Music

Here is Landing. Parts of it were originally made for a client, but they found it to be too intense for their needs. Since it no longer needs to be a chill podcast intro, I have added a couple of middle sections and made it a touch more intense.

This is Eighth Gear, for which I brought back my robots. This time, I directed them to change keys every four bars for a total of eleven key changes per this Junto challenge. This time, there's two guitar parts and bass, along with a concrete theme that I had them come back to instead letting things be all random choices within patterns.

This is The Uneven Staircase, which I did for the Disquiet Junto challenge #567. It requires you to write a piece that uses 5/8, 6/8, and 7/8 time. I did that by writing a riff that has a 5, 6, and a 7 part glued together so that it has a total of 18 eighth notes worth of time. So, the drums just play in 3/4 most of the time (9 quarter notes or 18 eighth notes can fit in three bars of 3/4.)

I also did the Spinal Tap Big Bottom thing where I just have all basses and no guitars. (I tried way too hard to wring out a guitar part last night because I forgot a lesson which otherwise saves me a lot of time: I can't come up with riffs on the spot by jamming. I can come up with stuff on the spot by sequencing sometimes, though.)

The whole thing ended up too normal so I have a section in which some of the parts change tempo, but some don't.

There's a lot I wish was better here, but I still find the ending funny.

I fit one more loop into Looptober: A Ninja Weighing the Pros and the Cons, which you can loop as many times as you want. I'm pretty sure that it is in some part derived from Ninja Gaiden, which is hard-lodged into my brain. You can listen to it if you are a ninja that has some hard decisions ahead of them of if you just want to think about a ninja in that situation.

This Looptober loop is called Outcropping of Death. Wonky end-of-day chugging and chaotic drums.

Today's Looptober loop is Preparing Lapsang Souchong. It has a sample I recorded while making tea.

This is Stockholm, which I made for Looptober. It's actually three 3.5 second loops repeated 25 times. There's two dryer parts and one bass part. It's one of those attempts to make the irregular seem regular through repetition.

Here is Tower Climb, a song that may help you if you are ascending platforms while beating up foes. This is one of those songs whose first 70% comes together in couple hours, then the rest comes together in three weeks. Part of it was that I feel that a solo like the organ solo in that song must go a Certain Way, but I don't play enough solos to know exactly how to describe that to myself, so there were a lot of iterations of it.

While trying to come up with the solo for another song, I made this commercial jingle for a Cool Breeze Product.

This is Howling, a piece I made accidentally when I messed up an app that I'm using to make another piece. I somehow made all of the event lengths way too long, but it sounds great somehow, though very different from what I intended.

This is my summer jam, Pyroclasmic Slooch. I'm not an avid listener of summer jams, so I probably don't have all the hallmarks of the summer jam. This more like "what I imagine summer jams" are like. (Greatly informed by Strong Bad, now that I think about it.)

I had more robot voice in it before, but the guy pointed out it didn't really fit in.

For the "minimal viable music" Disquiet Junto prompt, I made Hull Ruptures, which is a piece built entirely from a recording I made of popcorn popping.