Variations on the previous theme, in which the Princess discovers mutually recursive magic mirrors. Another invoking the Holy Trinity/Triforce of (toad, princess, triforce). We leave the rest of the tale up to your imaginations. Besides that I am behind on all musical projects. I did participate in a livecoding workshop at Resonance Ghent, but have [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] 2009_03_15_b This is the first draft for a space balladishy sounding song, I haven’t decided on lyrics yet for it, my intention is to add lyrics and clean it up, spice it up and sweeten it up. I had a lot of technical problems trying to record it [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] echo-lounge-vol-3 This beat was made on Reason.  It starts out with a Miles Davis sample.  I added some bass and drums, then a high pitch-bent synth.  There is a breakdown which involves some echo drums noises.  Then I added another gritty synth and some steal drum noises.  Some [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Friday the 13th post! WOOOO! Fortunately, I got this done over the last two days. I wanted something slow, spacy, and without a strong beat, and it ended up being neat. In terms of my skillset, this track has two points – to try to combine my improvisational [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] action rap We’ve been talking about doing more collaboration on Hella Gems, so I decided to proceed unilaterally. There was part of Kelly G’s “Another for the Video Game” song (aka “action”) that I immediately thought could become a cool epic Dirty South rap beat if I slowed [...]

This is my first attempt at making a dirty south style rap beat. So far, I’ve found that the keys to making a good pitched snare roll, are to pick the right drum sound, and to transpose the drums by the proper interval. I think a splashy, hissy, fairly broadband snare sound works well. Of [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] chiprun I wanted to make the most 8bit sounding song I could and this is what I came up with. I used all the classic free VSTs that make creating video game music so easy: Toad, Peach, Syntendo.  The drums are a simple bass and snare sound, with high [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] believerse This is something that me and a friend have started working on for a new project. It’s just the part with my verse. We’re still working on it. Thanks for listening! -Donny Jarko

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 I did this sitting in the Georgia Tech Library (pic) over the past few hours. This is more in the “poodleface” vein than the “erf” vein, though really it goes back even further to a group I was/is in with my friend Joe (he of “Six [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] swimming_in_the_air I made this song a few years ago. I heard this song again after forgetting about it and thought it was worth sharing. I’d like to get some feedback on it. I’m posting this song as a kick off to more songs with lyrics coming from me. [...]