telephone sounds

today I made a patch that makes telephone dialing noises when you press numbers on your keyboard!

Wish I had a third movement of telephone piece instead, but there ya go.

I also learned that you can export an image of a patch very easily from max itself and you don't actually have to drive yourself nuts taking screenshots.

Siciliana

Prelude

Today's is a start on a suite of pieces, a partita for a young pianist. I can't believe that Spring Break is almost over. Devo.

Dunham, NC 27701

I need to catch up on other people's music.

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/durham-nc-27701

Trombones like always

telephone piece!

Today I was finally ripped out of my warm cocoon of denial.

So I finally put in some work on a high-stress project instead of continuing to just dork around with cabaret. Here's the second movement of my telephone piece I'm working on with/for Jon Clancy.

The gimmick of this piece is that there's a wired telephone onstage that people can call. This would be hard to do with mobiles.

PLEASE if anybody has comments like "this game clearly doesn't work and here's why" PLEASE TELL ME because I'm not a composer of games normally, this is new for me.

Thanks friends.

more cabaret!

Here's a couple of first pages of things I'm working on related to the same cabaret- the first is a cheesy orchestral intro, the second is the first page of a song!

Etude - Tongue

I've given up all pretence of writing practically for the piano.
Catch some sound & score HERE

Franco-Phones

Trying to badly channel my inner Feldman. I gotta get another one out early today, so have fun. 

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/francophones

   

a rough BUT COMPLETE draft of a cabaret song!

context:

The singer is a statue who has been wished into life by her creator and she's not too excited about the life the sculptor has imagined for her...

Need to tweak some of who's playing what when, and please be warned this music is cheesy, but not as cheesy as the MIDI MAKES IT. The midi is so cheesy.

Score and audio HERE

Bird Songs - for Piano

Score HERE

This is a piece for performance at a rather nationalistic Australian event, related specifically to the soldiers who died in World War 1. I was asked to compose the piece as a sort-of elegy, and I felt that I should write miniatures based on sketches (and some finished pieces) that I made, related to birds and sky.
As relates to Month of Music, I finished the set today! So yay to that, but also, my piece today was the second movement, which was the only thing I wrote entirely today.

Even More Trombone Fun

 Second Page of the piece "Baubo" for Solo Trombone

cabaret!!

I am working on some cabaret songs with a chamber orchestra! Not finished yet, but hopefully soon! Here's a couple pages:

Baubo the II still for Solo Trombone

I took a sabbatical yesterday, but I've returned with a reworking of my trombone piece.



If you guys are lucking enough, you'll hear the final product on April 5th at the MSM Composition Forum. (Also that reminds me I really have to finish this and engrave it soon)

Etude for piano - Lung

 

sax quartet mini

Hey friends!

I wrote a lil miniature for sax quartet! Not sure yet how I feel about it... I may attempt a piece with a smaller number of saxophones, just to get more comfortable with saxophone

Audio and score HERE

Matador Part 2

If I could have the singer holding a dripping beef lung, that'd be good

Matador Part 1

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate Sibelius sounds? Honestly, that's a big part of why this piece has taken so long. The castanet sounds have been replaced by woodblocks, the baritone sounds like shit, but hey the piano's not too bad and the double bass has a nice grunt to it so who cares anyhow.
This is a setting of a poem, there are three more parts to this poem! Hoping to get them all done by the end of MoM...

For sounds and music, click the word hate

Thanks friends :)

sometimes I have bad feelings

and I turn them into chords and put them with a beat and they become something else

Pomegranate and Bees

Had to get mine our early today, cos got some shopping to do. 

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/one-pomegranate-and-bees 

One day, I can hopefully get a real piece going.

Till that day

(Also I forgot to show the score for my twelve tone piece, so go back and check it out, if anyone cares)

Weird jam alert

This is my final study before I write a crazy piece. Have a weird jam HERE

Hand Sanitizer: Kills 99.99% of Germs

My first official venture into official 12 tone pieces. 

