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Night Loop 5 (2019)

1/31/2019

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(This video works best when viewed in the mobile version of YouTube. The "Desktop" version produces a white background in "Standard" mode, while the "Full Screen" mode uses a black background.)
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DJ Experiment 2 (2019)

1/28/2019

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(This video works best when viewed in the mobile version of YouTube. The "Desktop" version produces a white background in "Standard" mode, while the "Full Screen" mode uses a black background.)
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Soundscape No. 10 (2019)

1/26/2019

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Soundscape No. 9 (2019)

1/25/2019

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Mixing Audio and Video for Film Editing: From My Experience

1/22/2019

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When working with film editing software programs, I have to take several factors into consideration while combining audio and visuals. I primarily use Movie Maker, which Microsoft abruptly discontinued a few months ago for Windows 10. This version allows people to synchronize photographs with music, but the same does not hold true when trying to combine a musical track with video. The "Project" section of Movie Maker shows options for emphasizing music or video, as well as mixing audio and adjusting the screen aspect ratio. However, the "Fit to Music" option appears faded and unusable.    
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How do I usually fix this glaring problem of trying to match the music and visuals for a new video? I go to the "Video" tab and adjust the speed of the video according to the estimated total duration of a given musical track. Movie Maker allows speeds of anywhere from "0.125x" (slowest) to "64x" (fastest). Numbers higher or lower than these parameters triggers a warning message to adjust the film speed.

As an example, I took the following video of the Lunar Eclipse and Super Wolf Blood Moon on January 20, 2019 at 11:44 pm outside my home. The original raw footage lasted about 38 seconds with sound. I later took that video footage, removed the sound from it and (after editing the musical track in Audacity) added music to the video. Because the track lasted about 5 minutes, I had to reduce the speed of the video to about "0.130x" to try and match the music, in addition to including a visual "Fade-In" and "Fade-Out." I also added and "Anti-Shake/Wobble Correction" to stabilize the camera. The end result produced the following:  
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Battle Music 1 (2018)

1/20/2019

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Ethereal Strings Soundscape (2019)

1/17/2019

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Here is a bit of an experiment that I am doing with different musical applications and effects.  I created this track using the "Strings Pad" in the Infinite Pads smartphone app by tapping different tonal centers on the program screen, which I recorded and edited via the Lexis Audio Editor and Edjing  apps. While the original track lasted around 4 minutes, I wanted to see if I could extend and edit the track more within a stereophonic setting without producing clipping and damaging the audio track.

I used the Audacity freeware program to add a "Paulstretch" effect (referring to the Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch freeware program) of 10 times the normal duration and "Cathedral Reverb" effect to add extra nuances. The end resulted in a 41-minute track. To balance the track and help the sound move from speaker to speaker, I split the  stereo track to monaural so I could individually work on the left and right tracks (I always set the left tracks in Audacity to 100% and "Normalize" everything after editing so that listeners can get the full stereophonic quality instead of a "flat" texture.).    

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Prelude on the Name "MAURICE RAVEL" (2015)--Re-Upload

1/14/2019

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After carefully looking through the quoted materials in this piece via IMSLP, I found that the piano pieces by Ravel that I referenced were published before 1923 and are Public Domain in the US. I have removed the "Private" setting on YouTube and switched this video back to "Public." 

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Improvisation No. 4 (2018-19)

1/14/2019

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Improvisation No. 3 (2018-19)

1/13/2019

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    ​DMA. Composer of acoustic and electronic music. Pianist. Experimental film.

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