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dedicated to Oksana

I listen to my heart and trying to hear your tiny heart beating. I'm trying to feel you as you eager to see the light

Ten minutes to calm yourself. The exploration of the just E7 chord

Mother Is Waiting

This week Jonathon and Chris discuss how data affects education, emojis in politics, time-traveling killer robots, and more!

Episode 10: The One about Sarah Connor

The track was made for the android/iOS game Epidemic.

Running For The Rainbow (OST Epidemic)

An etude for the Jungle style. Dedicated to a happy day when Sam Aaron discovered SuperCollider. To the wonderful music lib Overtone. Though this track is written in Haskell with lib csound-expression.

Jungle Etude 1 (feat Sam Aaron)

This mp3 is a stereo version of an 8-channel piece meant for 3D diffusion. It was composed using Csound. Cmask was used to synthesize the score and final mixing was accomplished using Sonar. 

It is the title cut from a new project. It is the first piece completed in this work in progress... It is in 4 sections titled as below:

1 - Init
2 - Exogen
3 - eMotive
4 - Temporal Inference

Enjoy!!

Formlessly Evolving Ambient Openings

Enchanted Woods

The piece is written with a single audio generator. It's a white noise wave which is filtered in many ways. It is a single note piece where all transitions are made with continuous signals.

It illustrates a moment of Satori or profound realization of the present moment. Our mind keeps us busy all the time. We should get somewhere and we should get there as fast as we could, but there is a present moment and it's always available to us. But with our busy mind it's not so easy to stay just where we are. It takes years of practice and mind training to realize this subtle state.  

The state of satori allows us to be in contact with  reality on much deeper level. With satori we can distinguish subtle patterns in the flow of events that seems to be a total mess. We can find harmony even in the white noise.  

Satori (Etude in White noise)

iPad jam with csGrain using loop from iElectribe.

IElecFoo

Versione di Imaginary Landscape 5 di John Cage realizzata con Csound

Imaginary landscape 5 Aless Merl Csound ST

One of the pieces composed and produced for my 491 course at Berklee, this piece was first played at the EPD Senior Showcase on Dec 9, 2010. With the exception of some minimal vocals, every single sound comes from Csound instruments designed entirely by me. Sound design exclusively in Csound, sequenced in Logic, mixed in Protools.

Evan Allen - Set Me Free (entirely Csound)

This Python Score example uses a custom generator for yielding a bassline, melody, and rhythms.

Code:
https://github.com/jacobjoaquin/csd/blob/master/demo/pysco/rcycle.csd

Csound Python Score - rcycle.csd

Entropy In Reverse. Composed with Csound and Perl in 2001, ported to Csound Python Score in 2013.

Code:
https://github.com/jacobjoaquin/csd/blob/master/demo/pysco/entropy_in_reverse.csd

Entropy in Reverse

The Csound Blog: Modular Instruments II
2007

Code:
https://gist.github.com/jacobjoaquin/5398335

The Csound Blog: Modular Instruments II

Asynchronous single cycle sine wave event generator. Made with Csound PythonScore.

Code for sine_pops.csd:
https://github.com/jacobjoaquin/csd/blob/master/examples/PythonScore/sine_pops.csd

Csound PythonScore - Sine Pops

Jacob Joaquin started tinkering with music on a Commodore 64 while in elementary school. From 1994 – 1996 he ran the Digital Dissonance BBS, an online Fresno community where musicians traded original tracker-based electronic compositions. He received his BA in Music Synthesis from Berklee College of Music in 1999. During his time at Berklee he recieved his first C programming lesson from Max Mathews and was the first recipient of Berklee’s Max Mathews’ award. Jacob completed his Masters Degree in Composition New Media and Integrated Media at California Institute of the Arts in 2002. He has studied composition with Dr. Richard Boulanger, Mark Trayle and Morton Subotnick.
