All the tracks used to produce a track for a composing competition. I wanted to share all of this to provide insight into the creative process with these artifcats in various states of completion.

Martre (Mixed & Mastered 001 - 2nd Submission)

Video Game Music that scores the countdown while you clamor to milk your cows and churn butter in order to appease the tyranical farmer.

Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/46846094/scores/8228939

YouTube: 
https://youtu.be/934Sk4hD1VQ

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Churning Butter

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Actually, it's not so bad in here. If only I had a sleeping bag.

Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/46846094/scores/8356344

YouTube: https://youtu.be/1EL7NzPIMkQ

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Backrooms Blues

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/AKsORbdQyao

Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/46846094/scores/8198294

I happened upon a scale called Adonai Malakh, used in Jewish religious music. This scale, like many non-western scales, is best understood as having a lower and upper section. For example, Adonai Malakh centered on C would contain a C Mixolydian scale for the first seven tones, but the upper tenth is flatted which would be C Dorian if you ignored the natural E. Therefore, this scale is really a Mixolydian/Dorian hybrid which is not as unusual as that might sound since they are right next to each other on a modal "circle of fifths". From a jazz theory perspective, this piece ismerely in C Minor Bebop.

What came out of the writing process was this sketch (which has more parts that are in development), and it sounded very much like the Lo-Fi Hip-Hop stuff that many of us know and love. Also, as a collector of lullabies, it was nice to make something I would want to have playing to put me to sleep.

I was left with the conceptual part of the artistic process and thought about where the convergence between traditional Jewish religious music and Lo-Fi Hip-Hop might lie, if not in reality then in speculative fictions. I conceived of a piano bar/night club in Israel, mid-1960s, an ensemble of piano, vibraphone, celesta, glockenspiel, and bass marimba entertaining a cosmopolitan clientele. This is the song that closes out the evening in that imaginary (here) but ultimately real (somewhere) world.

Free Palestine.

Adonai Malakh

Algerian Waltz/"Battle for the Women of Algiers"

Dungeon Synth Sketch (D Dorian Aeolian)

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/qNTNAh2v2nA

Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/46846094/scores/8189174

This is a theme song for a podcast that doesn't exist. The podcast was supposed to be called Cereal, a pun on the popular Serial podcast and was going to be about, you guessed it, breakfast cereals. This is what I came up with when it was commissioned and I've thought about making the podcast myself but this is all there is for now.

Raisin Hunt (Podcast Intro)

I was intrigued by a "scale" comprised of only three notes: the Ute Tritonic Scale: https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/1033

As I researched the folklore and musicology of the Ute, I found that they, like many other tribes, have tales and legends of the Thunderbird; even if you don't care for this music, I encourage you to read up on the Thunderbird. I may have seen one during little league practice but it was probably just a turkey vulture. Between the mundane turkey vulture and the fantastical Thunderbird, I could be convinced to take a compromise and say I saw an Andean Condor escaped from a Chicago zoo.

I used WolframTones to generate AI-based birdsong and this is what came out after a bit of orchestrating and editing. Meant to be a loop, probably could be slowed. I'm putting stuff up in various stages of completeness so open to suggestions.

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Thunderbird (Ute Birdsong)

Pigmeat 3

Capitulation To The Clouds

Main musical ideas: F# Major modally interchanged w/ F# Phrygian Aeolian; sudden key change up a M3 or down a m6. I think this is what happened when I deconstructed "Airbag" by Radiohead and got completely carried away.

DJ Hammerspace

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