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wilshire waltz one
Well, it's been about (over?) 3 years since I last posted. I haven't done a single music-related thing in that time. This one just kind of came out. It's an instrumental waltz about walking in the city.
Last Dance at Marienbad
Cinephile IDM, short and sweet. The name says it all.
Pilgrim's Regress
A bit of terrible Friday inscrutability, for all my friends at MeFi Music.
Vampire Dub No. 13
I don't know what's scarier: re-imagining your favorite early-60s Halloween novelty record sounds as Garageband "dub," a full MIDI trumpet section, or the slug people who overtake the vampires late in the song. (You'll know it when you hear it.)
Andrita Street
Demo for a song about my neighborhood here in Los Angeles...with mouth trumpet!
Hawaii
Summer's nearly over, but never fear -- it's always the sunniest season on your HiFi! Ford and the Prefects and the Don Ho Symphony Orchestra present "Hawaii," this year's breakout good-times swingle.
Ambitions
It's disco-licious tune ambitions, and how they eat you up!
A Nautical/Political Ode to MeFi Music (Mit Accordion)
My jingle entry - a bit of seaside nastiness.
Used To Be Bohemian (Disgruntled Version)
A "disgruntled" version of a song I've been playing with for a while. Wrote the 'actual' song, but ended up preferring this nasty explosion of multi-tracked vocal and noise to the acoustic version.
D.I.D.
When I was in high school, I loved industrial music. I still do, but secretly. This was an attempt to sate my inner angst-ridden teen. Some NSFW lyrics at the very beginning.
Portland
A song in honor of the young artists in Portland, Oregon.
Journey Into the Center of the Atom
So, when I got a copy of the excellent Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop a while back, I got a wild hair to sequence tracks of that nature. This is one of them. I wanted it to sound like music from an educational science film.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Cover of the classic Neutral Milk Hotel track, recorded with a band. The three of us are writers by trade, so we're calling ourselves "Evil and Wow!" (get it? get it??)
The Second Time We Dated
Based on a true story.
Mrs. Crabtree
Melodramatic pop song about a fourteen year-old having an affair with his teacher.
The Voice in the Fire
Written during the Montecito fires. Finally got around to adding vocals.
There Is Nothing (And It's Fine)
Recorded on my lil' Samsung cell phone, at a friend's apartment.
I Like You ('Cos You Like Books)
Wrote this after a bad break-up, about two years ago.
Happy New Year!
Whipped up in a hurry, a glum song for 2009. Happy New Year, MetaFilter!
Fickett Street
Inspired by true events, and wanting to rip-off the repetitive drone of "Baby's On Fire."
The Jesus of Park Avenue
In honor of the big guy's birthday, a song about one possibility for his holiness's return. When Revelation comes/You won't find me hitting no big kettle drums...
Lookin' Out My Window (Rainy Season)
I wanted to write a short, Carpenters-y song about being lonesome and disintegrating. Ideally, it'd be sung by a woman with a melodious, colorful voice, not a froggish man who croaks like Luke Haines stuck between two boulders.
Hollywood Burns, Says "Good night!"
A distorted, washed-out, synthy-coustic helltrip.
"Tin-Whistle Nancy"
The Wicker Man, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The May-Pole of Merry Mount," and the auto-tuner. It's seasonal song - we're heading our of autumn, wearing out animal masks, and barreling head-long into winter.
"Baby Let Me Follow You Down"
Devastated folktronic cover of Dylan's version of Rick von Schmidt's Cambridge classic, "Baby Let Me Follow You Down."
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