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So I managed to get something promising together. Maybe I’ll even finish some compositions this summer.

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This one’s pretty noisy and almost sounds like a guitar. The instruments are actually the same ones from my demo of Drifting, but with a few parameters tweaked. I’ve made some other cool sounds with those instruments, but I haven’t been able to compose anything with them that’s worth posting yet…

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Something I hacked together in an afternoon to keep myself sane over winter break.

I found some music I made about four years ago using pens, a broken telephone, and a Game Boy.

This one was the first, using the phone and some pens:

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More phone music:

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And then this one uses a Game Boy, and was probably heavily edited in Audacity or something; this was ages ago:

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It’s been a while since I used anything other than a computer for making music. This stuff is certainly weird, but I wouldn’t exactly call it bad.

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Something I’ve been playing with. The basses and my snare drum need some work, but otherwise this is turning out alright.

I might as well start posting some of my numerous older GarageBand projects sometime, so here’s this. Like Sweden Alone, I borrowed part of it for Didot, namely the bass drum pattern. That’s what those weird BWEW BWEW noises two and a half minutes into Didot are supposed to sound like, although the bass drum in this piece sounds much better!

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The instruments are pretty awful, in part because it’s GarageBand, but also because I never felt like I had gotten far enough with this piece to try making it sound more refined.

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Just something I started working on in my spare time. Getting less experimental here.

Before I started working with SuperCollider for my senior project, I had actually composed some stuff in GarageBand (stop making that face at me!). Probably the best thing I’d composed was this piece called Sweden Alone:

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You can actually hear some of the melodies from here recycled in my piece Didot. Everyone I play it for seems to like it, so I’m pretty happy with it. If you download it, ignore the weird metadata; there was a time when I thought I’d publish my music under the name Quite for whatever reason.

For my senior project I was making music with the SuperCollider audio synthesis language. Quite a few people showed interest in hearing my final piece (which I’ve titled Didot, after the typeface), so here it is:

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The first and last two minutes are this avant-garde type of sound, while the middle is a jumble of stuff that almost sounds like disco at one point. I had a lot of fun making this and was pretty surprised to see how well it turned out, despite only studying SuperCollider for 4 months in my spare time! I’ll post some more stuff I did for my senior project later, although most of it is awful.