“Quiet Sky” Live Bass Recording Session
Recording session for a new song “Quiet Sky”, tracking live bass guitar. As a video experiment, there’s an overlay of the bass guitar waveform from Logic Pro. I guess that’s pretty geeky.
Pro Tools Tips: Auditioning Sounds in Snapper
Translated from the video with a few bits of editing: We’re talking about using Snapper for auditioning sounds while working in Pro Tools, and why you may want to do that. Traditionally the way you would import a sample […]
4K Music Animation: Come See The View (Mondrianized)
From the forthcoming album of instrumentals, “Come See The View” is a pulsating piece of melodic ambient music. The music animation is inspired by the great Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, and is, in a word, abstract. Stream it in […]
Steve Reich’s Clapping Music
I picked up an anthology of Twentieth-Century Music the other day, an inside was the short score to Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music”. I’ve been a fond of Reich’s music and recordings since my college days, and I first heard the […]
Chromatic Descension Fun with Chromaphone
Sounds a bit looney, but that was the fun part. This short screencast was from some playful experiments with Chromaphone, a great hybrid percussive virtual instrument by AAS. DAW: LogicX Captured with Screenflow.
The great MOMA hoax on Ello
In October 2014, Klaus Biesenbach Director & Chief Curator of NYC’s MoMA PS1 posted this on his @klausbiesenbach profile page on Ello: “I neglected my ello profile for a while, but now I have a big announcement to make. This surely is a […]
Vocoder Drumming Instagram Video
Found some 2006 footage of a NI Vokator ‘drums processed by vocoder’ experiment. Tonight re-assigned midi to Waves Morphoder and this was the result. Groove is 11/8 or 4/4 + 3/8. I wish they would bring back Vokator. In layman’s […]
Composing Sketch: Ambient #1
Composing Sketch: Ambient #1. An experimental slow moving visual/music piece. By accident the other night I came upon a way of creating a “liquid digital painting” for lack of a better term. I set a music theme that I’ve […]
Short Composing Sketch: Dark Spin in C Phrygian
Here’s a short little music/video sketch. I’m toying with the idea of putting out an album of of dare I say ambient type music, built upon these ideas. In a way, putting these bits up actually motivates me […]
Ello: A look inside.
Ello, the new social media web site is here. It’s currently in beta, and still taking shape, but it is a welcomed new face to the world of social media. Take the @ usernames and quirky self descriptions of Twitter, […]