Recent Miscellaneous (2006 - 2010)
I've been learning to play the guitar recently.
A cover of the John Dowland classic. Featured in a compliation centered around the Roland 909 drum machine put out by Cesspool Projects. Vocals by Jameela Huq.
Video-game music extracted from my piece Breaking-Point.
This was written for an Alice in Wonderland musical performed by English teachers in Hokkaido, Japan. Vocals by Jameela Huq.
Karlheinz Stockhausen and Olivier Messiaen Enjoy Synchronous, Convulsive Slam-Dancing with Autechre
A necessary diversion as I was writing my Stockhausen paper.
Bizzaro renditions of the Donna Summer classics.
Tethered Somewhere in the Pacific
I did this piece around August 08 for a compilation of works featuring the classic Roland 808 drum machine. To be honest I’m not sure that the drums sounds I used were from an 808 but they are from albums of the era…Marvin Gaye and LL Cool J. Featuring improvised, time-distorted Skype lyrics by my wife Jameela Huq. Also some Japanese location-recordings.
This track was intended to be part of a concept album constructed entirely from MIDI “auto accompaniment.” My intention was to simultaneously explore the genres represented on a typical MIDI keyboard and also twist them into uses totally foreign to their design. Acrilamyde is the “dance” tune of the series, featuring vocals by my wife.
This is the “Latin” tune of the same series…utilizing only General MIDI piano sounds.
Synthesizer-laden sock-hop featuring Dracula-esque vocals in German by yours truly.
This is, I believe, a Shanty. The MIDI data was generated by an old Windows “music generator” that was told to make something “like Chopin”.
This was constructed out of bass, mbira, music box, percussion, and wine-glass samples. Each of these was recorded at all twelve pitches and then triggered by the auto-accompaniment. The vocal part was composed and sung by my wife and the accompaniment and music box were composed and performed by me. This piece was actually replicated for voice, harp, and celesta in Celestial Mechanics.
A Bach-style chorale.
I did this one day when I was bored. The samples are mostly from my wife’s cancer-research lab.
This piece was for the last Scratch’n’Sniff records compilation. It features some drumming by Nick Sherman.
I wrote this one day at work when I didn’t want to be writing Muppets music (see video game section).
Two pieces that I did awhile ago…some Medieval music in
there…some drum machine vocoded with a radio also.