music composed by Carlos Caccaviello played on a bandonion and various software synths in TRACKTION 4.
This recording is essentially an exercise within the COURSERA/BERKLEE course "introduction to music production"
my aim was to try and improve the recorded sound of the bandonion and to blend it with electronic sounds.

LA ORUGA SONORA

contribution to COURSERA/BERKLEE songwriting course
fragments of "Glückauf der Steiger kommt" played on Bandonion, accompanyment with PGmusic band in the box, mixed and mastered with tracktion4

Some Humans Are Nomads

contribution to COURSERA/BERKLEE songwriting course
own composition created with PGmusic Band in the Box, Yamaha Tyros4, bandonion playing a fragment from "Glückauf der Steiger kommt", mixed and mastered with TRACKTION4

Some Humans Are Nomads (version2)

assignment 5 for COURSERA/BERKLEE songwriting course created with Yamaha TYROS4, Band in a box and TRACKTION4

URUBU DELIGHT

version 8
COURSERA/BERKLEE Songwriting course assignment6
song inspired by Urubus (black vultures) gliding in the Sky of Belem (PA) Brasil
created with TRACKTION4, band in a box, Yamaha Tyros4
VERSE 1
in the South Relaxing at the pool side
Feeling joy watching high in the sky 
effortlessly glide black vultures 
Urubus as epicures
If only I could fly, for sure

VERSE 2
In the street not really very pretty
Bald faced birds eating waste of the city
Carrion they feast, black vultures
Urubus as epicures
disgusting opportunists,  sure?

BRIDGE
Fly and feast like Urubus
Fly and feast like Urubus

VERSE 3
The sublime and ugly, two perspectives
Taste and garbage, joy of life so adaptive
Savage with appetite Black vultures
Urubus as epicures
Resilient Urubus procure… delight


Magic lights in the dark, Stars till the horizon, 
White noise of foamy water disappearing in the night
Vibrations of diesel engines
Moist breeze caressing my skin
Smell of sea water, oil, grease and fresh paint
Eating olives, drinking duty free, 
Getting philosophical with the crew
Far away from home what meant to me teenage boy
A tropical night on a cargo
A tropical night on a cargo
Back to school I realized I could not stay where I grew up
No stars, no tropical nights, in the cold no magic 
To many countries I went 
To find the magic again
Stars, songs of frogs, owls, cicadas,
Smell of hay, maybe of harvest
During some nights, feeling mild wind,
Somehow I felt it had something to do with:
A tropical night on a cargo
A tropical night on a cargo
After all those years at all those places
The magic, everywhere, watching for the senses
the summer wind you feel
there the stars have always been
I am hearing the little noises of the night
Having drinks and olives
Getting philosophical I think
Funny where has taken me

A tropical night on a cargo
A tropical night on a cargo


A TROPICAL NIGHT ON A CARGO

SOME BROKEN PIECES OF MINE
Digging to plant a tree
He got from a local nursery,
the man discovers a broken piece of pottery.
He picks it up from the earth
wondering what it might be worth,
asking himself what might have caused it to burst.
The piece shows still some ornament.
Is it from orient or occident,
was it lost by negligence or at a manhunt,
what histories’ caprice left this piece
maybe stolen by a thieve,
what 1001 nights story should he believe?

He wonders:
I imagine, but how could I ever know?

In many hundreds or thousands years of time
Planting a tree what might one find?
Should I leave some broken pieces,
Some broken pieces of mine?

I imagine, but how could I ever know?
I imagine, but how could I ever know?

Some Broken Pieces Of Mine

Assignment 5 Clarinet Bazaar

experimental tune entirely built with ChucK making broad use of random features. Remote resemblence with a famous tango tune is not accidental.

Strange Tango

machines cannot improvise, can't they. But apparently with ChucK computers can. All instruments (organ, keyboard, bass, guitar, flute and drums) enjoy large freedom due to the powerful random features. Of course, it's still kind of a prototype and things have to get more musical, but I trust there are ways.

Guiducausse