Name: Classical, As Digested and Composed by A Substandard Musician by DoctorBrocktopus
Duration: 1 min
Description: “For this experiment, we had a human listen to 10,000 of AI music and this is what he wrote”

I've been sitting on this riff for a while. I even had it sounding really good in this mix. But I haven't really figured out where to take it yet. So here's my sketch of it. This will probably grow later on and be deleted in favor of a more finished track.

"Better" Original Idea

This work is currently in progress!

A song yet to be laden with lyrics, and borne out of improvisation. The first time I let my playing dictate the time signatures.

FALSEHOODS (Instrumental)

Okayfine: "I Look Like a Coward" Scratch Track

Okayfine: "A Year" Scratch Track

Okayfine: "Rue" Scratch Track

Welp. This is happening I guess. Wrote a song that's harder to play than I thought I was capable of. Now to convince Jon that he's capable of the drum parts.

Ben & Jon: What Meter? (Incomplete Scratch)

Wrote these lyrics in very short bursts for me.

Take your pen
Throw it on a page
Relapse, tenfold
Still no ink on the paper
Back and forth
Changes in the dirt
Unknown, with friends
The notebook of a stranger

The words the same
just rearranged
A shift from we
to me, then
Back and forth
always coming back
To rest the pen
and question going forward

It's all the same

to me

The quiet betrayed by the buzz
of cell phones on my behalf
given their messages aren't
a waste of breath, nothing new
Back and forth swinging, I am
a pendulum keeping time
before momentum runs out
and no one knows to go and wind it back

Don't
slow down
don't slow down, don't slow down
Don't
slow down
you can't slow down, please don't slow down

Okayfine "Slow Down" Sketch

“For this experiment, we had a human listen to 10,000 of AI music and this is what he wrote”

Classical, As Digested and Composed by A Substandard Musician

Uploading this because I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet. Jon and I recorded parts together and eventually decided he should do drums for it, for which he practiced on a Roland e-kit for like two months straight. Then I took his recording and we transcribed the drums into programming for Superior Drummer. This is the existing parts and mix, devoid of whatever thoughts of vocals we might have had for it. I'm keeping it in mind.

Jon Heim & Kelly Reaves - what meter?

Not finished, looking for words, melodies are placeholders, etc.

Eternity (Unfinished)

Made this intending to record a joke song, and ended up with no joke. I've never made music like this before, ever.
Some of the lyrics are a little hokey, but I actually kinda feel this.
Made in 4 hours in the middle of the night because of course it was.

Trying

Aspiring film/game score composer, sometimes serviceable prog rock/metal keyboardist. 

This is a space for posting whatever prog or orchestral proof-of-concepts I’ve deluded myself into thinking are good

Classical, As Digested and Composed by A Substandard Musician

DoctorBrocktopus

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