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I fit one more loop into Looptober: A Ninja Weighing the Pros and the Cons, which you can loop as many times as you want. I'm pretty sure that it is in some part derived from Ninja Gaiden, which is hard-lodged into my brain. You can listen to it if you are a ninja that has some hard decisions ahead of them of if you just want to think about a ninja in that situation.
The best day of your life concept
So, this is Grow Together with the Miasma. I put it together for this Junto challenge about evolution. I worked on the web app that generated it to and from the train to New York and felt like I was almost done when I sat down to "finish" it Monday night. Very very predictably, I was not almost done when I sat down to finish it Monday night. I ended up finishing it at 5 AM. It is a fork of Flooding, hacked up to 1) make a stack of five riffs with random choices from a 15-limit tonality diamond and play them twice 2) see how close any of the resulting dyads are to ratios in the 5-limit tonality
Train Has Joined the Chat I live near train tracks, and sometimes I have to pause recording something because a train is going by. So for this background noise prompt,I went out and recorded the train, then planned to write a song and record it while playing back the train recording. I ran out of time, sort of predictably, so I improvised three guitar tracks while playing back the train with a beat. (Improvising with guitar pretty much happens any time I'm short on time.) None of the guitar tracks were recorded while listening to any of the others, but I decided to keep two in anyway, to make
I’m going to enter the Wikimedia audio logo (AKA jingle) contest. This first attempt is too staid and un-modern, but it’ll work as something someday.
Things taking a long time, part 1000000
7DRL pre-gaming
I recorded this sick riff I thought while walking in Davis Square. I thought no one could hear me, but some guy looked at me.
Weather in the ones! At least once.
Bonus Cat enjoys life.
I have tried to come up with a French horn line, but I have no idea what to do with it.
I had to go through a big crowd of business guys, so I said “A.I.” repeatedly. I think it helped to create the kind of ambience that helps them thrive.
The 5th and 6th grade summer camp string orchestra consisted of: - Four violins - Two violas - Eight cellos - One bass I guess cello is having a moment! Suffice to say, those aren't the proportions they have in Serious Orchestras, but obviously you gotta let the kids play what they actually want to play, and that config didn't sound bad at all. They also had a subset of the high school orchestra play, and they were very tight. I have never played this well in my life. My high school orchestra came nowhere close to this level. Anyway, it was a good idea to have them play. I think both middle sc
This song-a-week song is Sky Ghost Farewell Fugue. I was trying to make something with loose timing instead of the strict lockstep I usually use. I also wanted to shoot for something ambient and got about halfway there. I don't know if I'm going to say this every week, but again, this was a struggle. Never challenge yourself!
Dracula’s Recital
Finally generated some low end for Flooding. Here's a sample, though I don't know if it will end up like this.
Lego planning, one of the problems with last-minute composition
This is Phase the Blood, a short piece I put together in response to the Fresh Pair Junto prompt, which asked for the combination of two (possibly disparate) strong influences. I chose Slayer and Steve Reich. The piece is a Slayer-style riff played on one guitar and a version of that riff that has an extra half beat so that the two parts are not in phase, Steve Reich-style. Slayer is a band I got into when I was 15 (I'm now 46) and saw live over ten times. I don't think any other artist has ever hit the parts of my brain that process music that hard. I try not to write Slayer-like riffs becaus
I got a small mixer partly so that I can play my guitar through an amp modeler on my computer. I like the mixer so far and was able to get a few amp sounds that I like better than what I can get on iOS, but there are issues with it working at the low latency I need it to work at (hence the pops in this recording). I had to do a lot of poking around just to get sound going. So, I see why so many people prefer traditional hardware devices to software.
The guy’s piano playing is getting dramatic.
Having to make your code uglier
The difficulty of figuring out what matters and what doesn’t.
Narrating my street crossings with unclear ethical advice.
Trying out some organs.
Some thoughts after talking to a tech union organizer today.
