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mp3 demo: Untitled
[update: file removed but you can check out some mp3s from the new album here]

Here is another demo. I don't have title for this one yet (feel free to make a suggestion). This is probably the antithesis of the last piece I posted, Skating on Europa. That was more groove oriented, entirely in 4/4 with fairly smooth transitions. This new song is rhythmically all over the map, lots of odd time signatures and syncopation and the form is pretty quirky.

The Melotron flute really gave me fits on this with intonation issues. But using a combination of a couple of samples I was able to work around it.

The voice in the background about 3:45 in to the piece is a broadcast by Edward R. Murrow. To be a little bit topical I was really looking for an old news broadcast about the Black Monday Market Crash in 1929 but I didn't have any luck with that. But the Murrow works pretty well.