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Jan Civil
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Harmony and the Rudime...
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Musicae Sacrae
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Musical Scholars Group
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Audiophiles
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TV and Film Composers
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Started Sep 28
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NO LOCATION
What happens when you get to where you're going with a delivery, once you're where you think you're supposed to be, and you realize that there is no such place? I mean, you don't want to be left holding the bag, you want to be compensated for all the trouble it took to get the thing there, on time, in such a hurry. After all, it's not your fault there is no such place.
Fortunately there is a convention in place for just such an occasion. You can have, at your ready, a label for that package, once it happens to you enough times, and why not.
You just mark it N/L, for No Location.
All those times the package didn't get to you, in the past?
Not our fault.
In fact, we weren't even employed by the service at that time.
You can look it up. We were otherwise engaged. Not even in the vicinity.
If we were, you better believe we had a magic marker to mark that sucker right:
No Location.
Undeliverable. You can't get there from here. No es possible baby.
All this has changed, now.
With the new Tigress and the U-Fraidees album aptly titled No Location.
"New music". You've heard that before? You say you've been misled in the past.
Sure you have. "Alternative Rock"...
When in fact it's just more of the same old shit, isn't it. With a new haircut and some new wrinkle in the fashion accessories.
But here, we are giving you an alternative, some audio entertainment which you just might find does deliver the goods. And better late than never!
And we're sure it wasn't your fault the map was wrong in the past...
As a token of it not being anybody's fault anymore, we offer you this amazing new product, at the LOW LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICE OF...
Music
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- film, multimedia, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Songs, Other
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- not really my job to put music in genre bins.
- Is music your main income source?
- Yes!
- Where do you live?
- "The Cove"
- About Me:
- I have some history in a sort of underground milieu... 'free associations' et al.
I am a composer, but you should know that I don't come to you from the academy. I'm self-taught.
This is a band sound, but a very restless band it would be. A very multi-varied approach is the Tigress sound. Some of it isn't polite.
The modus operandi: it can be a composition arisen from a wholly improvisational basis, or, if there is a plan it likes to be from the way a lyric scans against a pulse, or that lyric = a tune. In the case of the more rock-oriented music, that is. Mostly instrumental music, sometimes an audience needs the verbal or visual cues, so we'll supply that as well, to get it heard.
Jan Civil's Blog
by analogy:
{A critic who is engaged in the act of what she is talking or writing about, on a regular basis, has pretty much earned the right to publishing a strong opinion or editorial regarding that activity, IME. On the other hand, if one has never done, or eschews to do, it's really not valid to pretend to 'know'; it doesn't matter if one has all the published information in the world about how something is built. If one has never had to make something from a blueprint, or ever discussed the blueprint i… Continue
Posted on August 16, 2009 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments
Critics
What an amazing thing is a self-appointed critic. A critic of music, of art. Words about things which transcend words, about things which the whole reason to do them is that words are inadequate. Words about music, can be entertaining a pastime, you know.
It doesn't mean squat to talk about it. Words about music is like soccer about painting or something.
A blog, at least I am writing about a process, sort of a diary, I don't take pictures of many things, I don't write a lot about what I do, I… Continue
It doesn't mean squat to talk about it. Words about music is like soccer about painting or something.
A blog, at least I am writing about a process, sort of a diary, I don't take pictures of many things, I don't write a lot about what I do, I… Continue
Posted on July 19, 2009 at 6:30am — 16 Comments
remixing older stuff
I made some demos of the ideas I had the last time I had a place to work, but on a really slow computer for the task. and with the result of a lot of deficiencies even for demos.
but people seemed to go for a lot of it, I think the music is sound.
So, I'm remixing, and just rearranging and even reworking most of it. there are a couple things where there were no deficiencies in the tracks and I managed to have them mastered, but that's about 10% of what I had.
One thing is the title sequence f… Continue
but people seemed to go for a lot of it, I think the music is sound.
So, I'm remixing, and just rearranging and even reworking most of it. there are a couple things where there were no deficiencies in the tracks and I managed to have them mastered, but that's about 10% of what I had.
One thing is the title sequence f… Continue
Posted on July 13, 2009 at 7:00am — 6 Comments
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midi as instructions is meant for a machine to read, not so much a person. graphically it can take a number of forms.
one of these is a piano roll editor, where the durational and timing info is horizontal blocks which are vertically arranged to i...
Why can't all the file shaing sites like 'Limewire' and 'Ares Pro' be made illegal, banned and discontinued? It's happening right in front of our noses and nobody's doing sod-all about it!
Your POV is valid, but only for singer/songwriters that can grow a flock to market the sale of something other than their music to. If you read my text, I dont support RIAA or NMPA or the PROs, but I strongly disagree that anarchistic freedom of n...
I have been working in the Open Source movement since the mid 90's.
I pretty much disagree with almost everything you say. The industry's approach is not about protecting the artists at all, its about protecting their profit margins.
Open Source...
here's an interesting site and organization:
EFF
topics and white papers such as:
# Digital Radio
RIAA's Attempt to Control Recording From the Radio
# No Downtime for Free Speech Campaign
Learn about how copyright claims can inhibit free speec...
Also I would like to mention that while the laws allow for prosecution at the millions of dollar level, the RIAA, while yes they have been an asshat, have also made very reasonable offers to people before they went to trial. Like that lady that wa...
Film work is incredibly affected by this. The entire industry is - all the parts that make money that are related to music in any way are. The money being gone trickles down into every crack there is. Of course some people buy CD's still, some peo...
done, per my last post.
I cannot edit the others. actually I'm addressing most of what he wrote, the whole thread. but it isn't necessary to duplicate it all a third time is it... :)
Well, if it makes you more comfortable to see the world in black and white to this degree, I'm a criminal, you're a cop, you gotta do what you gotta do. My comfort level is exceeded by someone hanging that jacket on me beyond where I can relate or...
Well tbh I think you are a criminal unless you have permission to use or trade that material and you are doing so. Just because everyone is doin it, does not make it right. And the spiral downward for composers has gone through the roof (or the fl...
that's true, but I include that in group two. It's a done deal. That model is over. (the new model is bandcamp to the iTunes type paid downloads, to a type of 'per hits' remuneration on a website. That's what's the deal we're dealing in.)
There i...
There is a third group as well - exploiters. People who may or may not have purchased an item who now do not and never will because they found a way to get it free. The entire face of the industry is hosed now because of the incredible massive los...
If you only knew how many arguments about this I've seen, a few of which I've joined in on.
The people who want something for free fall into two camps: people who are going to buy it besides the freebie if they like it, or for whatever reason of ...
Well the problem I'm having is the word "free". "Publish" your works for "free" and millions of people can download it for "free". Seems like one step up on P2P sharing that is destroying the remaining semblance of the music industry. Of course wh...
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Wow!, Love your music! Wonderful textures and sonorities
Hope to hear more soon!
Best
Bon
Cheers,
Michal
Brilliant! Period!
Finally got around to it. Absolutely love GODZ EATZ Shiodome Sequence, by the way.
Seriously though, once I learnt the basics, it was play for me too.
I think Eric said around October.
JABB Brush kit 1
Trilogy acoustic bass
Pettinhouse DirectGuitar 2.1 Jazz pickup
SampleModeling Trumpet
WIVI Bb Clarinet 1
Sampletekk White Grand Piano
Audiophile ? Hmm! I keep trying
Staying clear of the endless drivel in discussion about genre, shape, form, theory, mathematics and on and on......................................................
I think "Ray Dio 3 through 6" is a truly amazing piece of "art".
Thanks for sharing.
Sincerely
Ray
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