-recorded for Quarantine Tunes Volume Seven. Not a lot different between this and the original. The rhythm guitar is still sloppy…

Tumbjam app

This track is all about me trying to learn music production techniques. So I threw just about everything at this track, compression, equalization, automation, ducking, limiting, so much so that my DAW began to protest and have momentary breakdowns…

#2 track of the new album

If we could hear the music that mushrooms make, it might sound something like this. 🍄💚✨ I recorded this while messing around on my semimodular.

Written by Crystal Dawn Performed by The Chairs Featuring Chad King Recorded by Mike Rotolante

I threw a bunch of random samples together and made a song.

Fortunately, there's software out there that assists with analyzing the results from the hours and hours of field recordings.

Written and Performed by The Chairs Lyrics: Crystal Dawn Recorded by Mike Rotolante (Don Undeen plays bass on this one!)

Music written and performed by the Chairs ~ Lyrics: Crystal Dawn ~ Recorded by Mike Rotolante ~ (Crystal Dawn plays bass on this one!)

Written and performed by the Chairs Lyrics: Crystal Dawn Recorded by Mike Rotolante

Written by Robby Copeland Performed by The Chairs Recorded by Mike Rotolante

Written by: Crystal Dawn Performed by: the Chairs Recorded by: Mike Rotolante

Written by: Crystal Dawn © 1999 Performed and recorded 2013 by Crystal and Angela

Stones Sent Skipping Written By: Crystal Dawn © 1999 Performed and Recorded By: Crystal and Angela 06/13

Written by: Crystal Dawn © 1999 Performed and recorded by: Crystal and Angela 06/13

Instrumental

Did a studio challenge this week from Joe Gilder to try to recreate an entire song from scratch, breaking it down and recording and producing everything. This could be considered a cover tune of "Something for the Pain" by She Drew the Gun. I…

Prepared baritone ukulele and Pure Data oscillators, process through a Koma Field Kit and captured on cassette tape. Created for the recent Sound-In event on extended techniques and a new Bandcamp next few weeks.

A song about finding the core, where all dreams begin.

Track #3 Trying to find myself. Depression and anxiety hurts.

Bobby Sommerstein has composed and sings his version of my lyrics to Magic Place. The Magic Place is based on uninhabited Hawksbill Cay in the Bahamas, where I would often anchor. And have a tot of rum. Verse 1 There’s a magic place I go…

unused track from new album

piano improvisation

piano improvisation

piano improvisation

piano improvisation

piano improvisation

piano improvisation

piano improvisation

A friend forwarded me a voicemail they had received, so I did this. Contains the f word.

Happy 43rd birthday to "Boys Don't Cry," released on June 15, 1979. Here's a simple and dirty acoustic cover version, recorded somewhere between Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 (I think...). I wasn't feeling well at the time and my voice was shot…

This features, with some wizardry, the voice of the great Jamie Cullum singing his superb version of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film....but all else you can hear is my goodself...! He is an absolute hero of mine, and I hope I did the…

A little vintage folk rock tune. Lyrics about a discovery and the conundrum that follows.

Roland SE-02 with sequencer running, LFO modulated, and slow delay, then run through EHX Stereo Memory Man also w/ slow delay. Submitted to Sound-In "Polyrhythms, etc" for 9-16/6/2022.