Imagine some dialogue about time crystals or something going on during this riff…
Imagine some dialogue about time crystals or something going on during this riff.
Aug 23, 2022•58 sec
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I think these chords are EmDim7+6, F#mDim7, G2, E4. But also it might not be wo…
I think these chords are EmDim7+6, F#mDim7, G2, E4. But also it might not be worth naming them.
Aug 15, 20220
This keyboard solo is too busy, but it’s getting there, I think. Even though it’…
This keyboard solo is too busy, but it’s getting there, I think. Even though it’s far from improvisational, which he’d hate, I’m a little inspired by the Jan Hammer interview on Heavy Metal Bebop.
Aug 09, 2022•22 sec
Via a bug, I accidentally generated this monotone, which I think has interesting…
Via a bug, I accidentally generated this monotone, which I think has interesting textures. It's sort of like Taps, if it only had one long note.
Aug 09, 2022•43 sec
The basement in the new place is all bare walls with barely anything in it. It r…
The basement in the new place is all bare walls with barely anything in it. It really reflects a lot of high end, including the sound of right hand fingers scraping along the strings before plucking them. Annoying, but I feel there is some sort of potential with a sound environment like this.
Jul 27, 2022•41 sec
This is Howling, a piece I made accidentally when I messed up an app that I'm us…
This is Howling, a piece I made accidentally when I messed up an app that I'm using to make another piece. I somehow made all of the event lengths way too long, but it sounds great somehow, though very different from what I intended.
Jul 20, 2022•4 min
Pikmin and street crossings. There’s a lot of street noise in this one, I think.…
Pikmin and street crossings. There’s a lot of street noise in this one, I think. Hopefully, you can still hear the speech!
Jul 19, 20220
Not sure where I’m going with this, but I’m getting a lot out of this Dsus4 (wit…
Not sure where I’m going with this, but I’m getting a lot out of this Dsus4 (with the 6th) chord. (I think that’s how Hard Day’s Night opens?)
Jul 11, 2022•2 min
This is my summer jam, Pyroclasmic Slooch. I'm not an avid listener of summer ja…
This is my summer jam, Pyroclasmic Slooch. I'm not an avid listener of summer jams, so I probably don't have all the hallmarks of the summer jam. This more like "what I imagine summer jams" are like. (Greatly informed by Strong Bad, now that I think about it.) I had more robot voice in it before, but the guy pointed out it didn't really fit in.
Jul 01, 2022•2 min
In an earlier version of the summer jam, I accidentally drifted off into some ki…
In an earlier version of the summer jam, I accidentally drifted off into some kinda Pantera riff.
Jun 29, 2022•23 sec
When you can’t quite remember the desert music from Super Mario Bros. 2.
When you can’t quite remember the desert music from Super Mario Bros. 2.
May 30, 2022•49 sec
This attempt at adding solos to this piece was bad, but entertaining!
This attempt at adding solos to this piece was bad, but entertaining!
May 22, 2022•57 sec
I started writing something to generate a solo for a piece I'm working on. It's …
I started writing something to generate a solo for a piece I'm working on. It's not ready yet, but it does produce stuff that can sort of be used to accompany narrative speech. Here's one of the solos it made over some olde timey radio .
May 18, 2022•1 min
Once in a while, I think I’ve thought of a great riff while running, so I record…
Once in a while, I think I’ve thought of a great riff while running, so I record it. Then, I listen back and am like what is this
May 12, 20220
Vanishing for the sake of real estate
Vanishing for the sake of real estate
May 06, 20220
Driving with cats
Driving with cats
May 06, 20220
The guy kept complaining about having to do his writing assignment, and while I …
The guy kept complaining about having to do his writing assignment, and while I was sitting here making sure he did it, I kept picturing the guy from The Unforgiven video from the ‘90s, being forced to write two pages about a small moment in his life.
Apr 03, 20220
I stopped in at Halal Guys Chicken and Gyro, and I was impressed that they were …
I stopped in at Halal Guys Chicken and Gyro, and I was impressed that they were playing this music. It turned out that they were not open, but their door was unlocked. So, maybe they play Bruno Mars or something when customers are there.
Mar 30, 2022•18 sec
Some rain crackle from this morning.
Some rain crackle from this morning.
Mar 24, 20220
Sidewalk tiles, enjoyment-productivity fallacies
Sidewalk tiles, enjoyment-productivity fallacies
Mar 11, 20220
7DRL pre-gaming
7DRL pre-gaming
Mar 04, 20220
For the "minimal viable music" Disquiet Junto prompt, I made Hull Ruptures, whic…
For the "minimal viable music" Disquiet Junto prompt, I made Hull Ruptures, which is a piece built entirely from a recording I made of popcorn popping.
Feb 28, 2022•2 min
What powers Hat Day, al.
What powers Hat Day, al.
Feb 18, 20220
Weather in the ones! At least once.
Weather in the ones! At least once.
Feb 17, 20220
Here's The Wizards' Enlightening Conversation. (The name of the song is The Wiza…
Here's The Wizards' Enlightening Conversation. (The name of the song is The Wizards' Enlightening Conversation.) It's a version of Two Robots Loitering at Guitar Center from before I figured out I could get a decent guitar sound in there. I still like it, too.
Feb 12, 2022•7 min
This is Two Robots Loitering at Guitar Center.<br><br>I wrote it via <a href="ht…
This is Two Robots Loitering at Guitar Center. I wrote it via this script , which picks progressions, then modes, and fills them out with riffs and lead phrases that fit those modes. (I tried out sometimes doing some Slayer-style chaos soloing, but I learned you need a human to do that. Or better programming.) It took way longer to get working than I expected, derailing my Synthruary a bit. Once I had the midi files generated to my liking, I put them in NanoStudio with guitar and bass virtual in...
Feb 11, 2022•6 min
The difficulty of figuring out what matters and what doesn’t.
The difficulty of figuring out what matters and what doesn’t.
Feb 07, 20220
I got a <a href="https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0ALL">small m…
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....
Feb 06, 2022•52 sec
This is Winding Down. I didn't use the Synthruary prompt because I was short on …
This is Winding Down. I didn't use the Synthruary prompt because I was short on time. Basically, I wrote a tool to graph this into midi. Fun fact: It does not actually slow down.
Feb 04, 2022•1 min
My second Synthruary song is Message from Afar. It's another low song. I made a …
My second Synthruary song is Message from Afar. It's another low song. I made a simple instrument that shifted the pitch by amount depending on the note in the sequence. It also delayed by an amount based on its position in the sequence. So, it was quite chaotic, though I didn't feel it was completely unrelated to what I was playing on the guitar. I did want a more complex sound than some offset sinusoids, but I had enough trouble as it was....
Feb 03, 2022•4 min
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