I need to write Britney Spears-type lyrics for a pop song, so I created a Wordle of all of her lyrics from 1999-2010:
The results were not that surprising, but it’s still helpful.
Wordle link:
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1920760/Britney_Spears_Complete_Lyrics
Vector PDF download
Another version with over 1000 words:
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1920824/Britney_Spears_Complete_Lyrics_2
Vector PDF download
I know I’m not the only one with this problem: You have this giant MIDI keyboard that doesn’t produce sound on its own, and most of the time, playing it doesn’t do anything. You have to launch logic, or mainstage, or ableton, or digital performer, open a new project, setup a new patch, and then [...]
The first fruit of my labor at my new job–arranging, music programming and orchestrating for Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil–has been released. “Teufelskicker” (Devil’s Kicker) opened #4 in Germany last weekend, and the soundtrack CD is for sale. I am proud to share one writing credit with Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil, for track 15, [...]
Below is a time-lapse nature music video highlighting the MP3 “Age of Innocence” using my amateur photography of Los Angeles:
The extremely talented Ian Maksin is featured on this track, which is available for download here.
I did the music for Andrew Lehman’s “Neoteny and Human Evolution” video, RT ~10 mins:
Andrew reaches a very interesting theory towards the end of the video. Check out his work on evolutionary theory at Neoteny.org.
I will be uploading an edited version of the music in mp3 format soon.
I recently completed the score for the trailer to Yi Soon Shin, a comic by Onrie Kompan:
The mp3 is available here.
Please visit the Yi Soon Shin Website for more information about the comic, it’s very good!
Here is a demonstration of using both the Guitar Hero World Tour Drums for Wii and the Rock Band Drums for Wii to create a full MIDI Drumset:
Camille, the programmer of OSCulator, got his program working with the Velocity-sensitive Guitar Hero drums. Download OSCulator here:
http://www.osculator.net/wp/
I’m still using JunXion to receive MIDI from the Rock Band [...]
My MFA orchestral thesis score for the short film Head Case is available online. Download the tracks here: Vine and Ring Themes, HC Opening, Harold Emerges, Garden Alarm, and Tools Theme.
The session was an amazing experience, recorded by LA’s top musicians on the same scoring stage that they record Lost and Fringe, at L.A. Sound [...]
I’ve finished the score for Carolyn Okafor’s independent feature, A Man’s Image.
One track is available for download, A Man’s Image Opening.
The movie will be screened at the DuSable Museum of African American History on October 23, 2009 at 7:30 PM.
Ever since I heard that Guitar Hero World Tour’s drums were velocity sensitive, I wanted to try using them as MIDI controllers.
Thanks to this post by Camille, developer of OSCulator, I finally got the Wii World Tour drums to work with velocity sensitivity. Unfortunately, as the video demonstrates, they don’t work too well. Either they’re [...]