13/4. two bars of 5/4 (five against four polyrhythm) and one bar 3/4 (6:4 polyrhythm).

Jazz influenced chords. nylon string guitar, ambient sound recording. Loop pedal, all guitar sounds.

raw audio, 13 beat establishment jazz, original take

guitar, bass, horns (midi), drums (midi), violin (midi)
recorded on GarageBand

Mandolin and the Saxaphone

goofing around. recorded this immediately after seeing "shake the baby till the love comes out" live, a duo instrumental math grunge band from NYC

Shake The Baby Till The Love Comes Out (wrote this after their performance in bham)

I beatboxed over a clicktrack for about a minute then did production work to it. Specifically, in Ableton I applied the Audio Effect "Jimi's Amp" to the beatbox, then I boosted the feedback tone so it over-rides the raw audio, then manually wrote in (automation) a melody with the pitch of the feedback. I did this twice, panning each track left and right, two independent melodies.

I matched the beatbox with midi drums by placing kicks, hihats and snares on the transients, by eye (not quantized), plus some ornamentation like snare rolls, etc. 

The bassline is midi. Originally it was 11 evenly spaced notes (because the beatbox phrase is 44 half notes long, I believe...), but that sounded like crap so I moved the ends of each note as little as possible until it fit the musical structure. I added a little flourish here and there, played around with the pitches some, and called it good.

Praise to Hendrix (frequency resonance automation experiment)

Built around the 4:5 polyrhythm. Recorded in 2018
collaboration with Atlas Spoke

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Slow Reveal, guitar duet

Midified a song originally written for guitar.

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sorry about the abrupt ending. This all I've done with this track so far. Would like to return to it soon. 

Inspired by song Cantorum by Penguin Cafe.

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The bass line is inspired by incorrectly sight reading "So What" from the Real Book.

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