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slate is paul grzymkowski slate: home . artist bio . music . other work

- Updated: 11.08.01 -

slate : (slAt) noun¹
1. A fine-grained metamorphic rock that splits into thin, smooth-surfaced layers.
2. A piece of this rock cut for use as roofing or surfacing material or as a writing surface.
3. A record of past performance or activity: start over with a clean slate.
4. A dark or bluish gray to dark bluish or dark purplish gray.

An ever-evolving experiment wandering the realm of electronic music.

i am pain. (year:1999 - time:1:50 - size:1.68mb)
[listen] [download] [lyrics]
- first song to feature vocals. sparse, but it still gets the mood across.

you were wrong. (year:1999 - time:4:04 - size:3.74mb)
[listen] [download] [lyrics]
- second attempt at more developed music. paid a bit more attention to the "drums" this time.

underneath. (year:2001 - time:3:41 - size:3.38mb)²
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- fairly standard. this is the version with vocals. i guess it's still a work in progress...

heart attack. (year:2000 - time:1:42 - size:1.57mb)²
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- purely percussive. ambient, scary, fun...

twilight. (year:2000 - time:0:28 - size:454kb)²
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- a light piece that accompanies a brief computer animation

permutations (c). (year:2000 - time:3:44 - size:3.43mb)²
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- three separate musical spaces that overlap and corrupt each other. (note: version (c) is not the final version).

migraine. (year:2001 - time:2:06 - size:1.93mb)³
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- drums and bass. originally titled "anima" after the film clip it accompanies, but later changed to reflect the mental state it would often induce

space. (year:2001 - time:5:18 - size:4.86mb)³
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- an ethereal piece oddly reminiscent of the video game Flashback, so i'm told. probably my best piece yet...

ishmael's song. (year:1999 - status: far from completed...)
[download clip] [ishmael]
- brief clip of something i still have in the works... the outcome may even depend on the feedback i get, so tell me what you think.

over. (year:2000 - status: undone)
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- a clip of something that i just (ironically enough) didn't have the patience to finish. i like the way it's starting out, though...

You can also find slate at mp3.com, where you can listen using various streaming formats,
and find some other things not available here.

notes:
1. Definition adapted from www.dictionary.com.
2. Originally written and performed for Music 120 : Fall 2000 - Cornell University.
3. Originally written and performed for Music 320 : Spring 2001 - Cornell University.

These songs and lyrics are all original. To the best of my knowledge, I did not steal them from anywhere, so don't steal them from me.
If you are interested in reworking any of these pieces, want to collaborate, or would just like to comment, feel free to contact me.