Old Music

Songs

These are old songs written and recorded in the second half of the 2000's while in high school or college, accompanied by lo-fi .txt files describing the idea at the time.

No Name Girl listen about lyrics Talk to Me listen about lyrics Escalate This listen about lyrics Race Ya listen about lyrics Plastic Passion listen about lyrics Grab Your Axe listen about lyrics Bones listen about lyrics You Can't Plan It listen about lyrics Painting the Country Wild listen about lyrics It's the Same Old Thing listen about lyrics Under the Pine Tree listen about lyrics Talk in Code listen about lyrics Do You See listen about lyrics That's Greed listen about lyrics Comedy listen about lyrics Works This is a handful of instrumental pieces, with more .txt file descriptions. Steel Fiddlin' - Steelpan listen about Slightly Serious - Orchestra listen about Hope - Pipe Organ listen about Opus no. 1 - Piano listen about Dishtowel - Piano listen about

Old Videos

Steel Fiddlin' - a "structured improvisation" piece for steelpan, performed by members of Cardinal Calypso in 2011, LWJ on drums.	"Funk Juice" performed by The People in 2007, LWJ on drums.
"Out of the Basement" music video by chump, filmed and edited by Nick Bodkin in ~2005, LWJ on vox/drums.	"Hope" - a piece for organ composed and performed by LWJ in 2007.

Sound Experiments

Jams

Texture 1 listen about Elephants and Birds listen about Messy Upgrade listen about Romp listen about Rhodes Jam listen about Marimba Feature listen about Ahck a Diga Bok a Diga listen about Whoo Dusty listen about Julia Jam listen about Unfinished Songs Escape listen about Something Unnamed listen about Timing listen about

Computer Music

These are all projects for classes taken at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) using ChucK.

Random Harmony Generator allows you to find very alternative ways of creating a 1-4-5 chord progression of triads. Description.

Sultan of Sin - a brief piece using only FM synthesis. Listen or read about the assignment.

Noisy Musical Noise takes samples of four musical instruments played noisily and makes an obnoxious orchestration with them. Listen or read.

Handy Synthy is a program that includes both a drum machine (which uses samples of hands making sounds) and FM synths. Listen or read.

Polyrhythm Machine is a program that creates polyrhythms out of five samples. Listen to a performance using the sounds of an audience of about thirty people all at the same time: stomping, clapping, eating potato chips, ripping paper, and saying "count." Description.