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This my hello world for my new macbook, recorded in GarageBand using the internal mic. It is short and terrible.
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at 5:43 PM on July 9, 2008
(14 comments)
What do you folks read, as far as recording-oriented sites, magazines, and books?
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at 11:38 AM on July 9, 2008
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My entry for the as-yet-unannounced Do An A Cappella Cover Of A-Ha's 'Take On Me' On A Dare From Your Wife challenge.
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at 6:19 PM on May 18, 2008
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I've had this Regina Spektor song stuck in my goddam head for weeks now + I haven't recorded any songs for months = this sloppy, lots-of-stuff-going-on cover recorded in a rut-exorcising session this afternoon and evening.
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at 9:26 PM on March 6, 2008
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Just a dreary little vignette to remind myself I record music sometimes. Started as a morning grumble, while the leaves were falling outside our kitchen window.
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at 1:08 PM on November 4, 2007
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This is a sort of a memoir of the early romantic life of the Japanese gods Izanagi and Izanami, based on my almost complete ignorance of the subject.
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at 5:19 PM on August 31, 2007
(8 comments)
This is a composition. BACKWARDS! Because, hey, I've had insufficient sleep.
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at 6:44 AM on August 21, 2007
(12 comments)
This is a song that is very informative about the characteristics and dangers of snakes.
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at 10:10 PM on July 20, 2007
(9 comments)
A dangerously sappy populist paean to the great blue pylon where we like to have our pile-ons. Here's to eight more, you crazy website.
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at 3:29 PM on July 14, 2007
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This song is not actually a cover of any actual song, even though it pretends to be for reasons that will become obvious when you listen to it.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 7:26 PM on June 29, 2007
(8 comments)
A song about the rain—I seem to write a lot of those—and for the inaugural round of the
Mefi Music Challenge.
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at 6:24 PM on June 28, 2007
(16 comments)
Old Woody Guthrie tune that's probably been covered a couple hundred times. This is me breaking in our new upright bass.
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at 10:28 PM on May 10, 2007
(16 comments)
A recording from 2004 of a song from 1998. I really like vocoders: I think that they are very awesome. More inside!
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at 8:51 AM on April 5, 2007
(5 comments)
Defense and confession wrapped in to one song. Let your freak flag fly.
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at 8:57 AM on March 7, 2007
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A song about pretending that David Bowie is singing a song about how something else is writing his songs, including this one. Approximately. From my RPM 07 album
Manifests.
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at 5:32 PM on March 1, 2007
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One of the nearly-finished songs for my almost-done RPM 07 album. Navelgazing lyrics, lush instrumentation.
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at 8:24 AM on February 28, 2007
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Slow-building kiss-off material, recorded in 2006.
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at 10:39 AM on February 21, 2007
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An ode to some of the more vibrant personas and memorable events in Metafilter history -- and an homage to the classic tune by The Nails. Lyrics with tremendous amounts of annotation inside.
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at 10:47 PM on February 14, 2007
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A rough structural demo of one of the songs I've written this month.
Catchy, upbeat reflection on the simpler, softer times of my highschool
musical upbringing. Imagine this with a dozen people clapping and
singing along. And maybe an awesome guitar solo. I've still got three
weeks, after all.
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at 8:00 AM on February 8, 2007
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Let's call it EMOldtimey. Or, really, let's not. It's not a damned clean rendition, but with this old heartbreaker you don't have to be. My pre-verbal niece was purported to love it, and that's good enough for me.
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at 6:52 AM on February 6, 2007
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One of my bands,
The Man So Cool, did some recording a couple
weeks ago for a demo disc. We're still working on final vocals and
proper mixes, but this is a pretty good rough mix of one of the songs.
Links to the other three songs can be gotten
over
yonder.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:19 AM on January 29, 2007
(7 comments)
A quick, messy, ridiculous recording made earlier this evening at Chez
Harvey Girl, featuring melissa may on vocals, sleepy_pete on vocals and acoustic guitar, and moi on vocals and casio and maybe some banjo too but I can't honestly remember if we did that track.
