What Ever, Kiyone's Mood & Soul Catcher

I have just uploaded a new MP3 mix of my piece What Ever. This is, I hope, the penultimate mix of What Ever so that I can move onto other pieces. At this point I am considering doing a recording of either Kiyone's Mood or Concerto For Trombone I. Soul Catcher.


The Program notes for Kiyone's Mood:

A simple model tune:

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Kiyone was not sure how long she had been walking when she found the bar. It must have been several hours, she calculated, the street lights having come on without her noticing. It was a dark night, a cloudless and moonless night, only the brightest of stars were visible through the city lights. Like a cheap detective novel, the night mirrored her mood. Only three of the tables in the place were colonized as Kiyone made her way to the end of the empty bar. Just the type of place she needed to drink the night away. Sitting down she gave the bartender a single command, "Scotch!"


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Already Thursday

I have solved, or at least worked around, the “snap-crackle- and-pop” issues I have been having with Sonar so I have been progressing with my mixing and my realization of What Ever and a preliminary MP3 Mix is available. I will be uploading a new mix sometime soon. After that I think there will be one more mix before I let it be and go on to something else, most likely mixing Cat Juice, But I might take on one of my full Big Band pieces.

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Just a quick update

I have tried to stay focused on my work on my realization of What Ever (Formerly known as Why Did You Leave Me) Everything is in place now and a preliminary MP3 mix is available MP3 of What Ever. I still want to refine the actual mix and balance in the piece, but this week Sonar is acting up with some “snap-crackle-and-pop” that I have not experienced before. I have also begun working on a new Jazz piece, but while I am very happy with it melodically, I am unsure and unhappy with the harmonic underpinnings, not sure what to do with it. And I have also begun mixing Cat Juice but the above Sonar issues have also plagued it.


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This Week

OUCH!

Weirdness

My piece Musical Blog piece from last year Facilis Descensus Averno garnered 130 views on over the weekend and an additonal 17 views on Monday. This for a piece of music that averages less than one view per day. Doing a search on Google for “Facilis Descensus Averno” shows that my piece is the number one returned result. Weird. I wonder what alignment of the planets resulted in this 15 minutes.

Either the world is weird or I am crazy.


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Drifting Across The Sea of Stars

Last winter (2004-2005) I did a weekly musical blog piece. The piece I did for the week of March 20th, 2005 Anno Domino was Drifting Across The Sea of Stars. Taking a little time off from my work on my “rendering” of Why Did You Leave Me (which is coming along very well, but I felt I need to take a little time away from it to clear out the ears, but so far I am very happy with what I have. There is actually a raw preliminary MP3 file available.)

But back to the point. Taking a little break I worked up an MP3 recording of Drifting Across The Sea of Stars using Sonar and various Software Synthesizers. Please take a listen, I would love to hear your impressions.

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