ya ole C.R.U. classic. it’s almost cliche to update your reel anymore. but you gotsTa, KNOW WHAT I’M SAY’N! hahaha!
i did it. click it.
two videos that i wrote music for this year. both great videos and great causes!
1. Crowd Sourcing video for Ethan Perlstein, an evolutionary pharmacologist and independent research fellow at Princeton University.
Creds:
produced and animated by ryan griffin
voice over and editing by veronica amaya
music and sfx by jon steinmeier
2. Charity Water’s 2012 Rwanda Campaign video.
Creds:
Video by: Jamie Pent @jazzyjamieleigh / Paul Pryor / Jon Reisinger
Music by: Dustin O’Halloran, Josh Ralph, Jon Steinmeier
Post-Audio/Final Mix: Claymore Pictures
i’ve launched a kickstarter campaign! i’m raising money for the production of cd’s, t-shirts, buttons, etc for Steinomite, the world’s most incredible rapper ever.
to donate, or just to check out my HILARIOUS kickstarter VIDEO, click on that picture down there.
one of my favorite things ever is when folks make things for each other, and i just recieved a piece of birthday music from good pals Ben Miranda and Drew Durepos yesterday. it’s awesome! thanks you two guys!
i wouldn’t call it a tradition yet, but this sort of thing’s been happening ’round these parts for a while. here are some examples!
1. a piece i wrote for my buddy jaron hilger a few years ago:
3. my 30th birthday recording, which i heard from the backseat of a car, blindfolded. this was made by a whole bunch of loved ones including steve niketopoulos, ben miranda, nadia cone, jim cooper, james mitchell, my dad, andrew sole, rick franklin, ryan jedlika, elaine friedberg, and “ola.”
4. a piece of mark messing’s that i arranged for his birthday this year:
well mom, you know how i like to keep myself bizzy. lately i’ve been working on a few things, including updating my website to include things that i’ve been working on, except for working on my website, which isn’t an update on the site but i think becomes evident when one views said site.
one exciting thing that i’m finally selling sheet music on the site, in the “score store.” so far i have “the page turner’s big break” and a couple of the piano etudes available. more coming soon!
two exciting thing is that i’ve updated the site with lovely pictures that i like, and links to a bunch of stuff i’ve worked or am working on.
three exciting thing that the Rhymanese Twins and SnakenStein now have websites. the rhymanese twins is an act that noah tabakin and i developed for Tour de Fat last year that we’re revisiting on this years tour as well.
the SnakenStein show is a NEW show that we’ve developed for Tour de Fat and other stage and street venues this year. we’re very excited about it!
four exciting things visit my new site and all of the other sites!
ever get tired of singing the same happy birthday song to friends and family of yours that are composers?
try making a special a capella birthday rendition of something that they composed!
i did this recently for Mark Messing, based on an excerpt from an awesome piece of his called “Fredonia Strikes Back” that he wrote for orchestra.
here’s the excerpt:
and here’s my happy birthday mark messing a capella home recorded silly town version:
this was fun for a couple two tree reasons.
1. i got to get into this section of the piece and get to know it a little; figure out the chords and some of the voicings, etc.
2. the piece is a comically dark vehicle for a “happy birthday” message.
3. i like to sing. hadn’t done any voice only work in a while, and it’s quite satisfying. fun to sing all the parts and have to
tune to yourself, and in this case, make some percussion noises! also, nice to not have to set up and tear down other gear
all afternoon recording live instruments.
whenever i get into a project like this it always makes me wanna do a whole set. like make a record of this, a record of that. kids songs, hip hop, a capella stuff, a heavy metal album. but who has the time?
last night Steinomite performed at Artifice in downtown Las Vegas. the show kicked off the Neon Reverb festival that runs all weekend around town, and was hosted by the always hilarious Voki Kalfayan as “Bill Stevens.” the bill consisted of Steinomite, my new friends Wazu from NYC, David Liebe Hart backed up by a rawk(!) power trio, and Penny and Melody from Absinthe doing a croony and funny duo show called “Sista’s from another Mista.”
’twas a really fun and pretty weird night.
i drove from L.A. with only about an hour to spare, having forgotten the cable i need to connect my iphone/band. but, after giving me some shit, the soundman came up with one. Steinomite was on first, and despite getting more shit from the soundman, started a little late to make sure the “sista’s” and some other folks were there. i had to come out swinging to get people from the bar to the dance floor, but it worked! got a great response and got some booties shak’n. even mister grumpy soundman gave me props afterwards and apologized for his battitude. BAM!
show highlights:
1. in honor of Penny from Absinth, i used a sock puppet for some talk-back and nay-saying, and eventually beat the $h!t out of him.
2. spent most of “alien abductapohone” lying on the stage.
3. got people to do weird dance moves.
4. made a new outro for this show, introducing the next acts and promoting my website IN THE SAME TRACK! i pre-recorded the singing and had the puppet do it.
listen to it NOW!
after the show i accidentally hung out in a casino hotel bar until 4:45a. i felt like i was in a Terry Gilliam movie.
jon steinmeier 