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Journey Through West Coast Synthesis
I uploaded some music I made with west coast modular synthesizer on SoundCloud. They are recorded from the Buchla 200e and Make Noise Shared System, and are done in one take.
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New Compilation: Crank Up
I added some music I was working on in the past few month here. It’s what I’ve been doing in the avant-garde composition class. It can also be found in the Music page.
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Music Prototypes
Haven’t been here for a while. I was writing a set of music for the showcase later this year. However, some of these tunes turned out to be what I think not suitable for the show. So I just put the sheet music here. There is another piece I like a lot but it already…
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New Music: Goldfish Song
I sampled goldfish voice and my own percussion for this. Check it in my Music page.
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New Lead Sheet: Into The Sky
I am trying to write a music using static harmony and non-standard form then I came with this… It is on the Lead Sheets page.
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Tension Substitution Guide
I was organizing my notes for 6-horn writing recently, and I made a mechanical voicing tension substitution guide for it. The main purpose of it is to avoid the minor 9th interval in the voicing. Clearly there is no rule of writing an instrument section, but this would be a great reference to start with.…
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New Music
Finally I have the time to upload my new music. The first one is “For Real”. This is one of my Harmony class project, and I used multi-tonic concept for the entire track. The second one is “Angelic Ascension”. I tried a very fast (202bpm) tempo piano part, a constant structure harmony pattern, and a…
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Game Music
I wrote 2 game music for my Unity Pinball project. Both of them are produced in chiptune style via the chipsounds plugin. This plugin is now discontinued but I am glad that I bought it last year because it is a good chip simulation program. The title theme actually sounds more like Final Fantasy, rather…
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Modal Interchange Chord Modes Guide
I organized a table that lists all the modal interchange chord modes from what I learned from the Berklee Harmony book. This can help identifying the modal source of a modal interchange chord. Also useful for getting the appropriate chord when writing modal music. In most cases, Lydian and Dorian are the most common modal…
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Transcription: Choral
I did another transcription today :3 This one is “Choral”, by Arild Anderson. I like this piece because this one is completely based on Lydian constant structure, which is pretty colorful. And I really enjoy playing it. I did both lead sheet and the piano solo. You can find it in the Transcriptions page.
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Transcription: Kiyomi Otaka (Casiopea-P4) solo from “FLY ME TO THE FUTURE”
This one is “FLY ME TO THE FUTURE”, from Japanese jazz-fusion band Casiopea’s 2022 album “New Topics”, keyboard (organ) solo by Kiyomi Otaka. You can find it on my Transcriptions page.
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Transcription: McCoy Tyner Solo on “Mode To John”
I finally have time to transcribe something after my final exams. This is “Mode To John”, from McCoy Tyner’s 1968 album “Tender Moments”. I didn’t find it on the internet so I transcribed myself. You can download it in my transcriptions page.
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Echoes From Enchanted Forest
Another “project” for my classes :3 I call it “soundtrack-like”, because it is not for any scoring project. I used the instrumentation of flute, guitar, and string quartet; a bit of polyphony; and folk-like harmony & melody to create some ethnic feel. I can’t control myself using the scale degree #1. It sounds so warm.…
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