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Project Happy Days

Sophia Reinhardt

Project Happy Days for Two-Channel Fixed Media (2017) emerges from a creepy texture that develops into a peppy exploration of recorded audio, distortion effects, spatialization, and several software synthesizers native to Logic Pro X. The title is a bit of a misnomer: upon reading it before hearing the piece, one would expect a happy tune; instead the piece opens with the distressed wailing of sirens. However, a happy little melody does emerge eventually, playing over the sirens and pushing them to the background. This interplay stands as a metaphor for the way in which happiness can be achieved despite not-so-happy situations.
This piece was created in the Composers’ Studio at Linfield College using Logic Pro X software synthesizers and pre-recorded audio.

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bioluminescence

Grey Patterson
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Kristen Huth, vibraphone; Pedro Graterol, viola; Hannah Terrell, cello; Keelan Wells, mixed percussion; Sophia Reinhardt, conductor
Bioluminescence is inspired by the experience of diving in Puget Sound after sunset. The water swells to life with bioluminescent microorganisms – every move you make is trailed by a swarm of glowing blue lights.
The piece follows the course of a dive – walking from the shore to the water, swimming out to the dive site, and then the descent. Underwater is a very different world compared to our normal lives; you can see your own breaths drifting away, or get a taste of what it’s like to walk on the moon. But in the end, returning to the surface is a must; accordingly, the piece comes to a close with a mirroring of the opening motions.

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GSV Empiricist

Grey Patterson

The GSV Empiricist, or General Systems Vehicle Empiricist is a ship in Iain M. Banks’ Culture series of novels. In its first physical appearance, the Empiricist is described as having “no single outer hull surrounding [its] hundreds of individual components, just colossal bubbles of air held in place by field enclosures.” And it’s enormous:

Comfortably over two hundred kilometres long even by the most conservative of measurement regimes, fabulously, ellipsoidally rotund, dazzling with multiple sun-lines and tiny artificial stars providing illumination for motley steps and levels and layers of riotous vegetation – belonging, strictly speaking, on thousands of different worlds spread across the galaxy – boasting hundreds of contrasting landscapes from the most mathematically manicured to the most (seemingly) pristinely, savagely wild, all contained on slab-storeys of components generally kilometres high.

In short, it’s a mobile city with a population of ten billion, and I wanted to try to capture a little bit of that scene here. In truth, exploring a space this vast would take hours, even moving incredibly quickly, so I composed the work from the perspective of a static drone, observing the passage of this behemoth. The piece moves throughout the ship, bringing forth several novel acoustic spaces.
(Both quotations are from Iain M. Banks’ The Hydrogen Sonata.)

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The Capstone Series

As I’ve mentioned, I’m in the process of wrapping up a four-year pair of degrees: a BS in computer science, for which I built and released an iOS Application, and a BA in music with a focus on composition. My capstone project for the latter was to put together a concert of pieces that I’d composed; rather than do that alone, I joined forces with one of my fellow composition students, Sophia Reinhardt.
Between the two of us, we managed to do it, creating enough music for an entire concert. I’m still a little amazed, to be honest; putting together a concert is a lot of work!
It’s done, now, and after taking a bit of time to catch my breath, I’m following it up by creating a digital version that I can share with the folks who couldn’t make it in person.1
Since the majority of the pieces were done as digital audio, this actually isn’t all too hard to do, just a matter of putting together information about them and getting the files compressed into MP3 format and whatnot. For the pieces that were performed live, we were able to get video and audio recordings, and I’ve done my best to put them together in a nice way.2
This post will serve as the index; I’ll be releasing the rest one a day for the next ten days. Each post will include some information about the piece, including which of the two of us composed it, who performed the live pieces, and what the program notes for it were.
Without further ado:
1. GSV Empiricist
2. bioluminescence
3. Project Happy Days
4. A Prairie
5. One Giant Leap
6. flight,
7. somnus
8. Halcyon
9. Five After Six
10. Variations on the Theme of Life

