I challenged myself to improvise with my Right Hand Only (rho). I have lot to work on, but I'm proud of the result.

Rho Alpha

Let It Pass

Kaleidospoke

Language + The Veldt + Now We Are Free. Small sample.

(Preview) Now We Are Free To Speak The Veldt Language

Summer Running (in progress)

Recently recalled some fond memories from childhood. Wrote a song about it.

Musical inspiration from this song came from "In My Last Life" by Andrew Bayer, "Last Kiss" by ARTY, Lane 8, and some good ol' deadmau5.

art from sweetclipart.com

Childhood Will Never Return

I'm on my 36th hour with no sleep, and it's time for the daymare to come to an end.

36 hours

Battle Anthem of the Clown Army

Always A Horizon

Bullet Train

I had a "car" phase recently where I was obsessed with racing games and car races (a love that I've had since childhood), and in that haze I stumbled upon a compilation of the Goodwood Speed Festival on YouTube. The deep sounds of racing cars droning by captured my musical imagination. Wouldn't it be so cool to use those sounds in a song? So I learned how to us use Ableton's Sampler to make a song based mainly on that YouTube video's car vrooms. Hope you like it!

Aerodynamics

In 1995, the year I was born, astronomer Bob Williams ordered the Hubble Space Telescope to point at a seemingly empty patch of the sky for 100 hours. The image that was recorded, known now as the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (it's the photo in the song art!), opened our eyes to the twinkling infinity that is our cosmos. Read this amazing article from Nat Geo to learn more about the backstory to this discovery:  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04/24/when-hubble-stared-at-nothing-for-100-hours/

This song is about humanity's transition from seeing the night sky as a beautiful patchwork of stars to our window into the unknowably vast universe we live in.

This song is also my first attempt with the Novation Launchkey Mini Mk3! It's completely changed the way I approach music making. The random arpeggios were created with the arpeggiator feature; the drums were recorded using the launchpad area; the keys and strings were bonus instruments that came with the purchase. 

This song is also the first one I recorded live within Ableton. While the arpeggios were prerecorded, I controlled the cutoff and volume using knobs on the Novation Launchkey throughout the song. Same with the drums; i triggered them using the launchpad on the Novation Launchkey. I played the strings completely live using my larger digital piano. It was fun to multitask! At times, i felt like the 21st century version of the one man band. I have so much to learn and I am looking forward to learning more!

Aamir Rasheed

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