Have a Merry Merry Christmas.

Well yesterday was the winter solstice and the start of winter. Hardly felt like winter here in Southern California, I slept most of the night without any blankets last night, much to my wife's chagrin. As I said I do not think I will try the winter weekly musical BLOG again this year, but part or me wants to, but I have so many other things that I need to be doing this year. Lately I have been in a musical funk as I try to grok the whole sequencer software paradigm. But I am slowly coming out of it, as I seem to learn a little more each day, and I have started working again on the second movement of my Concerto for Trombone and Jazz band. The one thing I have learned so far is that for me writing music is easy, it is the mixing that is the bitch and take all of the time. Anyway those are my random thoughts for this week, no real insights in music right now. So, have a merry merry Christmas.


Ursus Demens

Belinda Moody's Tonic Immobility

Two weeks ago Dr. Morse turned me on to a piece by Ms Moody called "Tonic Immobility". It is here on SibeliusMusic as just a lead sheet. Well the tune intrigued me enough to create a simple arrangement and realization of the piece. I shared that arraignment with Ms Moody and she gave her approval, “it was interesting to hear how you imagined some of the ambience of the piece just as i imagined it to be”, and permission to share it with the world. “...i am really happy for you to share it with anyone in the whole world that would like to hear!”

A little Tonic Immobility MP3

The original lead sheet can be viewed here:
Tonic Immobility Lead Sheet


Ursus Demens

Nothing

Nothing to say this week.

Well, what to do? What to do?

If you are one of the few in this universe that have been following this Blog you will know that last winter I did a Blog Musical piece of the week. This year I was seriously considering doing it again. It is no mean task to produce a new presentable pice of music each week. I was surprise at the end of last winter how much (self imposed) pressure disappeared once spring arrived and I stop writing at least one complete piece each week. Despite the pressure I would impose on myself I was thinking I would try it again this year. But, I have decided (at least as of today) no to do a winter weekly Blog piece. Why? Well, last week I got both the Sonar sampler software and the Garrtian JABB samples, there along with the GPO samples have added a lot of new software for me to learn. So I am going to be spending the winter producing new renderings/records of my existing compositions using my new software tools. While there will be no new piece each week this winter, I will be posting new “recordings”. So, please stay tuned and let me know if and how you enjoyed the music.

Ursus Demens