work in progress

A collection of recordings from November 07 to late January 08

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:14:07 -0800

So I am going to work my way backwards with newest first. The newest one is a piano track. Jeff dropped by with his piano and left it at my house so I have been playing with it since it is much more powerful than my old one it has been very entertaining. I will probably be playing with that more than my guitar till it goes away.

The second track is from a Jam session before Robbie went up to Chico and Ricky who is extremely talented. This is probably my favorite song I have ever contributed too. I really enjoyed the whole session but this one for me really stuck out. Hope you enjoy it.

Jam Session No 3

Ricky, Robbie, Christian

There have been a few other tracks that I have put together and felt were decent enough to upload as well which first is an experiment with alternate tuning which has become a hobby. I find just switching up the tuning and playing until something coherent comes out is an incredible amount of fun. So here is my experiment with that.

Altrun2

I did a few others but this one was particularly interesting to me.

What I have noticed about my work is that I tend to crowd everything together and the sound either gets overwhelming or muddy. There are definitely times where it works out but I think I should practice the other end of spectrum and attempt a minimalist style. That way I know I can do both and not limit myself to continue playing one style. In other words its time to break the cycle.

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little about me.

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:11:28 -0800

When I'm bored I try to quickly remedy it - one of the things I have been doing lately is putting on a suit and interviewing my friends over ichat video conference. I wrote a theme song and got a few laughs. Figure I would upload the theme song provide some pictures to share a little more of my life here. Hope you enjoy it.

meteocarcy

This is the first song I uploaded where I sing, I have written a few songs and tried to improve my voice but I figure at some point I need a starting place where I can gauge my progress so this might as well be it. I hope it is enjoyable at least. Thank you for listening.

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Recording: Guitar Song

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:13:33 -0700

guitar song

Since I had been doing a lot of weak piano stuff lately I figured I would try to record some ideas with my guitar in an attempt to try to move on to the next ones. I figured out how to include a picture so I picked one I thought would be nice to look at while listening.

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QotD: The Real Deal

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:19:08 -0700

What fictional creature do you wish were real?

The hero.

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recording: simple

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:41:05 -0700

dominant&subdominant

This is another one recorded recently around the same time as the last one, so more fun with tonic dominant sub-dominant relationships.

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recording: piano song

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:25:56 -0700

piano song

I have been playing a lot of piano lately, I have always wanted to learn the song Arabesque no. 1 by Debussy so it is all I am thinking about. I am at measure four and while it may seem impossible now it is weird how what seemed impossible becomes second nature. I have been recording in between trying to learn the song/practice and came up with this.

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Recording

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:31:59 -0700

I was able to collaborate with Robbie and we recorded drums and after my finger healed I finished it up the best I could (April). I also included another track I had worked on recently, which is minimal.

Thanks for listening.

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New Recordings: Collaboration

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:26:31 -0700

Where we live

I wanted to share another collaboration with my friend Harper - he posted a version earlier but figured Id post a later version - he did a great job on the lead guitar.

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QotD: Extraterrestrial

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:10:27 -0700

Do you believe there is intelligent life on other planets?

Yes, but they are so unfathomably far away that we couldn't ever communicate with them. We are sending messages now which will reach dead planets and ghost long after we are gone. If they do end up at a star which looks young to us now they would have to develop the technology to interpret it at just the right time, and if they wished to talk back they would find a dead planet and ghost.

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New Recordings

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:34:09 -0800

CheerCheerCheer

I have been feeling awful lately and the only thing that makes me happy is playing music. Its all I have been doing lately, however I have been hesitant to post anything. Then I realized it doesn't matter if its awful its about posting it and chronically my progress as I get better and I shouldn't expect myself to sound amazing when I've only just begun my journey. So I sucked it up and got some courage and decided to post some of my recent recordings.

Glitchrock

Improvisation, one track of guitar

Wip1

Working on some collaborations with my friends Harper and Jacob at the moment, "Where we Live" with Harper is in progress - been recording with Jacob so once its closer to being finished Ill upload those since they sound more complete whereas my work usually sounds half done since it lacks drums and bass.

Here is my current work in progress -

Hope my work while still in its early stages is still enjoyable - thank you for listening.

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