MeFi Music
I recorded my first band. ( Nessie James & The Unknowns) Was my first paid studio gig time. This is the 2nd mix of sorts. Still more to add. The vocals are James Mcgee dummy vocals. He is going to re sing it and add some lead fill. Basically fill the empty spots in more. I’m happy with my new home studio. I can record 8 inputs now on my M audio Delta. Nice for a PCI sound card runs Cubase great. Anyway just thought Id post my production. Enjoy if you will.

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MeFi Music
Soft piano with acoustic backing… Originally written for my daughter Autumn, for her 4th birthday. I love you princess.

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Inspired by Peter Ablinger’s speaking piano, and featuring three familiar voices. This is an attempt to recreate Ablinger’s uncanny “phonorealism” effect, which can make a piano sound like it’s speaking words. After reading the thread it occurred to me that I had a pretty good idea of how it worked, and wanted to see if I could pull it off.

Here are the (mixed) results! I used my favorite excerpt from a recent Metafilter podcast, for bonus self-referentiality.

I ran the excerpt through Max/MSP and the sigmund~ object to analyze the audio, which is then “pixelated” and sent to a General MIDI piano sample. I preserved the original panning so you can (sort of) tell who’s speaking depending on where they’re coming from.

Now, who wants to build me a player piano?

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Spacey, instrumental, bongo-heavy breakbeat-driven jam with vintage analogue organ sounds sampled from a Baldwin Funmachine. This part contains an ambient section. Long story detailing the composition of this song inside… One of my favorite bartenders in New York told me that she’s celebrating her 10th year tending bar at DUFF’S and my friend and I are such delightful regulars that she would like us to do something for her party.

Despite my advanced party-making abilities, it’s hard to contribute anything concrete to a bar that’s already decorated and is always a party; I do however spend a large part of my time putting samples together into songs.

This particular composition is based on a previous composition I made in honor of a beautiful girl I met my freshman year of college. One day, I awesomely stepped out my comfort zone and approached her in the cafeteria and told her I thought she was beautiful and asked her name. Then, as I was a nerdy awkward finding-myself-type back then, I promptly disappeared into my hiding-hole with my sampler and my weed.

It later came back around to me that I made a big impression on her and she was sad I never pursued the relationship I obviously wanted with her. I have no idea what became of her. I composed a song at my grandmother’s house, using her badassssss analogue Baldwin organ, later I combined the organ melody and the beat from “Do it till you’re satisfied” by the B.T. Express in a song in her honor.

So, in honor of another gorgeous grrl, I decided to remake the song from the original samples. Unfortunately, in the years since, I have reformatted hard drives, and when I mounted the disk where the lengthy organ composition should have been I found it contained every season of Star Trek: The Next Generation instead of audio fragments. Presumably, the original organ composition is lost forever.

Instead, I sampled from breaks in the original version song, so the compositions ended up sounding very different. Different songs for different people.

Because of the length of the composition, I’ve arbitrarily broken it in to two pieces. It was composed entirely with free, open-source software.

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