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I just wanted to make a shout out to matute's youtube video that used my PolkaSlovene. I think it's pretty funny, well, if you're a battlefield 3 fan :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP3PQ4h GpFQ

Done

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News

A paint sketch I did was featured in the Monochrome Art Collab. I am not a plastic artists by trade, but I'm getting acquainted with drawing in programs like Photoshop and GraphicsGale. View the Collab here: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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RAC5 is almost over! My project is around 60% done. It is a Theme and Variation in the Slovenian Polka style. Right now all I want to say is "Upgrade" is my main theme.

Undergraduate Research. The book research for my current project is done, now I just need to finish recording some odd sounds and then programming them into Roland Fantom Patches. In the spring my faculty advisor will help me write pieces that feature them. They will be for some different ensembles if I am lucky enough. Possibly a mixmatched wind and string chamber ensemble, a jazz band, and then a duet with me on EWI and my dept. chain on Zendrum - a synth drum controller. Should be fun!

Other Projects:

The Ballad of Salsa Verde - a series of videogames using The GameFactory 2 NG ed.
Solo recordings for trombone and others.

Current Projects:
Undergraduate Research: non-intuitive use of midi and wind synthesis. Three part project - Background and Research, Waveform Programing, and Composition and Performance.
Music: RAC5; Jazz works: Dusty's, Free Radicals, Set of EWI standards; and Ocarina Concerto.
Music Education: MENC, Speech Ensemble, and Pedagogy Repertoire.
Instrumental Practice: Piano, Guitar, Ocarina, Ukulele, and Wind Synth.

Recordings will be coming soon.

This month has been busy. Between the RAC4, brass band, and late nights, I have been really busy. Well, time to keep pumping through; here is a status update.

Progress:
Tanz Tanz Rast 100%
Dusty's - Jazz Piece for Jazz combo and EWI/Synth. 50%
Polka Loop - A Polka loop that I was working on for synth to play with my Roland Fantom-XR and EWI. 35%
Flash Game Engine - In development
Profile/portfolio photos - Completed

Robot day plans/prospects.
-Small song(s)
-Small drawing or animatic
-medium project if time after this week's musical adventures.

Thanks guys, stay cool this summer.

-Matvei

Hello All!

My song is all ready to go for NeonProject's Represent a Country contest! I will be submitting it to NG after the contest is well underway, but for now please listen to it on theaudioportal.com

http://theaudioportal.com/portal/liste n/434

Related links:
The contest - http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/11 68118
- http://theaudioportal.com/bbs/topic/12 1
Influences and related listening:
The Amsterdam Klezmer Band
The Budapest Klezmer Band
Maqam.com

It looks like I'm going to make the dead line for NeonProject's Represent a Country contest! This is good news for me as the deadline got me to complete my first large project. The song will be posted on The Audio Portal by this evening. As of right now, the song is completely recorded; it just needs to be reworked and mastered until it is decent enough.

So far, my favorite for this contest is
Popa Razvan's Dark World Adagio. It's going to be incredibly tough to compete with this group, so I am just hoping to use this as a start to my music work on newgrounds.

Some insight about my entry prior to it's release:

The instrumentation is acoustic* or modeled samples to represent acoustic instruments including: Violin sects. 1 and 2, Viola sect., Cello sect., Contrabass sect., Himalayan Flute (to mimic Turkish Ney), Accordion*, Tenor Trombone*, Wa-Daiko, Cajón, Pandiero (to mimic Turkish/Arabic rik), and a modified Harp (to mimic Kanoon).

The scale I used was a Turkish mode of the Arabic Maqam: Rast. Due to a transposition error in recording, I performed the song in an A Rast, instead of the C Rast I wrote the piece in.

I didn't find a way to utilize the only Turkish instrument I own: Turkish Oud.

I put about 7 hours of work into the recording, 2 of these hours was spent on Accordion because I kept missing half step fingerings.

That's about it; Have fun and keep on playing.
-Matvei

News
This past April, I was honored enough to give a speech on Music of the Ottoman Empire at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research in Missoula, Montana. It was a pretty epic conference; with 39 students from my college and several thousand overall.

Missoula is a beautiful college town, and the Uni of Montana was an excellent host. I've learned a bunch about microtonal music doing this project and now hope to write some modern Turkish and Arabic music for the www.theaudioportal.com and newgrounds.com audio portal audiences :D
-Matvei

Project Log
This is just a tally backlog/dev blog entry. More information on these projects will be submitted later.

Tanz Tanz Rast: Turkish Art piece for Oud, Clarinet, Brass, Strings, Hand Perc. 1%

Dusty's: Jazz Piece for Jazz combo and EWI/Synth. 40%

Polka Loop in Cmin: A Polka loop that I was working on for synth to play with my Roland Fantom-XR and EWI. 30%

Platform Game Engine using AS 3.0 and some flash game libraries. 10%