Graham English

On the one hand, I feel like I can’t take any credit for this piece because I didn’t play a lick of it. On the other hand, I spent a lot of time creating the rules that would compose this music in real-time.

This is my first attempt at composing generative music.

“Their minds seem like clean slates upon which we can write.”
-Dr. Cyril J. C. Kennedy and Dr. David Anchel on the benefits of electroshock therapy, 1948.
“I had just one goal–to stay alive until the next day…But it wasn’t just to survive, but to survive as me.”
-Mario Villani, survivor of four years in Argentina’s torture camps.

I wrote this for my nephew who is due to be born in 15 days.

Sorry.

If I could surrender and fall into the emptiness.

This song is about planning an exciting future with a fine woman.

A funky blues about a devious woman.

This is a song about second chances.

This is a song about showing up.

This song was inspired by Dance Punk artists like LCD Soundsystem and !!! and by an episode of WNYC’s Radio Lab on the Wright Brothers.

This was an exercise in using Ultrabeat. Along with a Nu School Breaks Kit is a Grind Bass and Funk Organ.

This is a common progression in Cmin with a smooth jazz triplet feel. I programmed the drums, bass, phaser Rhodes, and improvised a short solo on an EXS24 Steinway piano.

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I was feeling mellow today and needed to spend some time in the new Logic Pro 8 so this is what I came up with.
Looks like I’ve been spending a lot of time in Dmin lately.

This slow techno/R&B track begins with A phrygian chord and is tonally centered on Dmin Aeolian. I was playing around with the new Logic Pro 8 Template Chooser and used the basic electronic template as my palette. I quickly came up with a simple descending synth hook that I liked. I’m also playing around with a vocal melody that’s not in the mix yet.

I wrote this with two things in mind. First, picture a group of super hip guys and one really hot girl in a get away car after an extremely intricate and adrenaline boosting heist. This is the soundtrack.

I started this just over a week ago but have been too busy to spend much time writing or recording. Lame.

A whole bunch of funky blips and bleeps in C#min at 110bpm. I’ve got a hook to go with this but have yet to record it.

A smooth and silky dark 100bpm groove in Cmin.

Part of me never dies. I know you… you recognize that we are Heart to heart in a miracle love