Highly Socksual
Our last SpinTunes song received a much better reception from the judges, though it still resulted in some widely different scores (which is a good thing, I think). This time around we came up with a piece that sounds like…
Sid Smith’s String Quartets
The new year brings a new musical challenge, this time in the form of a string quartet inspired by a series of rainy windows. Music writer Sid Smith has been taking photographs of the patterns rain makes on his office…
Theremania
Happy New Year. It’s been quite a while since I last waved my hands in the air to produce music, but tonight I recorded four theremin parts with varying degrees of success for “The Mandelbrot Set.” We currently have three…
Best Batch Yet
Something I’ve never come across before for some reason is Captain Beefheart’s “10 Commandments for Guitarists”. I found this at the ever-informative Music Thing, though it appears on a few sites around the web. The annotations in italics are mine.…
Bordet the Builder (Can he mix it?)
Recording I’ve been doing a remix of a short piece of instrumental music for an on-line acquaintence and kindred spirit (theremin player and electronic gadget abuser) over the last week or two. It’s pretty much finished now, but I came…
User Fiendly
Track of the Week Brain Drain Rap Week 9 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. OK, I missed a couple of weeks. Here’s a concerted effort to fill the gap… This song was written by Lee, and deals with the…
Granfalloonacy
Track of the Week Yet Another Granfalloon (1st movement) Week 2 of the grand mp3 download extravaganza. This mp3 is the first part of a three-part instrumental piece of music written in a semi-classical style for a small ‘chamber’ group,…