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/hand-sanitizer

A Piece a day is starting to surprisingly become harder and harder, but that's okay, because we're all masochists here :)

horn piece update!

hello friends!

This horn piece is tentatively titled Iris blooming

I did end up transposing- I like the result!

Score and audio HERE.

horn piece

I missed midnight by 27 minutes!!! Damn!!! Not that it matters!

I'm wrestling with this horn piece. It would have been done by now if I hadn't been a little fool and written a stupidly difficult horn part in spite of writing this with students in mind.

So now I'm in that hell-space of "transpose or rewrite"?

Here are the chords I'm working with. Tomorrow I hope to post a finished version!! Even if I have to switch instruments!!! Agh!!

Audio of the whole piece as it is HERE

Our Sorrows - part 1

Hi folks - something different today. I'm orchestrating right now, for the forces you can see in the score, from a choir part I wrote some weeks ago. This is a rewrite of a part of the Messiah, although it's secular and sounds nothing like Handel. I'm half way through, and the rest is basically a pop song, so stay tuned

Score and audio HERE

Diego Day

I wrote this in the morning, then in the afternoon gave it to a guitarist to record. And that's the story of how we ended up with this. 

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/diego-day

Inspired by Cornet Hornman

03 the other part of Bello Belly

Composed when I was on my way back to hotel. This is for the friend whose secret nickname is sexy beast. Basically I just make fun of the rhythm and and sound, so I cut them into se-xy "beat"-st. Beats for the sound of slap lab.

Roar - for Double Bass

Another etude on the theme I established yesterday.

Apologies for the rough presentation!

Cool Tunes for Mellow Tribunes

Fun times here in sunny The Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland. 

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/cool-song-for-cooler-people

Hope you all enjoy (Also how do I the soundcloud link just show up without having people have to copy and paste it?)(thanks in advance, huggs and kisses0) (I messed up and uploaded it incorrectly the first time)

02 Glisten-Children Part

The middle peek part of the piece for electronic, voice and saxophone. Still editing the sound part in Logic. Text referent from the Lucifer, 2015's drama television series.

max patch using record~ and buffer~

In the wee hours of the morning today, I got started on a patch that records into a buffer and then plays back. I have the playback and record functions automated with a counter. The result is still a pretty rough sound- lots of technical details to work out, to say nothing of the compositional work that still needs done, but I'm really excited about it!

Here's the patch, and the audio I recorded out of it when I was loopy at 4am!


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(for those who don't know, you can copy this block of text and use the "new from clipboard" function in Max to see the actual patch!)

google drive link to the audio: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qrfixaSrBLJWxVjIrexR5WF7YeCXPbzj

xxx

Well I did some sketches for a trombone piece titled "Baubo" after our favorite Greek rascal. For some reason I assumed that trombone players read their music sideways so that's why I posted it like this. It has nothing to do with my image rotation ineptitude.

Piece for two drums

A sketch!

I am not yet sure what drums I mean by drums. Need to run it by a percussionist friend I think.

Oops I just noticed an error in the last bar... I think you can figure out what I meant

Etude for Piano: Matador

 

Audio HERE

This is a study for a piece I want to write, this November. More to come!

Day 1! Excited!

01 Bello Belly

Hi everyone, 
This is Lydia from first day trip in London.  I composed this when I was waiting my dinner. Belly is always my favorit part of human body, but only sometime would be mine haha. This piece is inspired from a conversation between a friend that we were trying to find a best sound of his hidden talent, slap mouth through one finger. So I just combine them. Also, Bello is minions Hello~

I am just a test post, that's about it.

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/whistling-pest-toast

Hopefully this works

30 Final boss

I really wanted to get a stronger result with risset rhythms, instead I've ended up with this god forsaken Franken-patch, but it is sort of doing what I want it to. In brief I did this:

- I dissected the glissando max for live patch from a few days ago away from ableton M4l in just standalone max.
- I broke up what was previously a poly~ object into multiple audio outs.
- Set each of the math operations controlling the poly~ object to receive audio input from multiple groove~ objects each playing the same buffer.
- Mapped the pitch math to control a sig~ object controlling play back speed of each groove.

