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Pressures Accumulating
This is a piece for (synth) strings, trumpet, and drums. [more inside]
130 stories high
optimistic down-tempo instrumental hip hop beats and synth-strings [more inside]
New City
Wanderlust Baroque rock song with a real quartet (and electric guitar solo). [more inside]
Grave E Cantible
Franz Joseph Haydn [more inside]
Again [for the last time]
Old song about being alone, rerecorded, newly relevant because we are all alone. Again. Featuring real strings, fake harpsichord. [more inside]
I belong to you
Wrote a new song that I still like, unlike the last one I posted!
Textured, mellow, summery indie/country with guitar, percussion, strings, vocals.
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
An original arrangement of an old cowboy song, from the new album High on the Hog by Corwin Bolt & the Wingnuts. [more inside]
Profanity
A profane dance celebrating being on vacation. [more inside]
The Red Sea
My best Sea Change-era Beck impression.
it's the now
Listening to some old songs of mine, I came upon this one from 2004. It's a rather sweet, romantic little thing written about a depressing period in my relationship at the time. [more inside]
Nostalgia Cue
Practicing writing with legato patches on LASS. A sappy cue for a nostalgiac movie scene. [more inside]
Willow Pond Waltz
Music for strings, inspired by a beautiful place and a beautiful afternoon.
Invocation
This is the lead-off track from The Flood, the new album by Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies, released today. [more inside]
Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies - "July"
"July" is the promo single from the upcoming Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies EP. "July" is the feel-good song of the month, if not the century. "July" is a tale of love, summertime, and ephemeral youth, told in the timeless language of pop music. [more inside]
Mudai Heisei 23 Rokugatsu Itsuka
I've been acquiring a number of sample libraries in the past year, and this track makes use of some of them. It has Indonesian gamelan, Japanese taiko, Indian tabla and orchestral strings. [more inside]
Black Swan (Massive Spoilers)
Seriously, if you haven't seen Black Swan don't listen to this. [more inside]
You and San Francisco (studio version)
Broken, soundtrack for the future.
Some more Philip Glass-inspired electronica while waiting for the RPM Challenge to start.
Madeleine
A new song called 'Madeleine' from my new band, features piano, strings and bouncy guitars! Wheeee. [more inside]
Staring Into Headlights
Dark sounds for an old barn. [more inside]
Fred Jones, Pt. 2
It's amazing what you can throw together in about 4 hours with nothing but a Rock Band mic, 8 of yourself, and a pair of Stylophones. [more inside]
Falling Away
Roll over "Walk Away Renee"! [more inside]
Creatura (and the sea)
Inspired by a friend's photos of the ocean.
Rescuer (cleaner mix)
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.
Pure
A fairly grim song, I suppose, mostly one chord, almost too long to upload here. With strings. And a guitar solo. [more inside]
Song 2
Written for a cello friend. Apologies for the low volume level and the minute of silence at the end.
Take the Picture
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]
Rescuer
Strings, drums, two chords and lyrics vaguely inspired by the '80s TV show "The Equalizer". Also, big rip-off of Craig Armstrong.
Axe and Why
An experiment in using soft damped x-y controllers to adjust the timbre of instruments.
Overload
An abstract electronic piece; some of the piano riffs later through the song sound like they're being pushed too fast, which led me to the title. [more inside]
Radiohead - "Nude (Strings Remix)"
The result here is spending a few free days on my couch with my violin and computer. I would love all comments/criticism from anybody, as this is something I'd like to continue experimenting with. (I guess if you like it, you can vote by clicking on the plus sign and pass the link onto anybody else).
http://www.radioheadremix.com/remix/?id=1196
Thanks! [more inside]
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. [more inside]
gone
I think this is one of the catchier songs I've come up with in a while, though I never seem to be a good judge of that. At any rate, it's a short and simple track about intense love gone missing... or something like that. [more inside]
Long Since
find a place to hide, wait out the rain.
Tasha
Tasha's full name was Natasha Von Baddenof. A rottwieler that I raised from puppyhood til death. I was going to sing on this but it's better without it. Enjoy.
Montage
an overwhelmingly ambient texture, pierced with many elements of various density - scraped percussion, Latin and bluegrass gestures, strings, somber guitar notes and swirling electronics. Very soundtrack, very visual, particuarly for fans of Gustavo Santaolalla.
iLust Your iPod
I stare at you across the lecture hall in Psychology class. Your long, white cord and your smooth rectangular body.
If I had to narrow this track down to a particular genre I would have to go with "electro orchestral folk-hop." This beat is a impassioned symphony expressing the desire for iNtimacy in today's society.
The Rookie
The title comes from the Clint Eastwood movie but God only knows what that has to do with the track....
Bagel on the Malecon
A very New York-bred outlook at old-time Cuban music, recorded entirely with .. violas! This was my attempt to create asymmetrical but memorable melodies, clear textures crammed with material, and experiment with multitrack viola as a concept, an ensemble. The sound of the classic Cuban bands had all that - except the violas, that is. This track appears on my newly released CD, the VJOLA: WORLD ON FOUR STRINGS
Convergence 01
Composed, recorded, produced and mastered by me and a group of peers at a Junior conservatoire a few years ago. A few pointers - the vocalist was instructed to "Speak to God" (but not in a religious way), and the title comes from the feeling that the whole track is moving towards something. Violin = Lotto! (Yep I play two instruments)
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