This is a big RSS update of some recent music. A wide variety for you.

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A jazzy IDM trance track written tonight inspired by a conversation I had today with somebody in a coffee shop. I usually don't write outright dancable music so enjoy it while you can. If you like this kind of music, send me a request for more.

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Day off work... did my laundry at the laundromat today and while the undies where spinnin', I spun this lovely track. Hope you think it's as fresh as I think my socks now are.

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Named this baby after the coffee shop I wrote it in. Yesterday. Funky IDM. Enjoy.

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This is a remix competition entry into the ccmixter.org competition sponsored by WIRED MAGAZINE. You should log on and give me a good rating if you like the track.

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One of my favorite tracks made yet. A Steve Reich-like song with a fat beat and some interesting melodies.

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A remix of Twenty Years Ago. It sounds better now.

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Okay, it's Christmas day... this is a track I worked on all day yesterday. It's not what I had intended for it to be, but it's still pretty cool. It's a big-beat dj-style remix of a bunch of tracks. You'd be surprised at where I got all the samples from. Anyway, have a good Christmas!

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Hey, MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my blog fans. I decided to do a remix of my favorite Christmas song and make it all electro-funky. Hope the vibe hits you. Sorry for not posting in a few weeks. Been working on a different and complicated project when I normally do these tracks. I am also gearing up to send some stuff out to some labels. Let me know if you are out there listening to my stuff. I am hugely motivated when somebody drops a line and says they dig it. I am thinking of maybe doing a remix of "We Three Kings" tomorrow. It'll definitely be a bit more experimental in nature. Glitchy, noisy, and PH-unkey.

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A brand new track right off the press. This is quite different than the stuff I've posted up till now. I used write gitchy music more often, but I've been on an ambient kick in the last few months. This track is inspired by the dudes over at ... I like what they got going over there. It still seems to be in the beginning stages, but I like the idea of a group of people/friends with multiple interests putting a community-type site together with different "departments".

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Once again, not a new track. I am going to make some music tonight though, so now worries. Hopefully it will be done for a posting tomorrow. However, this track though is one of my favorites and deserves to be shown to you, my loyal fans. I wrote it over last summer at my dad's house in Malden, MO. He has a cool blog about Malden . There really needs to be more blogs about small towns. I am going to update my site this weekend I hope. It sorely needs a few things: archive, links, and um... can't think of anything else.

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I started this track last night and finished it tonight while watching a television show on alien abductions. The track's a happy little piece that has some interesting textures. I like the sound of the melody instrument and the bass. However, I think I could probably put a lot more time on just getting the structure right. I would say that good structural development is the most difficult thing about composing. This is a blog though, and not an album, so you'll have to live with it. :) Which reminds me, I am thinking about putting an album together of my most popular blog music.

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I don't want to post too much older music, but I came across this track last night in my unfinished music archive. Occasionally, I'll be feeling a lack of creativity and browse through the archive and pick out a few that seem interesting. After a little bit of polishing and tweaking, this post was one of those gems. The date on the score file was at 2:30am on March 15th, 2004. I probably wrote it during a night where I was having trouble sleeping, which is presumably why it's called, "Insomnia".

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I wrote this pieces as a soundtrack to a very provocative flash piece about the future of media made by my good friends at "http://www.snarkmarket.com". I recieved a request to post the track by a fan of the flash movie. At about 3 minutues for part one and 8 minutes for part two, it's far longer than the other posts. Part one is pure ambient, part two develops it further with a hip hop beat and a bass line. The process of making this kind of music is kind of like building a world of music. You have a huge void within which you fill with expansive chords, melodies, and "sound objects" that seem to have their own personalities and motives. It's a kind of parallel universe of sounds and ideas. You really should check out the flash movie this music was written for at: "http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/". It seems to be more popular than we all were expecting.

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This is the second part.

