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.

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.