Cover of Sparklehorse’s “Maria’s Little Elbows”
recording sucks, but piss off, I’m just a little too tipsy to give a damn. I’m tired of reading a children’s book for school. blame it on children.
Cover of Sparklehorse’s “Maria’s Little Elbows”
recording sucks, but piss off, I’m just a little too tipsy to give a damn. I’m tired of reading a children’s book for school. blame it on children.
Sloppy little cover of “Game Shows Touch Our Lives” by The Mountain Goats. Suggested by Frankih.
Geez, Darnielle’s songs are more arduous to cover than anyone would think. His timing and delivery is difficult to follow. Took me three attempts after learning it to get all the way through. Easier than trying to sing Jeff Buckley, though. That guy is nightmare mode.
A cover of Ryan Adams’s cover of Oasis’s “Wonderwall.”
There are a few mistakes, but I followed the “first two takes have the charm” and didn’t bother do a third take because, well, fuck it. Guitar is kinda quiet but that’s because I clipped the nails of my right hand down. Ryan Adams uses a pick, but that’s a pain in the ass.
Another cover of “Thick as a Brick, pt. 1”. I can’t seem to mimic the wit Ian Anderson exudes in his performance, but that might be due to having to contort my body position so the mic lying on my desk can catch my voice and guitar. I think I need to invest in a mic stand sometime.
A lazy cover of “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” done in one take. It beats doing statistics after work.
Yeah, it’s Pearl Jam. I like this song. Shut it.
Intro to “Night Music, Vol 1” with added panning automation and vocoder synth. This is what the intro SHOULD have sounded like. Still just as abrasive, but it is more interesting to listen to. At least, that is what I think.
A little test with granular synthesis, now that I finally found a goddamn free program to play with (soundhack - it took me awhile to realize that the developer actually had a freeware version of what I needed). This is friggin’ awesome and fun.
I’ll be creating a surround sound piece that will be played mid-October. This is a very simple roughdraft of what that piece might sound like.
What the hell am I doing?
Something I’ve been working on between work and bed - noodling around on a new mandolin I had gotten. I’m halfway done writing some lyrics, but I felt like uploading what I have. I recorded this after I came up with it. The “finished” product won’t sound as processed as this (keep it “folksy” in certain words); I got carried away with Logic. I haven’t been playing around with it for a few months.
I don’t have a name for it. I’ll just call it “Mandolin Song” for now.
Nice that both tumblr and soundcloud are linked, now. I couldn’t upload this to tumblr because the file was too big, but now I can share my content from soundcloud!
Helps me out because I can now consolidate all my stuff to one site as I tend to post lesser stuff on here, but I can keep my soundcloud profile “professional” if need be.
Well, this is my re-recreation of “Song of Storms” by Koji Kondo for Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I plan to post it to youtube after my brother finishes with a picture I’m nagging him to finish. Compare it to my first rendition here.
In what people consider the “Corner of Everything”, located furthest away from any coastline, exists an island not too unlike Madagascar in its queerness, but still fairly odd by its own right. On this island resides a community of people with individuals very different from one another in every discerning way of personality and physical attribute. However, not one islander can identify what it is that makes him or herself different from another. Not only are the inhabitants strange, but so are the island’s attributes by climate and geography. The island contains every sort of ecosystem and landscape anyone can reasonably distinguish, but the island is large enough to accommodate all such settings without any harsh clash of otherwise unique factors of any one setting. If a person of keen and confident perception were to walk from one established setting to another very different one, not only would that person have to walk quite a length, but he or she will have a hard time distinguishing what has changed in the scenery. As large as this island is, however, it is not quite a continent; otherwise, a map-maker, journeyman, or world surveyor would feel quite foolish for missing a landmass the size any expert would purport the island should be to accommodate such ridiculous factors.
Besides the queerness of this island and everything contained, it is a rather peaceful, if not boring, place. The inhabitants have lived upon this island for an indeterminable amount of time. There are written accounts taken by the people of the island; in fact, there is a large library filled with pamphlets and scrolls, but no one can read these documents. The island is highly literate, perceptive, and intelligent; much more so than what could be said of any other peoples on this fantastic, diverse world of ours. However, because every one inhabitant is unique, their literature and language is each their own and can be only read by the author. So much for history, then.
This was an assignment given to me in an electronic music class where we, students, had to compose music to video. It was rather grueling, despite it being under a minute long, but it was an interesting task. I’d like to do more of these in the future.
Needless to say, the video was not done by me, but the credit does go to John Shirk. If the video’s creator does not approve of my submitting this to youtube, I will take it down.
“Unstoppable (not-as-danceable pre-pre-mix)”
The original version before I added a harder kick. Kinda Peter Gabriel-ish in comparison of what it had turned into and not nearly as good. Maybe I’ll work on both. I dunno.
“Unstoppable”
This was a piece I was trying to put together for a show next week, but I hardly got anywhere near finishing it and it won’t be performed. Too much shit has been going on. So, it is incomplete and I don’t know if I will ever complete it. Now I don’t have a deadline, I can work on it at my leisure and have fun with it.
A rather quick cover I did of Sufjan Steven’s “For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti”
I might polish this one up a little later; learn me some mastering and production techniques and try to make it sound a little more professional (especially with the voice).
