Electronic | Scott Stedman

The Ark OST

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Score for Sam’s AP, “The Ark”, which screens at Chapman University in Folino Theater on December 11th. In typical musical tradition, the score is releasing the night before. Mixed in 5.1 for extra epic on the final cut. This was my “big” score for the semester.

“The Ark” is a sci-fi drama about humanity reaching the technological singularity (read up on this), and what happens to those caught in the events that follow.

Some nice album artwork and 4 cues @ 320kbps awaiting at the download. Enjoy.

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Introduction

Some quick stuff. I’ve been working on this for a grand total of less than 24 hours.

Started at 2am on Tuesday morning, finished at 1:45am on Wednesday morning. I had some random spurt of inspiration the night before and figured I might as well make it short and sweet rather than trying to make it another 15 minute long thing.

So yay! This will be the intro for the C&S: VIII.

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Here is your download. 320kbps mp3. Surprise.

So It Continues

Here we have it, the third iteration in the endless remix of The Continuum. If you’re interested in the utter crap it sounded like when it was first produced, check out Audiology and have a listen. It’s come a long way since then. Next is probably a dubstep version. But let’s give it a year or two before we jump into that. In the mean time, I have other massive projects (as usual) in the works. Until such time as those can be released (while I spend the majority of my time agonizing over leitmotifs), enjoy these little intermittent electronic releases that serve to both a) hold you over, and 2) keep me from destroying my computer from lack of inspiration.

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And, as usual, 320kb/s mp3. Lots of new synths and sounds, I’ve been combing the internet since I realized that the stuff I’ve been using is, in reality, utter crap. Here is your download link.

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Insomniac

I’ve been working on this one on and off for a little over a month now. Started it right after the Jekyll and Hyde, then worked on it off and on in random spurts at 2am. Hence the title. This will be the music backing the racing video I shot of David and Chris back in July, when I eventually get around to finishing that as well.

Also, I’ll make the artwork for the compilation soon and release that so you have that, if you want it.

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Sidebar: I’m going to attempt some form of dubstep within the next month or so. Not sure how that’ll work out, but maybe it’ll be cool and you’ll get to listen to it.

Yay for no compression again! 320kb/s mp3, as usual. Enjoy your download ladies.

And What Follows

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The latest mix is out! First music in nearly three months… Brutal. About two weeks ago, I started to get some ideas flowing again and this started to take form.

So, a little about the pretentious title: “And What Follows Is Not Discord, but Eternal Entropy and Ice”. Every time I’ve written any bit of music in the last year or so, I’ve been reading about astrophysics, the universe, quantum physics, and I write with these really vivid images in mind. And every time I’ve released something, I’ve had an accompanying Wikipedia article. This month’s selection is Entropy. Read about it while listening to this. The title itself is a result of a quote one Brett Wilkins found while searching quotes on astrophysics pages. The quote itself refers to the Big Bang, and the expansion of the universe.

This isn’t a symphony, but it’s not a short piece either. 18 minutes of ambient split into two movements, each just over 9 minutes long. No break between movements, which is something new (and a massive pain to do quickly, as I’ve found out…), but each has it’s own character.

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Skyward

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So what we have here is a combination of like three things: 1) a rejected score from a project I was working on recently, 2)some freeform random stuff, and 3) the Legend of Zelda remix Casey has been asking for for about a year.

Hence, “Skyward”.

Also, this, at a bit over 5 minutes, is the shortest song I’ve written in a while.
And I have artwork for the new compilation coming soon. Anyways, enjoy as usual.

Supercell

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Originally wrote the free-form opening a few months ago, got discouraged, threw it somewhere in my hard drive, and forgot about it. A week ago, I was looking for something to do other than study for finals and I found it and got the idea to turn it it into what it is now. Lots of work on this one. I really struggled to make it into something decent, since I wanted it to be balanced but still a decent length to make it worthwhile to listen to. I’m still running on this “long music” kick. Really makes it a nice investment to listen through.

As usual, here’s your Wikipedia article. Thanks to Brett for the inspiration for the title. Read up and be amazed.

The Electric Symphony v2

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I had a bit of time before my flight left for Seattle, so I spent it finalizing this project. This is most likely the final version, I have to quit this project before it takes over me, I keep finding more and more things to fix. I’ll just have to leave it how it is, 38 minutes of music is way too much to spend countless hours poring over.

ANYWAYS. Updated synths, strings, and brass, remastered with Maximus, and added a few extra orchestral sounds in the first and last movements. Bass boosted in every movement, kick sections cleaned up and refined, and some extra synths added before the drops of the first and last movements again. Second movement synths changed so they aren’t so repetitive, harmonized more, levels adjusted, and everything else I could find that was bugging me. Lots of stuff to download, deal with the file sizes. They’re 320kb/s mp3′s because I hate everything that isn’t high quality.