  1. Friends and family that live in other states, for example; turns out plane tickets are still expensive, and science still hasn’t figured out how to build teleporters. Somebody should get on that. ↩
  2. For reference, I’m writing this post before I’ve actually done that bit of video editing, so hopefully Future Grey will have done a good job. ↩
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Playlist of the Month: April 2018

This month’s playlist is pretty short, which is possibly related to the fact that I’ve listened to something like 150 episodes of a new podcast’s backlog in the past couple of weeks.
Coming Down – Bon Iver
Silence (feat. Khalid) – Marshmello
Lost In the World (feat. Bon Iver) – Kanye West
Punching in a Dream (Stripped) – The Naked and Famous
Free – Kidswaste1
In The Flames – DJDS
I Like Me Better – Lauv
Opps – Vince Staples, Yugen Blakrok
No Church in the Wild (feat. Frank Ocean & The-Dream) – JAY Z & Kanye West
Seaside – Haux
Caves – Haux
Homegrown – Haux
The War – Haux
Friends (Under the Influence) – Majik
27 – Majik
Love Lies – Khalid & Normani
Talk to Me – Majik
Save Me – Majik
How It Is – Majik
Paralysed (Skeleton Mix) – Majik
It’s Alright – Majik
Kings and Queens and Vagabonds – Ellem
The Weight – Amber Run2
Beretta Lake (Listen2Liri Remix) [feat. SAINt JHN] – Teflon Sega3
Bloodsport – Raleigh Ritchie
Praying – Pentatonix4

  1. Proud moment this month: had this song playing on the speakers, overheard my roommate asking Siri what song this was. ↩
  2. I haven’t actually listened to the rest of this EP yet, and I need to get around to it, but iTunes is having Issues with it and I haven’t had the time to fix that yet. ↩
  3. I’ll take “songs I found because I somehow followed an EDM Bro(TM) on Instagram and he posts stuff to his story” for $500, Alex ↩
  4. It took me… longer than I’d like to admit to figure out why this was familiar. I’m mad at myself for disrespecting Kesha like that. ↩
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“Personalized Hey Siri”

Apple Machine Learning Journal:

In addition to the speaker vectors, we also store on the phone the “Hey Siri” portion of their corresponding utterance waveforms. When improved transforms are deployed via an over-the-air update, each user profile can then be rebuilt using the stored audio.

The most Apple-like way to continuously improve that I can think of. More interesting, though, is this bit later on:

The network is trained using the speech vector as an input and the corresponding 1-hot vector for each speaker as a target.

To date, ‘personalized Hey Siri’ has meant “the system is trained to recognize only one voice.” That quote, though, sounds like they’re working on multiple-user support; which, with the HomePod, they really should be.

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Playlist of the Month: March 2018

The other day I walked by the park and saw a man trying to play frisbee with himself, and I can’t tell if that’s more or less sad than the fact that I spent all of Spring Break at home doing homework.
Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) – The Weeknd
Coming Down – Bon Iver
Silence (feat. Khalid) – Marshmello
Lost In the World (feat. Bon Iver) – Kanye West
Say It First – Sam Smith
Punching in a Dream (Stripped) – The Naked and Famous
Free – Kidswaste
Down – Marian Hill
Cheap Thrills – Boyce Avenue
Daya – Lane 8
This Is What You Came For – Boyce Avenue
We Don’t Talk Anymore (feat. Selena Gomez) – Charlie Puth
In The Flames – DJDS
I Like Me Better – Lauv1
Move Along – The All-American Rejects2
Avril 14th – Aphex Twin
Redemption – Zacari, Babes Wodumo
Opps – Vince Staples, Yugen Blakrok3
Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Everyday, Everyday (feat. Nevve) – Manila Killa
Begin (feat. Wales) – Shallou
Breathe (feat. Ina Wroldsen) – Jax Jones
No Church in the Wild (feat. Frank Ocean & The-Dream) – JAY Z & Kanye West4
Seaside – Haux
Caves – Haux
Supernova – Ansel Elgort5
Savage 2.0 (feat. Nessly & Nyne) – Paces
Homegrown – Haux
Shape of You – Ed Sheeran
The War – Haux
By My Side (feat. Tedy) – MitiS
Final Song – MØ
Friends (Under the Influence) – Majik6
27 – Majik
Love Lies – Khalid & Normani
Talk to Me – Majik
Save Me – Majik
How It Is – Majik
Paralysed (Skeleton Mix) – Majik
It’s Alright – Majik
Kings and Queens and Vagabonds – Ellem7

