Today I figured out how to easily turn the rock band drum set for Wii into a MIDI drum controller:
I did this with Junxion, a program that allows you to transform USB and wireless game controller input into MIDI data. I’ve seen demos of other MIDI rock band instruments online, but with the Wii instruments [...]
I’ve been using this site I found about about, GCM Travel Stats, for predicting and analyzing Chicago traffic a lot lately. It works pretty well unless you get an unprecedented freak traffic spike like I did today:
It took me almost two hours to get from Midway to Uptown. I think it was the cubs game [...]
I started admiring this tree off of I-55 about a year and a half ago on my many trips to and from St. Louis from Chicago. I noticed it for its odd asymmetry and for its placement (all alone in a beautiful field on a farm).
It reminded me of that Shawshank Redemption quote–
There’s [...]
I’m redesigning my front page but meanwhile here are some more videos from the past couple months. These are more orchestrations of Persichetti, Bartók and Faith rescored to a popular film:
Rural Games
Night Discovery
Both pieces were performed by members of the Chicago Civic Orchestra and conducted by Cliff Colnot.
Here are some new videos of work I’ve done.
I’m trying to think of ways of altering the original videos that I’m rescoring so that they seem fresh again. Here is another original video:
One idea I had was to overlay the video with an inset of the recording session and a scrolling score:
I am interested in [...]
In the orchestration class I’m taking we have some very strict guidelines on how our sheet music should be formatted. I’m writing some scripts to detect notational errors in my scores based on these guidelines.
The first one I wrote detects if tuplets are marked below the staff. Our conductor requires us to have all tuplets [...]
Here are instructions on how to make a Music Staff Roller Stamp, a rolling ink stamp you can use to quickly draw a staff onto paper for jotting down musical ideas.
You can get all the hardware for less than $10 and it only takes about 2 minutes to make.
Materials:
1 brass door hinge post (~3 inches [...]
I thought I would also post my newest video here so it would get picked up by my blog feed.
I’m now attending Columbia Chicago’s Music for the Screen graduate program, and am loving it. For our music and drama final project, we were asked to score music that would be performed live along with live [...]