Warren Smith
(Warren Smith)

Bio:
Born in a Minnesota blizzard, I now reside in Brooklyn, New York City, which doesn't get anywhere nearly as cold.

I recorded my first original composition as a teenager using a reel-to-reel tape recorder back in 1967, and I'm still finding it a creative challenge to make original music, although now I'm doing it digitally with a Macintosh G5 and GarageBand. Writing and recording music always has been a personal, artistic exercise, so posting material on the macjams site has been an expansive experience for me.

Besides writing "solo" songs, I recently finished a larger project, a collection of 100 songs based on melodies that manifested while walking my neighborhood streets of Brooklyn. It took four years to complete and, as with any large undertaking, there was much frustration, much learning and many rewards. Feedback from this online community has been very helpful in my development.

I have also collaborated with fellow macjammer Tim McFate, under the moniker "Riverrats."

July 2006 - I'm taking a break from writing and recording new material in order to concentrate on a different kind of musical project - pulling together material from the past 14 years under the umbrella of "Collected Songs." Much of this material was recorded on tape (I think I started recording digitally in 1997), so right now my energy is going into converting the analog to digital.

Fall 2006 While walking on my way home from a get-together with an old friend to celebrate the passing of a mentor, a melody jumped into my head. I made a memo of it in my usual manner - by whistling the notes into an iPod as a voice message - and, as numerous melodies followed, it became the genesis of a new music project with the general title, "Streets Songs."

Most of 2007 was taken up with developing Street melodies into complete songs. This amounted to about 80 pieces. I collaborated with Richard Schletty on a macjams song, "Pre-approved." Late in the year I took a couple of freelance design jobs outside of New York and that completely disrupted any musical production.

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