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New Song: The Structural Integrity of the Gardiner Expressway Comes Under Scrutiny (Now With More Awesome!)

daniel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:47:39 +0000

Apparently I’ve taken it upon myself to scrutinize the structure of my previous attempt. I present the longer, smoother, better-tasting, “Gardiner Version 2″. Still needs compression, mastering, etc. Oh, and some more structure. But I digress.

The Structural Integrity of the Gardiner Expressway Comes Under Scrutiny (v2)

New Song: The Structural Integrity of the Gardiner Expressway Comes Under Scrutiny (Now With More Awesome!) originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2009-06-29.

New Song: The Structural Integrity of the Gardiner Expressway Comes Under Scrutiny

daniel — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:48:05 +0000

Just a short instrumental, perhaps suitable for that short film you’ve always wanted to make:

The Structural Integrity of the Gardiner Expressway Comes Under Scrutiny

New Song: The Structural Integrity of the Gardiner Expressway Comes Under Scrutiny originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2009-06-26.

New Song Snippet: Flurries In Washington

daniel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:42:29 +0000

A new song snippet for you all… please keep in mind that this is like KDE 4: still in heavy development and perhaps not very good just yet.

Flurries In Washington

Thanks to Freesound for the samples, and to Laura for not letting me call it “Furries in Washington”, which, it turns out, is a totally different thing altogether.

New Song Snippet: Flurries In Washington originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2009-06-04.

For Albatross

daniel — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:43:34 +0000

New song. Take a listen. You might like it, as I’m not singing in it at all.

For Albatross

For Albatross originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2009-05-24.

If Steve Reich Was Happy…

daniel — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:46:01 +0000

He might sound something, a little something, like this:

If Steve Reich Was Happy (mp3)
If Steve Reich Was Happy (Ogg Vorbis)

Also, I’d like to digress: “Ogg Vorbis” sounds like it should be an unmentionable bit of human anatomy. Not an audio format. No matter how often I say “Ogg Vorbis”, I still lower my voice as if I’m afraid my parents might overhear.

If Steve Reich Was Happy… originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2008-10-27.

Nodcast 1: The Most Boring Podcast Ever

daniel — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:10:45 +0000

Welcome to the Nodcast: A podcast so boring it doesn’t even have an RSS feed.

Nodcast 1: A Reading From Truman Capote (Ogg Vorbis)
Nodcast 1: A Reading From Truman Capote (MP3)

Nodcast 1: The Most Boring Podcast Ever originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2008-08-22.

Scatterbrain

daniel — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:13:59 +0000

I really wanted to get this down on the hard drive… and I didn’t realise how bad the piano recording was until I had got to singing. So i just gave up and didn’t bother correcting any of the (obvious) flaws in the levels. It isn’t pretty, I tell you.

Scatterbrain – Ogg Vorbis
Scatterbrain – MP3

Everything I record these days seems to have a ringing noise at the high end… anyone have any ideas how to fix this problem?

Scatterbrain originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2008-08-18.

Ghetto (it’s a new song, it’s been too long, etc, etc)

daniel — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:43:25 +0000

Well, I got the itch tonight and had to relieve it. The result is the following song, a very rough demo type thing. Before posting, however, I have to express thanks to the people whose work enabled this:

Ubuntu, the best operating system for me, bar none. Seriously, try it out, see if you like it.
Hydrogen, a wonderful little drum machine. One of my favourite applications.
Ardour, a digital audio workstation. Free, open-souce, and I’m pretty sure I’m only using about 1% of its functionality. Is better for me than Audacity was ;)

With no further ado (as none is needed) I present the song as both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis.

Ghetto (OV)
Ghetto (MP3)

This work is licensed as per:

Ghetto (it’s a new song, it’s been too long, etc, etc) originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2007-12-23.

Here is some news about Amarok 2 that actually excites me.

daniel — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:30:44 +0000

As some of you already know, the Amarok team is building the next version of their music playing software with the QT toolset. That is to say, it should compile well as a cross-platform application (instead of just for Linux and other Unix variants).

Some of you may also know that I think Amarok is one of the better reasons to switch to Ubuntu, but let’s be honest here, it’d be nice not to have to. And from what I’ve seen, the digital music playback segment on Windows is dominated by iTunes (and oh my word, how iTunes sucks) and WinAmp (show its age really badly). Amarok 2, on the other hand, does everything iTunes and WinAmp do with music, and does it better and easier and — you have to realise that for an open source application this is major news — has a beautiful user interface to boot.

The above is a screenshot of Amarok 2 on Windows. Please do be aware that’s not the finished product.

But I’m still excited. Soon I can stop using WinAmp at work. Finally.

Here is some news about Amarok 2 that actually excites me. originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2007-05-01.

Chroma

daniel — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:39:31 +0000

Again with the Notion, and again with the staying up well past any sort of bedtime. But this little ditty is the result, and for once I quite like what I’ve made.

Chroma (MP3)

Tell me what you think, peoples.

Chroma originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-12-25.

Patterns 3

daniel — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:37:43 +0000

Despite saying I was going to bed, I didn’t, and this small piece resulted.

Patterns 3

This is what come of being unable to compose, you know, real music.