I know that image doesn't really capture whats going on, but basically there are four copies of the maths operations each managing a seperate groove~. Their level is proportional to their tempo and pitch (the red patch lead) and they are all commencing at different tempi/pitch/loudness. The intent is to create an eternal accelerando.

I also used a drum break that was used in a demonstration of risset rhythms from Dan Stowel's Paper, this worked HEAPS better than jongly.aif

Have a listen here:


On Monday I'll be going through and commenting on everyone's stuff. Grats to all of you, you amazing people. Have a brilliant weekend!

Love,
Hakushu

last post: another phase experiment

You guys.

We did an amazing thing. I'm going to miss this. Part of me wants it to keep going... but I have some finals and doctoral apps to attend to! It's been nice ignoring those things and prioritizing creating!

I meant to make something nice and fun for my last post, here in Manhattan where it's the last hours of November, but instead I made a 3 hr long going out of phase thing, prompted by the ugly feelings I have when I look at photos of myself-- It's a state of mind, more than a piece, and it's not exactly a positive state of mind. It's called, "how i feel about my body," and I'm not quite satisfied with it, but it has some good moments, particularly the beginning, the minute starting at 2hrs:31min, and the long fade at the end.

I want to make a happier version of a long ambient-mood-tape!

So much love, and until next time,
Christine

Two Madrigals - last post

It's getting close to midnight on the 30th of November, here in New York. I've enjoyed this process so much, there's a part of me that wants to do it again right away, but that part of me is drunk with power and needs to go to bed for a while. Thank you all for making this webpage a pleasure to visit, and for producing so much excellent music. March 2018, anyone?

Last one

Congratulations everyone! I'm really blown away by what you've squeezed out of your brains and your other body parts that music comes from. The standard of work has been so high from everyone, it's left me feeling like there is a lot of good art out there (more now) and a lot left to be made. I am sad about bowing out for a week with my arm but happy to report it's feeling a lot better. I've been strengthening it and am getting pretty ripped tbh. Love to you all and I look forward to doing a thorough comb through/reminisce in the next few days.

Christine & Andrew combined jam

Here's a lil synth jam we cooked up this afternoon, while we were both really hungry and wanting to go eat dumplings. Tech by Andrew, Music by Christine

Audio Here

Andrew here... film scoring tropes

Greetings, it's Andrew (I left my computer at home, am spending the night at Christine's)
For my film scoring class, we had to 'compose' a piece, using virtual synths such as omnisphere, stylus rmx, absynth, and so on. He was pushing for a very generic sound, and I spent as little time as possible achieving it. (as you can see, I'm bitter - but I feel better after making a thing with Christine, to be uploaded shortly :) )

The scenario: Dystopic future, awaking despair.

Audio

29 Super slow phase music

Ok so I haven't researched whether or not this has been done before (I'm sure it has heaps!) but today I created a phase of jongly, where the two voices differ by 0.01 bpm :o

So after about 2.5 minutes (55 bars or a one bar loop), the music is one 256th note stretched away from its starting point.

The top voice is the original, and I've dragged bottom one to take about 12 miliseconds longer all together. I chose this difference as you are able hear the phase descend from a pitch into a rhythmic difference by the end of the recording.



Yeh!

Music for iced water

feat brain freeze

Fall, leaves

I love Brontë, not just because she wrote a poem that resonates with me so much she could've written it after a conversation with me, but for many other things too.

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; 

Lengthen night and shorten day; 

Every leaf speaks bliss to me 

Fluttering from the autumn tree. 

I shall smile when wreaths of snow 

Blossom where the rose should grow; 

I shall sing when night’s decay 

Ushers in a drearier day.

Emily Bront