Izaak

Izaak

JOINED:48 weeks ago
PROGRESS:37

LOCATION:Logan, Utah
WEBSITE:http://www.last.fm/music/Izaak+Alexander
INFLUENCES:You can see the music I've been listening to on my last.fm user site. http://www.last.fm/user/izaakalexander

BIO:

My first 50/90. I guess I figure if I couldn't win FAWM on my first try I should tackle larger projects.

Songs: 37 ( + = Songs posted by a different Songwriter that you Collaborated on.)

		Title	Collaborators	Comments	Post date
1		Four or Five Reasons Why		11	45 weeks 1 day
2		The Day of the Dollar		8	45 weeks 2 hours
3		Three Little Pigs		17	44 weeks 6 days
4		Fear of Fire		13	44 weeks 5 days
5		Rendezvous		8	44 weeks 3 days
6	+	Nameless Woman	Izaak Outasync	14	44 weeks 1 day
7		No Reasons		8	43 weeks 6 days
8		The Lawnmower Song		7	43 weeks 6 days
9		Bandido Argentino		13	43 weeks 4 days
10		Wineglass Improvisation 7/24		9	43 weeks 1 day
11		Waterfall		5	43 weeks 12 min
12		Daylight		7	42 weeks 6 days
13		Vertigo		5	42 weeks 3 days
14		Fruit Snacks		9	41 weeks 3 days
15		Scars in the Bark		3	41 weeks 3 days
16		Losing Time		9	41 weeks 1 day
17		Song of the Redwood Tree	levesinet	13	41 weeks 18 hours
18		Two Voices		6	38 weeks 5 days
19	+	You're Sure To Find Yourself	sapient plainwhitetoast Chris Adams Roddy_ downburst Matt Blick kristian orinoco Izaak musicsongwriter Negasi	23	38 weeks 4 days
20		That City Life		4	38 weeks 2 days
21		Seven Long Years		2	38 weeks 17 hours
22		Tropical Sunset		5	38 weeks 5 hours
23		Silly Warmups for the First Day of School or...		2	37 weeks 6 days
24		If I Had a Nickel		6	37 weeks 3 days
25		Anything You Want		8	37 weeks 1 day
26		Flute Improvisation 9/13		1	35 weeks 5 days
27		Violin Improvisation 9/15		1	35 weeks 4 days
28		Trombone Improvisation (with distortion) 9/15		2	35 weeks 4 days
29		Lullaby in E minor (Ballad of The Iron Giant)		3	35 weeks 3 days
30		Burning the Man		3	35 weeks 3 days
31		Touch the Sky		5	35 weeks 1 day
32		Loved and Lost	Loved Lost EtC	9	34 weeks 6 days
33		An Antidote for Air Sickness	Chris Adams Number Six musicsongwriter downburst	4	34 weeks 3 days
34	+	Snowman transformed. Updated demo	Izaak musicsongwriter	1	34 weeks 3 days
35		Never Gonna Make It (To Fifty Songs)		5	34 weeks 4 hours
36		Jazz Walrus		5	33 weeks 6 days
37	+	Days Are Fading	nancyrost Izaak ShadyWilbury barbara hoops	6	33 weeks 5 days

Soundboard

It's been fun. See you in F.A.W.M.

levesinet

33 weeks 3 days ago

My instrumentals represented the summer season, like a snapshot. Alas, autumn happened! Besides, I was running out of bandwidth... damn Filefreak.

songsville

33 weeks 5 days ago

Yeah, they really lay it on the line with their performances, both studio and live -- FWIW, 'Uprooting' is the album I adore, their later stuff I have yet to engage with properly ...

hoops

33 weeks 5 days ago

finally!: http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/12053

your section is awesome :) love the way you use the brass against the main melody

songsville

33 weeks 6 days ago

Thanks for those nice comments. Yeah, I miss those Levesinet songs too, there were some gems for sure ... so do you wind down now until FAWM or keep ticking over during the winter?

TomS

34 weeks 1 hour ago

Thanks for the comments, Izaak! The vocals are the Delay Lama, from several years ago:

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/226.html

kylegreer

34 weeks 3 days ago

hey, izaak! thanks for all the great comments! :) i finished the notation; it's in finale. can you open finale files? i can try and see if i can save as i pdf, but i'm not sure it will work. also, i would love to be able to download demos on here without having to use a secondary site, but i'm not sure how you guys do it. suggestions? thanks! :D

musicsongwriter

34 weeks 3 days ago

Hello Izaak, I've posted our collaboration and added you. Thank you so much for your fantastic work!

musicsongwriter

34 weeks 5 days ago

Hi Izaak, both compositions are now downloadable from Soundclick.
Thank you for collaborating.

starsinmyeyes

34 weeks 5 days ago

Hi izaak, I really appreciate your interest in The Streets of York. Fingers crossed...

