48 posts tagged with eponymous4 by NemesisVex.
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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 -
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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 -
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I posted the second movement of Barber's quartet previously. Here's the first movement. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Jun 20, 2009 -
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Another personal homework assignment to prepare for writing a string quartet -- this time, it's Samuel Barber's String Quartet, Op. 11. The second movement was extracted to become Barber's one-hit wonder, the Adagio for Strings. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Jun 18, 2009 -
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I wanted to experiment with multitracked vocals, so I turned "The Fool" from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea into a choral work. I probably could have done more with rhythm and vocal percussive effects, but I did this is as a practice run for another song, which also included four-part harmonies.
posted by NemesisVex
on Jun 14, 2009 -
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I've been in a string quartet frame of mind for the last few weeks. The abrupt end is intentional. Not sure why.
posted by NemesisVex
on Jun 13, 2009 -
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As a personal homework assignment to prepare for writing a string quartet, I've been programming scores of various 20th Century string quartets into Cakewalk SONAR. Here's a recording of Fratres by Arvo Pärt. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on May 29, 2009 -
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I wanted to hear a post-rock band cover Roberta Flack. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on May 22, 2009 -
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I posted this track before, but that mix is a bit outdated. So I'm offering it up again for the first song challenge. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on May 20, 2009 -
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I tried to picture Alice in Chains covering Janet Jackson, but it sounds more like T-Rex by way of Power Station. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on May 14, 2009 -
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Yes, I already contributed something to the two-chord challenge, but that doesn't mean it's the only song I've done with only two chords. This track uses Fm and G.
posted by NemesisVex
on Apr 17, 2009 -
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Finally -- a MeFiMusic Challenge I can do! Or rather have done. I actually posted this song before, but I've since gone back and cleaned up the EQ and gated some of the noise from the vocal. The two chords used are D and E.
posted by NemesisVex
on Apr 8, 2009 -
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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 -
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The first time I posted this song, I put barely any effects processing at all -- just limiting to make it audible. Now I've gone back and put in EQ, reverb, gating and some compression. Same song, different mixing. Compare and contrast.
posted by NemesisVex
on Dec 21, 2008 -
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A cover of The System's "Don't Disturb This Groove". I tried to picture how Samamidon would have done it.
posted by NemesisVex
on Nov 29, 2008 -
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I was flipping through an old binder of songs I wrote in high school and came across this instrumental. I saw some potential there and decided to record it. Twenty years ago, it was supposed to be a fusion thing, along the lines of Hiroshima. I opted for something a bit harder instead.
posted by NemesisVex
on Nov 20, 2008 -
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Strings, drums, two chords and lyrics vaguely inspired by the '80s TV show "The Equalizer". Also, big rip-off of Craig Armstrong.
posted by NemesisVex
on Nov 2, 2008 -
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Another song done in a jazz-pop style, this one inspired a little bit more by ACO than Basia. The ending chord is meant to segue into "Imprint".
posted by NemesisVex
on Oct 8, 2008 -
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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 -
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The first version of this song was written back in the late '80s and was some sort of power ballad. Twenty years later, I took the main chord progression and turned it into an ultra-commercial '90s alt-pop song instead.
posted by NemesisVex
on Sep 2, 2008 -
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I wrote this song around 1992 or 1993, wanting it to be a guitar song even though I hadn't really picked up the instrument. I re-recorded it recently, using a lot of the original arrangement from my cassette demo, and it's not working for me. So I'd like some feedback. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Aug 20, 2008 -
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Another cover of a Japanese band, this time from SUPERCAR. (Previously.) This arrangement mimics the version on the album Futurama. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Aug 13, 2008 -
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A late-night experiment in three-part harmony, which isn't a good idea since I'm not much of a singer, if the warbly low notes are any indication. It's an even worse idea when it's a cover of a song performed by Hajime Chitose, who really can sing. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Aug 11, 2008 -
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I pretty much stole the first two chords and arrangement of this song from a Japanese indie band called Dr.StrangeLove. To mitigate that theft, I did the chorus in the style of BBMak.
posted by NemesisVex
on Aug 8, 2008 -
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I threatened to do so, and I have -- a song I wrote when I was around 15 or 16 years old, in the '80s jazz-pop vein of Basia, Sade and Hiroshima. Although I think it's actually more inspired by Tears for Fears. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Aug 5, 2008 -
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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. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Jun 19, 2008 -
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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 by NemesisVex
on May 21, 2008 -
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A dialogue between an unhinged robot and a dismissive human. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Apr 3, 2008 -
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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. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Mar 29, 2008 -
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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. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Mar 10, 2008 -
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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. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Mar 6, 2008 -
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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. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Mar 4, 2008 -
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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. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Mar 3, 2008 -
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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 by NemesisVex
on Nov 21, 2007 -
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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. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on Nov 3, 2007 -
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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 by NemesisVex
on Jul 25, 2007 -
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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 by NemesisVex
on Jul 22, 2007 -
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This recording is an experiment to see how well Ableton Live handles a performance of Terry Riley's "In C". (more inside)
posted by NemesisVex
on Jul 18, 2007 -
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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 by NemesisVex
on Jul 15, 2007 -
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This piece is a cover of a Duran Duran album track. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex
on May 11, 2007 -
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A cover of a Number Girl song. Vocals done in one take, sung in Japanese. Programmed in Reason from the band score.
posted by NemesisVex
on Oct 12, 2006 -
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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 by NemesisVex
on Sep 29, 2006 -
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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 by NemesisVex
on Aug 19, 2006 -
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I wanted to write a song with only (or mostly) four chords, and I ended up with something about the inaccuracies of memory.
posted by NemesisVex
on Aug 14, 2006 -
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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 by NemesisVex
on Jul 10, 2006 -
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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 by NemesisVex
on Jul 7, 2006 -
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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 by NemesisVex
on Jul 6, 2006 -
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Piano and some weird percussion thing. I'm not a singer, so I'm choosing songs where my voice annoys me the least.
posted by NemesisVex
on Jul 5, 2006 -
1 comment
