And now for the MIDI files!!
I've had a music keyboard for a long time, and I've had a computer for a long time.
One day I bought a cable which connects the two together, and I made these
midi files. Listen, won't you? Will you? (You don't have to.) Most of the
songs are named after friends of mine.
- Akiko's Symphony, 1st Movement:
A lot of string-plucking.
- Akiko 2nd Movement:
No pluckage here.
- Angie's Theme:
This is a little classical-sounding twenty seconds of cuteness.
- Cindy's Melody:
For my sister.
- Deb's Tune:
This piece starts off slow and evil and ends up hectically fast
and evil.
- For Elise:
Not Fur Elise by a long shot.
- Odd Elise:
This is a wacky version of For Elise, which I made sound like
an old video game theme.
- Gilligan Returns Soundtrack:
This will never be the theme song to the movie Gilligan
Returns, now playing in my mind.
- Gusselujah:
Named after a particularly self-mentioning high school teacher.
- Ham:
This song's concept was also created by James Scotto-Lavino and me.
The basic idea is you sing the song's single lyric, "Ham", every
two measures for the whole damn song. This lyric always has the
same pitch. This song is ready-to-sing even for the tone deaf.
Enjoy.
- Hani's Jig:
It's what middle-eastern music sounds like to Americans.
- James:
The song is an evil fugue or canon or something.
- Jenn's Air:
This piece is friendly but a little too driven.
- Joannah's Capriccio:
I don't know what a Capriccio is.
- Nobody:
This song is named after nobody and means nothing to me. I started humming it to
myself one day. Note: This song was originally conceived of as having a Latin beat,
but for some reason whenever I play something it comes out like this.
- Onward!:
This is a battle march of some kind, I think.
- Pueblo (The Last Dinosaur):
Named after a cartoon character.
- The Sean Song:
This song was written by me in high school about my friend Sean
Lydon. The midi file is unfinished and ends abruptly.
- The Ballad of Squidlard:
This song has lyrics:
"Yes my name is Squidlard, Squidlard is my name.
I'm composed of squid fat; that's my claim to fame.
Squidlard Squidlard Squidlard Squidlard Squidlard Squidlard Squid,
Lardsquid Lardsquid Lard Squidlard."
- Tina's Ditty:
This is one of the first midis I made and it shows.
- Leah:
This one's a big happy silly piece of music, that, like many of my pieces, gets too cluttered by the end.
- Crystalmyst:
This one's a crystally mysterious thingy.
- Dumass:
This one's a sort of sad kind of tweedly dumb thing.
- Poncho:
If you like wearing ponchos when it rains, then
get ready for this tune. It doesn't have anything to do with ponchos.
- Starting:
Have fun with this jungly safari thing.
- Street Kombat Bros.:
Do you like video game theme songs? No? Then get out of my face, and let someone else
sit here, because this midi file is my own personal stab at a video game theme song.
- I, Gadget:
I just LOVE the Inspector Gadget theme song. When I looked for a MIDI
of it, I found some pretty shoddy home-made versions on the web.
So I made this midi which is as close as -I- could possibly get to the TV
theme version.
- Lupschada's Jcalz:
Hi, this a waltzy thing. There's also an extended version of this song available.
- Brooke's Wolf Carousel of Wolves: It's a carnival of carnivores. It ends abruptly, just like all fun rides.
If you liked this stuff then please let me know and perhaps I will
make more files!
Bezoar and Bolus!!
Here we go; the following is the theme song to a cartoon invented by Hani Sallum & I. It is called
Bezoar and Bolus and the file is in MP3 format, or if you want, you can listen to the MIDI without human voices. The main characters are two little
blob type things (maybe I'll draw them and put them up here). If you listen to the song, Bezoar is the high pitched
guy and Bolus is the gruff-sounding lower pitched guy. Here are the lyrics:
It's time for Bolus & Bezoar
No Bezoar & Bolus,
When Julius Cezoar
attempts to control us,
if we're covered in fleas or
extracting our molahs,
We'll always pull through
We're Bezoar & Bolus!
We're Bolus & Bezoar,
That's Bezoar & Bolus,
You could sting us with bees or
you could candlepin bowl us,
You could Whop Burwitch Ease or
even hamburger roll us,
but we'll never be stopped
We're Bezoar & Bolus!
Oh yeah we're Bolus & Bezoar
No Bezoar & Bolus
We could swing through the trees
while drinking strawberry colas
You'll be looking through the freezor
for some fillet of sole-us
And you might run into
Bezoar & Bolus!
That's me!
AAND MEEE!
And that's the truth.
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