Earth Food

Day 1 of 365 • 1st January, 2006

Here is the first song. (10+ hours) Yikes! Way longer than I thought..

Venus Has The Blues

Day 2 of 365 • 2nd January, 2006

This is going to be a crazy year at this rate...

Pluto Gets Down

Day 3 of 365 • 3rd January, 2006

Yowza! A work day and a song day - The first of many

Mars Lander

Day 4 of 365 • 4th January, 2006

Very Tired... Why is the second day back after vacation harder than the first?

Saturn Soul

Day 5 of 365 • 5th January, 2006

Trying lots of different ideas on the process... what works best? don't know yet

Neptune's Folly

Day 6 of 365 • 6th January, 2006

NOT ENOUGH HOURS IN A DAY!

Mercury Can Kill You

Day 7 of 365 • 7th January, 2006

First Saturday - No time off :) It is fun... The mastering process seems to take a lot longer than i thought eq for each instrument, delay (what kind and how much) which type of reverb (plate, room or concert hall) and then the limiters and multiband compressors - how much? et…

Jazzy Jupiter

Day 8 of 365 • 8th January, 2006

Started at about 1PM just finishing at 10PM - Long time on this one... Some breaks - but a long session. The amount of time that can be spent COULD be weeks per song - But with this schedule you just move one to the next phase - as QUICKLY as possible...

Uranus Beachfront

Day 9 of 365 • 9th January, 2006

Monday Morning..... Feeling a little reflective and blue. What would life be like on a another world? at their beach?

Moonlight In Bartlett

Day 10 of 365 • 10th January, 2006

Tired! I need to go to sleep before midnight. The damn alarm goes off too early for work. I wonder sometimes why I have to make these songs the hard way... I really want these songs to sound good :) - so I start recording in one computer program then transfer to another to do …

Sunny Day

Day 11 of 365 • 11th January, 2006

Nothing to say...

Milky Licker Way

Day 12 of 365 • 12th January, 2006

57 Degrees and Sunny in Chicago in January! :) YEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAA

Proxima Centauri

Day 13 of 365 • 13th January, 2006

Long Week :) Glad it's FRIDAY! Today - SNOW - only in Chicago....

Alpha Centauri

Day 14 of 365 • 14th January, 2006

Ah the joys of sleeping in and relaxing on a Saturday... nothing like it - and MONDAY OFF (I do have a dream...)

Bears Playoff Sunday

Day 15 of 365 • 15th January, 2006

Bears Playing The Carolina Panthers - Panthers are up 13 - 0 in the first half... Bears look flat, not playing to their potential. - Update: Bears Lost.

Dr. Martin Luther King

Day 16 of 365 • 16th January, 2006

For Dr. Martin Luther King

UB313 - The Tenth Planet

Day 17 of 365 • 17th January, 2006

Did you know we have a new planet? It is called UB313 - No name has yet been given...

Barnard's Star

Day 18 of 365 • 18th January, 2006

Playing around with textures and vocals from various cultures - African and Irish :)

Wolf 359

Day 19 of 365 • 19th January, 2006

Well 61 degrees today and snow tomorrow - crazy weather - VERY nice but crazy... more upbeat techno dance..

Dark Side of Lalande 21185

Day 20 of 365 • 20th January, 2006

Snowy, Cold and weather advisory is out for today - GLOOMY - hence the 'Dark Side'

Alpha Not So Sirius

Day 21 of 365 • 21st January, 2006

Can You Combine: Pop - Latin - Rock - with a New Orleans Beat? Listen in and find out!

Alien Church Service

Day 22 of 365 • 22nd January, 2006

What would a preacher sound like in another planet preaching to the masses?

Beta Is Sirius

Day 23 of 365 • 23rd January, 2006

Can U guess the drum beat style? It's a 1950's South American / USA style that fits to today's world music rhythms :)

Snow's White Dwarf

Day 24 of 365 • 24th January, 2006

Did you know that there really were eight dwarfs in snow white? 1. Doc 2. Happy 3. Bashful 4. Sneezy 5. Sleepy 6. Grumpy 7. Dopey and of course the latest dwarf, #8 Snow's White Dwarf :)

A Luyten 726-8

Day 25 of 365 • 25th January, 2006

Dealing with a computer crash - from 3:00 to 8:00 - getting nothing done - absolute madness. Trying to do a chip motherboard upgrade and the system won't recognize the new chips... then I melted the original and now am in an unusable stage.... (this is from my laptop)

B Luyten 726-8

Day 26 of 365 • 26th January, 2006

What was the problem? My dip switches were in the wrong place :) truly... for those 'in the know' I replaced a single g4 chip at 733mhz to TWO 1.8mhz g4 chips. This system ROCKS. It's like four of my old computers tied together into one FAST machine! :) YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE - HA …

Ross 154

Day 27 of 365 • 27th January, 2006

Got the world groove happnin' :) fun style to play around with - take rhythms - beats from many cultures and COMBINE THEM :)

Epsilon Eridani

Day 28 of 365 • 28th January, 2006

Epsilon is still a funky wired place - can't get a feeling for it. Maybe you can hear the 'space' monkeys in the chorus :) Listen in...

