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 [...]
I upgraded the XSPF player to a hugely improved version I found here:
http://www.boutell.com/xspf/
Now, as you surf the site, the music will auto-resume to where you left off. Also, if you stop the music, it remains stopped as you surf other pages or come back to my site later.
The enhanced XSPF player also allowed me to [...]
I wrote a new facebook app, Group Friends By Location.
If you install it, it shows your friends grouped by city, state, or country. This can be used as a reference to create events and easily invite friends in your location. Please try it out and let me know what you think. Note: the app cannot [...]
I’m going to be including the floating flash player with my music on some other sites I’ve made. If you’re interested, here is code that you can paste in that will display the floating flash player on your site and remotely fetch the most recent music from my site:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://jordanbalagot.com/float.js”></script>
<script>
if (NS4) {document.write(‘<LAYER NAME=”floatlayer” LEFT=”‘+floatX+’” [...]