Moxie

I made a new song called "Moxie." It's based off a harpsichord line, which I covered with a pile of effects and a square wave solo. Hope you like it!

New Vids on YouTube!

Yup, I got some music on YouTube after an eon or two. Here goes:

Stand!: This is the Panda Plays Punk way of making "inspirational" music. Piano, strings, fake synth-junk, and those poorly made keyboard-derived drums. 

Stargazer: This is a song from my band, Cracked Perspective, which I have put up here before. The change: I have some art that goes with the song, and I now have the intention of putting the song on iTunes. Please comment on YouTube if you can; I'm using the critiques I get there to decide when/how I'll release this.  Update: It's live! http://kidinthestudio.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-music.html

Life of a Robot

Another song!

I believe this is my tenth song. This one's actually in 6/8 time, and has a little square riff. I might add a bit of a bitcrusher effect to the vocals, get a bit of a robot voice - it's called "Life of a ROBOT," so...

I'm a human robot these days

Every day is the same

Nothing's now and nothing's changed, 

I do the same thing every day

Think there's something out there for me

But no one lets me see

My time is wasting, bit by bit

There's nothing I can do about it

Living life________

With no purpose

Did not die________

But still totally lifeless

(quieter)

I know I can be someone great

But no one lets me prove it

Just bore myself to death each day

In a world that's too small to fit

(gradually get louder)

Find my life_______

Some new purpose

I won't die_______

Thinking there's something I had missed

I'm a human robot today

Every day is the same

But that won't be for long, I say

Forget the map, find my own way

Know there's something out there for me

That no one let me me see

Not just going to idly sit

I'm on a quest to go and find it...

There you have it. How is it? 

Downpour

http://soundcloud.com/kidinthestudio/downpour
This is a classic kidinthestudio piece (my school music teacher is particular about the word "song" on a thing with no lyrics). It's got a rolling piano riff, a string background, and a truckload of synths and effects.
Hope you like it!

Reality Check, The Instrumental + The Remix Instrumental

Here is the music to "Reality Check", this song I wrote.
I also put up the instrumental to a synthed-up remix version . It's called "Reality Check 2.0"
Hope you like it!

Over the Edge

Another morbid song. Woo. And there's more coming, too. I don't know why I can't write remotely happy stuff. I might have a sense of humor, but that's not going in the music; I'm not Blink 182.
This song has a nice little square lead in C minor; (after playing Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity, in an orchestra-I'm a violinist, if you don't know-that has become my space-war key) and is about a random kid's extreme paranoia. (Morbid? Yes. Scary? Likely. Will it sell? Maybe.) But enough pointless digressions. Let's get to the song.

I don't know what is wrong these days, I never can relax,

I see only anxiety, I'm surprised I'm not collapsed

Look behind my shoulder, my panic's set to "max,"

I feel like I'm stepping on a million sidewalk cracks

I cannot be my myself unless I'm safely out of sight,

I see someone that's to my left, I tiptoe to the right

I'm scared of all my fears but it seems just out of spite

I am also scared of telling someone of my plight

(Chorus)

I must've gone over the edge

The fears possessing me,

Are slowly eating me inside

They are my end-to-be

I think they call it paranoia

but I disagree

I say it's called be being chased 

By ghosts that you can't see

Don't be offended if I doubt you, please just understand,

I'm scared of you and all your friends, the panic's all I have

I might look sane, it's all a game,  it's in my master plan,

To hide your eyes from the facts, I'm lunatic, I'm mad

(Square synth solo)

(Chorus)

I think that I've been round the bend for far, far, far too long

So I've sent my plea of help to you in some kind of a song,

Help me before I decide I'd better pass along

So I won't have these specters haunting me forever on....

(Chorus)

(Chorus)

Yup. Morbid. As are all my songs. The problem is that political songs can get cheesy, I haven't had a girlfriend since kindergarten, and I don't have enough street cred to do those get-outta-my-way-puny-opponents thingies that rappers do a lot. So I write about people tearing themselves to bits Edgar Allen Poe style. That's my lame excuse.

Flight

Super morbid song. It's all about death, war and dreams.


(Sparse, quiet electronic loop only, echo-y voice)
I live without the strife
Above the fear and the lies
But the goal of life
Is how I wish I could fly

My dreams tell all I know
They are the star of the show
And they say I must go 
To where the birds may roam

(Chorus)
(Simple Bass, Piano - ditch echo for chorus)
Ooh, Oh I wish I could Fly
Ooh, Oh I wish I could fly
Ooh, I will do or I'll die...
...Oh, I wish I could fly

(Back to sparse loop & echoes)
The feds have sent me a call
A war is on, they want all
I'll walk myself down the hall
Yet I feel it's my fall

I'm looking out in the dawn
I'm in a jet with a bomb
To kill a man for his wrongs
And leave his family to long...

(Chorus)
(Back to Simple Bass/Piano)

(Violin Solo w/ bass & piano)

(Add Violin in background)
My plane is hit, I'm going down
Oh, I won't see again my town
I feel the sweat on my crown
I never thought I'd die now.......(stop background - only sparse piano chords)

(Final Chorus)
No, Now I never will fly
No, Now I never will fly
No, The war has killed me 'fore I tried
I have not done but I have died (piano chord for last note)


So yeah...Morbid.
This is only my second song...so...yeah...

Experment

I'm a violinist of five years. I also have a keyboard, complete with synth. Which gets me wondering, "What if I could hook up, say, a distortion pedal to my violin?" I guess I could hook a mic up to a pedal and play my violin into the mic, or maybe I could buy myself an electric violin. How much cash would that force me to raise?