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Waste Is The Place

Version Three: I made some drops and changes. I think it’s a bit cleaner now, but it still needs a lot of mixing.

Here is a direct download link for your portable music devices: waste.

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Language of Light Pt. 2

This new video of mine is a tribute to the magic of sunlight and its mysterious language. Nearly all of images in which light is the subject were recorded in my apartment after work during the early evening. My apartment is special in that way, because of the glorious warm light that comes in between the branches of my neighbors redwood tree, through my window, and dances along my walls. I believe that there are messages inside the movement of the light, as if it’s telling a story or singing a song.

I recorded the music for this video in Ableton Live. I chose chimes with delay and reverb because I felt it went well with the bokeh-like effect of the light artifacts. I’m using an acoustic guitar for several other layers of the tune as well, and the synth stabs are Reason. TR-808 drum machine with triplet timing. Thanks for clicking!

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JellyJELLY_______||||Fish

This was filmed at the Vancouver, BC aquarium on December 31, 2010.
Music created in Ableton Live using sampled material. I left in some of the aquarium chatter for background effect.

JellJELLY____||||FISH from Michael Orecchia on Vimeo.

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What’s Being Told

I created this track after watching a VBS special called True Norwegian Black Metal. There’s something very interesting to me about this guy Gaahl who is the lead singer of Gorgoroth. I was particularly struck by one of the last bits of the interview in which he replies, “I don’t think you are focusing on what’s being told.”

People are listening, but are they really focusing on what’s being told?

Aside from the vocal samples, I’m using an acoustic guitar, a TR-808 drum machine, and the Subtractor synth in Reason. I will also admit that this track is heavily influenced by the music of Akufen.

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Pace Place


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Escape

peace at the beach

Escape by J Young Sun

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Artifacts of Experience

I created this video out of iPhone 4 movie clips for a track I wrote entitled Like They Know. I suppose the general idea I had in my mind is that, well, “People talk like they know.” I have noticed in my short existence on this planet, that a lot of people think they have all the answers. People speak with such confidence about the stuff they claim to know.  Hell, I know I do it, too.

The video begins with a harmonica player, Marc O’Harps, at the end of Haight Street. Another clip features a nude dude giving a presentation about his regrets in life, which I thought to be a fitting form of humility to address the know-it-all perspective, visually. Thanks for clicking!

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Tone Drone Zone

Guess what platform I used to create this. Ableton Live? Yes.
808 Boom click
Korg Electribe ER-1 loop
Trippy synth
Done.

Tone Drone Zone by Michael.P.Orecchia

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into the blue abyss

acid black cell

Into The Blue Abyss by J Young Sun

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Underground (literally) Mix

This mix was done in Ableton Live. It is a short part of a set that I created for a gig that I did in an underground parking garage for the S.F. Bicycle Coalition in summer 2009.

My goals for this set were 1.) Use an acappella that spanned the mix between 2-3 tracks. 2.) Blend loops underneath tracks in the mix 3.) Create long blends between tracks using looping and Ableton Live’s advanced warping technology to keep tracks on tempo that would normally never work using standard DJing methods (i.e. vinyl records).

Mid-Tempo-Mini-Mix by Michael.P.Orecchia

Tracks used:
Loops/a cappella
Robot for Brains – Spacefunk
Flying Lotus – GNGBNG
J Dilla – Lightworks
Spacek – 1st Stroke (Funkstörung Remix)
Beck – Hell Yes
Aesop Rock – N.Y. Electric (heaphone science remix)

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