From a spectrogram of the end of Computer Love by Kraftwerk, which sounds like rockets shooting off into space and looks like it too.
Monthly archive: October, 2008
While most of the music I’ve been composing has been for one project or another that in the end may or may not get released, this little (39 seconds) piece came about by sheer happenstance. So, I’m throwing it up on the blog.
No sequencing or trackers involved. The acoustic percussion is based on a couple of ~5 second bits that I cut from a recording I made, edited and stuck together in Audacity. The bass and accordion parts are MIDI but were recorded ‘live’ on the computer keyboard (with Virtual Piano).
You too can play along at home with the chords F# minor, E major, A major, G# diminished, and C# minor. Funky percussion not notated.
I was watching clips of old Japanese commercials, news reports, and station idents on Youtube, as one does, and I saw a slide that caught my eye during a weather report:
It’s minimalist, I like it. The left side says it’s cold and dry and the right side says something about Russia. Or dew.
So, I decided to copy it and come up with a Photoshop version or two. Clean:
‘79 style:
Unfortunately my version is typographically lacking—I tried to find a nice round Japanese typeface but had no luck. I’ve put together some desktop wallpaper versions, to suit various aspect ratios:
Clean: 1600×1200 / 1280×1024 / 1680×1050
‘79 style: 1600×1200 / 1280×1024 / 1680×1050
