Aaron Parecki

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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

"How to Imitate a Whole Lot of Hollywood Film Music In Four Easy Steps" Definitely going to use this as a reference for some of the remaining 100 days! (Reminder that his M2M notation is half steps, not harmonic intervals) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSKAt3pmYBs

Portland, Oregon, USA

Sun, Feb 19, 2017 3:20pm -08:00 #music
Developing Motives (or How To Write a Symphony With Only Four Notes) (music.tutsplus.com)

Tue, Feb 14, 2017 3:49pm -08:00 #music #composition
If you haven't figured out what all these videos I've been posting are, I figured I'd give a quick update.

Starting at the end of December, I've been writing and publishing one short song per day. They usually end up being a brief sketch, but the goal is to publish something "finished" enough that it could be used in a podcast, TV show, background music, or something similar.

I'm now 40 days into the project, just under half way done! It's been a really interesting experiment so far. Not that these can all be considered complete, but I've now written more songs in the last 40 days than I have ever before, so I'd already consider this a success. The pressure to start and finish something each day is pretty intense. I'm not always happy with each one I publish, but this is more about exercising my ability to come up with something new every day than it is about making something "perfect".

If you want to catch up on the 40 things I've published so far, I've been publishing them to a bunch of different platforms so you have no excuse not to listen to them ;-)

• Podcast available on iTunes and Google Play (search "100 Days of Music")
• Podcast feed: http://podcasts.aaronparecki.com/100daysofmusic/feed.xml
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aaronpk/sets/100-days-of-music
• Add to your Amazon Alexa flash briefing: https://www.amazon.com/Aaron-Parecki-100-Days-Music/dp/B01N1YPGPX/
• And of course my website: https://aaronparecki.com/tag/100daysofmusic

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Sun, Jan 29, 2017 8:47pm -08:00 #music #100daysofmusic
24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed (people.xiph.org)

Thu, Jan 19, 2017 5:12pm -08:00 #music #audio
Uhoh, Facebook is on to me...

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Tue, Dec 27, 2016 2:33pm -08:00 #music #facebook #ad
Currently debating between #100DaysOfMusic or #100DaysOfIndieWeb for my #100Days project.

#100DaysOfMusic - The goal would be to write a short 10-20 second song every day. The goal would be to write something that's "finished" enough to be able to use it as a podcast or video intro song, so it doesn't have to be long, but has to sound decent. I want to get back into writing music, since I've only done a tiny bit over the last couple years, and it helps to have a more concrete goal. The only way to get better is with practice, so forcing myself to limit myself to 1 day for each "song" means I won't be able to get stuck down a path of trying to make something sound "perfect", and will just focus on trying out new things all the time.

#100DaysOfIndieWeb - The goal would be to make a visible improvement to any of my IndieWeb projects every day. Some of these projects are things like the interface I'm using to write this post, or the IndieWeb chat client, or the validators for some of the specs. The motivation for this is that I was just looking through the GitHub issues on some projects and realized there are some issues that have been open for over a year. I never regret making progress on these projects and would benefit from an excuse to do so regularly.

Crazy idea... maybe I can do both?

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Wed, Dec 21, 2016 9:07am -08:00 #indieweb #music #100days
Another ✔︎ off the bucket list! Finally got one of my songs on the radio, the intro music to @anomalily's @ohmydollar show on @xrayfm!

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Wed, Nov 2, 2016 9:37am -07:00 #music #ohmydollar
Music General Acceptance and Sales Tips For Musicians by Musicians – Help Center (help.market.envato.com)

Thu, Oct 13, 2016 9:01pm -07:00 #music
Karl Martin Sandberg, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen and Other Songwriters Behind the Hits of Katy Perry and Taylor Swift - The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)

Mon, Oct 3, 2016 3:55pm -07:00 #music #maxmartin #p
Apple's relationship with pro music needs some mending - CDM Create Digital Music (cdm.link)

Tue, Sep 27, 2016 6:13pm -07:00 #apple #ios #music #technology
My #TPAC2016 breakout sessions:

• 10: #webauthn
• 11: #social
• 14: #music
• 15:30 #vocabs

https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2016#Breakout_Schedule_.28session_grid.29

Lisboa, Lisboa, PRT

Wed, Sep 21, 2016 5:28pm +01:00 #w3c #tpac2016 #webauthn #social #music #vocabs
The Internet of Stings

Portland, Oregon

Sun, Apr 3, 2016 11:09am +00:00 (liked on Wed, Jun 1, 2016 3:16pm -07:00) #ebay #fitbit #firesheep #healthkit #alexa #steam #location #airbnb #grindr #blockchain #siri #surveillance #internet of things #hacking #quantified self #humour #music #sting
MIDI Tutorial - learn.sparkfun.com (learn.sparkfun.com)

Mon, Oct 12, 2015 9:45am -07:00 #midi #tutorial #audio #music
A Fabulously Minimalistic Music Video Featuring a Gorgeous White Cat Sitting Inside a Pulsating Speaker (laughingsquid.com)

Mon, Oct 12, 2015 8:53am -07:00 #music #musicvideo #cats
Minor scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org)

Wed, Sep 30, 2015 11:11pm -07:00 #music
Chord structure in medieval music (www.medieval.org)

Wed, Sep 30, 2015 11:11pm -07:00 #music
Have you ever wondered what other songs used the same chord progression? This is kind of an amazing site that will tell you: http://www.hooktheory.com/trends

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Tue, Sep 29, 2015 9:59pm -07:00 #music
Thinking about ways to ease myself back in to writing music and avoiding the creative blocks I was hitting before.

Current thought is to write a series called "bad *" where each song focuses on only one attribute, and I just do the bare minimum on everything else. Possible titles include "bad choir", "bad horns", "bad swing", "bad dubstep", "bad movie trailer".

I call it "bad *" because if it has "bad" in the name I won't worry about making it good and will be more likely to actually finish it.

Mon, Sep 28, 2015 9:17pm -07:00 #music
The Ether Bunny by Eyes Closed Audio (soundcloud.com)

Tue, Jun 23, 2015 6:25pm -07:00 #music #resources #creativecommons
Monochroma by Van der Waal (soundcloud.com)

Tue, Jun 23, 2015 6:25pm -07:00 #music #resources #creativecommons

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Aaron Parecki

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100 Days of Music

The Internet of Stings