November 2011
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My First Real Saturday in New York : Exhaustively
When Saturday began, at Midnight, I was trying to make a good snare sound. I was sitting on the couch in our crummy sublet with Luke and Tom, who had come to visit from Boston. Tom was working on getting the snare sound too, but eventually he got sleepy and started playing music on his iPad and I went back to writing code with Luke. Later, Tom played some songs from video games, so Luke and I got...
July 2011
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October 2010
5 posts
City morning
Beautiful foggy morning in San Francisco, biking down to the mission from the outer Richmond. Past the hipsters in full regalia, cop moustaches and aviators, sweaters and cigarettes. Golden gate park with a vanload of little old ladies being delivered to the deyoung and an enormous British couple arguing their way past the bandshell. And then the wiggle, I still do it different every time. It...
Here’s a nice relaxing kalimba melody that...
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New music - Dawny Thoughts →
A glitchy/ambient piece I made with a software instrument I wrote for class, at 8 AM after coding all night :D
holy jeez you guys, my life
(Note: I just lost the previous version of this post to an unintended page reload, so if this sounds hurried or messy, that’s because it’s 4am and deal with it! <3)
I’m at CCRMA, Stanford’s music technology department, working towards a masters. I just found out two really cool things: I got a fellowship for my entire tuition, and they extended the program to two years!...
son of a bitch
I totally started to write a state-of-my-life post up in this, and then accidentally hit cmd-r while i was hitting cmd-t to open a new tab. computers suck so much! anyway it’s 4am so i guess i’ll start over another time. anyway long story short i’m super busy and everything is amazing.
July 2010
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Goodbye Mission Dub
A love song for the...
April 2010
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And HERE is a tune made entirely of samples! My...
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Here’s a tune that Leeza and I have been...
March 2010
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Here’s a quicky from tonight before I fly to...
February 2010
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I finally have a decent electric piano synth!...
January 2010
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Songpad v0.2!
With a very basic sharing system (thanks bit.ly!) in place, it’s time to play with Songpad again! Now featuring a custom waveform editor so you can muck about with the sound of your little loop.
Sharing is simple, just make a tune, shape the sound the way you want it, and click SHARE. It’ll pop up a nice short bit.ly link, and you can paste it wherever you see fit (bathroom stalls,...
December 2009
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And some other Eric jams!
I just realized that I never posted these, which is negligence on my part, but regardless:
Here are some rough recordings of three Eric Seidel originals, with him on guitar & vox and me on the drums (and I think I take a solo in one of ‘em)!
Dead To Me
One Last Dance
Tea Leaves
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A nice little guitar jam I recorded with Eric the...
When the world goes all wobbly... →
I started fooling around with Processing the other day, and this idea got into my head. A few days later, here I am last-minute procrastinating my grad school apps, and I managed to make it look almost exactly like it did in my head! Processing is incredible yo.
I really like how it makes clouds, lights, and faces look. If you have any images you want to see wobbly, send ‘em my way or...
November 2009
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Ghosters 174!?
So I just put together this mix and you can stream it at 8tracks: ♫ http://8tracks.com/mixes/63215
Tracks:
Ovens - Fired From The Vogue Pt. 1
Monks - Monk Time
Javelin - Soda Popinski
The Advantage - Ducktails [Moon]
Talk Talk - I Don’t Believe In You (but I believe in that transition! -Ed.)
St. Vincent - Save Me From What I Want
Os Mutantes - Rua Augusta
The Units - The Mission Is...
Here’s a little tune that Leeza and I came...
October 2009
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A tune for your ears! Listen to it with them. It...
August 2009
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This one is my favorite song yet! Give it a listen...
July 2009
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Another song! I quite like this one, too....
Here’s a song I made! I hope you like it....
So, this is kinda cheating because I made this...
“Contact is sort of a combination of aikido, the jitterbug, and dry humping. Or...”
– http://www.toobeautiful.org/contact.html
June 2009
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Journey to the End of the Night →
We ran, and then died, and then ran some more.
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This is a song I’ve wanted to write for a...
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Ben’s song went in directions unpredicted by...
Here’s the first song for my Friends Songs...
Another tune that Jonathan and I put together!...
May 2009
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Check out this sweet tune that Jonathan and I made...
(listen with headphones)
Yellin...
Last night's haul from Amoeba
XTC - English Settlement
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
Pizzicato Five - Happy End of the World
Pizzicato Five - Five by Five
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
Bela Fleck - Throw Down Your Heart
El Guincho - Alegranza
Fear - The Record
Wooooooo!
I made code that makes these noises. I press the...
April 2009
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Yesterday Daniel and I covered Oxford Comma by...
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Are you feeling post-punk? Well, are ya?
I am,...
March 2009
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Covering Man Man, y’all. Van Helsing Boombox...
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More music-y thoughts, and not even super-messy...
February 2009
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Let’s call this a rough draft, because I...
January 2009
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Jump, shoot. Win!
Hipsters! Must! Die! →
Weee!
December 2008
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A morning to myself!
Lyrics are totally my...
On Saturday I got some folks over here to jam all...