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Over Thanksgiving, I was perusing through some samples I recorded of a kayak trip I took with my students a few months ago and I decided it was time to try and mix in a scary story that one of my fellow teachers told around our glow-stick campfire (real fire was not allowed in the park). It was a not-so-scary ghost story about a ghost girl who relived her prom night from "twenty years ago". The students laughed through the whole thing. Anyways, the track took me longer than it usually does to make because I got into a never-ending tweak cycle. I actually finished it a few days ago but haven't gotten around to posting it yet.

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I was in the mood to write some music with more complicated and intricate melodies and chords tonight so I came up with this. It's not really what I had started out to make, but I think it sounds okay. I would like to take that intro arpeggio thing and do a track with just that kind of stuff someday. The track title is derived from the sample I use about 2/3 of the way in. It's an 1890 recording of Florence Nightingale. There really isn't any meaning behind using the sample there, but it just kind of seemed interesting and fit the mood. Eh, I guess it's not that cool. Going to go do something else now... I've got the rest of the week off, so I'll probably be writing some more music soon!

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I want to apologize for broken links and my messed up xml file! I've been having technical difficulties getting this podcast to work smoothly. I am trying to find a good dynamic source generator and have been hard-coding until I finish the transition. About the song: It was written last night as I watched Fox news. I felt kind of sad after Fox's obsessive replays of the Pistons-Pacers-Fan brawl so I felt like I needed to write some music about love. When I write music while watching TV, I don't really listen to it as I wear monstrous studio headphones while composing music. Therefore, the music sort of becomes the soundtrack to a silent visual montage. It's kind of trippy actually. In fact, I recommend you listen to this track with headphones while watching Fox news on mute. You'll see what I mean. Notes on the track: The words are generated by my computer reading an excerpt from Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet".

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It doesn't really have anything to do with this song, but I was watching Late Night with Conan O'Brien while I was writing this. Not really sure why I wrote something as crazy as this little track, but perhaps it's somehow inspired by William Shatner's "singing" of the Itsy Bitsy Spider. I was thinking about maybe laying into the mix a sample of the show or something but I got bored with the song too quickly. The music by the way, has some interesting phase layering with a pitch-shifted samples of a synth arpeggio figure. The drums are just a sample of two jazz drum solos all spliced up and played off each other as if they were "playing fours".

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My roomate and I were watching The Last Starfighter last Saturday as a kind of retro movie appreciation night. Although the movie's graphics were impressive for 1984, the writing is a bit silly at times (and I believe purposefully so). The scene where the hero realizes he's the last starfighter is particularly silly. After the hero, Alex, expresses concern for the fact that all the other starfighters were killed, his guide and companion lets us know his feelings on the afterlife. The conversation was a perfect thing to sample, so I constructed a classic dj-style track based on it (and also using orchestral samples from the end credits and other notable quotes from the movie) and created an interesting little "Last Starfighter Remix". Enjoy battling evil in another dimension.

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This isn't a brand-new track per se, but it's a good track. My friend encouraged me to post this as it has an audio-blog-esque sound to it. In the track is a sample of the American poet, Charles Wright, reading one of his poems. Because of it's dreamy and zen-like nature, I absolutely fell in love with his poem, "Early Saturday Afternoon, Early Evening". The music is simplistic meditation on the appreciation of a mundane, simple, and ordinary Saturday afternoon. I'll be posting again tonight as I was working a little bit on a song last night while I was grading homework for my class. I just got to do some finishing tweaks before it's postable.

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For this second mblog post, I used again the same harp samples from the first post, (which I am currently obsessed with) but this time I added a dash of sinister funk and a pinch of experimental beat sauce. Being inspired by the dawn of the age of podcasting, I decided to mix in a sample of Ira Flatow talking about the future of the internet from an old Science Friday archive dating way back to Dec 13, 1996. I love the way Ira speaks in the introductions to his shows.

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This is perhaps the world?s first music blog: a web log of music. Using rss and podcast mblog (music blog) listeners will be able to check out my music blog compositions as soon as I upload them. With an average song of about two per week for the last several years, I am essentially a music blogger already, just without the blog. Having heard of podcast just this weekend, I decided it was the perfect medium to express my interests and talents. My first post is a song I made last week sitting in a local coffee shop. I ceremonially dubbed it with the name, "podcaster".

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