  1. One day I’m going to look up the actual lyrics, but for now I’m quite happy with the ways I’m mishearing it, because it’s pretty funny. ↩
  2. #throwback ↩
  3. Fun fact: the version in the movie is just slightly faster than this one ↩
  4. I didn’t realize until I was putting this post together that this was on the Great Gatsby soundtrack. That was a good soundtrack. ↩
  5. Ansel Elgort is one of those people who I just cannot disassociate from a character he played, and I haven’t even seen the movie. ↩
  6. Can you tell that I just now remembered that I love Majik? File this under “me, suddenly remembering that I’ve got Apple Music now and can just download every song someone has ever made” ↩
  7. I found this because my friend was watching some Netflix show about a bunch of queens fighting about catholicism or something ↩
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Playlist of the Month: February 2018

This is a bit late! It’s because I had the plague.
Saturn – Sleeping At Last
Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) – The Weeknd
Coming Down – Bon Iver
Silence (feat. Khalid) – Marshmello
Freehand – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Lost In the World (feat. Bon Iver) – Kanye West
Vantablack – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Dancer – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Say It First – Sam Smith
Punching in a Dream (Stripped) – The Naked and Famous
Free – Kidswaste
Down – Marian Hill
Cheap Thrills – Boyce Avenue
Daya – Lane 8
Stir Me Up – Lane 8
This Is What You Came For – Boyce Avenue
Atlas – Lane 8
Skin & Bones (feat. Patrick Baker) – Lane 8
First Time – Elderbrook1
Open Your Eyes – School of Seven Bells
Second 2 None (feat. Christine and the Queens) – Mura Masa
One Dance – Boyce Avenue
We Don’t Talk Anymore (feat. Selena Gomez) – Charlie Puth
Say Goodbye – Cheat Codes
In The Flames – DJDS
I Like Me Better – Lauv
Move Along – The All-American Rejects2
Avril 14th – Aphex Twin
Redemption – Zacari, Babes Wodumo
Opps – Vince Staples, Yugen Blakrok3
Havana – Pentatonix4

  1. I really like this song, but I’ve gotta say, it’s too upbeat for me when I’m dying of the plague. And not in a “I can only have sad music while I die!” way, in a “it genuinely hurt to listen to because it was too energetic” way. ↩
  2. I can’t remember what got this song stuck in my head, but I do remember when I first got it – not only long enough ago that Shazam didn’t exist, but long enough ago that “type the lyrics into Google” wasn’t a go-to tactic yet either. It was difficult to find. ↩
  3. I haven’t seen the movie yet, and if anyone spoils anything about it, I will not hesitate to murder you. ↩
  4. The music video for this is the first time I realized that Pentatonix had replaced Avi, and while I know it makes sense that they’d need a new bass, I’m still taking it as a personal insult. ↩
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Playlist of the Month: January 2018

A lot of my comments at the start of these playlists are along the lines of “how did all that time happen,” you’d think by now I’d have figured out how it works, but no.
Saturn – Sleeping At Last
Nobody Else Will Be There – The National
Slow It Down – The Lumineers
Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) – The Weeknd
Coming Down – Bon Iver
Silence (feat. Khalid) – Marshmello
5AM – Amber Run
Freehand – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Stranger Things (feat. OneRepublic) – Kygo
Pteryla – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Ontario – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Earth – Sleeping At Last
Anatome – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Shadow and a Dancer – The Fray
Lost In the World (feat. Bon Iver) – Kanye West & Bon Iver
Vantablack – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Big Yellow Taxi – Counting Crows1
Little Talks – Of Monsters and Men
Amateur Blood – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Dancer – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
(Depart from Me, You Who Are Cursed) – Blueneck
Little House – The Fray
Say It First – Sam Smith
Punching in a Dream (Stripped) – The Naked and Famous2
Cavalry – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Cold – Novo Amor
Never Say Never – The Fray
Free – Kidswaste
Higher (Stripped) – The Naked and Famous
Down – Marian Hill
Last Forever (Stripped) – The Naked and Famous
O Superman (For Massenet) – Laurie Anderson3
Cheap Thrills – Boyce Avenue
Over – Julien Baker4
Daya – Lane 8
Stir Me Up – Lane 8
Appointments – Julien Baker
This Is What You Came For – Boyce Avenue5
Atlas – Lane 8
Skin & Bones (feat. Patrick Baker) – Lane 8
Don’t Let Me Down – Boyce Avenue
First Time – Elderbrook
Open Your Eyes – School of Seven Bells
Second 2 None (feat. Christine and the Queens) – Mura Masa
One Dance – Boyce Avenue

