365 Day 254: Extant

yep. it's a thing. it exists in the world.

you can't say your life would be any different if you'd heard it.

365 Day 235: Walking All Day

felt like I was walking all day because I was in toronto today and yesterday, and everyone walks really slow there, so I walk faster to compensate.

Kind of want to write a piece for Tripoli. maybe I will.

365 Day 141: The Great Forest

Going to put together a movie music portfolio, I think. Need to hone my clarinet tone a little. This was doctored a fair bit.

365 Day 141: The Great Forest by dried

365 Day 128: Gogo

not sure where this came from. also, don't know how I forgot to post it last night...

365 Day 128: Gogo by daveriedstra

365 Day 122: Third

the 365 project is a third of the way done today! enjoy some radioheadish ambientish jazzish kind of... stuff...

at this rate, I will need four more soundcloud accounts, unless someone gives me a better idea for hosting the audio

365 Day 122: Third by daveriedstra

365 Day 121: Thanks

A thanks to my friend Aggie for indefinitely lending me her clarinet. I'm no pablo casals just yet, but I'll get there (maybe)

365 Day 121: Thanks by daveriedstra

365 Day 116: April 30

I think this is my fourth or fifth time playing clarinet.

first bit is me walking to my bass and setting up the mic and everything. I sorely need a new mic stand, this one is falling to bits.

"Eastern" sounding melodic material (lots of flattened 9ths and augmented seconds) is so grabbing, but using it is kind of appropriation -- using another culture's music as novelty. Plenty of composers did it, some very stylized and cliche (Tchaikovsky), while some were legitimately searching for new sounds (Debussy). Either way, the idea of it kind of irks me, but it's something that I keep playing and listening to because it sounds really cool. Should I be self consciously filtering approximation of other cultures music out of my listening and playing?

365 Day 116: April 30 by daveriedstra