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  • Maniac Morning May 5

    This morning I had a W3C phone conference for the new Social Web Incubator Community Group, so I didn't get started on Maniac Morning until the late afternoon. I ended up at a coffee shop with a nice back patio and made some good progress on websub.rocks!
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    Fri, May 5, 2017 5:50pm -07:00 #mmm
  • Maniac Morning May 3

    Day 2 of filming CSVConf, basically didn't use my computer the whole day except to publish the timelapse of everyone arriving in the chapel: https://aaronparecki.com/2017/05/03/14/csvconf
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    Wed, May 3, 2017 6:00pm -07:00 #mmm
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    A timelapse of everyone at @csvconference filing in to the chapel for the keynote! #csvconf
    The Eliot Center in Portland, Oregon, USA
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    Wed, May 3, 2017 3:42pm -07:00 #csvconf
  • Maniac Morning May 2

    This is not what I intended to do for Maniac Mornings, but I had already been booked to record the talks at CSVConf before I started this project, so I'm posting this anyway. I spent the whole day Tuesday and Wednesday at the conference filming up in the balcony.
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    Tue, May 2, 2017 6:30pm -07:00 #mmm
  • Maniac Morning May 1

    This morning I worked on the websub.rocks test suite, and wrote a helper library for creating a WebSub client.
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    Mon, May 1, 2017 3:24pm -07:00 #mmm
  • Day 100 - Century

    Day 100. As you can probably imagine, I was spending a lot of energy trying to figure out what to do for my 100th day. I had considered a few options, like "33 seconds of silence", or a bizarre mashup of the previous 99 songs. In the end, I decided to make the final song be just one note, a massive orchestra hit. It turns out it takes a surprising number of instruments to make this sound like anything still. Several layers of strings, various percussion instruments, a large piano chord, and I even snuck in a subtle hint of the electronic cello that's been featured in a few of my songs. And with that, I am done! I've published all the songs and videos on a web page if you want to browse through the archives! https://100.aaronparecki.com
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    Thu, Mar 30, 2017 4:37pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 99 - Penultimate

    Day 99. Almost done. I had fun with the pizzicato strings in this one. The pizzicato cello and the snare drum hold down the rhythm, and I have a few different violins and violas playing the melody.
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    Wed, Mar 29, 2017 10:19am -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 98 - Mushrooms

    Day 98. Another multiple-layer piano track. Each piano has a different effect applied. Echo, reverbs, EQ to emphasize specific frequencies.
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    Tue, Mar 28, 2017 9:22pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 97 - Unknown

    Day 97. Further proving the theory that when I don't have a plan for the day, I end up finishing way sooner than I thought, today's song took less than an hour. As usual, I started this with the piano intro, and built it up from there. I considered using a drum set, but then opted for a light bongo track instead. The piano part is actually two overlaid tracks in the same range, which for some reason ends up working nicely together. I think the middle section could use a little more buildup, but the flute does an okay job at denoting the middle section.
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    Mon, Mar 27, 2017 10:07pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 96 - Sunrise

    Day 96. I always seem to spend a lot more time on these when there's a specific sound I'm going for. This one turned out to take way more layers than I expected. I'm still a little confused why I couldn't quite get the string section to sound correctly "on" the beat. I tried snapping it exactly to the beat, and that sounded too lagging in some cases, so I tried moving up a few of the notes in some cases. It's not quite right, but it's about as close as I can get it.
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    Sun, Mar 26, 2017 6:50pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 95 - Travel

    Day 95. I wanted to try something in a medieval style, so this is a quick sketch mostly experimenting with the instrumentation of it.
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    Sat, Mar 25, 2017 2:46pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 94 - Windows

    Day 94. I didn't have a great plan for this today. There's a lot of sounds going on here, but I tried to make a few of the highlights stand out. I think also after a few days in a row of doing piano-centric songs, I tend to try something in a totally different direction just to make sure I'm not getting stuck.
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    Fri, Mar 24, 2017 9:06pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 93 - Signal

    Day 93. I didn't end up finishing today's song before going to the studio for my last class, so I had to finish it here. I ended up doing something pretty simple just cause I didn't have much time. The video is some test footage we shot on the green screen earlier today.
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    Thu, Mar 23, 2017 5:23pm -07:00
  • Day 92 - Bloom

    Day 92. This is maybe a little more wander-y than I wanted, I wasn't expecting to bring in the orchestra in the middle until after I had started. I originally thought it would be just piano again. There's a couple little nods to some other songs in here if you listen closely.
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    Wed, Mar 22, 2017 6:07pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 91 - Green

    Day 91. I don't know why I'm on such a piano kick lately. This one was kind of fun because it's more notes than can be played with two hands, but doesn't totally sound like it.
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    Tue, Mar 21, 2017 3:03pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 90 - Sixpence

    Day 90. The final stretch! Didn't know what I was going to do today, so again I started by playing around on the piano until I hit something that I could use to build off of. After I recorded the piano track, I added a few other instruments on top. The drum track is a mix of my own tracks plus the Logic Pro drummer.
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    Tue, Mar 21, 2017 7:29am -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 89 - Double

    Day 89. This is all one take on the piano, with only a little tweaking of the timing and loudness of some notes. I was planning on adding some other instruments to it, but nothing seemed to fit quite right. I ended up adding an echo to the piano with an 1/8 note delay. I only added the echo to the notes on the beat, not on the little runs, because that muddied it up too much.
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    Sun, Mar 19, 2017 7:00pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 88 - Reunion

    Day 88. Another fun five-part piano piece. Each piano is panned slightly off-center. Some of them are a 2 bar loop, others do slight variations of their theme for each phrase. I decided to let this one fade out rather than do a build-out, since it would have ended up too long otherwise.
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    Sat, Mar 18, 2017 9:50pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 87 - Tryst

    Day 87. Today was the first day in a while that I started a song by playing the piano for an hour before writing anything down. Once I knew what I was going for, I recorded the piano track. I added the other two instruments, a Duduk and Electric Cello, mostly following existing aspects of the piano melody.
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    Fri, Mar 17, 2017 4:51pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
  • Day 86 - Imperial

    Day 86. I'm not sure a major key was right for this one or if I should have done it in a minor key instead. I mostly wanted to work on getting the orchestra to accent certain beats. The horn melody fills in the rest.
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    Thu, Mar 16, 2017 3:29pm -07:00 #100daysofmusic
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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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