davidad

18-year-old Ph.D. student at MIT,
studying the nature of human cognition through programming language theory;
amateur photographer and musician

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A short theme from the Wizard of Oz, sung a cappella in a very weird style. I thought of this basic idea while walking across campus this afternoon, and decided I had time to record it for your listening pleasure(?).

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Hand drums, terrible electric guitar, electric piano, and terrible clarinet. An interesting mix, overall!

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“Avantish” - as in “avant garde.” Ish.

This is my first recording to use the Garritan Steinway VST plugin (which I managed to run on Ubuntu Studio) - with the exception of a little test showcase, below.

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Some pointless piano noodling, fading back and forth between my K2000VP’s idea of a piano and the new Garritan Steinway sampler I had just bought.

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“The Little Drummer Boy.” It’s a nice a cappella version with some weird vaguely blues-inspired delayed melody over it. I’m not really sure what I was thinking.

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An incomplete trance song…with slide whistle…

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A recording with my (then-new) Xaphoon, which I am still not very good at playing. The intro has one two many repetitions; ignore this, please.

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Piano and singing at the same time. Song is “Nature Boy.”

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My first piano improvisation on Youtube.

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“O Holy Night.” Voice and organ. It’s kinda meh.

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An attempt at playing clarinet. It’s bad. Really, you shouldn’t listen.

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“The Snowman” - from the animated feature (not Frosty!).

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“The Snowman” again, but with significantly more artistic liberty in terms of vocal harmony.

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“Simple Gifts” - rendered simply, with voice and ukelele.

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Latin guitar/percussion/vocal vamping. Not actually very authentically Latin at all. Whatever. :D