Luyten 789-6 Phones Home

Day 29 of 365 • 29th January, 2006

I NEVER PHONE HOME enough... I'm always doing other things LIKE:

Ross 248

Day 30 of 365 • 30th January, 2006

I really like to play and create OTHER music than the mundane pop junk on the radio - I NEED to hear more or different things...

Ross 128

Day 31 of 365 • 31st January, 2006

Ye Oldie Fun style - it's the drum style used in Song #23 - THE BOSSA NOVA LIVES :) I am unbelievably sick with the flu today. It's unreal. TOTALLY freezing under four heavy covers with a hooded sweatshirt and heavy winter gloves - and i'm still cold. I have a fever and I'm di…

Alpha 61 Cygni

Day 32 of 365 • 1st February, 2006

While being sick and having a fever and all stinks, this is the first day in a long time were i don't have to do laundry, errands or other life garbage. i have a 'relaxing' day with fever and every over the counter flu med - and all day to write. if i felt better this would ha…

Beta 61 Cygni

Day 33 of 365 • 2nd February, 2006

Another good one while sick - i should get sick more often - NOT - fever and congestion - can't shake this thing. this song is a nice country mountain song with fiddle and oboe solo - sweet :)

Lopsided Quadrilateral

Day 34 of 365 • 3rd February, 2006

So enough of the star names for now :) hmmmm what is a lopsided quadrilateral? this could be the shape of things to come :) - on a side note, i thought i was getting better - i didn't sleep all night because i couldn't breathe - no air = no sleep still a mild fever...

Complex Simple Polyhedron

Day 35 of 365 • 4th February, 2006

Anyone care to dance? Sometimes life can throw you a curve...

Relaxing Reuleaux Triangle

Day 36 of 365 • 5th February, 2006

Ok - it's the Super Bowl - quit crying like a baby :)

Random Square Prime

Day 37 of 365 • 6th February, 2006

Random Random Random that is the way of life and nature - why not music? music is art - life - random

Funky Concentric Cycloid

Day 38 of 365 • 7th February, 2006

Ok you don't have to be sick to write a good song :) Tower of Power Funk - very fun and upbeat - Dr. Gruv is in da housz

Tribal Spheroid

Day 39 of 365 • 8th February, 2006

Grammy Night - (boy i always wanted one of those) what fun to be in a grammy show and play keys or trumpet or if i ever did win - WHAT A KICK :)

Polygonal World Vision

Day 40 of 365 • 9th February, 2006

Can i do the hip hop thing? mikie tries it and mikie likes it :) little swing beat - pads - and light synth melody

Diamond Blood Stones

Day 41 of 365 • 10th February, 2006

How stupid are we? Why do we do what LARGE COMPANIES tell us to do? Diamonds Rings for women were started by a COMPANY in the 1930's TO GET YOUR MONEY - guess what? THEY are STILL telling YOU what to do (and getting your money) Care to CHANGE?! Diamonds will cost you forever :…

Acute Apothem

Day 42 of 365 • 11th February, 2006

Saturday groove - kickin' back on a cool February day - very cool :)

Particular Polyhedron

Day 43 of 365 • 12th February, 2006

Sunday - ah - a time to relax and also kick back! playing around with this one :)

Triangular Square

Day 44 of 365 • 13th February, 2006

Darn cold out! east coast got hit with the worst storm in many years - Indian song with some add ons :)

Never Perfect Circle

Day 45 of 365 • 14th February, 2006

Happy Valentines Day to one and all! :) today is the day of love - may all your dreams and wishes come true (sounds to much like a greeting card) LOL :)

3.14159265358979323846 Pi Is Feeling Squared

Day 46 of 365 • 15th February, 2006

Pi is a nice fellow, but he's often confused - he's very well rounded :) but often times he gets called a 'square' by the others in his domain.

Scarlet Triangle

Day 47 of 365 • 16th February, 2006

Most people don’t know the extent of Nathaniel Hawthorne's true identity - in the 1800's he was in fact a secret German physicist who worked for the Kaiser - the real first draft of his work was really called the Scarlet Triangle - this is an homage to the true origin this fam…

Unilateral Quadrilateral Love

Day 48 of 365 • 17th February, 2006

Here is a poem by: Crawford, Isabella Valancy (1850-1887) - LATE LOVED - WELL LOVED

Isosceles Triangle

Day 49 of 365 • 18th February, 2006

An isosceles triangle is a triangle with (at least) two equal sides. In the figure above, the two equal sides have length and the remaining side has length . This property is equivalent to two angles of the triangle being equal. An isosceles triangle therefore has both two equ…

Borromean Got Rings

Day 50 of 365 • 19th February, 2006

WELL - I made it to 50! It has been an interesting 50 days :) I'm really glad I made it to here. I honestly had doubts if I would make it. This is a fun song with the famous TR-808 drum sounds - with three lead synth sounds - one for the verse - chorus and bridge.