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March 23, 2007 - The Show

For one of my spare-time projects, I did a rock theme for a podcast by Paul Hughes. So, here's the opener!

Ok, if everything went well, you should notice no difference in how you get music from my site. However, it is all changed. The backend is a full-blown database, which means easier updates for me, and more music online in the long run.

Here's some that have been waiting in the wings for too long... In order from longest at 3:18 to shortest at 9 seconds.

March 15, 2007 - Smooth Electronics

Deliberate Thought

This is a very round analog piece with a subtle choir. Keep listening. They're in there!

March 11, 2007 - Updates all-around!

I've not been posting much music - but I have been making some. There's about 12 pieces in the works right now. Also, working on updating the back-end database.
I'm in the middle of making the switch from Sony's Acid to Apple's Logic as my main music compositing framework, so I'm spending a lot of time learning that beast of an application. As a friend of mine said "[Logic] is really intuitive after you've used it for a few months... and... by... that... I mean... I guess it isn't intuitive at all.". Yup.

So in the meanwhile, there is an awesome review of "300" you can read.

March 01, 2007 - All over the board... again.

Netherworld Shanty
First I must say, I like this one. A lot. Too much. The idea for this piece was "If purgatory had a marching band". So, there's a very badly played tin whistle, an accordion, a bassoon, and a bunch of other stuff. I'm pretty sure the melody is catchy - and the fact that it is stuck in my head is not just the result of mixing the piece for hours... Like Great Cthulhu, this piece is wonderful, horrible, and awesome. You mind will forever be marred by it.

Phantasm
I'm not going to lie to you - this piece made me ill. No joke. That being said, the music that causes me the most trouble tends to be the music that everyone loves. If you don't have a subwoofer - you won't experience the pain inducing aspect of this piece. All of the bass notes are the same volume. I guarantee it. You can tune your equalizer with this piece if some notes are louder or softer. Careful not to get sick, though. This thing has a power. Be careful with it.

Lasting Hope
This has a sort of similar purpose as the last piece, only it won't make you sick. This is one of the first things I've done with a choir. It has an almost organic synth, and some neat - if sparce - percussion. This was mixed entirely on a Mac. One day, I hope to switch to all-Mac production, but right now - I've too much invested in software on the other side... and just enough things aren't available.


Perigrine Grandeur
This piece started on my dry erase board as the rhythm you hear in the first 2 measures. But that's all I really had. It shows. The agogo was the next thing that made it into the mix... and then the hammer dulcimer. The who what? Hammer dulcimer. Yes. It is the thing that sounds like a guitar. I put it through a distortion unit and a guitar amp simulator. The result is an odd World-music hybrid that sounds like it belongs in a Cirque show on the strip in Vegas. I gave it an odd name figuring it would be hard for people to find. That's just me being mean.
This piece used to have so much more in it... but I cut it back to the bare bones. It had bridges and multiple melodies, and just a lot of stuff... but it became difficult to listen to and the coolness of the original 2 measures was lost.


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