Volcano by JoFranna

It has been awhile boys and girls.
Summertime came and almost went.
Lots of things happened to the people of the world.

Also... JoFranna is releasing an EP and celebrating with a performance at the
Sidewalk Cafe in New York City on September 1st (09012010). Crazy things will happen, like I might remember all the words to Coney Island.

More things to come in a shorter interval of time then before:

Coney Island by Jofranna

Meet your new summertime jam.

Featuring Mr. Toby Goodshank!

Using the Secret

"Using the Secret" by LOOH (Ladies of Old Hat)- myself and Deenah Vollmer



A song about secrets of various kinds.
Birds make a special guest appearance!

Found You Dead

Nobody liked that bird.

Supersonic Man

Second song from 'JoFranna'?! What's our name...I'm not sure yet.
All I know is that we are really good at rapping together.

Science Fair Face by Preston

This is a song by Preston Spurlock. It is amazing.
And the more listens you get out of it the better it gets.

Here is my visual tribute to the song.

Tough Girls

This is the first video and song from a new hit rap group based in Brooklyn, New York.
They don't have a name. The members are Joanna Kelly and myself.
Joanna is a beast on the beats. I just know how to fight.

Not true.

Down By The Shore

This is part of my practice singing over the drums series. It's like chewing gum and whistling at the same time.

This video was really fun to make actually. I have no idea what I am doing nearly all of the time, but an end product happens anyway.

Killer on the Run

This song is mostly Austin. But I was there so I take partial credit.
The audio sounds a bit fuzzed out... but you know... imperfection is a good way to live life.

Spaceship Bicycle

This is song comes from pining over summertime in the cold months of the year. 

Park Song

Another week. Another song.

This song was started on March 25, 2008. It was finished today. It was born when Austin and I were eating lunch in Bryant Park and thought it would be a good idea to quit our lives and go to Tennessee and become country music stars. We also decided to co-author a novel that day. We also have a pilot cooking show under our belts that we have never seen and actually no one has ever seen. We are really good at ideas.

In a way... this song sums up a lot about our friendship.... we are building up a penny collection to reach our dreams.

This was super fun to make and this kind of collaboration is exactly why I started this whole project. I really love the idea of connecting to the people in your life through music. And no lack of ability or know-how can stop that. Proof is in the poorly crafted music video above.

woah...I dropped the ball

It's pretty impressive how quickly I dropped the ball on this project.

But in 2010 I picked up the ball again. I found it under the couch. Covered in dust and cat hair.

I made this song for a silly contest at my college. You have to pick out an art piece from their collection, get inspired by it, and spit some kind of art work back. This is my dribble.

This dude Xu Bing was sent by the Chinese government on a rustification program where he had to learn to farm. While there he made a wood print of a vegetable field. This was considered a radical piece of art because it didn't say anything about how great the Chinese Government was.

The song is called: The government saw politics, Xu Bing saw a farm

I have noticed that most of the creations I make on my own sound really melancholy...my next song will sound peppier. Oh, and this whole thing was made on a guitar with a broken G-string and I used a drum stick as a slide.

There is a boat going by...

with a sail on it.

This is a song I co-wrote with a 5 year old named Stella.

The best parts all are hers.

Thanksgiving Drippings

There is something about the lack of light that brings the gloom out of me. But at least I turned that gloom into something tangible... song of the week #4.

This song is called: "Disaster Song"

3rd Week: Technology Can't Hold Me Back

Despite many efforts to share this song in a more compelling format. The land of technology kept on failing me. I do enjoy the next song, with or without the video accompaniment I edited...but could not successfully save as shareable file.

This song comes from a great activity I partook in a week or so back with friends.

Which goes as follows:

1. find a youtube karaoke video with no vocal track.
2. sing along and record the song the way you think it should sound.
3. play it back.

This is a song by my youtube karaoke band called Hate... but in actuality the real band that performs is called Hale. If I can ever figure out how to post the video I made...I'll do it!

Members include:

Myself

Heather

Erica

Ben

Here is the song:

If you want to make your own version of the song. Here is the blank karaoke video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIcpQK8O7Ic

the summer is somewhere far away, like montauk or far rockaway

Song a week.

It's really happening.

Two for two.

This song is a collaboration song. I brought a surprise verse to Max.

And then a series of surprises later this song was born.

I love it. Happy lazy days.

It is called "We're Not Going Anywhere".

It is audio soup for providing comfort and fighting colds.

Song A Week... Here Goes Nothing

So I have taken up a challenge to myself. To post a new song a week. It's totally possible.

It would have been even easier if I hadn't lost the digital voice recorder I invested in.

But I did. So the format will exclusively be low-end music videos.

Here is one. "It's Ok, It's Alright"

I am not happy with this one. But I just need to get it out of my life and move on.

I am not happy with the lack of backing instrumentation and the brevity.

This is more like a what-if of a song.

But it still counts as the start of a weekly post.

Happy Halloween (almost)

Bury that Love

Well... I am trying to make due with minimal technology. What you will see below is a power point combined with a low-end Kodak digital camera I have yet to return to my mom. With these tools I have composed a visual song. This is hopefully part of a music swap program with my friend Heather. But for now I want to share it with here her.

High School Universe

It always comes back to space. I think this is because it is an unknown that is real. Unlike the unknown that is fake. Like heaven.

Today in high school while student teaching, a student asked me where I went to college. I told him NYU and now Brooklyn College. Then he asked me if I finished high school. This is not a way humans phrase questions. High school for me has been very much the unknown.

I also float between the world of respectable adult and kid. I float like people float in space because there is no gravity. I am not a real teacher. So they tell me things that don't tell the teacher. But also don't listen that much either. One thing they told me today is that there is a hallway where kids from "other schools, not their school" perform quick sexual acts between classes.

This place is unreal. To represent how high school and space are both unreal. Look at this mural they painted of outer space (notice how the real sun made an appearance). I wonder how outer space would paint a mural of high school?