Category: Music

  • Playing with Music

    Playing with AI-generated music is like going to a restaurant, looking at the menu and instead of meals, you find ingredients. You point to the waiter which ones you want mixed-and-matched. It gets cooked and prepared in the kitchen while you wait. Et voila, the dish is served and all you have to do is…

  • Trying Out BandLab Mastering

    I’ve got some old recordings of Luna and I’m trying out new ways to enhance the audio quality of the recordings. First I feed the songs to Audacity for some noise reduction and normalization then I use BandLab’s Mastering feature, using Clarity preset. This is the result, enjoy!

  • Rasyon ng Inspirasyon

    Rasyon ng Inspirasyon on YouTube Rasyon ng Inspirasyon on SoundCloud Just several months after the covid lockdown of 2020, I was already in dire need of hope. While in a life and death, sink and swim situation, a figure appeared on TV who gave me goosebumps that indeed I can rely on the government that…

  • Enhancing a Guitar Recording in Audacity

    What I’m showing in this video is a microphone recording of a guitar that’s why there’s an amount of noise. To enhance it, I apply noise reduction and normalize in Audacity.

  • Tara Kiss

    From a simple coda in the song Tingin Ngiti, comes the birth of another song, Tara Kiss. They are related yet independent. I felt like I wouldn’t have given it justice if it were to remain within the main song. It’s a story about how we, as a couple, are wooing each other after an…

  • Tingin Ngiti – Version 8

    This instrumental version of Tingin Ngiti is nearing completion. What I mean by “completion” is self-satisfaction. Satisfaction that the melodic story has run its full course. Satisfaction that parts of the song have individual subtle flavors to them — this was done by sprinkling and interjecting chords and notes that I wanted to try. Without…

  • Tingin Ngiti

    Right before I was about to finish New Song 4, my muse already gifted me a new melody to mull over. And here I find myself almost every morning continuing the tune, branching out, going back and forth, shining a light into a path that I am paving at the same time. I’ll be updating…