jakey

https://youtu.be/3OTfVGVQ7Wk

The musical intent of "Columbia" is to inspire the listener to feel removed from their daily patterns and habits, reuniting them with the surroundings that they would have otherwise forgotten to see and hear.

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Columbia - Jake Chudnow // Video link in description

Prelude To Columbia - Jake Chudnow

The wonderfully warm and punchy analog synth on this track is a Juno 6. I've been sleeping less and making more ever since I set it up next to my bed. As far as things I love go, it's up there with my mom...

Shona

Video: https://youtu.be/PwrUR8LVcb4

Time signature: 7/8

Most synth sounds are a Juno 6.

Introductory bells recorded March 2013 in Venice Italy by Carlin Cwik.

Pressed Pennies // Video in link description

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QQS8fJqXoI

Most synth sounds are the Juno 6, some soft synths used, and the drums are layered but the most present layer is a Roland 707.

Created this one in my bedroom while procrastinating rehearsal for a live set. 

March 2015

Olive // Video link in description

From Hanami EP (2008)

Video:
http://youtu.be/Lt4PSRZfn0w

Hanami (Extended Version)

From Glow in the Dark Treasure Hunt (2011)

Dustin Grieber

Turquoise

Yo - Jake Chudnow [HD]

From Rainstorms and Rainbows (2008)
Full album here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow/sets/rainstorms-and-rainbows-2008/s-LKHNx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rainstorms and Rainbows (2008) by jakechudnow</a>
Most sounds made with Korg's DW8000

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWKlUT1MEXk


Rainstorms and Rainbows (I Am The Hero)

<p>From Rainstorms and Rainbows (2008)
Full album here: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow/sets/rainstorms-and-rainbows-2008/s-LKHNx">Rainstorms and Rainbows (2008) by jakechudnow</a>


Philadelphia

Glow in the Dark Treasure Hunt (2012)

http://youtu.be/6u_EWKVRoxc

Flan // Video Link in the Description

Video: http://youtu.be/OC8a9_U6ym4

Most sounds made with the Korg DW8000
Short Stories (2008)

Banana // Video Link in the Description

From Glow in the Dark Treasure Hunt (2012)

Most sounds made with Korg's DW8000 

There are two images/memories in my head when I listen to and was making this song:

1. A documentary on assisted dying by Terry Pratchett: http://youtu.be/slZnfC-V1SY

2. Driving through the Mojave desert in Joshua Tree

Lions Tigers and Apes

From Glow in the Dark Treasure Hunt (2012)

Part I: http://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow/lions-tigers-and-apes

Most sounds made with Korg's DW8000

Lions Tigers and Apes Part II

Download this song: http://jakechudnow.bandcamp.com/track/carlin-dream
Watch the video: http://youtu.be/HaOzCxSXScU

Context:

Asleep, dreaming, on a wintry night in 2011, bundled up in the bed of my Brooklyn apartment.

That's when and where I made this song. I remembered the soundtrack to my dream so vividly that when I woke up in the middle of the night, I got out of bed to recreate what was to become the beginnings of "Carlin Dream." It makes me wonder what buried corner of consciousness that melody came from, and why these sort of things come to people while they sleep. This isn't the first time I've dreamed of a melody and turned it into a song later.  I guess it's not totally crazy that we can dream music though: where do melodies come from while we're awake anyway? I'd bet it's the same place. 

As for this piece, I recently stumbled across the original music files and decided to build on that 3am stream of consciousness to finish it here, one year later.

jakey

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