Kevin Emmrich

34 weeks 6 days ago

Thanks for stopping by on "Touch The Sky" I posted a demo befitting a "skirmish" (means it is pretty rough -- ha, ha).

Dawnsoap

35 weeks 7 hours ago

Thank you so much for your comments on "passing storm" and "Oh for you"! So fun to hear someone comment on the earlier songs :)

ultravioleteyejeff

35 weeks 1 day ago

Lyrics posted. Thanks for the comment! http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/11440

FenderTele71

35 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks for listening and commenting on my songs. The title Jazz Penguin actually comes from the 4 foot tall stuffed penguin that stands next to my studio computer and wears a straw Fedora. JonnieGrunge and I call him Marcel the Jazz Penguin.

hoops

35 weeks 4 days ago

hi Izaak - sorry for slow reply re: exquisite. Shady was busy and took a couple of weeks to do her bit and I've taken about a week so far (been too depressed to record, actually) but I'm the case now. Hopefully soon!

kylegreer

36 weeks 2 hours ago

izaak, thanks so much the compliment and the wonderful offer! i try to whip something up finale! definitely feel free to change the key or alter some leaps as necessary...you rock! :)

paulotteson

36 weeks 22 hours ago

Wow! You are kicking butt! I took a break to work on a different project.. but I might be able to get another one in there.. what happened to the summer right? Keep up the good work!

Rootscauseway

36 weeks 2 days ago

hey thanks for that tip about flanger and hiss....i would not know how to do that though...)) not too good at this whole recording/songwriting lark....;;;

Quote

36 weeks 4 days ago

Hey, thanks for your comment!

kathy moran

37 weeks 20 hours ago

Thanks for the comment on "I Can Breathe Beneath the Lake". Chip Withrow is working up some music for it, so hopefully there will be an audio version soon. I've been lucky to get some lyrics done this summer, let alone getting a recording done, so most of what I have gotten up this time and during fawm was lyrics. Thank goodness for collaborating friends. You're doing a great job and I'm looking forward to hearing more of your stuff.

darcistrutt

37 weeks 2 days ago

Happy you liked "Grand Reunion". It's always fun when an "old" song gets a fresh comment! Thanks for listening!

Kristi

37 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks for your nice comments on "When You're With Me." Larry did a great job with the music.

levesinet

37 weeks 6 days ago

On the melody algorithm: http://fiftyninety.fawmers.org/songs/9490#comment-51941
I'm certainly not going to generate 50 more pieces of Muzak... It's too schematic and mechanical. LOL

emkeev

37 weeks 6 days ago

Thanks for the kind comments! I actually put that one together by rote and by quick piecemeal recordings of ideas... but I do usually notate. I'd totally be down for collaboration!! Congrats on 21 songs so far... when it's not so late and work not so soon, I'll be happy to give a listen to a few of them :)

nancyrost

37 weeks 6 days ago

It's Shady's turn at our Exquisite - will check in with her about it tomorrow and move it along one way or another!

orinoco

38 weeks 6 days ago

Hey Izaak, I emailed you the correct link to the file, sorry for getting it wrong first time. Please drop me a note if you have any trouble picking it up.

Geoff

levesinet

40 weeks 1 day ago

"I'm really just a band and orchestra teacher gone bad."
Gotcha! That explains to some extent why you're so studious. ;)

helenaustin

40 weeks 4 days ago

thank you so much for the comment you left on my latest song!!

kiwafruit

40 weeks 6 days ago

Hey :)
Thanks for the feedback on the podcast. And your son was a-DOR-able hahah Hopefully they fix the jukebox so I can find new stuff. I must remember to start on that, like, now... >.<

Tom Slatter

41 weeks 3 days ago

Hi Izaak.

Re: Your questions about Focus In. I had several ideas hanging around that I threaded together for this. Each section came together independently and the sequence of recording/composing was : Rough guitar part, drums, lead rhythm bass guitar. then on to the next sections. Leads were on average two or three takes.

Tom

Comment by Izaak
Nice Tom! That might be a new challenge for me--- working in sections rather than hitting the whole song at once. We'll see.

downburst

41 weeks 5 days ago

...and on your note about the minor dominant chord. I was thinking you were talking a chord *type*, not a chord function. I never thought about the dominant in mix. being minor--interesting. I've been following your explorations of the modes with interest. I posted a song in (partly) dorian recently (the one with the Greek title, if you're interested) and am working on a mixolydian and phrygian one.

downburst

41 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks for your comment on my little song! I probably won't add anything to it, but hopefully I've learned something from it.