  1. Because sometimes you need a throwback, y’know? ↩
  2. There’s a couple other ‘stripped’ versions of stuff by them on this list, but this is the best one. ↩
  3. This piece is just so delightfully weird, and so quintessentially 1980s, I love it. ↩
  4. Go listen to the Song Exploder episode about this one. ↩
  5. I found this album by way of the background music to an Instagram video, and I’m remembering that I tend to prefer covers of popular songs over the originals. ↩
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Playlist of the Month: December 2017

Good lord, it’s already 2018. Hopefully I’ll be able to stop accidentally putting “2014” as the date on stuff sometime soon.
Haze – Amber Run
Take Five – Patrik Almkvisth1
Waves – Hayden Calnin
Saturn – Sleeping At Last
Work Song – Hozier
Nobody Else Will Be There – The National
I Took a Pill in Ibiza – Mike Posner
715 – CRΣΣKS – Bon Iver
Unsteady – X Ambassadors
Heathens (feat. MUTEMATH) – twenty one pilots2
Slow It Down – The Lumineers
Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) – The Weeknd
Coming Down – Bon Iver
Silence (feat. Khalid) – Marshmello
Ocean Eyes – Billie Eilish
Cleopatra – The Lumineers
Kusanagi – ODESZA
Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes) – Kim Carnes3
Betty Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes
5AM – Amber Run
Freehand – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Come to Me (Ofenbach Remix Radio Edit) – Lily & Madeleine
Stranger Things (feat. OneRepublic) – Kygo
Pteryla – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Ontario – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Earth – Sleeping At Last
Weaving Spiders Come Not Here – Blueneck
The Forbidden Spark – Collapse Under the Empire
Lilitu – Blueneck4
Anatome – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Shadow and a Dancer – The Fray
Here (In Your Arms) – Hellogoodbye
Lost In the World (feat. Bon Iver) – Kanye West & Bon Iver
Christmas Eve / Sarajevo (Instrumental) [Remastered] – Trans-Siberian Orchestra5
Vantablack – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett

  1. “Why are you still posting playlists on your blog when you can just share them through Apple Music?” well you see, this song isn’t available anywhere, and if a song isn’t on Apple Music, then Apple Music’s playlist sharing pretends that it doesn’t exist and there was never anything there to start with ↩
  2. Yeah, I am the reason that’s stuck in your head again. Sorry. ↩
  3. Sometimes you just need some 80s, y’know? ↩
  4. My current description of Blueneck is “the sound of Seasonal Affective Disorder” ↩
  5. It’s practically obligatory; that said, don’t try to grab this whole album, because it’s like nine hours long and randomly interspersed with a reading of some Christmas story or another, which is really surprising when you just hit shuffle and expected Christmas music for an hour or so. ↩
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Playlist of the Month: November 2017

