June 30, 2008

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At Last -- So here it is, the final composition. To celebrate, I've created a collage of endings.

It's hard to believe that this year is over. It's been an incredible experience composing a complete piece every day.What began as an idea about composing for the internet became a lifestyle. Everything in my life became an idea for a new piece. I was creating everyday and people were listening everyday. It was fantastic.

Thank you for listening.

June 25, 2008

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Won't You Come Out To Play -- My uncle is visiting (again!). While enjoying our post-pizza cannoli, our conversation turned to the Beatles and my podcast. So, with a little help from my uncle, we took the last four notes of Dear Prudence, slowed them down, layered them on top of themselves, added a looping drone from Within You Without You, and finished it with children coming out to play, courtesy of dobroide at the Freesound Project.

June 20, 2008

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Dreams Are This -- Tonight JoLayne and I went to a birthday party at a very loud bar. One of the songs to blare out for the DJ's PA was the Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams. Since it's gotten itself stuck in my head I decided it was fair game for a little reworking. Enjoy.

June 10, 2008

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Staying -- It's been a while since I've made a sample-based piece. So I grabbed Bjork's Debut and made this little collage. Enjoy...

May 16, 2008

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Techno(logy) -- technology transforms, baby!


(I think the cinnamon gum I'm chewing is responsible...)

April 30, 2008

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Morneaus -- Yesterday I received an email from Alex Overington, a student at Oberlin Conservatory, letting me know that he had named a piece for me (sort of). He's adapted a piece by Busdriver called Less Yes's, Mo No's. Alex's version, for two pianos, two saxophones, percussion and electronics, is called Less Yes, Morneau!

For today's minute I made my own version of Busdriver's song.

April 14, 2008

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Older -- Tonight's piece is a little late, I was out celebrating a friend's birthday. It occurred to me on the ride home that I hadn't yet made a piece sampling from They Might Be Giants, which is strange considering how much their music has influenced my own ideas about music.

So I present a little collage of Older, their song about aging. Perfect for a birthday...

Happy Birthday, Amiti!

April 12, 2008

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Tonight -- Thinking about time and about the number 60 led me to this source audio...

April 7, 2008

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Part of It -- Well, this morning I woke up in the city that never sleeps, very excited to be in my new home (car horns and all). Today's piece is my first official post from the Big Apple. Enjoy.

April 5, 2008

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Rollin -- Greetings from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. We are in the middle of moving to NYC. I took a little break from driving the truck to make this minute. Enjoy.

April 1, 2008

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Happy April Fools!

March 31, 2008

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James Brown + Max/MSP + feedback delay = Brownian Noise


(not to be confused with this)

March 22, 2008

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60x60 Redux -- One of the original inspirations for this podcast was Robert Voisey's 60x60 project. Each year he puts out a call for one minute compositions, which he sorts through to build a playlist of sixty pieces. These are presented without interruption as a continuous one-hour block of music. I've participated twice in the past [bsym5.1 and Here, I'll Play It Again].

The deadline for this year's submissions in fast approaching, so I made this piece as a little tribute to 60x60. I used one second from each of the tracks on the 2003 60x60 CD, available for sale here.

March 18, 2008

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Play Me -- So I played a little game for today's piece. I made seven little samples. I placed them one at a time into my timeline. Every time I placed a piece I would listen and then could adjust it _or_ the previous piece, but not both. I was also allowed to copy and paste a group of several pieces, but one pasted these could not be moved. Essentially the idea was to plan ahead as best as I could since I was only allowing myself to make very small revisions.

Enjoy the results.

March 17, 2008

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Danny -- Happy St. Patrick's Day!

March 11, 2008

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One Inch:9 -- My second post today completes my series of Nine Inch Nails remixes.


Time for bed.

March 4, 2008

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Autodial celebrates Primary Day in Ohio with a collage from recent messages on my answering machine.

March 2, 2008

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One Inch:8 -- this time it's from the song Vessel.

February 25, 2008

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One Inch:7 -- it continues with The Warning.

February 21, 2008

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One Inch:6 -- 6 of 9 in my ongoing series of Nine Inch Nails remixes. Today's piece uses the song God Given.