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- Where do you live?
- Dayton, OH
- Is music your main income source?
- Yes!
- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- film, television, web, multimedia, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Songs, Contemporary Ensembles
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- http://www.alpiar.com
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Modern Orchestral music, post-bop/modal jazz, everything there is!
- About Me:
- I am an orchestral and Jazz composer, and performer (saxophones) of every style of music under the sun ;) I have much experience as a composer and I do it full-time, however I am in the "breaking in" phase of film and TV music. I would dearly love any thoughts or advice for moving forward, and any compliments and criticizms of my music. Mostly I hope you enjoy my stuff and that its compelling enough to warrant more visits
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Paul McGuinness Keynote Speech at Midem
I sent this to the FMPRO list, but it is really a great speech that really hits directly to the key issues of our industry at this juncture in time. I hope you all read this and respond. Enjoy!
Paul McGuinness Keynote Speech January 28 at Midem, Cannes
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ContinueAlps goes loopy! Omg
Hahah ok anyone who knows me knows my fierce opposition to loop based writing. Of course I am against it not for repition but because most of the time the loops are pre fabricated and written by someone else for a library and then most people use them as is and then consider themself a composer of equal worth to Stravinsky ouchers. Anyhow here is "some beats" I am playing with to be rapped over. I however played all the notes in each of the loops, they arent from fruity loops or garage band ;…
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Perhaps Chris Merrit misunderstood what I was talking about when I asked him? Anyway, when you go to the webpage and actually see it, then maybe you can give me some advice. Thanks :)
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I have finally posted some music. Check it out and let me know what you think.
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You tracks are well done : takes time! I know it.
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MY MEMOIRS:
PIONEERING OVER FOUR EPOCHS
SECTION IX: NOTEBOOKS----MUSIC
INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC NOTEBOOKS
1.1 Classical Music
1.2 Classical Music
1.1.A Popular: Folk/Rock Music
1.1.B Jazz Music
Music has played an important part in my life unlike dance which has been, at best, a peripheral experience. In primary school from 1950 to 1957 music was a regular part of the curriculum. My mother and father both played the piano, sang in choirs, had sing-alongs in our home, with our family, with friends and with the Baha’i community as I entered my late childhood in about 1953/4. We listened to classical music around the house from my birth in 1944 until my father died in 1965. Then my mother and I moved into different houses; I moved to another town and then another and then another country and this family musical experience ended.
In the mid-to-late fifties I became interested in rock and roll, listened to it on the radio in my bedroom among other places and in 1965 I bought my first LP: Barry McGuire’s ‘The Eve of Destruction.’ My mother gave me the family copy of The Messiah that same year and these two LPs launched my collection. I purchased LPs and 45s, as they were known, until 1975 by which time I had accumulated some 60 LPs and 45s. In 1975 my first marriage ended and with it, it seems in retrospect, my purchase of records and extensive listening to music in my home. Judy, my first wife, and I never had a TV and listening to records was an important part of our shared experience. In the following years I had to scale-back my purchases of records due to having to raise three children and the increased cost of records.
I started to learn to play the guitar in 1968 after an unsuccessful attempt at classical guitar in 1962/3. I taught music in my role as a primary teacher from 1967 to 1971. In 1989 I taught guitar to a class of Aboriginal students at Thornlie Tafe. I led sing-alongs from 1968 to 1999 when I retired from the teaching profession. In 2000 I joined a small group of singers in George Town to entertain residents of an aged care facility called Ainslie House and I continued singing with that group until May of 2005. In 2008 I began to lead singalongs with my guitar with these same residents of that aged care facility.
In 2000 I also had access to some 50 CDs as part of my role of Baha’i radio program presenter on City Park Radio. By April 2005 I had presented about 150 half hour programs and this activity also came to an end that year. Such, in summary, is a brief history of my musical experience. I have made a list of the pieces of music I have enjoyed most and it can be found in my computer directory, my two-ring binder sing-along file and on the internet. I also have a list of records I own in that same file.
This particular music file has four sub-sections divided as outlined at the start of this introduction: 2 popular music sections and two classical sections. They contain lists of articles about music, articles I began to save in 1984, but did not begin to save seriously until the year 2000. I opened this file for these articles and resources in 2004 after twenty years of slowly accumulating the material. It has become a serious collection in the last three years in my effort to write poetry with musical themes. In 2005 I divided the resources into: (a) classical and (b) popular and placed them in separate files. In 2006 I opened a jazz section(1.1.B), a sub-section of the popular music file.
I should mention, in closing this introduction, that radio and television have played an important part in my musical experience beginning as far back as 1944. This is not the place to summarize more than 60 years of radio and more than 35 years of television and their respective musical influences. I should say, though, that now in these first nine years of my retirement, 1999 to 2008, my musical experience comes in the main from the FM Classical radio station; of course TV and some pop-music from the local radio station are also part of my musical fare. Occasionally I used to get an LP bug and listen to classical music from my collection of LPs, but in 2008 this ceased due to hi-fi technical problems. One of my aims in these early years of my retirement is to integrate music, life's activities and my religious beliefs in different ways in my poetry and in postings on the internet. The resources in these files represent a base of information for this poetic-writing exercise which I have found to be immensely stimulating.
Ron Price
18 June 2007
Updated for Chris Alpiar's Page
at the Composer's Forum on:
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SOME COMPARISONS
Mozart's description of what happens to him as he composes has some similarities to the process of writing poetry as I experience it. "Once I have my theme another melody comes,"1 Mozart begins. And so it is, for me, with writing poetry. I get the germ of an idea, some starting point, a strong note or theme. Then, another idea comes along linking itself to the first one in a similar way to the linkage of that melody Mozart mentions to his theme. By now there is emerging "the needs of the composition as a whole" both for me and for Mozart. For both of us, too, the whole work is produced by "melodic fragments," by "expanding it," by "conceiving it more and more clearly." Mozart finishes his work in his head. The composition comes to him in its entirety in his head. I finish my work on paper and I have no idea of the ending until the end. The poem below is an example, drawing heavily on the contents of a book.2 -Ron Price with thanks to the 1ABC Radio National, The Science Show, 10.1.98; and 2Chloe Chard, Pleasure and Guilt: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography 1600-1830, Manchester UP, NY, 1999.
Even the most uninteresting,
trivial and repetitive,
when seen at a distance
with a lively fancy
and a determination,
with purpose and system
to make the most of life,
can find a mysterious charm,
an entertaining commentary
in the hands of a good writer.
This is not the work of a tourist
and its trivial, pointless diversion,
innocent gratification,
pleasureable indolence,
gratifying excitements,
gastronomic indulgences,1
relief from responsibility,
and identity: escape.
I have never been a tourist.2
Always there is the work,
the object worthy of life,
of commentary:
always the profusion
of the incomparable,
so much intensification,
excess, the delights,
the dangers, the restlessness,
a reaching out
beyond the mundane,
the observable.
The danger of hyperboles,
accepting, as I know I must,
jarring encounters,
the destabilizing,
troubling elements
than can't be kept at bay,
when calm benevolence
can't be maintained
and the necessary distraction.
1 Except, perhaps, on my two 'honeymoons' for several days in August 1967 and December 1975; and travelling to and settling in to some new places of residence and employment.
2 Tourism in the modern sense began, according to Chard, about the time of the birth of Baha'u'llah. There are some parallels between tourism and pioneering but they are limited.
Ron Price
27 June 2002
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