Tour de Fat 2010!

August 30, 2010 by jon steinmeier

my buddy noah tabakin and i were hired on this year as music directors for New Belgium Brewing Company’s Tour de Fat this summer, and it’s been a great time!

so far we’ve played:
Chicago,
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Seattle
Portland
Boise

and our next stop is the Brewery’s home-base, Fort Collins, CO!

we’re working with a terrific band called The Dovekins from Denver, and among the tunes we’re doing, i’ve written a couple! this is a blog about making things, so here we go!

1.  something triumphant, but i won’t tell you what it’s for, that’d spoil the suprise

2.  game show theme! (this is played live, but here’s a quick midi version)

3.  theme for the winner of the show!  by myself and mr. tabakin.  (also demo version)

4.  crash!  (foley)

5.  industrial smelting sound design

and these four little guys, that we didn’t end up using in the final version of the show:

those crazy fast rabbits!

father time theme

romance theme

thinking

this just in!

August 3, 2010 by jon steinmeier

it’s NEWS MUSIC!

this was a track i wrote for a friend/client recently. i thought i’d post it on the BLOG because BLOGS ARE FOR SHARING!

i had a lot of fun with this one, trying to harness some of the tv broadcast news-cheese of years ago.

get ready!

hear it is:

Summer is the Hottest! – new song!

July 17, 2010 by jon steinmeier

The Steinmeier International Family Leisure Ensemble has just released a song for summer.

we’re very proud, and pretty tired!

please enjoy while you listen.

-jon and rachel

Coming Soon from Steinomite!

July 9, 2010 by jon steinmeier

for a FULL PREVIEW of this track click this thingy!

new orchestral short

July 7, 2010 by jon steinmeier

team,

here’s a new, short, orchestral piece i may work some expand plans on in the near future.

i currently call it…

“cookie heist”

enjoy and stay tooooooned!

-steinomite

something old, something new

May 24, 2010 by jon steinmeier

hi mom,

1.  so, i’ve been writing a lot lately for one thing or another and it caused me at some point to go back through some old stuff.  this was fun.  i havn’t listened to many of the “song a week” tracks in a while, and there were some tracks that didn’t get posted during that time.  i think i was looking for examples of orchestral writing for a client recently, and came upon something i titled “LOST” when i wrote it.  i figured out that this track was originally part of the “floyd” series i made a couple of years ago, but had been cut for one reason or another.  upon listening now, i was both pleased with the writing in many ways, and embarrassed by the samples/sounds/realism.

note:  it can be tough to make realistic orchestral sounds from synthesized instruments, and this is a good example.

2.  i just finished a track for Tour de Fat 2010, for which i’m a music director, and it’s a track i’m pretty happy with, both in its character and it’s realism.  (but YOU tell ME!).  so this made me think about my writing/recording now, as apposed to a few years ago, and i came up with this thought:

i think i still wrote interesting stuff, but stuff that was distractingly “fake” sounding.  now, this may still be true, as most of the instruments in track 2 are “fake”, but now they are better sounding (more realistic) fake sounds.

mind you, the character of the pieces are different, but it’s interesting to me to think of them as time-pieces, both in the writing and the production.

this may or may not be interesting to anyone but me, but thanks for listening, mom.

love,

jonathan

Private Eye Noir

May 22, 2010 by jon steinmeier

i did a bid for something requiring “private eye noir” this week, and wanted to share it with YOU!

listen here:

stay tuned!  i’ve been writing a lot lately, and will post again soon.

thanks for listening as always, mom.

j

Rap Video!!

May 18, 2010 by jon steinmeier

you’ve waited and waited and i appreciate your patience

sorry so latently but check my tv station

it’s a RAP vid freshly made for your eyelids

check my talents, voice is smoother than jack palance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0rB2Hk54PU

-steinomite!

RAP ATTACK!

May 15, 2010 by jon steinmeier

that’s right!  it’s Steinomite!  i’ve created a rap character for my upcoming RAP CAREER and i’ve now posted the most recent track, entitled “The Sunset.”

jam on it.

(listen up!)

and stay tuned…for my first RAP VIDEO

Johnny Amazing Live (behind the music)

January 15, 2010 by jon steinmeier

Johnny Amazing performed live last night with Chicago sketch group Teenager of the Year!

The show apparently had half the room in stitches and half the room pissed.  i’d call that a success!!

this show required johnny amazing to perform the Top Gun Theme live, multiple times, so i made a karaoke version of the song that just repeats the main riff, transposing up at each repeat.  to be between 3 and 4 minutes long and cover the necessary range on the guitar, i went up a minor third every time.

LISTEN HERE! 

i ended up making 4 or 5 versions of this for the live show, including a funky dancetime curtain call

LISTEN HERE! 

WARNING – this theme might be rolling around in your head all day, but you’ve prolly known that since the 80′s.

thank you Steve Stevens and Harold Faltermeyer