Saturday, December 17, 2016

Cover Song Video Project

I finally got a microphone to record with. I'm an avid listener of Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds. His music mostly features piano, strings, and sometimes electronics and is often very minimalist. I got a hold of some of his sheet music for free on his website! I discovered that much of his music sounds really fantastic played on vibraphone. The simplicity and tempos of his music makes a perfect transcription to vibraphone. I decided to record every single part to his piece called Near Light on my vibraphone. I also bought a couple of string bass bows on eBay to play the string parts. This is pretty much my first attempt at music recording and video editing. I learned a ton of things about both topics just from getting to try things out on my own. I'm pretty happy with the result. After 10 months of completing the vibraphone and moving it 900 miles, it's still sounding and functioning great. Feel free to leave a comment on the YouTube page.