Open Source Music

I really wanted to record something new tonight, but the little black box which connects the keyboard to laptop has an unacceptable hum. Drat.

Well, actually I got lucky. Moving some files around I noticed a set of three tracks which I had not produced yet called Friday Playday. I originally recorded these tracks on March 18, 2007. Sounds impossibly long ago against the backdrop of my current “new” life.

I call this a track and not a song because as I poke around inside my existing recordings I notice that I have played a lot of very different variations on surprisingly few themes. In other words I hear the same melodies and counter melodies across many recordings, but they seem pretty different because of the musical arrangement.   This is upbeat, all me – playing across three or four different tracks, and (I hope for your sake) not completely unpleasant. 

 

 Friday Playday [5:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I have been getting my new place set up and just got to the point where I needed to record music. In my old place I had the whole upstairs room over the garage for a studio and I used to use it 3 or 4 times a week. In the condo while there’s not so much room, I have been playing both with and without my headphones every day since the day I moved in… but I wanted to record.

So setting up various gadgets like the fire wire mixing board, and turning my lap top into a multi-track audio recording station took several hours. Once I got all the cables in place and turned on the juice I came up with these two melodies. They kind of go together if you want to down load and overlap the tracks. Or you can just listen.

The first one is called “I Came into a Dream”, and the part two or second song is called “And So It Goes”.

 

 I Came into a Dream: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 And So It Goes: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

alternate links

• http://music.tomanthony.com/music/and_so_it_goes.mp3
• http://music.tomanthony.com/music/i_came_into_a_dream.mp3

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