Donald Merand

🎵 Output before Input #108 - 2022.04.27

Countermelody invented from the bottom up.

🎵 Output before Input #107 - 2022.04.27

Harmony invented from the top down.

🎵 Output before Input #106 - 2022.04.26

I heard somewhere that The Books were so-named because their music evolved like a book instead of being repetitive from one end of a song to another. That idea really sticks with me, and influenced this sketch.

🎵 Output before Input #105 - 2022.04.25

I’ll call this one “Surf’s Up Sonata”

🎵 Output before Input #104 - 2022.04.24

Getting some Don Henley vibes this morning.

🎵 Output before Input #103 - 2022.04.23

Let your body relax and let the changing meter just carry you awayyyyy

🎵 Output before Input #102 - 2022.04.22

Some guitar heroics for a Friday.

🎵 Output before Input #101 - 2022.04.21

This is what the inside of my head sounds like this morning. So much going on in there, it’s hard to calm down - kind of all over the place.

🎵 Output before Input #100 - 2022.04.20

I don’t know how many of these I thought I’d make, but 100 seemed like an outer bound when I started. How many ideas can one person have? I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface.

🎵 Output before Input #99 - 2022.04.19

Feeling a bit tender and humbled this morning.