Music, Sound, and New Media
Over the summer, I put together a video about time-stretching retro video game music in order to create ambient tracks:
I’ve not sure myself if I this is parody or not, but I now have a playlist where you can listen to 8 hours of time-stretched chiptunes that I call “Chip Ambient.”
Not guaranteed to improve your grades.
I put together a short tutorial on a simple way to use the Logic Pro X “Scripter” MIDI FX to create ever-changing, generative music.
As a composer, I always want to have original background music for all of my videos, but this means that I have to keep churning out long ambient tracks. One way that I address this is to set up a system that will generate an infinite amount of music for me, “Generative Music”, created by a system of rules.
In this video, I show one strategy of how to do this, laying down a couple chords in Logic, and then randomizing different aspects of them with MIDI FX to create an extended generative track.
Let’s see if we can make experimental electronic music sound Christmassy just by adding sleigh bells–a semiological approach to making holiday music.
Adam Neely’s video talking through more of the music theory of the “Christmas Chord” – https://youtu.be/V5WfgMVtueo