Music Update

[filkertom]

I have just sent out the audition MP3 for a commission I've been working on for months. Hardest arrangement job I've ever done. But I finally got it where I wanted it, and I think it sounds really good, and I hope the client thinks the same.

One down, six to go. Really. I seem to have graduated to a better class of problems: I've got more commission work than I can easily do. So I'm gonna be doin' my best over the next few weeks to get everything off my plate, ideally by PenguiCon.

I hope to have an iTom song later tonight or tomorrow, but I've got to finish writing it first. Same with a FuMP song for next week.

Whew.

How's Your Life In Music going?

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[ericcoleman]

Just trying to get a couple of songs in my head ... it's working slowly ... too much other stuff going on.

Oh, and I'm going to some con in WI tomorrow ... I hope to see some wunnerful music there

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Oh let's see, I opened up my mouth and volunteered to perform that Belly Dance song to the tune of Safety Dance that popped up on the Filk topic a couple of days ago. Most probably at the Bawdy Bardic concert at the "Potrero War" SCA weekend, east of San Diego, Memorial Day weekend. I was already booked as a backstage worker/relief sound board person so I'm already committed -- or should be!


Also, this crossed my desk a few minutes ago. I think I would be pleased as punch if one of the FuMPers won it and I was the one who told them about it... [www.internetsongoftheyear.com]

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that. Wow.

[huskiebear.livejournal.com]

Careful on that one - they require 9.95 to "register" (I haven't been able to track down if that's per song or total) and on a quick peruse I saw one person (phil) has uploaded (misnamed) BNL and a Harry Chapin songs despite the rules of all original only. Not sayin' it's not valid, just smells a bit fishy.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Struggling with tuning a 25-year-old hammered dulcimer that might well be defective and untunable, while working up a couple of tunes on it; still insufferably pleased with myself for collaborating with catsittingstill and our carpool-mates on a song that won the harmony songwriting contest at FKO; and trying to get another song entered into Melody assistant.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

That reminds me - I still have to get a piece of corian (or similar) and cut/carve/hack it into shape to replace the one missing piece in my hammered dulcimer.

Then I can attmept to tune it.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I've got two potential students coming in - waiting for their schedules to fall into place so that I can then fit them in my schedule.

I'm not practicing a classical guitar arrangement of Pachabel's Canon enough to make much progress, but those first 12 bars are slowly sinking in.

I am, however, making progress on learning Michael Hedges songs and techniques. I haven't played around with alternate tunings all that much, so that aspect is proving the most challenging for me - especially when I shift into improv mode.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hee. Have you seen the Pachelbel Rant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM)?

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Could be better, could be worse. Finished recording my first solo CD (see icon). Now taking pre-production orders.

www.minstrosity.com

Also in a new group:

www.merrymeasure.com

[hms42]

What type of music is on your CD??

Song list?

Harold S.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

7 originals:
Coraline (based on the Neil Gaiman book)
The 49B (about a possibly mythical bus)
The Parking Lot Strip (what happens at end-of-day at RenFaire)
Roll Along (inst.)
Statue's Dream (kind of a spacy inst.)
The Voyage of the James Caird (tribute to Shackleton's Antarctic expedition)
Seven Angels (for Columbia) (tribute to astronauts)
Also:
Danny Boy
Hard Times (Come Again No More)
Planxty Irwin
The Wabash Cannonball

[bigtig.livejournal.com]

It goes well. After the big move I've been lucky to find a new group and have already done two performances:

http://bigtig.livejournal.com/211569.html

Am still kicking around the idea for carving up my own shawm or clarinet on the lathe and have been researching that.

week in music....

[hms42]

Hmm.. The best way to describe it is "interesting".

I-CON was lousy for open filk recording... (Nothing Friday, started at 2am on Sat nights and I called it a night at 3 due to wanting to record a sunday concert at 1pm.) You would have though everyone who attends filk was at FKO. (They likely were.) The concerts on the other hand were decent.

Recorded 5 hours of concerts including the 2 hour fump concert. (Didn't make the cabaret, but am working on geting a copy for the fump performers).

The one really INTERESTING thing in music this week for me was that the recording of the FuMP concert I made, ended up on Sudden Death's Manic Monday's podcast. He used 3 songs from that concert.

That was a fun surprise when a friend told me about it.

Other than that, got something around 4-6 filk CDs (and one DVD). Including one that really has good lyrics (audio quality is questionable for the one song I heard.).

Harold

Pretty poorly, actually

[capplor.livejournal.com]

That's why I took up knitting -- it can be done after children are in bed or on public transit without disturbing anyone. (Actually, the other week I shared a streetcar with someone practicing his electric guitar, but my instruments are all acoustic.)

[lukeski.livejournal.com]

Recorded three new songs with the great and powerful budsharpe. The first hits the FuMP tomorrow, the other two will hit the FuMP before the end of April. Fantastic! :)

[raven-ap-morgan.livejournal.com]

Finished production of two projects recently: (a) jcw_da_dmg's solo CD (see above for details), and (b) a mixdown project for a Christian Contemporary group in downstate Illinois - that one's just been mastered and is ready for duplication.

Samples of those tracks can be found on this page (http://www.ravenslake-music.com/gpage2.html).

I'm currently recording some of my own material, as well as looking for clients to produce (either to record in my studio or in other studios, depending on the situation).

Raven

[warinbear.livejournal.com]

I scared my coworkers (http://warinbear.livejournal.com/30002.html) in about ninety seconds. Don't know if doggerel really counts, though. <g>

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

Having made it through my first ever (mini-)concert without any terrible trauma, I can now stop practicing those same &%$@%$&^ four songs over and over and start thinking about something new. :-)