You know that point in the school year when time loses all meaning? I’ve been there for weeks. Or possibly years.
Haze – Amber Run
Cruise (Feat. Andrew Jackson) – Kygo
Take Five – Patrik Almkvisth
Animals – Tamu Massif
Black Or White – Yoe Mase
Waves – Hayden Calnin
Dancing In The Dark – Imagine Dragons
Saturn – Sleeping At Last
Work Song – Hozier
Bike Dream – Rostam
Nobody Else Will Be There – The National
I Took a Pill in Ibiza – Mike Posner
715 – CRΣΣKS – Bon Iver
Unsteady – X Ambassadors
Heathens (feat. MUTEMATH) – twenty one pilots
Lust for Life (feat. The Weeknd) – Lana Del Rey
Sober – Lorde
Slow It Down – The Lumineers
Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) – The Weeknd
Green Light – Lorde
Thatch Snow – Rostam
You and I – Toro y Moi
Coming Down – Bon Iver
Silence (feat. Khalid) – Marshmello
So Clear (feat. Meeka Kates) – Kraak & Smaak
Do I Wanna Know? – CHVRCHES
ocean eyes – Billie Eilish
Cleopatra – The Lumineers
Kusanagi – ODESZA
Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten – English Chamber Orchestra & Nigel Short1
Escapar – Enrique Iglesias2
Hero – Enrique Iglesias
Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes) – Kim Carnes
Betty Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes
5AM – Amber Run
Freehand – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Come to Me (Ofenbach Remix Radio Edit) – Lily & Madeleine
Stranger Things (feat. OneRepublic) – Kygo
Broken Glass – Rachel Platten
Pteryla – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Silvery – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Ontario – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Earth – Sleeping At Last
Weaving Spiders Come Not Here – Blueneck3
The Forbidden Spark – Collapse Under the Empire
Lilitu – Blueneck
Welcome to the Jungle – Novo Amor
Anatome – Novo Amor & Ed Tullett
Scars – Sam Smith
Shadow and a Dancer – The Fray

  1. Pärt and Britten are my favorite composers, how did it take me this long to find out this piece exists ↩
  2. The lyrics in the Spanish version are exactly as creepy as the ones in the English version. ↩
  3. It’s properly winter now, which means it’s time for the Music of Desolation ↩
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Playlist of the Month: October 2017

By my estimates, it has been roughly 96 days since the end of September.
Smoke Filled Room (Acoustic) – Mako
Haze – Amber Run
Wastelands – Amber Run
Cruise (Feat. Andrew Jackson) – Kygo
All We Need – Fyfe
Take Five – Patrik Almkvisth
Animals – Tamu Massif
Black Or White – Yoe Mase
Sugar for the Pill – Slowdive
Waves – Hayden Calnin
Dancing In The Dark – Imagine Dragons
One Man Band – Albin Lee Meldau
No Answers (Acoustic) – Amber Run
Dark Side Of The Gym – The National
Carin At The Liquor Store – The National
Walk On Water – Thirty Seconds to Mars1
Say You Love Me – The Nor’easters
Falling Ashes – Slowdive
All Boundaries Are Conventions – Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil
White Mustang – Lana Del Rey
Saturn – Sleeping At Last
Firefly – BANNERS
Kesselring – Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil
Work Song – Hozier2
Bloodshot – Albin Lee Meldau
Cherry – Lana Del Rey3
Bike Dream – Rostam
Nobody Else Will Be There – The National
Sleep Well Beast – The National
I Took a Pill in Ibiza – Mike Posner4
715 – CRΣΣKS – Bon Iver
Unsteady – X Ambassadors
Gold Dust – BANNERS
Heathens (feat. MUTEMATH) – twenty one pilots
Lust for Life (feat. The Weeknd) – Lana Del Rey5
Dancing on My Own – Pentatonix
Sober – Lorde
EOS – Rostam
Warning Intruders – Rostam
When – Rostam
Slow It Down – The Lumineers6
Her Diamonds – Rob Thomas
Never Going To Catch Me – Rostam
Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) – The Weeknd7
Green Light – Lorde
Thatch Snow – Rostam
You and I – Toro y Moi
Coming Down – Bon Iver
Silence (feat. Khalid) – Marshmello8
So Clear (feat. Meeka Kates) – Kraak & Smaak
Do I Wanna Know? – CHVRCHES
ocean eyes – Billie Eilish
Cleopatra – The Lumineers
Kusanagi – ODESZA9

