Sound Collages
Vince
- This track is made up of a few rap songs chopped into little
pieces, with live piano, bells, and organ overlayed. It reminds
me of the way some people play drum solos that have no
"rhythms", only hits and textures. It's a certain type
of music that really appeals to me and this is one of the best
examples of it I've ever made.
RPI
Public Choice January 2003 - The point of these
Public Choice Projects is that I ask a certain number of people
to submit audio, from wherever they want, and I reassemble bits
of all the requests into a single piece. In this case, I asked
eight RPI freshmen to submit the audio.
Public
Choice March 2002 - my mix - This rules of this
round of the project involved two different sound collage artists
mixing from 16 requests, without discussing the progress until
both mixes were done. The only difference between the submissions
for Marris's mix and those for mine is that Marris samples my
request (as one of the 16) (a lo-fi recording of my bus ride home
from high school) and I sample his pop-rap request. This sound
collage is by far the longest on the page -- I managed to fill
nine minutes without a dull or redundant moment.
Public
Choice March 2002 - Marris's mix - You'll notice
Marris and I both took the one 3/4 time signature song submited
and made it 4/4, but in different ways. In my mix (at 4:27), the
melody first appears with a rest added to fill the fourth beat,
then (4:43) with the third beat stretched to take up two beats,
and last (4:59) with the first beat stretched to take up two
beats. In Marris's mix, the same exact section of the 3/4 song
appears (during the end fade), but with the third beat played
twice each time. When I first received Marris's mix, I thought
maybe he had used some stuff that wasn't really submitted, but he
explained to me that he had taken the raw-sounding guitar of the
submitted punk rock song and slowed it down and reversed it,
making it sound somewhat like a cello. Awesome.
Public
Choice June 2001 - For this mix, I made the mistake
of asking eight people for songs to sample and another four
people for RAP TOPICS! When the rapper that said she'd do the
project with me backed out, I decided to write and perform the
raps myself. I'm actually not half bad at doing corny raps, but
it's just not what I should be doing with my life. The topics
submitted were: "pestalence [sic] and/or artificial
cheese", "against chastity", "kitties",
and "the adventurous life of a sea sponge". If you
can't be bothered with embarassing rapping, please move on.
Public
Choice 10.29.01 - My first Public Choice project and
maybe my favorite. This mix, assembled from 7 submissions,
doesn't use as many complicated techniques or clean cuts as the
others, but it does have country, goth, pop folk, Broadway, psych
drumming, and more all in under two minutes.
Scratchy
- Harp, funky bass, funky drums, horn blasts, a goofy monologue,
and scratching in under a minute. One of my earliest mixes,
accessible for the whole family.
Sound
Collage 6.9.00 - Where were you on
the night of June 9, 2000?
Misc Audio
Milkshake
- My instrumental cover of the Kelis song (originally produced by
the Neptunes). When I made this, I had gotten really good at
arranging, but I wasn't so hot at mixing and producing. Someday
I'll re-recording this arrangement. The musicians on this track
are Dave Cheung (clarinet), Andrew Eckel (bass drum, bongos,
acoustic piano, marimba, rainstick, snare drums, triangle,
xylophone), Jonah Sacks (cello, electric bass), Peter Tu (viola),
and Zane VanDusen (electric guitar).
Introduction
to Communication Theory - Sessions - This is by a
band I put together to be in the RPI Battle of the Bands. Our
actual performance was more "accessible" than these
three segments of our practices, not that that got us any votes.
Musicians: Andrew Eckel (drumset), "Texas" Chris
Mulvaugh (MORE drumset), Brian Reece (electric bass), Jonah Sacks
(electric cello), Tom Aldridge (keyboard). Click for photos.
Capitaland
Quarterley demos - I wrote a theme that was used for
an TV show about business news on the Albany area NBC and PBS
affiliates. These are the demos I initially submitted....
Capitaland
Quarterley Theme - ...and this is the completed
theme I gave them.