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at 8:13 PM on December 31, 2006
(7 comments)
Absolutely ridiculous synth-and-spoken-word composition I recorded to
cut my teeth on Reason.
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at 9:13 AM on November 14, 2006
(5 comments)
Running with the unofficial Christmas Comes Early themea one-off
from 2004, perfect for a mythical antichristmas album.
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at 7:56 AM on November 7, 2006
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Working draft of an ode to those green-aproned mistresses of the coffee
shop.
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at 9:41 AM on October 30, 2006
(6 comments)
Satan has bad days too.
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at 6:33 AM on October 25, 2006
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The nice thing about a musical website like AT is that when you apologize for a lame failure to update, you can do it in song.
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at 6:23 AM on October 20, 2006
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A lofi, live, solo acoustic cover of the fantastic Yankee Hotel Foxtrot track, recorded a few years back. Music has been way too slow the last couple days, dammit.
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at 3:02 PM on October 9, 2006
(5 comments)
Heavily manipulated wall of vocal harmony, runover, stabbed, and buried in a shallow grave.
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at 6:44 AM on September 26, 2006
(7 comments)
I, too, recorded this song! It came out a little bit weird, which is probably appropriate.
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at 7:59 AM on September 18, 2006
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This song is called mathowie's community blog, and it's about mathowie, and the community blog, but mathowie's community blog is not the name of the community blog, that's just the name of the song.
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lyrical brilliance by It's Raining Florence Henderson, with extra bits of artistic license taken in the studio.
- Arlo-esque lead vocals by
French Fry, aka Alex Millard, aka my brother.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:40 PM on September 3, 2006
(83 comments)
The dance craze that's sweeping the nation! Lyrics by
languagehat.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 8:57 PM on August 30, 2006
(34 comments)
A song about songwriting.
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at 8:20 AM on August 29, 2006
(6 comments)
Working draft of a song I'm engineering—written by friend and former bandmate
Brian, who is on guitar and vocals, with keys added by moi.
Feedback/criticism desirable. This is my first real effort to play producer/engineer to someone else's material.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:55 AM on August 22, 2006
(12 comments)
Pop rock recap of the recent AOL search snafu.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 9:18 AM on August 13, 2006
(6 comments)
Creepy, moody synthballad about geopolitical nuclear politics, circa March 2006.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 12:26 PM on August 9, 2006
(4 comments)
Audio collage of some of the pieces of a live recording that landed on the cutting room floor. From my old band's final show.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:11 AM on August 1, 2006
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Pithy titles and me: not talking right now. A catchy little pop tune about domestic surveilance.
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at 5:30 PM on July 28, 2006
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Guitar instrumental from several years ago—improvised riff on Dr. Who, a theme from Final Fantasy 1 for the NES, and Pink Floyd's "One of these Days".
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 7:48 AM on July 26, 2006
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An acoustic rough draft—the first thing I recorded after I bought my first condesor mic. Pretty, improvised.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:01 PM on July 22, 2006
(2 comments)
Electropop with shades of Postal Service. Diplomacy in action, a-thankyaverymuch.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 8:11 AM on July 21, 2006
(3 comments)
Fresh this evening. No good news today, for tomorrow's issue of
The Aural Times. Because the news sucks lately.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 9:54 PM on July 18, 2006
(8 comments)
A short, pretty, desperate conversation about need and rejection. Plus arpeggios!
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at 7:31 AM on July 15, 2006
(5 comments)
Singing and guitar and clapping and beerbottle flute and self-reflection. I posted this to the old music.metafilter.com back in 2003.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 9:55 PM on July 11, 2006
(3 comments)
This is the first song I ever wrote. I was fifteen. I've come a long way, baby.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 9:47 PM on July 10, 2006
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