With a great deal of love I named this track “Blah”. I’ve been told in school that it’s always a bad idea to put a negative seed in someone’s brain before letting them listen to your music, but maybe it could serve as an opportunity to have something go beyond your expectations?
I tried to go for a Demoscene vibe but unbeknownst to the music, I just wasn’t feeling propelled.
MP3: Blah
The sixth piece is a simple piano idea with some overlays, and an attempt at creating some interesting lines that tangle with each other.
MP3: Shenandoah
For the fifth day of 30 songs in 30 days, I decided to do something completely different altogether. I recorded about eight and a half minutes of improvisation on the keyboard, and then arranged it for a bunch of instruments. It was a ton of fun and only took me about an hour or so.
This is a great exercise for hearing lots of ideas in some kind of context, and especially useful if you might eventually want to extrapolate some of those ideas.
In light of November 5th, I had to get Guy Fawkes on my tracklist. So imagine yourself frolicking and plotting around London on a dark evening.
My friend Steve is working on a little game, and he asked me to write a little light/dreamy piece, so I decided to have my fourth 30s30d track “get two birds stoned at once”.
This piece only uses two single-cycle loop samples, both of which I got from Jasper’s Journeys, a lovely little retro game from Lexaloffle Games. The samples have a very nice low resolution sound to them, and I’m quite fond of the music treatment in the game. The song itself, while I wasn’t channeling anything while writing it necessarily, definitely has Yasunori Mitsuda influence written all over it.
November 4th is the Egyptian Day of Love.
MP3: Day of Love
Nuclear False Alarm
So today I decided to do something a little different. Or perhaps really different. I decided to rummage through my library and find some unusual things, put them together, and see what happens. What you have are monkey balls, paint cans, an organ sampled through an SNES, some big percussion, bells … I think that’s it.
On November 9th some 30 years ago there was a false nuclear alarm. People thought the Soviets were about to bomb us, but they didn’t.