Mulholland Drive

Quartertone Etude n°1

Kamran Adib | Quartertone Etude n°1

In the Fall of 2022, students in the Technology and Applied Composition program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music were given the assignment to create a professional demo for a fictitious video game entitled Polarity. Composers were instructed to write a theme based on five emotional pillars in the game's story, in which the main character, Aria, survives and explores the frigid and perilous surface of Mars.

The album was recorded live in Studio G of the Bowes Center at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Composers were present at the session, working with producers and engineers from Sony Interactive Entertainment of America.

This project was made possible thanks to generous support from Sam Marshall, Matt Levine, Daria Novoliantceva, Marco D'Ambrosio, Chuck Doud, Scott Hanau, Marc Senasac, Scott Bergstrom, Anthony Caruso, Taurin Barrera, and Molly Monahan.

Special thanks to student producers 009 Night '23, Udit Srivathsan '25, Jiahui Li '23, Sam Nedel '23, Ian Rictor '24, Chanho Han '24, Declan McLeish '23, and Cullen Luper '25, as well as student conductors Natasha Frank '23 and Declan McLeish '23. Mixed by Udit Srivathsan '25 and Cullen Luper '25 in the TAC Studios at SFCM.

A tremendous thanks to all of the outstanding musicians who contributed to this project: Nicollie Souza, Taylor Barlow, Alexei Wade, Michelle Sung, Seth Shumate, Sophia Chen, Wentao Jiang, Kody Dunford, Aleksi Zaretsky, Clara Schubilske, Paisley Kim, and Daniela Gonzales-Siu

Closer - Shinae Lee

Westsidechainside

"Genocide
Water is Life
Your blood is flowing in me
Love will have us be one."

This is a dedication to the protectors of Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota. Thank you for your struggles, to preserve the sacred land and water. Blessings to the Sioux tribe. <3

Produced by EM3

Standing Rock

This month G.A.N.G. Vice President Alex Brandon spoke with MaryClare Brzytwa, Dren McDonald and Matt Levine from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. They discussed the recently created Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) program, which offers a world-class foundation for a successful career in the diverse and evolving music industry.

SFCM Interview with MaryClare Brzytwa, Dren McDonald and Matt Levine

A taste of the more experimental stuff

tracklist

Wize - Pokemon gold (dark ho-oh)
Droptail x Tiber - Haiburi
Cozway - windbreaker
vera - trommer 2 (A-A-A sketch 1180 remix)
Mister tweeks - roll up ft. Nina Blanka (rochelle remix)
plastician - lightning bolt
Tsuruda - TFW u stand on the DJ table
munguugnum - 4 my soul
color plus & kanyon - whip N flip
masayoshi limori - Hello
Idea Unsound - Let go (unreleased)
SIDECHAINS - When I get to the club
Mr. Carmack - Justicia ahora ft. Gladiator
Gangsigns - Werk dat ft. Fl!pps
O.T Genesis - Coco (onderkoffer cocaine remix)
party thieves & dream - W.T.F
Napolele - Cannibalism
Biggs & first gift - kikido
Migos & lil uzi vert - bad and boujee (wreckvge remix)
tr3nd - fkn drums
partycat9000 x smiley phace - escape velocity

Jus Dirt. Mix

I made a remix of the login theme music of Maplestory! Bringing back the nostalgia <3 comment below on the next remix I should make!

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Free Download

MapleStory - Login Theme (JVNA Remix)

Electro-Pop NONSTOP! Thank you so much, Helen! https://soundcloud.com/helenoftroy

Blind (feat. helenoftroy)

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KXMRXN | Blind (feat. helenoftroy)

"Quarantine Supercut" 

Assembled and produced by Drew Daniel  
Mastered by Jeff Carey

Created in conjunction with The Creative Independent and Kickstarter

“Quarantine Supercut” was built from the submissions of many people who responded to a public call for field recordings of the sounds of life under quarantine. The first week there were forty sounds sent to the Creative Independent, the second week sixty more, the third week another eighty more. On top of that, as word spread about the project even more people began to email me directly with their sounds, and many people sent multiple files; by the deadline, roughly two hundred participants had sent me about three hundred sounds total. There are submissions from across the United States (New York to Kentucky, California to the Carolinas), and from across the planet: there were submissions from Italy, Germany, Mexico, Czech Republic, India, Kenya and many anonymous and untitled submissions of unknown origin.
 
Though I eliminated submissions that were recordings of music, I tried to use as many submissions as I could. I used EQ to try to clean up and focus each sound, but I did not otherwise process or manipulate these sounds. Sometimes, a single sound is heard in isolation. At other times, I decided to cluster and overlay the sounds into distinct areas (at its densest there are twelve separate layers playing simultaneously). The piece is divided into an indoor section and an outdoor section, with subthemes (cooking, pets, childcare, working from home, online learning, wildlife/birds, coughs, public announcements). Sometimes the threat of the coronavirus is front and center; sometimes it’s far in the background. The emotional response to sound is subjective and varies from listener to listener, but I hear many different attitudes towards quarantine within these recordings; domestic calm, annoyance, dread, humor, and the sound of making do.
 
I’m grateful to The Creative Independent for asking me to do this, and to everyone who took part in the project and trusted me with their sounds. While creating the piece, I struggled with the conclusion: how long will this go on? How will it end?  Ultimately, I chose recordings of a passing train, and of neighbors talking to each other across the distance of a balcony. I wanted to remind us of the fragile social links that persist even in the midst of isolation.
 
Assembled at home in Baltimore under quarantine, 2020; mastering by Jeff Carey

TCI IRL: Quarantine Supercut

tonight i'm someone else

An undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate degree program offering an unparalleled foundation for success in the diverse and evolving music industry. "Forging a new identity for the 21st-century composer" — New York Times www.sfcm.edu/tac

Closer - Shinae Lee

SFCM Technology and Applied Composition Program