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  • 100 Days of Music

    100 Days of Music is a project to write a short 30-90 second song every day for 100 days. My goal is to create something that's "finished" enough to be able to use it as a podcast or video intro song. It doesn't have to be long, but has to sound decent.
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    Wed, Dec 28, 2016 10:05am -08:00 #100daysofmusic #music
  • Aaron Parecki
    Any German speakers want to tell me if my instinct on this is correct?

    "Ganz kleine Nachtmusik" is the name of a piece of music by Mozart that was just discovered. (He later titled a piece "Eine kleine Nachtmusik")

    The English press about this is translating it as "Very little night music" which seems wrong? I feel like either "Quite small night music" or "Completely small night music" would be more accurate.

    When does "ganz" change from "quite" to "completely"? Is it ambiguous here?
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 56°F
    1 like 3 reposts 10 replies
    Fri, Sep 20, 2024 10:29pm -07:00 #music #german #language
  • OAuth Oh Yeah!

    The first law of OAuth states that
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    Thu, Aug 29, 2024 12:59pm -07:00 #oauth #ai #music
  • Aaron Parecki
    I've been finishing my 100 short 30-60-second songs by uploading them to an AI tool and having it extend them. So far I'm done with 60/100 songs! I also started making videos to document the process, and the first video is up!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88aDTntYMmM
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 67°F
    4 likes 3 reposts 4 replies
    Mon, Jul 29, 2024 6:14pm -07:00 #ai #music #100daysofmusic
  • Aaron Parecki
    I've been using AI to extend my 100 Days of Music sketches into full length songs and it's been super fun! I upload the song I wrote and tell it to extend it, give it some guidance, then piece it back together in Logic Pro. I've finished 25 songs so far!
    Portland, Oregon, USA • 78°F
    1 like 2 reposts
    Mon, Jul 1, 2024 6:21pm -07:00 #ai #music #100daysofmusic
  • Boomy (boomy.com)
    Tue, Mar 14, 2023 9:23pm -07:00 #music #ai
  • FreePD.com - Free Public Domain Music Creative Commons 0 Completely Royalty Free (freepd.com)
    Fri, May 13, 2022 4:51pm +02:00 #music #video
  • Aaron Parecki
    I forgot how magical @Adobe Audition's "remix" feature is! You can take any song and make it any length, all automatically! I used to spend a lot of time doing this myself, finding the places to cut and loop phrases. I don't really understand how it works, but it is amazing!
    Portland, Oregon • 43°F
    Tue, Feb 16, 2021 7:15pm -08:00 #adobe #music #remix
  • Pretzel Rocks (www.pretzel.rocks)
    Sun, Jun 7, 2020 7:11pm -07:00 #music #resources #dmca #streaming #stream
  • Song Exploder | The Daily (songexploder.net)
    Thu, May 14, 2020 8:10am -07:00 #music
  • MIDIjs - Home (www.midijs.net)
    Wed, Jan 29, 2020 8:09pm -08:00 #midi #music
  • Shepard's Pi (pisongs.com)
    Wed, Oct 23, 2019 7:09pm +02:00 #music
  • https://chrisbeckstrom.com/2019/01/25/33517/
    Aaron Parecki
    That would be amazing! I'm always looking for good music libraries to use as background music in videos and podcasts.

    You could try something that Kevin MacLeod does, which is to make all the music available Creative Commons attribution, and then also sell a downloadable pack of all the music for some amount. That way you'll get your name mentioned any time people use it in videos and podcasts, and if someone wants to give you some cash, they have a way to do that which also ends up being more convenient for them by having all the music already downloaded when they need it.
    San Francisco, California, USA • 51°F
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    Fri, Jan 25, 2019 7:12am -08:00 #music
  • Audition Deep Dive: REMIX - Automatically rearrange any song to fit any duration | Adobe Blog (theblog.adobe.com)
    Mon, Dec 24, 2018 8:54am -08:00 #music #remix #magic #editing
  • Streaming Music is Ripping You Off – Cuepoint – Medium (medium.com)
    Mon, Aug 6, 2018 6:52am -07:00 #music #spotify #streaming
  • 1920's string sound - Orchestration - Composition - Instruments - FORUMS - Vienna Symphonic Library (www.vsl.co.at)
    "That would be the hot impassioned string sound.

    Use of mid and upper ranged orchestration, chordal, octave based, no open voicings. Strings doubling with double-reeds. Timpani and piatti and cymbal swells. Woodblock at times. Triangle. Trumpets with Trombones. Horns with violas and never joined in with trumpets and trombones. Tuba.

    Emphasis on melody and counterpoint. Variation of melody. Rarely a non-melodic bar. The use of musical techniques that were tried and true to create contrast, not orchestration so much. For example, moving from legato espressivo to staccato/spiccato.

    The absolute fundamental key to the Golden Age sound is the use of trumpets in cardboard or fiberglass conical mutes, as well as unmuted, and using the horns only for melody or as texture joined with strings and/or woodwinds, BUT NOT the other brass.

    Second most important is the use of Violas to double the 2nd violins, either in a 3rd octave, or in a tightly locked upper string harmonization that is not open.

    Evan Evans"
    Sat, May 5, 2018 10:38am -07:00 #music #scoring
  • Lost Together (open.spotify.com)
    Sun, Apr 15, 2018 6:14pm -07:00 #compression #music
  • Royalty Free Music - Browse by Collection (incompetech.com)
    Thu, Mar 22, 2018 9:31pm -07:00 #music #resources
  • The Ghost in the MP3 (theghostinthemp3.com)
    Sat, Dec 30, 2017 2:10pm -08:00 #music
  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend / Shout Out - TV Tropes (tvtropes.org)
    Thu, Sep 21, 2017 10:23pm -07:00 #music #parody #tv
  • Royalty Free Music by Bensound (www.bensound.com)
    Mon, Apr 17, 2017 3:06pm -07:00 #music
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, Director of Identity Standards at Okta, and co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and participate in the OAuth Working Group at the IETF. I also help people learn about video production and livestreaming. (detailed bio)

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