The Rhythm of Speech

The concept for this video was to take various quotes and maxims about music, and make them musical.  If I had known how difficult this was going to be, I would have tried to come up with a different concept, but once I started it felt like I had to keep going.  Originally, I read the quotes along to a metronome, which made it a lot easier to groove along to, because it was in perfect time.  The trouble with that approach was that the speech was very unnatural sounding, and not an accurate representation of real speech.  Instead, I ended up reading each quote normally, and analyzing the wave form in Logic Pro X in order to pick out the transients and form a rhythm.  I laid down just a basic bass drum/snare hits to serve as the back bone for composing the piano around, and later added more to the drums.  I wanted to match my vocal inflections harmonically, so that it would seem that the piano was 'reading' along with me.
The most difficult part of this whole project was synchronizing the video to such a weird composition.  Aside from the intro and outro, which are a little more structured than the middle, I had to record 1-2 notes at a time instead of playing it from start to finish.  Because of this, most of the footage of me playing is not in tandem with what you're actually hearing.  Instead, it's the footage of me working out (and often failing) the parts.  I used GoPro studio to compile the video/titles/audio, but I composed all the audio in Logic.  Enjoy this hot avant-garde mess.