This little collection has some fun stuff. The title of the collection is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as the RDO doesn’t really do Rock and Pop. But this is our version of what these terms mean to the RDO.

http://www.ryandorin.com/rdo_rock.html

The music is from 2006, a highly productive time for the RDO. I think I had just got a bunch of the Apple Jam Packs and this my first time trying out this new collection of software instruments. There is a slightly rough quality to these jams, because at the time I refused to use a click track or metronome when recording, so the rhythms have not been digitally quantized. I had hoped for a more “human” feel by working this way, but in retrospect it might just sound sloppy.

The second track is based a song I have used many times, including as the theme song for the Ratboy Genius (Chapter 9). The title refers to the time and date of when this piece was created – a twice in a century event for sure (once if you are on 24-hour time).

The last track eventually became the soundtrack for my fable “The Man Who Wanted a New Body”. This early video was an experiment where I was developing my video production techniques later utilized in the Ratboy Genius series. The story is original, and the drawings are mine. I always love mixing up heads and bodies from different characters, and I used that impulse to develop this fable.