Daniel V. Klein's Music

This is a very rough page right now...

I am actively involved in an a cappella group called In Acchord. I sing with them, and recently was executive producer of our latest CD, Departures.

Lately I have been playing with GarageBand on the Mac, composing music. Actually, I have composed music for all of my life, but it has been stuck in my head - I can't play keyboards (or anything else, save singing and whistling), and I can barely read music, let alone write it down, so complex music has been trapped in my head. But now I am able to lay down multiple MIDI tracks (often I first sing the part into a mic, record it, then I translate it into MIDI; and sometimes I just pencil in the notes directly into the piano-roll notation) - and all of this from a $50 package called iLife that Apple sells (GarageBand is just one of four components).

Truthfully, wonderful as Garageband is, I outgrew it in a month or so. It lets you choose one key signature, and I wrote a piece which required one measure of 5/4 time every now and again (the rest being 4/4 in heavy swing), and so I bought Logic Express - and that's a whole 'nother ball of wax. I need to grow into that...

More as I write it!