Patterns 3 originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-12-24.

A (very) little song.

daniel — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:20:42 +0000

Courtesy of Notion and the fact that I can, you know, do stuff with it, however limited that stuff might actually be due to my own shortcomings, here’s a little song:

The White Wall 0.1

Edit: a cup of Starbucks coffee, a cigar, and a few hours later, this:

The White Wall 0.2

A (very) little song. originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-12-16.

Screwing Around with Notion…

daniel — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:36:18 +0000

This is what I have so far:

The Palm of Your Breath

It’s… alright.

Screwing Around with Notion… originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-12-14.

The Red Wall

daniel — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:08:53 +0000

I have recorded yet another rough demo. It’s called “The Red Wall”, inspired by General Fitzwallace and his tragic death in Israel. Maybe some of you will know what I’m talking about, but for those of you who don’t, here’s a song.

The Red Wall (OGG Vorbis)
The Red Wall (MP3)

Here are the words:

This is your first day.
This is your last day.
Hidden in tear gas,
buried in scattered glass.
Terror in pipe bombs.
Nails in the brick walls.
People like strewn dice
over a concrete lawn.

Will you remember all of this?
Appalling fall, the tender kiss
of flame and pain and bliss
of being spread over the wall.
The red wall, the red wall, the red wall.

It was your first breath,
or was it your last breath?
In amneosis,
screaming to let them know
that you have arrived here.
Why are you crying?
You’re supposed to be happy,
you’re supposed to be happy here.

Is it all you remember,
the red wall?

The Red Wall originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-11-09.

Something for your ears.

daniel — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:18:51 +0000

I had something I wanted to put here, but I don’t remember what it is anymore. Where’s my head at, anyhow. In any case, here are some brand new old recordings of the rough kind. They’re all MP3s, pardon me for not also posting OGG Vorbis.

Everything: a sort of acoustic balad type thing going on here. Recorded with only one crappy mic in a basement somewhere.

February: the subject matter is sort of ironic and not as topical as it could be, but we’ll let that go seeing how I wrote it last year, not this.

Nothing: insane ramblings. Not sure what I was doing here.

Rattle and Hum: this is what happens when I decide I am a Goo Goo Dolls/Barenaked Ladies hybrid tribute band.

Back in the Day: this is what happens when Jars of Clay inhabits me and I have delusions of Hasseltine.

Enjoy!

Something for your ears. originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-09-08.

God, Can I Thank You

daniel — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:58:16 +0000

I hung out with my sister today, and whilst doing so, wrote this song. Originally it was going to have violin in it, but hey, violin is not an easy instrument to play.

The song itself is a reflection on the scripture that says, “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord.” Which I think, in my quest to become a better child of his, is the only way to avoid becoming resentful.

God, Can I Thank You [MP3]
God, Can I Thank You [Ogg]

The lyrics are as follows:

God, can I thank you for the glass between my toes?
Lord, can I thank you for the way these muscles burn as they grow?

God, can I thank you for the way you break these bones?
Oh, how they’re aching like they have ever since you brought me home.

God, can I ask you for something, if I may?
Oh, I don’t deserve it, but I’ll ask you for this favour anyway.

Lord, if you’ve got time, could you catch this thing I throw?
Keep it in your hands; it’s so precious to me, but I think you know.

God, can I thank you for the things you take away?
Oh, I am learning how to live under your scalpel every day.

God, Can I Thank You originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-07-03.

Why Should the Fire Die?

daniel — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:10:39 +0000

Here, for your listening pleasure is short song I wrote, something I might possibly develop someday. I blatantly stole the title from Nickel Creek.

Why Should the Fire Die? [MP3]
Why Should the Fire Die? [Ogg]

Why Should the Fire Die? originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-06-22.

Mourn

daniel — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:12:03 +0000

As it turns out, the latest round of recording has finally produced – gasp – a song. You can click the links below to listen. I’ve uploaded it in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis format. Again, this is a pretty rough cut. Cut me some slack, will ya?

Mourn [MP3]

Mourn [OGG]

Enjoy.

Edit: fixed those links.

Edit 2: on an unrelated note, I think I may have tiny little crush on Riot Becki of the Pipettes. In Britian and in a manufactured indie pop band (when did that start happening?) nevertheless, I fear it will be a short-lived thing. I just can’t get past the polka-dot dresses.

Mourn originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-06-21.

Here’s something for your ears.

daniel — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:30:46 +0000

I threw a little something together at work today. Don’t worry, it’s no masterpiece. This is basically a really short song that doesn’t have any purpose other than practice for me. It consists of a drum loop I threw together, a Ben Gibbards acoustic guitar intro looped and distorted, several audio samples of famous people saying famous things, some hand drums played by American Indians, and some Mid-east Asian guy crooning something or other.

You can download or listen by clicking here.

Here’s something for your ears. originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-03-06.

Horse

daniel — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:43:35 +0000

This is a song I wrote about five years ago. It’s rather depressing, so consider yourself warned!

Horse [you can click here to download this song]

Also, the file is quite large. Because the song is quite long.

Horse originally appeared on We Should See Other Blogs on 2006-02-28.