May 11, 2008

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Danceaday -- Today, Boris has finished his year of Danceaday. To celebrate this, I have composed this 8bit minute in his honor.

Congratulaions, Boris! Your hard work and dedication to your art continue to motivate and inspire.

May 9, 2008

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Judson Church is my final danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. Dance-A-Day will complete its year on Sunday. We've made 43 videos together over the last year. Wow.

In addition to scoring this final video, I also got to be the cameraman for the dancing. We were attending a show at Judson Church, an important venue in the dance world. Afterwards, Boris made this video (with some guest performers) so that he too could dance in Judson Church.

May 2, 2008

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Big Feet Birthday -- Today is my birthday. To celebrate I've dug up a recording that my uncle made for me on the occasion of my thirteenth birthday (twenty years ago...). As you will hear, he was very sensitive during my awkward teenage years :-)

Today is also my second-to-last danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. Be sure to check out his video today, he managed to unearth an old(ish) photo of me from his personal archive...

Happy Birthday Me!

April 25, 2008

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Subway Break s this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. He sent me video of dancing in the NYC subway, so I added a little amen break just 'cause.

April 18, 2008

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Say What? is this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. I found some vocalizations at The Freesound Projectand used them for this collaboration.

In case you haven't noticed yet, Boris will be finished with his Dance-A-Day podcast on May 11. Tune in while you still can...

attributions:
the sample-pack Dr Laura Turner by scuzzpuck
monkey-vox by lunarsight

April 11, 2008

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City Scene is this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. Yesterday he sent me a video of him dancing on the streets of Washington DC with a nice note about my move to NYC. I had a flash of inspiration to take 60x365 to the streets as well and make today's piece while riding on the subway this morning. All went well, except that I spent the day at a symposium without the ability to get online to post. So Boris has been forced to wait all day as well. (Sorry Boris!)

April 4, 2008

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MLK is this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. Today is the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. Boris marked this occasion with a dance at the future site of a memorial to King. I created this soundscape using a sample of King's voice, "Like anybody, I would like to live."

March 28, 2008

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Cherry Blossoms is today's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. A little celebration of Spring here in chilly Ohio.

March 14, 2008

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12345 is this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. This was hard for me to make as musicians are good at counting to four....

March 7, 2008

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Where? - This morning Boris wrote me to remind me that I owed him a piece for this week's danceaday.com collaboration. I quickly made a little 8-bit jewel and sent it to him, but forgot to post it here... until now. Enjoy.

February 28, 2008

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Leap -- Today, 60x365 celebrates Leap Day, even though the rest of the world won't until tomorrow. Why, you ask. Well this is 60x365, not 60x366. There will be no new music tomorrow. Instead I will be posting some longer tracks that have been generated for performance situations based on earlier minutes.

This piece is also this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. Cruise on over to his site tomorrow to see his dance.

February 22, 2008

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Blue is this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis, continuing his series of dances for Black History Month. For today I decided to pay homage to the blues, that African-American form that is a cornerstone of our culture. This piece is a re-examination of a piano composition I composed several years ago, itself a re-examination of the blues. Enjoy.

February 15, 2008

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Riots is this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. He is dancing this week at 14th and U (in Washington DC) where the riots broke out after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Boris noted that "In my lifetime the street has exploded in racial tension and now has White people soliciting votes for to elect a Black president."

This week's sound is built from one small sample of a speech by King.

February 8, 2008

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Fight is this week's danceaday.com collaboration, continuing Boris's series of dances for Black History Month. Today's piece samples from bassist/composer Charles Mingus's Haitian Fight Song. If you are unfamiliar with his work, I'd recommend that you start with these albums:

• Blues and Roots
• Mingus Ah Um

His autobiography, Beneath the Underdog is also well worth a look.

February 1, 2008

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SQ is this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. To honor Black History Month Boris is doing a series of dances at black history sites around Washington DC. Today's takes place at the Mount Vernon slave quarters. I've scored this dance with samples from a recording of Berta, Berta by Branford Marsalis.

January 25, 2008

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One Inch:2 continues my series of Nine Inch Nails remixes. Today's song, Another Version of the Truth, also serves as this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis.

January 18, 2008

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Dread (Cajun) -- for this week's danceaday.com collaboration, Boris sent me a video of people dancing at a social event. It's all nice and happy. I decided to see about adding a soundtrack to distort that perception....

January 11, 2008

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Loose Change is the sound of, well, loose change. It is this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. Enjoy.

January 4, 2008

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Old Tape is this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis, the first of 2008. I tried to make this sound like an old piece of audio tape that had been recorded on many times. It fits the mood and style of the video.

December 21, 2007

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Holiday Movie is this week's danceaday.com collaboration with Boris Willis. The video he sent reminded me of old 35mm home movies, so I went with it.