And then that reminded me of an entirely different piece of music, a song I wrote and recorded last year but never posted as it's a bit different from what I usually throw up here. Today is a day for different things, so here it is.
The problem with it is that it's not really its own thing; it's got a melody partly stolen from the middle of another little piece of mine, and a lot of the chords are also from a different piece I've been working on. But different elements of different things tend to jumble together in my head and get stuck together, so there it is.
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Saturday, February 05, 2011 at 09:56PM EST
Two things. First: the response to my doodling videos has been just fantastic; thank you all so much for watching, for your encouraging emails, and for spreading them to other people who might enjoy them. I've decided to do another, which I'll hopefully finish and post tonight.
Secondly, I wrote the music for a new iDevice game, Eden - World builder, that just came out today!
If you've got an iPhone/Pad/Pod, you can check it out, hear my music, explore, build, blow stuff up. I like that the world-generating algorithm makes nice spacious caves. There's plenty of potential for mathematical building, too-- if you make something cool (Menger sponge and other cellular automata come to mind), please send me a screenshot!
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Thursday, December 02, 2010 at 03:56PM EST
I've been posting a lot of mathematics-related things recently, so I thought it was high time that I posted some music. I've been working on a few different music projects recently, but in the mean time here's a new song.
It's not a genre that I've posted before on this site, but I find a large part of my creativity comes from working with a large variety of subjects, mediums, and styles.
I wrote the music for this video by Erik and Martin Demaine, for their project Waves In Glass, which combines mathematics, paper folding, and blind-folded glassblowing.
When writing this music, I tried to capture the repetitive rotational feel in the process of both glassblowing and this particular instance of paper folding, as well as sneaking in elements of symmetry and mathematics. I see this video as a collaboration and communication between art, glass, music, math, paper, and people.
The trouble with being a composer is that I always hope some day I will be able to play these pieces perfectly, so that you can hear exactly what I was trying to get at, but that day never comes and I eventually get bored of the piece and stop playing it altogether, which only makes things worse. But I would rather get out an imperfect recording than none at all, and I will trust you to forgive my mistakes.
I've started a podcast, Storia. Every week I will be writing a new short story with accompanying music, to read aloud and play. The stories will be mostly fantasy and speculative fiction, with some sci-fi, horror, and whatever else comes to my head.
I'm incredibly excited about this project because it is so much fun to be writing stories and music for each other. I've been writing stories and music separately for years, and putting them together has turned out to be really effective! I've already recorded a few episodes and can't wait to get them out.
So head on over to the Storia webpage to hear the tale of a mysterious ghost ship...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 01:22PM EDT
Nothing Has Changed is a new composition available in Music. This is a rough recording that I made the same day that I finished writing the piece, so it has that unpracticed hot-off-the-press charm. (edit: this recording has now been updated)