  1. I described this to someone as “centrist propaganda” the other day, and I stand by that remark. ↩
  2. A text message I sent a couple weeks ago:
    “Man I’m listening to “Work Song” and it’s creepier than I thought, like, ‘when my time comes around/ lay me in gently in the cold dark earth/ no grave can hold my body down/ I’ll crawl home to her’
    “like she’s just at home mourning the death of her beloved husband and his corpse crawls through the front door? that’s some Edgar Allen Poe shit right there” ↩
  3. I wish I could copy/paste the iTunes ‘explicit’ symbol in here, because honestly this song is just four minutes of Lana Del Rey cussing someone out ↩
  4. I wonder if Avicii heard this song and called Mike Posner like “oh my god dude I’m sorry I didn’t mean to pressure you, are you okay?” ↩
  5. This song has a nice melody for singing along to, but then you realize you’re walking down the street going “take off, take off, take off all your clothes” over and over ↩
  6. I think this song signifies fall in the same way that Blueneck signifies winter. ↩
  7. You don’t really notice until you try to sing along, but dang does this guy have a high voice ↩
  8. Probably my most-played song this month ↩
  9. This song is great for when you need a nap but only have time to put your head down for a couple minutes, it’s really relaxing. Also, I’m exhausted. ↩
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Playlist of the Month: September 2017

I have so much that I need to do and so little time; does anyone know where I can buy a time turner?
Smoke Filled Room (Acoustic) – Mako
Haze – Amber Run
Wastelands – Amber Run
Cruise (Feat. Andrew Jackson) – Kygo
All We Need – Fyfe
Take Five – Patrik Almkvisth1
Better Man (Feat. Peter Gregson & Iskra String Quartet) – Fyfe
Animals – Tamu Massif
Thunder – Imagine Dragons
Black Or White – Yoe Mase
Sugar for the Pill – Slowdive
Waves – Hayden Calnin
Miracles (Someone Special) – Coldplay & Big Sean
A L I E N S – Coldplay
Dancing In The Dark – Imagine Dragons
Drive Slow – LUCASV
Hymn – Kesha
Praying – Kesha
Boots – Kesha2
One Man Band – Albin Lee Meldau
Chandelier – Sia
No Answers (Acoustic) – Amber Run
Drugs – Roach Gigz feat. DB The General3
Nirvana – TheSamLao
Rainbow – Kesha
Hunt You Down – Kesha
Dark Side Of The Gym – The National
Broken Glass – Sia
Carin At The Liquor Store – The National
Learn To Let Go – Kesha
Don’t Believe In Love – Mr.PottyMouth
Walk On Water – Thirty Seconds to Mars
Say You Love Me – The Nor’easters
Fools – The Nor’easters
Falling Ashes – Slowdive
All Boundaries Are Conventions – Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil
I Found (Acoustic) – Amber Run
White Mustang – Lana Del Rey
Saturn – Sleeping At Last
Firefly – BANNERS
Countdowns – Sleeping At Last
Kesselring – Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil
Work Song – Hozier
Bloodshot – Albin Lee Meldau
Cherry – Lana Del Rey
Bike Dream – Rostam
Space Between – Sia
Born To Beg – The National
Change – Lana Del Rey
Nobody Else Will Be There – The National4
The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness – The National
Sleep Well Beast – The National
No Longer Making Time – Slowdive
New York – St. Vincent5
Breakdown – Jack Johnson
I Took a Pill in Ibiza – Mike Posner
Skinny Love – Bon Iver
715 – CRΣΣKS – Bon Iver6

  1. One of my favorite things about this one is watching people try to pronounce the guy’s last name. ↩
  2. This is a great one if you’re missing that “classic Ke$ha” feel. And yes, spelling it “Ke$ha” instead of “Kesha” was deliberate. ↩
  3. At this point I’m just keeping this in here because it’s fun to have one song that really doesn’t fit the vibe of the rest. ↩
  4. Probably my favorite off this album, although “The System Only dreams in Total Darkness” is also very good. ↩
  5. “What, do you have a Song Exploder playlist?” – Chase ↩
  6. So, I use Workflow to automate the process of making these posts, because otherwise it’d take me a couple hours each time. The long and short of it is that it uses the iTunes Store’s search stuff, by dumping the full title of the song in, and then lets me choose the right one from a list.
    Somehow, given the full title of this song, iTunes’ search was unable to find anything, and I am utterly baffled by how that happened. ↩
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Playlist of the Month: August 2017

