Where Electronic and Classical Collide

This was my final for a class that I took at Yale called Music 312. It was a music composition seminar. I really liked it because it was basically you sitting down and making your own music using different programs. I got to use Logic, Reason and Sibelius all for one project. It was super educational, and so much fun. Also, I was really into the aqua harp YouTube video at this point, so I sorta gave it a camea appearance towards the end of the song.

I wish I could play piano

So, while I was in college, I was taking music theory classes.  After the entry level class, I was always one of two people that didn't actually play piano.  My ear was okay, but many of the songs that we discussed as examples I had never heard before, and everyone else in the class had played them.  It was just disadvantageous.

Anyway, the point of all that is that I wanted to be able to play the pieces that they had us make in class, but I couldn't, but here's what one of those pieces could have sounded like...

Techno Time

This was the first real song I did in my music 295 class sophomore year of college.  It was fun to make, and it went over pretty well with the rest of the class.  I think the program I used to make it was Reason.  It's a super awesome music creator, but it relies pretty significantly on loops, as you can probs tell by listening to the song.  Most of what you hear you'll hear again in a different context...

The start of something old

Hello Internet,

I'm restarting my blog, and I'll be using it the same way I was using it when I started this blog...  MUSIC!!!!  Of course, I'm not in the same class I was in when I started it, and my music is a good bit different.  So I guess I'll start at the beginning and work my to the present.  I've been doing some pretty fun stuff, and I hope you like it.  What I hope more though is that you listen to it.  You don't have to like, but you better respect it!

Peace and Prosperity for now,

Chaka Jaliwa