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Does covering the ending theme of a
Japanese horror movie count as a scary song for this month's challenge? Well, I'm posting it anyway. The only thing scary is thinking I can singing like Van Tomiko.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 5:00 PM on October 19, 2009
I don't like the movie
The Piano, but I do like Michael Nyman's soundtrack. I usually program all my music with a sequencer, so this is my first attempt to capture myself live.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:49 PM on July 24, 2009
Programmed, recorded and edited today. This song appears on Robin Holcomb's self-titled album from 1990. It's got some odd key changes and a lot of clashing notes.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 9:42 PM on July 2, 2009
I posted the second movement of Barber's quartet
previously. Here's the first movement.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 7:08 AM on June 20, 2009
Another personal homework assignment to prepare for writing a string quartet -- this time, it's Samuel Barber's String Quartet, Op. 11. The second movement was extracted to become Barber's one-hit wonder, the Adagio for Strings.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 4:57 AM on June 18, 2009
(5 comments)
I wanted to experiment with multitracked vocals, so I turned "The Fool" from
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea into a choral work. I probably could have done more with rhythm and vocal percussive effects, but I did this is as a practice run for another song, which also included four-part harmonies.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 3:33 PM on June 14, 2009
(1 comment)
I've been in a string quartet frame of mind for the last few weeks. The abrupt end is intentional. Not sure why.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 12:23 PM on June 13, 2009
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As a personal homework assignment to prepare for writing a string quartet, I've been programming scores of various 20th Century string quartets into Cakewalk SONAR. Here's a recording of Fratres by Arvo Pärt.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 9:38 AM on May 29, 2009
(1 comment)
I wanted to hear a post-rock band cover Roberta Flack.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 9:21 PM on May 22, 2009
(1 comment)
I tried to picture Alice in Chains covering Janet Jackson, but it sounds more like T-Rex by way of Power Station.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 9:03 PM on May 14, 2009
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Yes, I already
contributed something to the two-chord challenge, but that doesn't mean it's the only song I've done with only two chords. This track uses Fm and G.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 6:32 PM on April 17, 2009
(4 comments)
Finally -- a MeFiMusic Challenge I can do! Or rather have done. I actually
posted this song before, but I've since gone back and cleaned up the EQ and gated some of the noise from the vocal. The two chords used are D and E.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 11:44 AM on April 8, 2009
(3 comments)
I'm neither a jazz writer nor a jazz singer, but that didn't stop me from trying. It's part of an
album I'm gradually releasing online.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 1:59 PM on March 24, 2009
(1 comment)
Perhaps a cover but more a self-made karaoke of Cocco's "Hoshi ni Negai wo".
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 5:12 PM on February 24, 2009
The
first time I posted this song, I put barely any effects processing at all -- just limiting to make it audible. Now I've gone back and put in EQ, reverb, gating and some compression. Same song, different mixing. Compare and contrast.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 3:17 PM on December 21, 2008
What do you use for monitor speakers?
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 3:56 PM on December 1, 2008
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I was flipping through an old binder of songs I wrote in high school and came across this instrumental. I saw some potential there and decided to record it. Twenty years ago, it was supposed to be a fusion thing, along the lines of
Hiroshima. I opted for something a bit harder instead.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 9:21 AM on November 20, 2008
Strings, drums, two chords and lyrics vaguely inspired by the '80s TV show "The Equalizer". Also, big rip-off of Craig Armstrong.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 6:17 PM on November 2, 2008
(1 comment)
Another song done in a
jazz-pop style, this one inspired a little bit more by
ACO than Basia. The ending chord is meant to segue into "
Imprint".
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:49 PM on October 8, 2008
(2 comments)
I took a piano piece I wrote two years ago for National Solo Album Month and arranged it for string quartet. Then I used the Orkester Library in Reason to record it. I was heavily under the influence of Michael Nyman at the time, although this one feels much more like Philip Glass.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:20 PM on September 21, 2008
(4 comments)
The first version of this song was written back in the late '80s and was some sort of power ballad. Twenty years later, I took the main chord progression and turned it into an ultra-commercial '90s alt-pop song instead.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 12:25 PM on September 2, 2008
(3 comments)
I wrote this song around 1992 or 1993, wanting it to be a guitar song even though I hadn't really picked up the instrument. I re-recorded it recently, using a lot of the original arrangement from my cassette demo, and it's not working for me. So I'd like some feedback.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 7:15 PM on August 20, 2008
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Another
cover of a Japanese band, this time from
SUPERCAR. (
Previously.) This arrangement mimics the version on the album
Futurama.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 9:08 PM on August 13, 2008
(2 comments)
A late-night experiment in three-part harmony, which isn't a good idea since I'm not much of a singer, if the warbly low notes are any indication. It's an even worse idea when it's a
cover of a song performed by
Hajime Chitose, who really can sing.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 7:24 AM on August 11, 2008
(5 comments)
I pretty much stole the first two chords and arrangement of this song from a Japanese indie band called
Dr.StrangeLove. To mitigate that theft, I did the chorus in the style of
BBMak.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 12:49 PM on August 8, 2008
(5 comments)
I
threatened to do so, and I have -- a song I wrote when I was around 15 or 16 years old, in the '80s jazz-pop vein of Basia, Sade and Hiroshima. Although I think it's actually more inspired by Tears for Fears.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:15 AM on August 5, 2008
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The actual title of this song is 「聞いてはいけない、言ってはいけない」, which is pronounced "Kiite wa Ikenai, Itte wa Ikenai". I probably ought to be more out than I am, but I like seeing the reaction of people who don't suspect when I do come out. (Doesn't work on other gay men, though.)
