Some Music

Here are some MP3s of some music that I helped make.

A long time ago, some friend and I were starting a band called the Sleestaks. This never ended up going anywhere, but we did have a lot of fun and more importantly for the purposes of this page, manage to produce one original song:

  • Neutron Bomb 1:50, 1.7MB - This was recorded from a single condenser mic onto minidisc, so the quality is far from good.

Lately I've been making some music with some other friends at Translunar Studios in San Francisco. Now we are living in the modern age and recording multiple directly to the hard drive of a nearby PC. If only music production and audio engineering didn't take so long, we could create some excellent sounding recordings. As it is, we have some pretty listenable recordings, and as we get more experience I imagine that the quality will improve.

  • One (3:56, 3.7MB) - One of these things is not like the other. If you listen very closely, you can hear my voice on this track.
  • Jesse (2:00, 2.2MB) - Warning: you may or may not be offended by this song. Cringe in horror as we cover a political song with lots of over-dubbed guitars.
  • Jam 1.1 (3:03, 4.0MB) - random, unplanned jamming the first day we got the studio set up to record. This track sounds a bit like Derek and the Dominos if Eric Clapton had been up for 3 days straight and was talking on his cellphone while playing guitar.
  • Jam 1.3 (10:51, 12MB) - more jamming from that same night. This one is a bit rough around the edges, center, and some other parts too. It does have some pretty excellent parts buried in there as it shifts sounds over nearly 11 minutes of jamming. The part starting at 8:45 or so is my favorite.
  • Jam 1.3 (reverb) (11:26, 14MB) - This is the previous track with some reverb and other effects added in software. It looks like I didn't get the cut points exactly the same. Whoops.
  • Jam 1.4 (7:58, 9.8MB) - After playing for 30 minutes straight, we finally arrived at a pretty cool groove. Behold the stereophonic gimmickry.
  • Somebody Got a Wah-Wah Pedal for Christmas (11:17, 15MB) - It's the day after Christmas, and already I'm sick of it. With modern electronics, you can sound like a wah-wah master, even if you have no feet at all. Let's go make a snowman.
  • Another Jam (160k VBR) (22:32, 33MB) - Best sounding jam so far. Crimi is on bass, Fineman on drums, and I am playing guitar. I'm not sure what we did to make this one sound so much better than the other ones, but this one ended up being 22 minutes of pretty listenable guitar music.
  • Another Jam (128k VBR) (22:32, 20MB) - Another Jam encoded at a slightly lower bitrate for easier downloading.
  • Lawn Dart (1:00, 28MB) - An audio/visual extravaganza. This is an early recording of Lawn Dart with some silly video footage of actual lawn darts.
  • Metal Jam 1 (6:58, 6.4MB) - A free-form metal improvisation in front of a festival crowd. We wrote this!
  • Metal Jam 2 (5:26, 6.5MB) - A relatively rocking unrehearsed metal jam, especially rocking around the third minute or so.
  • Metal Jam 3 (2:42, 2.4MB) another pretty rocking snippet from a few minutes after MJ2 that was cut short due to lack of HD space.