Computer Music '98, by Aaron Cherof

Computer Music '98

by Aaron Cherof

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Edward Loveall Nice shirt. Excited to hear the music you made when you were four, next. Favorite track: Rainforest Theme.

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1.	Oceandreams 02:39	buy track
2.	Rainforest Theme 02:00	buy track
3.	Festival 02:01	buy track
4.	Scream! 01:20	buy track
5.	Scream! 2 01:19	buy track

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In the dawning hours of the Year 2020, I discovered a historical artifact in my parents' storage unit — a cassette tape labeled "Aaron Cherof Computer Music '98". This cassette is presented here for you in its entirety.

"Computer Music '98" is not a new album, nor is it a modern work masquerading as music from the 1990's. You are listening to a genuine recording I made as a child. As you listen, you will undoubtedly come to realize the unmistakable, unarguable truth that a child wrote this. I had a little over a year's worth of composition experience by 1998, and I struck while the iron was hot.

A unique cultural oddity, which might be better titled "Aaron Cherof Discovers Multi-Track Recording." You may here experience the earliest known recordings from the beginning of my career as a composer. As this tape travels 22 years forward in time to you now, I make no excuses or disclaimers about the quality of a boy's first journeyings with a Yamaha keyboard and cassette player.

The first three tracks can be considered, through a certain lens, as "music". On the other hand, the final two pieces offer something different and more distinctive — a two-part narrative sound design thriller. A bone-chilling radio drama, told entirely through the sound effects built into a Yamaha keyboard.

From what I vaguely recall of the recording process, this was my first time using a keyboard workstation, and I played each instrument live in a single take, recording it to a 3.5" floppy. I then dubbed over the track with additional instrumentation. No second takes.

"Thanks for listening. ~ Aaron Cherof, 1998"

Digitization graciously provided by Mark Bozko opticalpodcast.com

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released August 15, 1998

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Aaron Cherof Seattle, Washington

Seattle-based composer of ambient and maximalist melodic electronica. Music for games like Minecraft: Trails & Tails, Cobalt Core, Sunshine Heavy Industries, and more. I listen to a lot of jazz fusion, library music, and city pop.

discography

Cobalt Core (Original Soundtrack)

Nov 2023
Sunshine Heavy Industries (Original Soundtrack)

Aug 2021
Halation

Mar 2020
Moment to Midnight (Original Soundtrack)

Oct 2019
The Eighth House

Aug 2019
Anagnorisis

Jun 2015
Learn to write in different fonts

Mar 2014
Heard and Unheard

Jan 2014
Red Ice OST

Mar 2013
Newton! OST

Sep 2012
Computer Music '99

Aug 1999
Computer Music '98

Aug 1998

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