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Lorem Ipsum

virt — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:53:05 +0000

I wrote this as my entry for Blockparty 2009′s Music competition, in which it won first place. It’s supposed to be a “placeholder” theme song for a futuristic anime series with a sort of apocalyptic vibe. This is my first released song using Yamaha’s VOCALOID2 software, and also my first “singing choir” using Quantum Leap Symphonic Choirs, which I bought in 2006 but still hadn’t really explored. It’s incredible, as you can hear. The lyrics are also available. For anyone who doesn’t know what “Lorem Ipsum” means, read this for an explanation!

Micro Media Broth

virt — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:45:30 +0000

This is the first new NES chiptune from me in quite a while — this won first place in the Oldschool Music competition at Blockparty 2009. If you’re a fan of my chiptunes, you probably want to hear this. Additionally, and this is kind of a big deal, the IT version contains… all of my FX3 samples. I’m giving them away to the community. You’re free to use them in anything. Enjoy!

Sans Titre (Northern Dragons + Brainstorm)

virt — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:39:23 +0000

My soundtrack for the conceptual demo, Sans Titre. I wrote this on site at Blockparty (using Ableton and Reason) after my friends, the Northern Dragons, asked me to help bail them out since their usual musician didn’t have a track ready. I had to write this while techno music blared in the background (it was a ..very noisy event). The demo itself can be found on Pouet here.

Nuts On the Go

Jake — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:26:15 +0000

Nugget was being clingy and annoying while I tried to calibrate my condensor mic setup in my closet. So, I brought him in there with me, exasperated, and started singing to him in my famous “operatic” “tenor”. He sat there still as a rock, either fascinated or terrified, as I proceeded to record the song and set it to music.

Gym Training Montage

virt — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:55:07 +0000

Recently I started working out, in a futile attempt to avoid diabetes, so I did what any sane person would do: Wrote my own training montage music to play every time I go to the gym, to get me pumped up and ready to rock. It is strongly influenced by (and dedicated to) Vince DiCola, who is my greatest musical hero and a daily inspiration.

The Machine Planet

virt — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:30:30 +0000

My last contribution to Hellven, my beloved music group. This was actually inspired by a Terminator fan site I found which had all kinds of cool speculative technology and interesting / horrifying machine designs (we’re talking serious nightmare fuel), but the question was posed — after the singularity and whatever robot war wipes us all out, what would the final, pristine techno-earth be like?

Sock Patterns

virt — Fri, 04 May 2007 00:02:00 +0000

An unapologetically cheesy early-90s pop song in the style of Janet/Michael Jackson, and other Teddy Riley new jack swing-style stuff. Done as my first “demo song” on my new Yamaha Motif XS6.

Heaven is in Europe

virt — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 03:59:00 +0000

For my friend, Ben “Diablo” Shelton (1974-2005), #trax regular, sysadmin guru, beer connoisseur, rally racing fan, telecom geek. Ben once told me that he liked my fake guitar, so in shock after his passing, I wrote this for him. I still tear up a little typing this summary in Q4 2008 — He is deeply missed by all of us.

Sexperation

virt — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:41:12 +0000

A one-hour kwakfest tune becomes a full-fledged vocal song! Apologies if you didn’t like the 80s (in which case you should probably get off of my site!) This will serve as my “before” snapshot in my vocal training, like how they have before and after shots of fat people in dieting infomercials.

Crispix

virt — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:43:20 +0000

I love to make demo tunes whenever I get a new piece of gear, and this is a super-cheesy latin jazz fusion synthesizer demo that I made using only my yamaha mu100r days after getting it.