Took a class called Computer Music in the fall of 2013. This was the final project track I composed and recorded for the class. The drum track was a sample loop I found in Ableton. Everything else I wrote and recorded using Ableton instruments and my guitar.

Computer Music Final Project

The sixth project I did for a Computer Music course. Used Ableton Live with a push controller to perform and record this. Had to record my own samples. One sample is a recording of my car starting, another of sirens heard outside the building that had the studio and Ableton gear. I think one recording is of a front loaded washing machine in my college apartment. If I remember correctly, the drum track was an existing loop.

Computer Music - Project 6

This is an early recording I made when I bought my microKORG synth. At the time I hadn't really done much with writing/recording electronic music (still don't have that much : P ). I had played with Propellerhead's ReBirth a little before and I got my microKORG and was playing around with it not being too serious, and this is what came from it.

Electronic Experiment

This was a recording assignment for a class I took called Music and Sound. It was the final project, and incredibly open to be just about anything (including sound collages), so I decided to try something a bit ambient and came up with this.

The background track of cars, people, and birds is a recording I made of downtown Troy, NY from the window of the third-story kitchen of my dorm. The drum track and keyboard were made using NI's Maschine, and I played some parts on electric guitar over everything (some with a pick and some using an EBow).

This was an experiment that grew as I went. I didn't put too much effort into it terms of trying to realize a vision, and the timing on the guitar is a bit off, but overall I feel good enough about it to want to post it for fun. : ) I like the way the track of downtown worked with it, and I'd like to do more recordings with similar sounds, like rain or birds outside.

Drifty Day

I recorded this as an attempt to cover A Warm Place by Nine Inch Nails. It didn't follow a direction I was trying for, so I left it as this sort of scratch track. As far as I remember this was played all at the same time on one guitar.

I made this around early August 2011, not too long after a breakup with someone I had dated for about two and a half years. I felt very vulnerable and emotional around that time, and this recording captured my feelings and was an expression of sad beauty and semi-warm yet empty-ish sorrow for me. It was like my guitar was an extension of me, and I could play out subtle details of what I was going through in ways I couldn't express with words. Can't say I can completely remember the feeling now, but I still like the way it sounds, and to date it's still one of the most accurate expressions of what I was feeling in a moment played through an instrument.

Some Place (Almost) Warm

This was recorded either around late 2011 or early 2012.

This was a small experimental piece I made up a few years ago. It wasn't anything too serious. I wanted to break away from the more musical things I usually came up with and try something a bid more odd and ambient. After recording both this and my Stereo Delay track, I decided this could be an intro for it.

Intro (To Stereo Delay)

This was recorded either around late 2011 or early 2012.

I love the sound of guitar parts with delay and reverb. It's one of my favorite sounds, and I like to play drifty ambient music without being too serious about it. This came out of doing volume swells on electric guitar with heavy amounts of delay and layering some lead-like guitar on top. The timing is a bit off, but it was an experiment towards discovering guitar sounds that resonate with 'me', and I felt like even though this wasn't a polished ambient piece, it was getting closer to the kind of music I wanted to write.

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