I love music. All kinds of music. It's the only thing I really get excited about anymore, so since you're reading this page I'm going to assume that you're excited too. Remember, if at any time you should experience boredom, you can click on the "back" button to escape.
I was first exposed to synthesizers when I was in high school, around 1987. Since that day I have been obsessed with anything musical and/or electronic. Over the years, I managed to put together a pretty nice studio at home, so of course I have been accumulating little musical ideas, some of which have made it into recordings. I have posted them here, so that you can check out what I'm up to.
The songs are recorded with a MIDI sequencer. I use a digital multitrack recorder to finish them up and convert them to CD/MP3 format. Please let me know if you can't play one of my files.
Download
Sample MP3
Here are the files. You can download a small preview in .WAV format, or go for the gusto and download the MP3. Note that the files get pretty large.
I'm still looking for illustrations for this page. I think it'd really look cool with some pictures on it.
| Markov 1 |
5:40 - Allegretto - 23 April, 2004
|
|
I had a whole site about this, but it got taken away from me when I went on a leave of absence from school. This is a demonstration of a project I built for a class in interactive music composition at RPI. The project is a midi-enabled microcontroller that plays along with a performer (me) by Markov chain sequencing. I call it the philtre. I am playing the chords, legato parts, and what sounds like the lead. At times, it's hard to pick out. The philtre is playing an endless sequence of eighth notes. Combined with the FM timbres of my YS-200, it's a very neat and haunting effect. At times, I am leading the philtre, and at other times, reacting to unexpected harmonic changes from the philtre's random key changes. I have also recorded a duet with Adam Gould, a classmate, from our final class recital. I'll put that on here when I am suitably motivated. |
|
|
Download Markov 1 (5.3M) |
|
(preview not available) |
| Logs and Water |
3:06 - No tempo - Some time in 1995
|
|
This is a free-form recording I made with my friend, DJ Yoshi, when I lived in Georgia about ten years ago. We were basically just jamming with a few synths, and left the tape running. The whole piece was over 90 minutes long, and was punctuated with a lot of laughing and swearing, but I think this was an interesting three minutes. I hope to hook up with Yoshi again some time. I'm sure we're both musically somewhere very different from where we were ten years ago. |
|
|
Download Logs and Water (4.3M) |
|
|
(preview not available) |
| Ave Maria on a Saw |
4:13 - Adagio - 14 Aug 2003
|
| With apologies to Franz Schubert.
The first time I heard someone playing a saw with a violin bow, I was mesmerized. It was the most beautiful sound I'd ever heard, and I don't know why you don't hear them played more often. Unfortunately, I really can't play a saw any better than a real violin, so I decided to synthesize one. I am also hesitant to apply the adjective "beautiful" in this case, but I am pleased with the result. It was really interesting to use MIDI in such an unconventional manner, and I hope to revisit this technique some day. The entire process of recording and mastering this song was completed from start to finish in only a few hours. |
|
|
Download Ave Maria(3.9M) |
|
|
Download Preview (363K) |
| Return to Mobius (metropolis mix) |
4:30 - 136 bpm - 12 September 1999
|
| Yes, it does kind of have something to do with Sonic
the Hedgehog(tm).
I started this tune in the summer of 1995, and finished it on 11 September 1997. Because I needed to re-record it in order to upload to mp3.com, I have prepared this special treat remix. Close your eyes, relax, and think warm, happy thoughts. Imagine yourself bouncing through fluorescent-hued meadows in spangled sunlight, surrounded by your furry friends. Smiling yet? |
|
|
Download Return to Mobius (4.2M) |
|
|
Download Preview (363K) |
| Sukoshi Dekimasu |
4:50 - 150 bpm - 13 April 1997
|
| Most of the inspiration for my songs comes directly from the sounds I use to make them. I will sit at the keyboard and plink away until a particular timbre catches my interest. Here's a very good example in which a single sound developed in my imagination into a complete composition. I simply repeated the first 8 measures and then hunted down the rest of the voices and placed them where they belonged. | |
|
Download Sukoshi Dekimasu (3.7M) |
|
|
Download Preview (260K) |
^[:wq
This page was created March 7, 1999, and updated on August 14, 2003. These songs are free for you to download and listen to, but of course I must ask that you don't do bad things with them, i.e., be nice, okay? Not for commercial use, yadda yadda...
This document, and all other documents, images, and other files contained within this site are copyrights of their respective owners. No file may be duplicated without explicit written permission of the author unless permission is otherwise noted here.