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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.
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at 10:28 PM on March 10, 2008
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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.
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at 8:05 PM on March 6, 2008
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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.
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at 8:28 PM on March 4, 2008
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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.
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at 7:44 PM on March 3, 2008
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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.
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at 8:16 PM on November 21, 2007
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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.
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at 9:46 PM on November 3, 2007
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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 ...)
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at 7:09 PM on July 25, 2007
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A cover of a song by
AJICO. I'm still learning how to record vocals on Cakewalk SONAR, and I'm nowhere near
UA.
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at 12:24 PM on July 22, 2007
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This recording is an experiment to see how well Ableton Live handles a performance of Terry Riley's "In C". (more inside)
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at 4:15 PM on July 18, 2007
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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.
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at 7:28 PM on July 15, 2007
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This piece is a cover of a Duran Duran album track. [more inside]
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at 7:39 PM on May 11, 2007
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A cover of a
Number Girl song. Vocals done in one take, sung in Japanese. Programmed in Reason from the
band score.
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at 1:12 PM on October 12, 2006
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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.
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at 7:30 PM on September 29, 2006
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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.
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at 10:00 PM on August 19, 2006
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I wanted to write a song with only (or mostly) four chords, and I ended up with something about the inaccuracies of memory.
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at 8:01 AM on August 14, 2006
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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.
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at 2:15 PM on July 10, 2006
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I know enough guitar to get me in trouble, but not enough to do me any good. That doesn't stop my from writing on the instrument, then letting Reason cobble my ideas together. This is me trying to sound like
Number Girl. All synthesizer, but I try to make it sound live.
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at 10:41 PM on July 7, 2006
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And now for something slightly more urban ... I was channeling ACO's "Yorokobi Saku Hana" when I wrote this one. At the time I wrote the lyrics, a lot of people I knew were going through break-ups. I'm still not a singer. Vocals are rough. Sorry.
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at 10:08 PM on July 6, 2006
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Piano and some weird percussion thing. I'm not a singer, so I'm choosing songs where my voice annoys me the least.
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at 9:48 AM on July 5, 2006
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