Movement 1 Download

Movement 2 Download

Movement 3 Download

Movement 4 Download

Audiology

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Don’t be mistaken, this is old stuff. But in keeping with my goal of having everything I’ve made available in one place, I’m putting it up. I’ll keep it on the front page for a while before I eventually move it to it’s original publication date somewhere in the archives.

This is a weird compilation. Some of the stuff here is good, most of it is miserable. I wasn’t really great at mastering when I produced this. Interesting to listen to something closer to the “roots” of the sound I’m moving towards though. But regardless, here it is, at 320kb/s mp3′s. Much love, Happy Thanksgiving.

Electric Symphony Update

Just a small update on what’s in the works in the music department, since it’s been over a month since I’ve released anything new on the site. I have a couple of new “ideas” running, and I’m going to try and get a recording of the reading of a piece I’ve been working on in composition seminar to put up on the site once that’s made.

My main project at the moment is a completely remastered mix of the Electric Symphony. The second movement is getting some overhauled synths, reworked strings, and a more sonically accurate climax. Movements 1 and 3 are just getting remastered, and the climax of movement 4 is being completely remastered for pants-wetting awesome. Expect this all in a few weeks or so, probably after Thanksgiving. At any rate, the photo of the day is still going strong, so bear with me while I finish the music projects :)

Black Holes Light The Way

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Written for a school project in a single sitting, around seven hours of straight up work. No insane Wikipedia article on this one this time, just some calm music. The time signature is a bit different, not my usual 4/4. Counted in eighths, the song is 14/8. Just listen, you’ll catch on. Written in FL Studio 10 with Reason rewired in. Apologies if the levels are somewhat off, I might have to fix them later. Wasn’t mixing with my usual headphones, as I left them in Seattle over the weekend.

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Chaotic Inflation

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This took about a week and a half with a multitude of computer crashes in between. Nice and complicated, as usual. I’ll update this post with the album artwork soon.

With all of the pieces from this new work coming out, I urge you all to Google the titles of the music. They often lead to mindblowing wikipedia articles and/or complex physics essays that make you feel horribly insignificant. Happy reading!

Exaseconds and Genesis

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While experimenting with a number of ways to make synth strings sound better, I hit upon the gem of the idea that I had to work much harder. Thus, behold.

I was in a very speculative mood when I wrote this. Therefore, educate yourself while listening. Then read this to have your mind blown.

Also, note that this along with the Electronic Symphony marks the start of a new body of work, title currently pending.

The Electric Symphony

While I was up in Seattle for the last two weeks, there wasn’t much to do for the majority of the time. To pass the time, I spent most of it on the computer writing an electric symphony.

Classical symphonies have very strict form- I took some of this to heart and then took creative liberties with the rest of it. There are four movements, combining for a total listening time of 37.5 minutes. This was an exceptionally large project.

Clicking play will start the symphony; it will automatically cycle through the entire piece. If you want to re-listen to a particular movement/section, use the red arrows to navigate. Hope you all enjoy.

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Movement 4 Download

College and Stuff

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June to June, a year in music. Everything in here is everything that I’ve written from June 2010 to June 2011. Most of these are already available on the website, but here there are now, categorized, artworked, and ready to be added to your iTunes. Included in this release is all electronic music from forever, random tracks from jam sessions at friends houses, and all of the school projects and scores I did this year, including all of the tracks for Insertion (including a few tracks that were unreleased until now) and everything from A New Man, the Advanced Production from the film school that I scored. It’s a total of 2 hours of solid music.

Also of note: I don’t believe in compression. It makes music sound miserable, and despite what you all think you CAN hear the difference. Therefore, this is a massive download at 200mb. Deal with it, the end result sounds better.

Any Means Necessary

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I’ve been on a writing kick for the last 72 hours now. This is my 3rd song in that amount of time. This must continue.

Anyways. This is something I was messing around with, it has a multitude of different time signatures throughout the song. I was also playing around with the Z3ta synth again, since I got it working exactly how I’ve wanted to be able to work it for quite a while now.

Sweet Dreams Remix

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I’ve had this melody inputted in FL Studio for around a year; every so often, I’d open it up, play with it for a few minutes, and then close it for another 3 months. I finally had a spurt of inspiration followed by a wave of tutorials on using the Z3ta synth properly. Enjoy.

Superstring

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Project for Music Technology. Sequenced in FL Studio, effects and mixing plus extra sounds done in Logic Pro 9.

Vocalist is Tiana Franzetti (Chapman University).

Butterflies

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Don’t ask about the title. I don’t understand it either.

Bad Lifeguard Remix

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Here’s the original video on YouTube. Enjoy. Go look at Nathan Worden’s awesome stuff.

http://www.wordenphotography.com/blog/

Search and Seizure

Created for the Esperanza High School volleyball team to rap to. Which they never did, but whatever. It was still funny while it lasted.

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Containment

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Heavy work on the glitching. This was the song featured in our first short film, Deception, for Chapman University’s Underground Showdown.

RandomSauce

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One of my friends asked me to make the most epic trance song I could. I gave it a shot and this is what popped out.

FL Studio 8.

Skating

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