Motives (Metamorphosis)

Imbued !

Poor Butterfly - Iowa Piano

Duo piece for Piano + Dispositive (eccentric rotating mass vibrating motors - amplitude: from 6G to 13G} & MIDI Keyboard.

Piano & MIDI Keyboard: Henrique Vaz 

"In 1947, the composer Conlon Nancarrow—frustrated with human pianists and their limited ability to play his rhythmically complex music—purchased a device which allowed him to punch holes in player piano rolls. This technology allowed him to create incredibly complex musical compositions, unplayable by human hands, which later came to be widely recognized by electronic musicians as an important precursor to their work.

A similar interest in seemingly impossible music can be found today in a group of musicians who use MIDI files (which store musical notes and timings, not unlike player piano rolls) to create compositions that feature staggering numbers of notes. They're calling this kind of music "black MIDI," which basically means that when you look at the music in the form of standard notation, it looks like almost solid black"

- MICHAEL CONNOR {http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/sep/23/impossible-music-black-midi/}

Score Follower:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxhIoxRU0xk

Samples from the score:
https://www.facebook.com/henrique.vaz/media_set?set=a.10203245645969268.1073741833.1452650501&type=3

░▒▓█ Black MIDI [2013] - for piano & MIDI keyboard {or disklavier}.

Dark Matter

My first full-length MIDI file, with roughly 12 tracks and 10,000 notes. I utilized Arachno Soundfont for the higher-quality MIDI sound, as I currently have no experience with VSTi nor the extra budget.

I had actually started this with no intention to actually get anywhere, as I was tired and just messing around to keep awake - then a few ideas later and it starts actually sounding a little bit good.


There is definitely room for improvement on this song, though, but first I felt as though it needed some kind of feedback.

Praseodymium

Magnetic

This one was inspired by a combination of Hail the Sun's new album, Wake, and Yes' classic album, Fragile.  

Turing's Machines

Cloak Engaged

Just because I don't have a 7 string guitar doesn't mean I can't fake it!  This one was really fun to learn and record.  By the way, programming Matt Halpern's drum parts is like trying to swim through hot tar.  It was well worth it though!

Periphery - Make Total Destroy (Cover)

Reversion

A novice musician with basic understandings of music theory, a year of guitar experience, and 15 months or so of MIDI making.
Currently I do not expect anything I release to be very well received, nor to have a good production value, as I lack a great deal of experience and knowledge when it comes to producing music. It's mostly been a "figure out for myself" sort of thing.

I tend to listen to music for the instrumental performance over lyrical performance. I have a somewhat varied taste, though I mainly tend to stick towards heavier styles of music such as Metal.

Praseodymium

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