Tag 'music'

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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.

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And here's a short video I made with my bro last night.

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Some sort of thing

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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.

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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Doodle in Bb Minor

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Doodle in C #3

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Give Me Your Anger

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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.

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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.

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Doodle in A Minor

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And I finally am posting recordings of a couple piano doodles in C Major from 2005–2006.

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I also updated the recording of Nothing Has Changed quite a while ago, but in case you missed it, here it is:

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Nothing Has Changed

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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'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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Nothing Has Changed

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