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 1:55 PM on July 31, 2008
(9 comments)
I think I was chanelling Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" when I wrote the music. I know I was under the influence of Brian Greene's
The Elegant Universe when I wrote the lyrics.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:00 PM on June 19, 2008
(6 comments)
Well, I'm taking the plunge and
releasing a CD. Short-run, nothing too fancy. I already posted the
fourth track of this EP,
enigmatics, a long time ago, so here's the second track. A Metafilter Music exclusive!
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 10:34 PM on May 21, 2008
A dialogue between an unhinged robot and a dismissive human.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 10:31 PM on April 3, 2008
Here's the MIDI playback of a piano piece I wrote for
NaSoAlMo back in 2006. I felt cheeky and riffed on Sigur Rós' "Flugufrelsarinn" for the chorus. An actual quote appears toward the end.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:47 PM on March 31, 2008
The
first time I presented this piece, I had not yet explored the Orkester library in Reason. After I found some very convincing solo strings, I re-recorded the first movement of this string quartet.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:48 AM on March 29, 2008
(2 comments)
As with "
Untold Demons", this song dates back to the late '80s and was extensively reworked (read: rewritten) in 2006. Duran Duran was a big influence on me back then, so for the update, I tried to imagine a Duran Duran song without Nick Rhodes.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 10:28 PM on March 10, 2008
(1 comment)
This first time I
presented this song, I made a drastic edit to the melody that turned out to be unsuccessful. Also, my singing sucked.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:05 PM on March 6, 2008
(1 comment)
Back in the late '80s, I challeneged myself to write a song in a style I usually dislike. Soul II Soul's "Back to Life" and "Keep On Movin'" were all over the radio back then, so I used them as a model.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:28 PM on March 4, 2008
(1 comment)
I unearthed the very first song I wrote in 1986 and flinched at all the clueless chord progressions my 14-year-old self used. But I could sense some potential behind a few of the ideas. So I reworked it
extensively and brought out more of the subliminal inspiration that went into: mid-'80s Heart.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 7:44 PM on March 3, 2008
(4 comments)
I wanted to write something that used two famous musical initials --
DSCH (D-Eb-C-B, Dmitri Shostakovich) and
BACH (Bb-A-C-B). I put them in the bass. Needs more harp.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:16 PM on November 21, 2007
(1 comment)
Music inspired by Arcadia's "Lady Ice". Lyrics inspired by Murakami Haruki's "Kaze no Uta wo Kike" (Hear the Wind Sing). Samples include Meredith Monk, John Zorn and an NHK broadcaster backmasked.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 9:46 PM on November 3, 2007
(4 comments)
A song about being left behind. Sometimes, it's deserved, but it can still suck. (The guitars aren't real. Or the bass. Or the drums ...)
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 7:09 PM on July 25, 2007
(2 comments)
A cover of a song by
AJICO. I'm still learning how to record vocals on Cakewalk SONAR, and I'm nowhere near
UA.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 12:24 PM on July 22, 2007
(3 comments)
This recording is an experiment to see how well Ableton Live handles a performance of Terry Riley's "In C". (more inside)
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 4:15 PM on July 18, 2007
(5 comments)
Way, way back, I posted a request on Usenet for translations of some Catholic prayers into Irish. I wrote a vocal work with those translation for a composition class. For this recording, I used the solo cello sample in Reason and let MIDI take care of the rest. The harmonies weren't part of the original score.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 7:28 PM on July 15, 2007
(3 comments)
This piece is a cover of a Duran Duran album track. [more inside]
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 7:39 PM on May 11, 2007
(2 comments)
A cover of a
Number Girl song. Vocals done in one take, sung in Japanese. Programmed in Reason from the
band score.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 1:12 PM on October 12, 2006
(1 comment)
It was 1990 when I first listened to the Quartet for Strings, No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich. I had just gotten out of high school and had not yet started college. That didn't stop me from trying -- emphasis on "try" -- to write my own string quartet. This piece has "student work" and "movie soundtrack" written all over it, but for a product by a beginning teenaged songwriter, it's ambitious. Programmed in Reason without dynamic markings.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 7:30 PM on September 29, 2006
(3 comments)
A misleading title. It's a two-voice piano piece with a diatonic melody in the treble and a bass line that clashes whenever it can. A reasonably challenging piece for the intermediate player. Also sounds like watered-down Wayne Horvitz.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 10:00 PM on August 19, 2006
(3 comments)
I wanted to write a song with only (or mostly) four chords, and I ended up with something about the inaccuracies of memory.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 8:01 AM on August 14, 2006
(4 comments)
In 1998, my first MIDI workstation was stolen in a burglary. It was covered by renter's insurance, and I was able to upgrade. This instrumental track is the fourth 'movement' of a project I called
enigmatics. I was trying to get familiar with the new equipment.
posted to MeFi Music by NemesisVex
at 2:15 PM on July 10, 2006
(1 comment)
