Writing Letters, Waiting, and Praying is a melody I was brainstorming with upon which I later decided to expand and add other complementing melodies and textures and live guitar. 

Writing Letters [WIP/Snippet]

I took the sound file from my first experiment and tried time-variable timestretching using a tab-deliniated breakpoint file. Stretch rates ranged from 0.003x to 12x. I'm going to fine-tune the timing so the stretching happens at more interesting points in the waveform, but I think it's a decent first attempt.
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My first experiment with command-line sound design with Composers Desktop Project. Started with two mono voiceover recordings from my podcast saying, "My name is Michael Murphy. This is MJM Sessions." I didn't write down the order of each process, but each file ran through "distort interpolate", "modify brassage  brassage", "modify brassage timestretch", "modify revecho delay", "modify reverb", "modify brassage pitchshift" (+12, -12), some others, and then combined both through convolution "convolve" (which took FOREVER). Lastly mixed the resulting convolved sound back in with the unconvolved sounds, added slight panning.

CDP Experiment 1 - Time-Variable Timestretch

Busta Kazooie

Here's what I'm starting with on the new track. Wasn't intending on using the Fatboy Slim vocal so we'll see what people think! No automation or breakdowns have been done yet. Just made the tracks and arranged them together.

Command-S (with Fatboy Slim vocal) [Rough Draft]

Run Benny Run

First few bars of a song I'm working on today.

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