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For my first MeFiMu post, I decided to whip up a recording of this bit o'sad bastard piano balladry. It's a rough recording, all pretty much first takes, but I think it works well enough.
(And no, despite the title, this is not a Halloween challenge entry.) [more inside]
posted by anthom
on Oct 30, 2009 -
2 comments
Oh god. Oh god, it's running. [more inside]
posted by speicus
on Oct 12, 2009 -
15 comments
Inspired by Peter Ablinger's speaking piano, and featuring three familiar voices. [more inside]
posted by speicus
on Oct 9, 2009 -
7 comments
An autumnal song about and for walking to work in the rain. Featuring the piano and a heaping amount of spring reverb. [more inside]
posted by dobie
on Oct 5, 2009 -
12 comments
This is a quiet, meditative, minimalist instrumental piano piece, with occasional visits by vibes, fretless bass and lap steel guitar. You might want to play it somewhat loudly to hear some of the softer notes. Do you think it's finished, or should I add something? [more inside]
posted by edlundart
on Sep 27, 2009 -
7 comments
It's about m7 chords and singing words. Words about shades of grey. and colors. Other words are used in the song.
posted by sredefer
on Sep 14, 2009 -
7 comments
Another Mardi Gras song from Sailor Martin, this one sounding a bit like the theme from a 1970s cop show.
posted by Astro Zombie
on Aug 29, 2009 -
1 comment
In the noble tradition of the New Orleans "Popeye" song, a rather ignominious entry. [more inside]
posted by Astro Zombie
on Aug 28, 2009 -
0 comments
A Mardi Gras song by Sailor Martin.
posted by Astro Zombie
on Aug 27, 2009 -
2 comments
A drinking song, New Orleans-style. [more inside]
posted by Astro Zombie
on Aug 26, 2009 -
0 comments
This piece is supposed to represent or express a particular emotion. Please let me know what emotion you think it is. [more inside]
posted by leibniz
on Aug 25, 2009 -
11 comments
Poppy little song on elec. piano, accordion, improvised drum kit (featuring half empty bottle of crushed red pepper flakes), banjolele, etc.
posted by sredefer
on Aug 16, 2009 -
3 comments
19 April 1994 9:55 pm - 20 April 1994 10:25pm [more inside]
posted by man vs sun
on Aug 14, 2009 -
0 comments
A new song called 'Madeleine' from my new band, features piano, strings and bouncy guitars! Wheeee. [more inside]
posted by TheWaves
on Aug 5, 2009 -
4 comments
This track switches between three time signatures, and features an intro with a style of singing I guess one could call very vaguely eastern. It's a slow and gentle affair with softly distorted ebowed guitar, piano, and xylophone. It also includes a guitar solo in which a single note is played repeatedly. And lyrics that are pretty silly. [more inside]
posted by edlundart
on Jul 28, 2009 -
1 comment
A short, lo-fi, catchy piano jam. [more inside]
posted by saxamo
on Jul 27, 2009 -
0 comments
I don't like the movie The Piano, but I do like Michael Nyman's soundtrack. I usually program all my music with a sequencer, so this is my first attempt to capture myself live. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Jul 24, 2009 -
0 comments
VU & Nico Challenge. [more inside]
posted by snsranch
on Jul 21, 2009 -
16 comments
My Velvet Underground homework. There's some backing falsetto in here and some piano and stuff. [more inside]
posted by ORthey
on Jul 7, 2009 -
10 comments
Programmed, recorded and edited today. This song appears on Robin Holcomb's self-titled album from 1990. It's got some odd key changes and a lot of clashing notes. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Jul 2, 2009 -
0 comments
A song I wrote for my now-defunct band, The Whoreshoes. [more inside]
posted by smartyboots
on Jun 16, 2009 -
1 comment
Exactly what we need right now. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM
on Jun 12, 2009 -
5 comments
As I was noodling around with these chords, beautiful summer has arrived here in Seattle. I couldn’t help but look out the window of our little music room at the gorgeous weather, flowers, blue skies, and people having fun on the water and asking myself, what am I doing inside on such a lovely day? And the answer is, writing a song about how I love the summer months as long as I’m safely ensconced indoors and out of the sun. It’s not my fault that I’m borderline translucent and in danger of melting in summer sun like a chocolate bar on the backseat of a car in July. But keep in mind, those of us who prefer it inside, aren’t necessarily anti-summer. We love watching it from the safety of air-conditioned shade. [more inside]
posted by hillelc
on Jun 1, 2009 -
1 comment
"This was an improvisation, actually the second take (Blue 2, or "Too Blue"), during which I had the memory of the Monterey Jazz festival firmly planted in my head, remembering the incredible musicians and music I heard all over the fairgrounds, playing jazz, soul, and lots 'n lots of blues…" ~ Laurie Z.
posted by Zebra Productions
on May 26, 2009 -
5 comments
The strange but true story of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. It's a bit rough, needs a switch up or two and a new ending, but you get the idea.
