365 Day 363ish: Penultimate

or, fun with quickly rotating unrelated triadic tonal centres. kind of a drill I guess. progression is E G Db F Ab C E. guitar melody is phrased in 4 beat groups, bass and second guitar are in 3.

neat, eh?

365 Day 336: Hatchet

A piece I wrote for an "advanced ensemble" course I'm taking at school. started with a groove and expanded it into a piece. initial groove was the line that the sax and guitar synch up on after their kind of winding/interlocking duet intro. performing this at a recital tomorrow afternoon.

sax - danny b
guitar - joel saunders

drums - ryan turner

bass - yours truly

buried?

365 Day 250: Not Entirely Numb

little latin-ish ballad-ish head. I like how it turned out. could alllmost put words to it.

do da-do.

365 Day 237: Free Soloing

Don't think I'm a huge fan, pretty sure I'm capable of better. just need to do it a couple times more.

http://vimeo.com/28382346

not processed yet. might not work.

365 Day 231: Floating in a peaceful sea

A better rendition of sunday's piece. Sight read in true allsoundsareholy fashion on alto horn by Danny Berezowski. (All other parts me)

I was floating in a peaceful sea, rescued by a sinking ship.

365 Mass Update: Days 226, 227, 228, and 229

Well, went camping with the family this weekend. Wasn't really camping because we had my family's giant RV.

on friday (day 226) we sat around the fire

on saturday (day 227) it poured, so I wrote a little progression that I might not use.

on sunday (day 228) my family ran a triathlon, we stopped at a family friend's place in Barrie for a sweet dinner of bacon burgers (burgers with bacon in em), and then I had tea with a good friend. Then I came home and improvised this on my first bass, a Slammer by Hamer that I defretted after I got a good bass. I don't know why I chose to play very in and minor, but I did.

Today (day 229) I wrote a little tune after looking at the chords for Sara Serpa's Praia a little closer. I love her writing, and I'm beginning to understand her use of slash chords a little more (aside from really eschewing the tonal center of the chord, her 'slash' roots usually create a stacked fourth or fifth kind of thing three or four members high). Here's a bit of the chord progression of the piece I wrote. It's a bit slow and sparse but with more direction than the last thing I tried to write like this. I'll render it better when I get back to my proper instruments in Guelph (how I miss them).

365 Day 222: Stella by Starlight

A three bass and trumpet arrangement of a very very very classic jazz standard. Always wanted to do something like this. Next time I'll practice the parts. Time from composition to internet: about 2.5 hrs.

Stella by Starlight

365 Day 201: Little Epic

picked up my old trumpet from my parents' house today. sounds rull nice with my fancymic. quieter recording, next time I do something epic I'll make it longer and master it a little better.

365 Day 197: Illogical

Found a new service, but their java player isn't supposed to be a widget like this, so uploading just got a little more tedious.

This is the kernel of a piece (which I uploaded a version of much earlier) that will be performed at Somewhere There in Toronto tomorrow night by Danny Berezowski, Chris Wattam, and yours truly.

365 Day 197: Illogical

365 Day 164: Sleepy

So I'm a big failbag and completely forgot to do this yesterday. sorry guys.

sorta jazzy, sorta weird. should have miked the guitar for both tracks. got lazy. story of my life.

365 Day 164: Sleepy by dried

365 Day 70: Bartok and the Geranium (section)

A verse from the dorothy livesay poem of the same name. maybe I'll set the whole thing when time stops being coy.

sung by my wonderful 20th Century Music class, for our online journal, Critical Voices (link to come). kind of wish the dissonance in "spits" came out a little more.

365 Day 70: Bartok and the Geranium (section) by daveriedstra

365 Day 64: Apprehension (Quintet #2)

recorded yesterday, just didn't get a chance to post it until now. with any luck, today's will be another composition.

fun piece I wrote for the quintet described in the video comments.