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:
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:
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.