Posts tagged with eponymous4

I think I was chanelling Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" when I wrote the music. I know I was under the influence of Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe when I wrote the lyrics.
posted on Jun 19, 2008 - View this thread

enigmatics II

Well, I'm taking the plunge and releasing a CD. Short-run, nothing too fancy. I already posted the fourth track of this EP, enigmatics, a long time ago, so here's the second track. A Metafilter Music exclusive!
posted on May 21, 2008 - View this thread

Dismissal

A dialogue between an unhinged robot and a dismissive human.
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - View this thread

String Quartet No. 1: I. Allegro (remix)

The first time I presented this piece, I had not yet explored the Orkester library in Reason. After I found some very convincing solo strings, I re-recorded the first movement of this string quartet.
posted on Mar 29, 2008 - View this thread

Dusk

As with "Untold Demons", this song dates back to the late '80s and was extensively reworked (read: rewritten) in 2006. Duran Duran was a big influence on me back then, so for the update, I tried to imagine a Duran Duran song without Nick Rhodes.
posted on Mar 10, 2008 - View this thread

Imprint, v. 1.1

This first time I presented this song, I made a drastic edit to the melody that turned out to be unsuccessful. Also, my singing sucked.
posted on Mar 6, 2008 - View this thread

Take It Apart

Back in the late '80s, I challeneged myself to write a song in a style I usually dislike. Soul II Soul's "Back to Life" and "Keep On Movin'" were all over the radio back then, so I used them as a model.
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - View this thread

Untold Demons

I unearthed the very first song I wrote in 1986 and flinched at all the clueless chord progressions my 14-year-old self used. But I could sense some potential behind a few of the ideas. So I reworked it extensively and brought out more of the subliminal inspiration that went into: mid-'80s Heart.
posted on Mar 3, 2008 - View this thread

Here

I wanted to write something that used two famous musical initials -- DSCH (D-Eb-C-B, Dmitri Shostakovich) and BACH (Bb-A-C-B). I put them in the bass. Needs more harp.
posted on Nov 21, 2007 - View this thread

Hear the Wind Sing

Music inspired by Arcadia's "Lady Ice". Lyrics inspired by Murakami Haruki's "Kaze no Uta wo Kike" (Hear the Wind Sing). Samples include Meredith Monk, John Zorn and an NHK broadcaster backmasked.
posted on Nov 3, 2007 - View this thread

What I Deserve

A song about being left behind. Sometimes, it's deserved, but it can still suck. (The guitars aren't real. Or the bass. Or the drums ...)
posted on Jul 25, 2007 - View this thread

波動 (Hadou/Undulation)

A cover of a song by AJICO. I'm still learning how to record vocals on Cakewalk SONAR, and I'm nowhere near UA.
posted on Jul 22, 2007 - View this thread

Terry Riley: In C

This recording is an experiment to see how well Ableton Live handles a performance of Terry Riley's "In C". (more inside)
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - View this thread

Three Prayers in Irish Gaelic: I. Ár nAthair

Way, way back, I posted a request on Usenet for translations of some Catholic prayers into Irish. I wrote a vocal work with those translation for a composition class. For this recording, I used the solo cello sample in Reason and let MIDI take care of the rest. The harmonies weren't part of the original score.
posted on Jul 15, 2007 - View this thread

Palomino

This piece is a cover of a Duran Duran album track. [more inside]
posted on May 11, 2007 - View this thread

Destruction Baby

A cover of a Number Girl song. Vocals done in one take, sung in Japanese. Programmed in Reason from the band score.
posted on Oct 12, 2006 - View this thread

String Quartet

It was 1990 when I first listened to the Quartet for Strings, No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich. I had just gotten out of high school and had not yet started college. That didn't stop me from trying -- emphasis on "try" -- to write my own string quartet. This piece has "student work" and "movie soundtrack" written all over it, but for a product by a beginning teenaged songwriter, it's ambitious. Programmed in Reason without dynamic markings.
posted on Sep 29, 2006 - View this thread

A Simple Song

A misleading title. It's a two-voice piano piece with a diatonic melody in the treble and a bass line that clashes whenever it can. A reasonably challenging piece for the intermediate player. Also sounds like watered-down Wayne Horvitz.
posted on Aug 19, 2006 - View this thread

Imprint

I wanted to write a song with only (or mostly) four chords, and I ended up with something about the inaccuracies of memory.
posted on Aug 14, 2006 - View this thread

Eponymous 4 - enigmatics - IV

In 1998, my first MIDI workstation was stolen in a burglary. It was covered by renter's insurance, and I was able to upgrade. This instrumental track is the fourth 'movement' of a project I called enigmatics. I was trying to get familiar with the new equipment.
posted on Jul 10, 2006 - View this thread

Eponymous 4 - Revulsion

I know enough guitar to get me in trouble, but not enough to do me any good. That doesn't stop my from writing on the instrument, then letting Reason cobble my ideas together. This is me trying to sound like Number Girl. All synthesizer, but I try to make it sound live.
posted on Jul 7, 2006 - View this thread

Eponymous 4 - Our Best Wasn't Enough

And now for something slightly more urban ... I was channeling ACO's "Yorokobi Saku Hana" when I wrote this one. At the time I wrote the lyrics, a lot of people I knew were going through break-ups. I'm still not a singer. Vocals are rough. Sorry.
posted on Jul 6, 2006 - View this thread

Eponymous 4 - Speechless

Piano and some weird percussion thing. I'm not a singer, so I'm choosing songs where my voice annoys me the least.
posted on Jul 5, 2006 - View this thread

光速 (Kousoku/The Speed of Light)