We Can Go Within Wednesday, 20 May 2009 08:00 |  |  | 
“We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.” Listen to We Can Go Within Add new comment
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TempestSaturday, 18 April 2009 08:00 | | |
Last month's show went great! Photos came out a little blurry, but Elim caught some pretty good video. I have ones for Dangerous Curves and Shards. He also caught a wonderful rendition of If You Only Knew by Gardening Not Architecture. Because of the show, I did take some time off to work on my set. But once the dust settled, I started work on a new piece by the name of Tempest. It took me several weeks to complete, but I'm happy with the results and I think you should download it. Special Credits go to the very talented Suonho who recorded the Underwater sound used at the beginning of the song. You can find more sounds like these on Freesound, who uses a Creative Commons License for all of their sounds. Awesome site! Nyght 09 And the Cosmic Pizza ShowMonday, 09 March 2009 08:00 | | |
I've been a little quieter as of late, but been a lot has been happening behind the scenes. Next Monday, I'm opening for Gardening Not Architecture at Cozmic Pizza. So most of my free time has been centered around practicing my set and putting the finishing touches on a remake of Nyght for my album. I also have an original piece that I've also been working on, but put it on hold till after the show. Other than posting one song a month, my muse has no set schedule. Her goal is to have fun and send me little bursts of Shelly-inspiration along the way. :)
Shards and Hope's FlameSunday, 01 February 2009 08:00 | | |
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become. The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.- Buddha (Dhammapada)
I've completed two projects this month, the first one being a new version of Shards as well as Hope's Flame which is a simpler piano arrangement. It's become a year tradition to do a new version of Shards. For one thing, it demonstrates my musical advancements and also shows a reflection of the previous year. From my 8-bit sounding string version, to the first record piano rendition to this one - I feel that it reflects a steady progression of the song. This one makes me think of a travelogue, like in Universal Fables - but with the bittersweet melody of Shards and a strange determination. Listen to Hope's Flame and Shards Special credits go to: Corsica_S from Freesound for recording the sounds of the children playing at the end of Hope's Flame. Click here to download the original sample. As a trend, this seems to be a productive time of year for me. I've started on putting together an actual album and found a site that will create CDs on demand. I don't have high expectations, it's mostly to serve as a personal portfolio and be able to submit my songs to Pandora or the local college station. The one thing that I do like about the service I found is that they will automatically create a UPC Code for your CD and list it on Amazon which I thought was pretty cool. I also ordered an external terabyte drive so I have the ability to backup all of my project data and be able to do a reformat of my laptop in the next several weeks. My dear friend Poppy came over last week to do a photo shoot, so I can have pictures to use for album art and the website. I'm excited to see the photos, she does fantastic work and is a very talented photographer. You can view her photography and learn more about Poppy here. That's pretty much it for updates, enjoy the tunes and let me know what you think. Feedback is always appreciated! The Rhythm in my RootsSaturday, 10 January 2009 08:00 | | |
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.” - Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
I had this dream the other night about a little boy listening to a song in his family's living room, then watching him hear the same melody in various scenes as he grew older. His emotions towards the song always remained the same, but the impressions evolve and become more complex as his world view changes. At the end of the dream, the song plays again with him as a young man on a crowded sidewalk in the middle of the city. There are melodies like that in my life. Songs that my family would play during road trips, listening to Shadowbody's Dad play Cream in his old Suburban while taking us camping, or my own melodies that have changed since playing them as a little girl. I wrote a speech for Toastmasters recently that talks about my experiences with music and I feel like this month's song captures it eloquently. Listen to The Rhythm in my Roots I moved my songs from 2008 into a separate directory, but you can download them all here. Just click on the directories to expand songs for pre-05 to 08. Some of the older songs have a lower bitrate, but I can bump up the quality and add updated ones to the website. I'm very happy with my recent work, I'm using a wider range of different chord progressions and layering for melody effect - instead of just accompaniment. I've also been stripping down my more recent projects so I can play them live. Songs like August Moon, Zephyr Redux as well as this month's project. So that will be happening in the very near future. |
Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 03:08PM
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