Paul Milne

42 weeks 4 days ago

Hi Izaak, thanks for the detailed comment on "A Modern Robin Hood". I'll definitely take your thoughts into consideration when I go to work on performing the song, and any future updates to the demo. I agree that a little instrumental interlude would act as a breather for the listener.

Calum Carlyle

43 weeks 8 hours ago

Hi, I just wanted to say sorry i haven't commented yet on your songs, i barely spend any time at home and your songs are hosted in a place that the firewall at work won't let me listen to!

Comment by Izaak
No worries. I'm less and less happy with filefreak as 50/90 goes on. I may eventually put my files elsewhere.

levesinet

43 weeks 3 days ago

I write almost every note with the mouse in FL Studio 7's piano roll view. There are some problems with the software, especially when I'd like to restructure a large score. I think a newer version would work better especially with the sound libraries. Then I have a few digital piano tracks that I just improvised (e.g. In Satie's Style I and II); they are more lively but contain many mistakes. Yesterday I wrote Bonne Nuit with the mouse and it involved drawing a tempo curve and positioning notes away from the theoretically exact beat in addition to parameterizing the cello synth. It gets cumbersome and the result is always somewhat unnatural. If I want to write a score sheet, I'll do it with LilyPond from scratch; now that's really arduous.

Your songs sound like you play all the instruments manually; or at least most of them. That's one of the main reasons why it sounds so lively and refreshing to me.

Since I'm most comfortable working with the piano roll interface, it's natural to do those mechanical music box and carousel tracks. They are the easy stuff.

talking dogs

43 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks for the nice comments/soundboard post Izaak! It means a lot to me. As I've said, I really enjoy your songs as well. I picked up the free EP you had on your Last.FM page the other day. I've played it a few times and it's really good. It's earned a place on my iPod for a while.

Number Six

43 weeks 5 days ago

I just finished cutting my lawn. Guess what I was singing as I did it.

Comment by Izaak
*laughing* I can't believe you got a locrian mode melody stuck in your head!

Leslie

44 weeks 3 hours ago

Thanks very much for the comments on my songs, Izaak. Sorry for the delayed response!

wolfkier

44 weeks 1 day ago

I'm a fan,
wolf.

Chip Withrow

44 weeks 3 days ago

Hi Izaak - just dug a couple more of your fantastic tunes! Thanks for the comment on my "Lovers Lane" song - you've inspired me to do some more work on it! I recorded it quickly during about a half-hour of free time before family descends upon us for a wild weekend. But I think I'm going to update the demo with guitar and vocal and let the banjo follow the melody more. So thanks again for the useful input.

Temily

44 weeks 3 days ago

Thanks for listening and your comment :)

TomS

44 weeks 4 days ago

Hey Izaak, again, thanks for the listens and the great comments! :)

songsville

44 weeks 4 days ago

Izaak, thanks for your nice comment -- I don't perform and I only develop songs as far as this sort of demo stage -- if i ever get round to doing a 'proper' album, and this was on it, I think I'd pretty much stick with this melody.

Rahkoi

44 weeks 5 days ago

Hey, thanks a lot for your comments on my stuff! As for your question about the style of the "game" I'm scoring/book it's based around, it's closer to steampunk than wizards and dragons. Steampunk style technology, along with some mystical hi-tech stuff that borders on being magical, is a sizeable factor in the world, and the story. So on the score, I'll be mixing electronics and "machines" with more fantasty-style stuff.

paulotteson

44 weeks 6 days ago

Hey Izaak - Thanks for the kind words on my dinocore tunes.. not going up to 50 with those, just a 10-track concept :) Looking forward to checking out yours this 50/90.

Paul Milne

44 weeks 6 days ago

Hi Izaak, thanks for the comment on "Woody" - though I had to look up "solfeggio" and realise what a clever guy I am! Glad you enjoyed it, it pretty much wrote itself (or was it Woody's Ghost?) and was great fun to sing and play.

themiller

45 weeks 3 hours ago

Thanks for the shout. 3am is updated with a rough demo.

Rootscauseway

45 weeks 7 hours ago

hey Thanks for that advice and i will try and make use of it in the forthcoming weeks.....;

TomS

45 weeks 19 hours ago

Hey, thanks for the listen and the really nice comment. I was also not sure about the ending, but, hey, this is 50/90, right? :)

songsville

45 weeks 1 day ago

Yes, that is exactly what I was going for, but I couldn't quite get it -- singing it all in one breath is a great idea, thanks!

Rootscauseway

45 weeks 1 day ago

hey, thank you also... lookin forward to hearing more of yer tunes...i get addicted to things easily and right now its fiddyninety....and smoking...

Izaak

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