I’m proud to announce that my brand-spanking-new music-centric site is now online! Until now, my music was sprinkled all over the Web. I tried to make things a little easier on you by creating a My Music page on this blog, but it didn’t really change the fact that you had to surf to various…
Catégorie : Making Music
New Music Sighting, Baby Edition
The Playground of the Baby Giants appears on the end credits of Gorgotan, a film written and directed by Buzz. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but I wanted to thank him by giving his work a little exposure.
Universal Language?
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
Chemistry
Finally, a new song. Here’s the backstory, loosely translated from 1 mot, 1 chanson: Word-wise, it was just a matter of documenting a topical issue. Music-wise, I felt a strong urge to compose. The only preconceived idea that I had was to use a new symphonic sound bank. I wanted delicate, subtle timbres and intertwining, counterpunctal melody lines.…
Electric Cars, in B flat
Many years ago, while daydreaming, which I do a lot, I was thinking about how to solve a very real and big problem with electric cars (besides autonomy). They are so silent, that pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicles don’t hear them coming. And so I thought to myself that electric cars should emit noise of…
Round and Round
I badly needed a music-making mental health break. So I spent a chunk of my weekend writing and composing and recording and mixing this silly little song, which is a self-referential commentary on silly little songwriting, and the obvious motivations behind that crafty craft. The following official version of Round and Round is NSFW as…
Animal Songs
I received this email from music-hosting site PurePlay yesterday: Subject: Vincent Knobil – You are on the playlist!!! You have made it onto the Pure Play Music Playlist We have chosen some of your tracks to play on our internet broadcasts. The tracks are currently on our automated playlist, so we cannot give accurate details…
Striking a chord (or 3)
I’ve always been puzzled by the fact that 99% of the pop music hits out there leave me totally cold and unmoved. I’m not a snob (I’m just a sknob). I like my share of simple or simplistic music. Maybe this incredible video by The Axis of Awesome explains it! See for yourself…
But seriously…
Frank Zappa published a series of albums of live performances entitled « Does Humor Belong In Music? ». Good question. Or is it? It sometimes seems that for any artistic endeavour to be taken seriously and respected, it has to be, well, serious, and as such, devoid of humor. Humor casts doubt on the seriousness of the…
Under Her Dress: The Music Video!
Vlogger Ruthie emailed me asking for my permission to use Under Her Dress, the song I wrote to Pamela‘s words, for a video project, of which she sent me a tantalizing sample. I said sure! But I don’t need to say any more, because Ruthie introduces the video, and the result speaks for itself. Many…