Music

It might have taken me longer to put this to video than it did to actually make the music itself, which is rather a shame, as the video is even stupider than the music... but here's 12 seconds of your life to waste looking at me being very, very silly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhgMHOPtYt8

I think I have my new ringtone. :)

Very nice multitrack work.

Thanks!

I had fun doing it. I want to do another, but I couldn't get the tune out of my head long enough to work on something else yesterday. It's out of my head now, so I'm staying away from it... after work, I can start on something else.

Oh, hey, it occured to me that I still have the Audacity project for that.
If you really want me to, I could save it in some other music-only format that you could use. I originally saved it as an ogg vorbis file.

I am trying some experiments with multitrack recording using Audacity.

Here, I tried building chord progressions using only vocals... I used no instrument capable of generating chords to make this progression (no piano or guitar), just sang the notes, listened, then sang some more notes in another track, etc, until I had a progression that sounded somewhat okay:

http://www.fleeb.com/sound/ChoralAah.ogg

Here, I tried singing part of the melody from Harry Nillson's "How Can I Be Sure Of You" song, and provided my own background bits (again, all vocal):

http://www.fleeb.com/sound/HowCanIBeSureOfYouNillson.ogg

And then, if you really liked that first thing (from the Youtube video), here's the .ogg file for it:

http://www.fleeb.com/sound/LaughingTest.ogg

Heh... well, it takes me longer to do the video. And I won't put the Harry Nillson thing in my Youtube channel at all; I made a somewhat practical rule for myself that I won't post anything copywrited to my channel, just music I made up myself.

What software did you use to add the video track?

Actually I'm finding it interesting that Audacity is usable for this purpose at all. I thought it would add too much latency.

I'm also trying to figure out how many tracks you laid down there. I'm counting three singing tracks, one
"percussion" track, and the laugh track, but I'm probably short a track or two here.

I used Windows Live Movie Maker to edit the video and lay the audio into the video. I'm not proud, but honestly, it was the best thing I could find for free that worked very, very easily.

I laid down seven tracks total for the laughing song. There's a vocal-percussion track and a laughing track, as you surmised. I also laid down five vocal parts.

First track is sort of a slowish 'doo-dee dah-dee' bit.

Second track is a 'dit dit dit dit' track.

Third is a single continuous vocal sound that changes pitch (and has a weird vocal phase-effect).

Fourth was the vocal percussion.

Fifth was the bass melody.

Sixth was the high 'melody' (a term I'd use loosely here, as it isn't very melodic... just sort of a 'baaaah bahm, ba-baaah bahm').

Seventh track was laughter that I conjured up on my own.

The second track could be mistaken as part of the vocal percussion, perhaps, but it is a separate track, has pitch changes, and has more note-sounds than percusive sounds to it, so I liken it to more of a background filler sound.

WTF. Pandora needs to become aware that some tracks are not usable as singles.

This has happened twice now: Pandora decided to play "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" by Pink Floyd. BY ITSELF. Epic fail.

I have the Colonel Bogey March stuck in my head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvWLMkxSwIo

That was a pretty good soundtrack on its own... hmm...

This guy's music... it's... I'm left speechless after listening to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5bQ3YlxrUo

He needs Mark Gormley to complete his "band"

To make up for that, here's some very hot jazz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t2xRcS5Q9o

(No joke, it's very, very good music).

Hey, they're pretty good. Nice video too. (I was amused by the caption "Digital not your thing? Buy our 3 CD set!" as if a CD is analog or something.)

I particularly enjoy watching jazz chords being played on a vibraphone. That's cool.

Jack Conte did the mixing for the video, and I think the audio, too.

caption "Digital not your thing? Buy our 3 CD set!" as if a CD is
analog or something.)

Snail mail is analog.