This was my first serious looping project, which I prepared for the Wooster Jam Session in April, 2011. I use Voodoo® Ground Control midi foot controller to control Ableton® Live as my main DAW, looping controller, and mixer. The piece uses violin, keyboard, and some snapping and hand-rubbing for percussive effects. The keyboard is split into two, a piano on the upper half and a bass synth on the lower half. Each half of the keyboard and almost every clip is routed to a seperate track so that, during performance, each clip can be added or subtracted individually from the whole mix. This was a big step in my artistic development, a successful experiment (at least in my mind) as to the possibilities of an entirely solo performance, but one that could have the effects and sound of a whole band.
I wrote this song while doing an electronic music understudy at school. It started as an improvisation using solely a KORG MS2000R analog modeling synthesizing module. I then added other tracks using various software synths, such as Spectrasonics' Omnisphere and Absynth. The sounds that I was able to get out of the KORG inspired me to write something full of hope, like being on the fringe of a new life, a new beginning. I believe there is always hope, no matter how desperate life seems to have become. Something which I have discovered about life, is that, life seems to work in cycles. If the times are awful and full of darkness, before long, things will always begin looking up eventually. A new day always comes, the sun coming up over the horizon.
This song also came out of the same electronic music understudy as "Horizons." My first assignment in the class was to rearrange a classical piece in an electronic medium. This was not the first time I had done this same thing (see the next two pieces, Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 by Bach and Gershwin's, It Ain't Necessarily So).
This was a personal project, originally spurred on by my brother who had recently learned this piece on the piano. He played it over and over again while I was visiting my family on Christmas break. I had the thought of transcribing onto the computer and then rearranging it so that there was at least one other version to listen to... !
This is one of Gershwin's most rearranged pieces, and I decided to try my hand at it. This was for another electronic music class which I took during the Junior year of my undergrad. This was also one of my first arrangements which I completed in an electronic form.
This is designed towards restaurants, featuring the style of playing that I would be performing in a fine-dining atmosphere. Repertoire is comprised classical, movie, and pop songs, Italian folk tunes, Sinatra, Bennett, and other classic tunes from the 50's and 60's, and more.
This demo features the classical music of the Eridanus String Quartet. This music is most appealing for weddings, funerals, religious ceremonies, receptions, and more.