posted by chiefbluefeather
on May 20, 2009 -
1 comment
I don’t know crap about this topic but it hasn’t stopped me from having my interest piqued. Specifically, I’m talking about brain chemistry. Both the mechanics of it and the way we manipulate what those mechanics do these days are super interesting. Even more amazing to me is how people’s emotions (usually negative emotions) can be a simple result of a chemical imbalance in their brain. Wow. I realize the drugs we have today are both amazing relative to nothing and very blunt instruments relative to what we’ll have down the road. And while I haven’t tried any of them, I sometimes wonder what people did before they existed. Mostly suffered I suppose. :| [more inside]
posted by hillelc
on May 19, 2009 -
1 comment
This piece is supposed to represent a story associated with a particular emotion. Please let me know what emotion you think it is. [more inside]
posted by leibniz
on May 13, 2009 -
8 comments
This is a piece I've composed to express or represent emotion. Please let me know what you think it expresses. If you really want to be serious, then copy and paste the questionnaire posted inside (without reading the comments!) and send your answers to me by email. [more inside]
posted by leibniz
on Apr 22, 2009 -
3 comments
A resurrected ditty from more than a decade ago -- finally retooled it and recorded it properly. Another Geese tune. I originally wrote it for my then-infant son Mikey (who was heard on other recent tunes I've submitted to MeFi Music). I think it has an old-school flavor (with a pinch of the Monkees and ABBA). Enjoy. [more inside]
posted by grubi
on Apr 20, 2009 -
4 comments
This is one of seven tracks off my friend Brian Rozendal's updcoming debut EP, Lean. I'm on piano. A whole bunch of details within. [more inside]
posted by cortex
on Apr 12, 2009 -
10 comments
My contribution to the two-chord challenge. A sleepy little song with fingerpickin' guitar, piano, and some three part "harmony." I experiment a little more with my voice on this one. [more inside]
posted by ORthey
on Apr 7, 2009 -
15 comments
I'm neither a jazz writer nor a jazz singer, but that didn't stop me from trying. It's part of an album I'm gradually releasing online. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Mar 24, 2009 -
1 comment
Cheap Cheap Imitation Imitation [more inside]
posted by speicus
on Mar 16, 2009 -
5 comments
Here's another one that my girlfriend and I recorded. The piano track is pretty rough (it was late!) but we liked how it came together in the end and decided not to scrap it. [more inside]
posted by saraswati
on Mar 12, 2009 -
6 comments
My girlfriend and I recorded a bunch of songs over the weekend. This is my favorite.
posted by saraswati
on Mar 5, 2009 -
8 comments
Back in either middle school or high school, in music class, I wrote my very first melody with a classmate named Mathias Knutzen. The assignment was to take a text from one of our books and create a song with it. We chose Robert Frost's poem and came up with this pseudo-jazzy tune. I always liked it, so I kept the "digital chord sheet" around and played it from time to time. More than 15 years later, here now is a brand new recorded version -- complete with brushed drums and falsetto background vocals. [more inside]
posted by edlundart
on Jan 20, 2009 -
4 comments
It's Christmas... and some of me knows some of Christmas sounds like some of this. [more inside]
posted by Moistener
on Dec 25, 2008 -
2 comments
Stuttery drums, blippy synths, lots of piano, copious crash cymbal, and a bucket load of reverb. [more inside]
posted by cathodeheart
on Dec 4, 2008 -
5 comments
Hope to revisit this one day-- piano by the talented Wang sisters: http://www.youtube.com/user/lipatti [more inside]
posted by StrikeTheViol
on Dec 1, 2008 -
1 comment
(Note: NSFW-ish if f*** and a****** are a problem where you work.)
For the bulk of the years of growing up that I actually remember, what I would consider the “formative” years, I lived in Brookline, Massachusetts. (Not to be confused with the super irritating Brookline, New Hampshire that would show up in school closing announcements only to leave me extra disappointed.) During and after college I didn’t think much of my high school years at Brookline High School. And in fact, I ended up losing touch with every friend I made there. But thanks to the internets I have reconnected with many of them, some very recently. It’s been super positive, and it’s stirred up all these great memories of my time in Brookline. That’s what this song is about. These three incidents in particular: [more inside]
posted by hillelc
on Nov 24, 2008 -
3 comments
Taking a short break from challenges to make a quick love song. [more inside]
posted by ORthey
on Nov 20, 2008 -
12 comments
I tend to take a lot of pictures. I found out early on in my photo-taking tenure that the more pictures I took, the more likely that some of them would come out nicely. Of course, I’m always the one behind the camera. As a parent, I also have wondered just how much of the time I spend with my kids they will remember (if any). My father recently asked me if I remembered how we used to watch Star Trek together. I honestly couldn’t remember. He was crushed. It occurred to me that many years down the road when my kids look at our family pictures they won’t see me in any of them because I was the one behind the camera. Something tells me that this detail will be lost on them as they repeat the cycle and tell me they don’t remember me being there. ;) [more inside]
posted by hillelc
on Nov 10, 2008 -
5 comments
A polished up, broken down, mangled, different version of the song I posted a few days ago, and this time it's kind of complete. Criticism welcome & encouraged!
posted by tmcw
on Oct 6, 2008 -
3 comments
An in-the-works version of an old song, this time with new toys. [more inside]
posted by tmcw
on Oct 2, 2008 -
2 comments
I've spent the past couple of months trying to improve my production skillz with my limited resources. This is the first song to come out of it all (probably because it's the simplest) with more on the way hopefully! [more inside]
posted by TheWaves
on Sep 30, 2008 -
3 comments
I took a piano piece I wrote two years ago for National Solo Album Month and arranged it for string quartet. Then I used the Orkester Library in Reason to record it. I was heavily under the influence of Michael Nyman at the time, although this one feels much more like Philip Glass. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Sep 21, 2008 -
4 comments
A short walk down old Banyan Drive: a sad reflection on the modern state of Hilo, HI.
posted by Ogre Lawless
on Sep 15, 2008 -
2 comments
A cover of the Eels tune from Electro-Shock Blues, a wonderful pop opera.
posted by Ogre Lawless
on Sep 12, 2008 -
2 comments
A cover of a song by the Joe Money band out of Kentucky. [more inside]
posted by Ogre Lawless
on Sep 11, 2008 -
0 comments
A piano-based melody written for my animated short film "Gone" (hear it in context). [more inside]
posted by edlundart
on Sep 2, 2008 -
14 comments
