I made a site to help search music services at the same time. Right now the songs link to their respective websites for playback. In the future I’d like to do the playback on the site itself. I’m using php, jQuery, and Twitter Bootstrap along with Spotify’s metadata API, Grooveshark’s Tinysong API and Rdio’s Web Service API.

Try it.

Code is hosted here.

Check out my summer music project I did with my friends – poOls are nice.

A year ago, I wrote an album on piano. My idea was to do a stream-of-consciousness inspired recording and just hit the red button and see what mystical places it took me. I wrote everything while I recorded it. I probably made a song or two a night. I even recorded a few tracks in one take (so it gets a bit sloppy…). I didn’t clean up the sound or do any editing. All of the tracks are piano except for the last. I wanted to practice my writing instead of instrumentation and sound production.

Well, there the songs sat lonely on my hard drive, collecting digital dust for a year. Now that I am going through some of my old songs to rebuild from their frail skeletons I have decided to put this up for download in case anyone would like a listen. Any comments are appreciated. If a particular song begs for shakers and hazy guitar, let me know. I’ll put it under the projects section soon but for now here is the link:

Spill by Snick

My good friend Joseph Faul and I have been working on a song that he wrote for a while now. We finally got a chance to record it last weekend at the studio at Under the Couch. It took a lot of work figuring out the recording process since we don’t have too much experience engineering audio, but it was great fun. My favorite part was layering the percussion tracks, which involved some non-standard instrumentation. Sometimes a lack of good equipment can lead to better fitting sounds then you might have had in mind.

Joseph provided all guitar work and some of the percussion. I played keyboards and some percussion.

When Two Friends

This has been around for a long time but I still find it fascinating.

Grab a pair of headphones, close your eyes and listen to this track. It simulates a haircut using binaural recording techniques, where audio engineers record using two microphones positioned near the ears on the model of a head. The sound wraps around the head in such a way that gives the listener an unusual feeling of immersion. This is the best audio sample I can find involving spoken word and a real life situation. I have found some other short samples but I would love to get my hands on more.

Barbershop

Unfortunately I can’t credit the original source of this. If someone knows, send me a message or email.