WTF am i doing?

“All the glory when He took our place
but He took my shoulders and He shook my face
and He takes and He takes and He takes.”

-Sufjan Stevens

Dedicated to a friend, and her dear friend. He will be remembered, no matter how little I knew of him.

My friend Stefan came over yesterday to jam and see if we could come up with some music together - and we did, interestingly. We were also able to record and make a complete tune out of it, with only a few takes of experimentation and practice.

The tune is a sort-of cover of the song “I Can’t Live in a Living Room” from a popular punk band in Belgium called Red Zebra. We made the underlying rhythm/thematic loop part a few weeks ago, and built on that. I gave Stefan the microphone, he sang the first few verses, and then we basically just improvised on the spot. (Hence some missteps along the way ;))

Jamming and recording took about two hours. Later in the evening I spent another 2 to 3 on editing parts (mostly cutting out some idle clutter), mixing and faux-mastering. This is the end result.

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Our “group” is called Godiva TKO (temporary name, but we’ll see if it sticks). Stefan plays the Groovebox while I do my parts with my Ableton Live setup (laptop + audio interface + MIDI controller + MIDI keyboard).

I am starting to get a feel of the music that we will be making. Perhaps a hybrid of punk and dance?

Was reviewing my old music scoring projects, and remembered this one idle night where I made a pseudo-orchestral cover of an old favorite Itchyworms song called “Happy House”. I had a blast arranging it, and I think it’s the quickest score I ever did to date (not that I did much) - took just that evening and a couple of hours in the morning the next day.

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I made this one in 2004. If only I can remember which month…

Oh, Valentine’s day. What the hell is that?

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Sharing an 8-bit tune I made from last year (which I was only able to convert to video today). This song is “So They Say” from the cult Internet show Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Big thanks to Jovan for furnishing the graphic!