Get that fresh clean feeling!

Totally forget about One Inspirational Piano. This is way better, because it’s one more. And it’s a complete remix and recode and I have a better idea of what I’m doing now.

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Technically, I think this would need to be a piano duet if this tune were to be played by humans, but whatever.

Merry Holiday Thingy to you, my little Braindouche! droplets! I got myself a little present for the holidays, a copy of Mixtikl, a fantastically fun generative music app. And by fun, I mean wowzers powerful. Unfortunately, Mixtikl lives on Dani’s iPad, and separating her from her tablet is nearly impossible, but I finally got an afternoon to curl up and play. One Inspirational Piano is the first track to come out that isn’t complete donkey shit. It’s still rough, I get that, but I haven’t quite mastered the art of automating the generative loops yet. I’m working on it.

If you’ve already had your holiday, I hope it was a good one, and if you’re still getting ready, have fun, don’t drink to much, and nomatter what they’ve done to you, your family probably still loves you.

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You remember how Dani at Life Unconstrained wanted a theme song? I continue to be incredibly proud of it.

So I’m on my way out to game night with my incredibly nerdy friends, and I get a call from Dani, asking me if I could make up some music for her new video. Here’s the rub: it needs to be Christmas-y. And can you have it for me by tomorrow morning?

Sure, I say, send me the video and I’ll see what I can do.

This here is what I did. Life Unconstrained: Holiday Edition. BOO YA.

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Ok, last one and then I’m done for a while. Fireworks. It’s a drone that sort of sounds like… fireworks. Sort of.

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Once again, I have absolutely no explanation for this track, or it’s title. I found it sitting there with a smug look on it’s face being all droney and sparkly. So I’m sharing.

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Ok you guys, this one is neat because it’s an actual commission! That I’m engaged to the commissioner and the payment was that she would do a load of dishes are largely irrelevant.

Anyway, so Dani (of lifeunconstrained.com) is gearing up to start a videoblog to help support her new site and business, and she came to me for some theme music. After throwing some sites around for research, she asked if I could just make it. “And make is sound sort of like Pomplemoose!” she cried. So, I did.

A light little bit of instrumental electronic pop, with one simple theme and enough moving parts that it can be taken apart and put back together again in a bunch of different ways, to help extend the brand and also add auditory interest to videos. Enjoy!

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How I Got Internet Famous On Tumblr For Like A Week.

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Jesus Christ Yet Again I’m An Attention-Sucking Whore.

Rosalarian (http://rosalarian.tumblr.com) summed up the entire new Lady Gaga album as “Techno Techno Jesus Jesus Techno Sex Techno”, and said she needed to make a track like that. I did it first, because she does webcomics and I do… shit like this. Originally published on Soundcloud, this has over 700 plays there, which isn’t super-remarkable in Soundcloud terms, but that happened in the span of a few weeks, which blows the play rate of any of my other Soundcloud tracks and this podcast right out of the water.

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So, I’m hanging around the internet one evening minding my own goddamn business when Epilonious wanders by and says “I feel like a sassy black lady tonight*. Here! Watch this!”

Angie Jordan saying “ham” on “30 Rock” for 15 minutes

If you’re not into experimenting with media to alter your consciousness, you don’t need to watch this video. Let me sum it up: Angie Jordan saying “ham” on “30 Rock” for 15 minutes, and she pronounces “ham” with two syllables. Apparently, it’s become a thing for people to obsess over. Whatever. It’s a neat video if you’re into that sort of thing.

Anyway, Epilonious and I are geeking out over this and he says, and I quote:

“I think… I think there needs to be a funky base beat hayumm song. I WANT A REEEEMIIIIIIX.”

I immediately cursed his name fury and rage. And then I got to work, because, clearly, he was correct. I hate his ass, but that remix did need to happen. I also happened to know that to make him happy, it didn’t need to be good, it just had to be there, yanno?

45 minutes and one stolen sample from youtube later, this is what happened. I threw it up on soundcloud, tweeted about it, and yelled at Epilonious until he finally listened. He loved it immediately and scampered all over the internet to share the joy –no, wait, not all over the internet, just all over Wanda Wisdom’s Facebook (and website). Because it was all her fucking idea in the first place!

Curse you Wanda Wisdom!

Anyway, this classic bad house tune is about as close to live as you’ll ever see me do. All the loops were live-triggered! That’s why there’s mistakes! But for less than an hour, of work? It’s not bad. It’s crap, but it’s fun crap, and that is what’s important.

* This may not be a completely accurate quote, but a) he did express that sentiment that evening and b) he has said that exact thing repeatedly in the past.

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Assay. Droney, ambient, deep, lots of texture, a little rhythm, a little tune, nice right?

Nicer yet: this is what yesterday’s post Consider is built from. More or less, anyway — Consider is built on a previous version of Assay.

Unfortunately, this led to a problem: I had two very different tracks called Consider on my hands. As I think you can see, the stronger track won that battle, so I hit the thesaurus, and Assay it is.

Tomorrow is a special treat. Stay tuned.

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Consider. Consider what? How about considering the lovely droney ambient music that’s been invaded by very friendly electronic ducks?

This is easily one of my recent favorites. If you like this, come back tomorrow and the day after — we’re not done considering Consider just yet.

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