work in progress

paradox collage finally finished

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:53:04 -0700

I posted some progress on this blog before so I figured I would share the finished product. It took 3 years and is extremely large. So I recommend using the flash viewer.

My friend Alex built a flash applet so you can zoom by click the image and the pan around to see everything.

Here: http://paradox.rambisyouth.com (Click to Zoom then you can Pan around)

I hit the front page of digg and been getting a lot of positive feedback. Please share it with everyone who might enjoy it. There is a free lossless version available on the website if you want a copy and cant afford a print.

Paradox

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I feel completely comfortable being in the same room as you.

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:01:22 -0800

Document 11

I got a midi controller recently and installed reason. This is my first attempt at making a song with reason and my midi controller. I also just finished my first music theory class.

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Recording: Slow Motion Wave

nobody@vox.com(christian) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:38:48 -0700

Slowmotionwave

now is your chance to be a hero

I haven't uploaded in a while because I have been homeless. However now I have a place again and a steady job working for the state so back to recording. Hopefully Ill have more and more material to put here. For now some slow surf rock. Hopefully I can get someone to work on it with me so I can finish it and get some new ideas in it.

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A collection of recordings from November 07 to late January 08

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

Piano track

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.

meteocracy

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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