Classes have started and everything happens too much
Smoke Filled Room (Acoustic) – Mako
Killer Queen – FIL BO RIVA
22 (OVER S∞∞N) – Bon Iver
Haze – Amber Run
Wastelands – Amber Run
Cruise (Feat. Andrew Jackson) – Kygo
Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone
One More Light – LINKIN PARK
Dreams – Sunday
VPN ft Palmistry – Mr. Mitch
All We Need – Fyfe
Take Five – Patrik Almkvisth1
Better Man (Feat. Peter Gregson & Iskra String Quartet) – Fyfe
Zero Summer – Dirty Nice
Animals – Tamu Massif
The Roman Call – Beshken
Thunder – Imagine Dragons2
The Ends and the Means – Robby Hecht
Leave out All the Rest – LINKIN PARK
Black Or White – Yoe Mase
Borders – Fyfe
Sugar for the Pill – Slowdive3
Waves – Hayden Calnin
Miracles (Someone Special) – Coldplay & Big Sean
A L I E N S – Coldplay
Walking The Wire – Imagine Dragons
Dancing In The Dark – Imagine Dragons
Drive Slow – LUCASV
Hymn – Kesha4
Overgrown – Oh Wonder
All I Can Think About Is You – Coldplay
Praying – Kesha
Boots – Kesha
One Man Band – Albin Lee Meldau
Chandelier – Sia
No Answers (Acoustic) – Amber Run
New York – St. Vincent
Drugs – Roach Gigz feat. DB The General5
Nirvana – TheSamLao6
Rainbow – Kesha

  1. Seriously, this song is so calming ↩
  2. I just really like this one. “Now I’m smiling from the stage while/You were clapping in the nose bleeds” ↩
  3. Another very calming song, I recommend it. ↩
  4. Kesha is the only person that ever makes me think “yas queen” ↩
  5. My sister played this while she was visiting and it got stuck in my head immediately. Which is okay overall, because I think it’s a pretty hilarious song. ↩
  6. Another one I can blame/thank my sister for. ↩
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Playlist of the Month: July 2017

I actually remembered to do this on time so it would post on time! That’s a rare thing, you’d think I’d have a repeating reminder in Things by now or something.
Smoke Filled Room (Acoustic) – Mako
Killer Queen – FIL BO RIVA
22 (OVER S∞∞N) – Bon Iver
Real – Majik
Haze – Amber Run
Wastelands – Amber Run
Go (feat. Ed Droste) – Woodkid
Cruise (Feat. Andrew Jackson) – Kygo
Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone
Battle Symphony – LINKIN PARK
Changed – JP Saxe
One More Light – LINKIN PARK1
Dreams – Sunday
Hope For Something – Panama
Hold Up, Rewind – Close Talker
48 Hours – Triangle Park
High On Humans – Oh Wonder
Parties – Jake Miller
Goodpain – YOKE LORE
VPN ft Palmistry – Mr. Mitch
All We Need – Fyfe
Take Five – Patrik Almkvisth
Better Man (Feat. Peter Gregson & Iskra String Quartet) – Fyfe2
Zero Summer – Dirty Nice
Make a Move – St. Humain
Animals – Tamu Massif
The Roman Call – Beshken
Thunder – Imagine Dragons
Holding On – GHOST LOFT
The Ends and the Means – Robby Hecht3
Leave Out All the Rest – LINKIN PARK4

  1. This song is even sadder now than it used to be. ↩
  2. Fyfe’s new album inspired me to bring back the first Fyfe I listened to. Good stuff. ↩
  3. Found courtesy of Welcome to Night Vale, a fun little podcast for when you’ve got… y’know, four days to kill, if you want to go through the whole backlog. ↩
  4. There were a few of their songs that seemed appropriate for the occasion, but this was the one that I finally went with. ↩