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
Category Archives: 30s30d
Shenandoah
An Evening with Guy Fawkes
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.
Day of Love
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
The Battle of Vyazma
My third piece for 30 songs in 30 days definitely has a Tool vibe. Wrote a little ditty on guitar, and built a little track around it. I can see myself adding a bunch of length to this somewhere down the line.
MP3: The Battle of Vyazma
The Great Oulu Fire of 1882.
Here’s my second track for the 30 songs in 30 days challenge. Continuing the trend of thru-composition. This one is definitely influenced by “Cereal Number” a song Spamtron wrote for Disastertron.
