my friends' blogs
- HUMANOISE — See you again, everyone!!
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- Cood luck everybody in the contest !!!! I stay the hospital from November 18, next tuesday, about 2 or 3 months. I will be 37 years old in there. I honor about I could keep current top 30 about 2 weeks in the contest and I could make my friends 420 and more in this community!! I will never forget all your kindness. Good luck everyone, and See you again !!! RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO. read more...
- HUMANOISE — Finally I entered these songs !!!
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- Finally I entered " DREAM9 ( I'LL BE WHO I WANNA BE ) ", " THE FLOWER AND BUTTERFLY ", and " My favorite Unknown Sound " to this contest !!!!! Everybody, Vote for me if you like them, All right ? I will do my best until when I stay the hospital !!!! Do your best, too!! Good luck, everyone! RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO. read more...
- HUMANOISE — Fortunately, I am still in my house ( not hospital ) !!!
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- But I will stay the hospital soon, the day will come. So I will do my best untill the day will come!! I can't still answer for your comments, but I'm thinking everyone is my friends. " Hey, you are all music lovers, right ? " RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO. read more...
- HUMANOISE — But Vote for "DREAM9" if you like !!!!!
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- But I entered just one song " DREAM9 ( I'LL BE WHO I WANNA BE ) " so have a listen and vote for it if you like, O.K ? Wish you will get success and happiness !!!! RESPECT & PEACE. Everybody!! See you again !!! Regards, HIROTO. read more...
- HUMANOISE — I will stay hospital again from today during in the contest.
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- Unfortunately again, My mother has treated my injury since I came back to my house from hospital stay, but my injury got worse recently. I will have to stay the hospital from today and will be operated. I can't be back to my house about two or three months. But I will be back!! Stay helthy and creative, Everyone !!!! Good luck all of you in the contest !!! RESPECT & PEACE. HIROTO. read more...
- HUMANOISE — Sorry for I couldn't answer for your kind comments !!!
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- Unfortunately I had to stay the hospital about 5 month ago. Because I sat in front of the PC for a long time and I got injury on my hip depth and I got high fever that's why I staied the hospital. And then I was treated and I came back to my home but I had still the injury. that's why I have needed to take a rest long time, I mean that I couldn't sit in front of my PC long time. I couldn't answer for your kind comments, you know why ? Everybody, take a rest, enough sleep, eat much and move your body !!!!! Don't concentrate too much for your creating music also doing internet, All right ? Regards, HIROTO. read more...
- Lo Kivikas — Interview with Lo Kivikas!
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SR International Radio will broadcast an exclusive interview with Lo Kivikas on Saturday, 25 of October, 22.00. You can find the station at 89.6 on the FM dial.
read more... - aeronaut — Relics
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- I am finally working on my Relics pieces again. This will become a rather large piece of instrumental music. I have uploaded part III en VI in my player. More pieces will follow... Hope you'll enjoy it. Jef read more...
- Mindmovie — New song added: Theme for An Imaginary Mindmovie
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- This will be the opening title of my upcoming first solo album. If you find some time please take a listen and if you want to feel free to leave me a comment. Audio quality is below my normal standard as the song is 8 minutes long I had to go down with the bitrate to 160kb. Anyway I hope you may enjoy. read more...
- Mindmovie — New Song added - Moonmaiden
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- A rough mix of one of the songs which will be on Mindmovie's first solo record - your feedback is most welcome read more...
- aeronaut — Mit dem Wind - adaptation by Mindmovie featuring Sara England
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Description: For my international "On the wind" project on myspace, I asked several people to write a version in their own language and style for my song. Mindmovie is the first to come up with a beautiful german version called "Mit dem Wind". The german speaking people will notice that is freely translated lyrics are really beautiful and at the same time true to the original. The music is, as we are used from him impeccable. Sara England's emotional singing goes straight to the heart. Amazing work by 2 great artists here on mi7.
Mit dem Wind Mit dem Wind
Ziehst du davon
gehst dahin im Flammenmeer
Feuer brennt so lodernd heiß
und mein Herz, gefriert zu Eis
Du bist fort
in eine andr’e Welt
Und dein letzter Gruß
verweht am Himmelszelt
Nie wusste ich das Morgenlicht
So kalt mir in die Seele sticht
Ich laufe weg
verberge mich
was immer ich auch tu
vergessen kann ich nicht
Die Zeit mit Dir hier Jahr um Jahr
All Dein Trost wenn ich mal traurig war
Auf dem Wind
und außer Sicht
Dein letzter Flug
In’s helle Licht
Das Feuer brennt ich bin allein,
doch am Ende werd’ ich bei Dir sein
Feuer brennt so lodernd heiß
und mein Herz, gefriert zu Eis
Bin alleine...
© 2007 Jef De Corte / Aeronaut ( “On the wind” - english lyrics)
© 2008 Achim Wierschem / Mindmovie (german adaptation) read more... - Mindmovie — New Song added - House Of Love
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Although This side is now soooo painfully slow that it is no longer a real funny thing to upload something - here is a new song. Welcome to any visitor who wants to leave a comment about the music. This title features Sara England on vocals - she as well as myself have discovered what it means when you a re trying to build a "house of love" with the wrong person. That's what this song is about.
read more... - Mindmovie — Planet Passion IV
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- A collaboration with Andres Rexach a guitar magician from Spain. Check his profile on myspace this man is a guitar and sitar monster. read more...
- Raven — Calling All Interested mi7 Musicians
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As all of you know, I am a devoted mom as well as a composer and musician. And as all of you know, I am a very vocal advocate for Autism Rights.
I enjoyed participating in Mindmovie's CCC project so much a few months ago that I was thinking it would be interesting to create a similar recording with snippets of my son's insights regarding Autism from an interview done with him in July 2007 and the update interview that was done with him last month.
What I am thinking of doing is using his comments along the lines of a hip hop / vocal dance mix composition. The purpose of the song would be to bring a better, more positive understanding of how children with Autism perceive the world in which they live ... our world, not their world.
I can only offer credits in lieu of money unfortunately. All of you are such incredible artists and all of you have been such good online friends to me in good times and in the most troubling times these past few months.
If you are interested in participating in this project (which would be promoted globally with links back to your websites or to your mi7 profile page just as our MIC Audio Podcasts on Autism are global), please email me at ravenmagic2003@yahoo.ca.
Thanks.
Raven :-)
read more... - Simon — Moving on with Trains!
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Hi there!
As you know, I enjoy composing for my “Quest of the Heroes”-project immensely, but lately I’ve tried to compose pieces not connected to a specific story. Its absolutely great to compose more “freely” and let the music lead the way in different directions. Due to my lack of patience, I improvise a lot to get the pieces finished. I rush through my compositions leaving them with apparent flaws... But, I’m still fond of them and I will probably revisit and rework them some day!
And now, I've uploaded a new song again, made with no restrictions of a story but with inspiration from… …trains.
So this time, its a piece about trains. Trains? Why? Well... Why not!
As a kid I was fascinated by trains (along with Star Wars and dinosaurs, of course). I played with them, and I read about them. Now, thirty or so years later, I finally have the possibility to make music. So why not make a piece for trains? So this is my homeage to all the trains in the world!
I've got tons of ideas and I'm thinking about, someday in the future, expand the music into a longer and more worked-through piece, a kind of "Train Symphony". So this is a kind of a little test, like a demo for more music to see if the music holds up. Most parts are improvised but I'm really fond of the piece, especially the "happy moment" beginning at about 2:47 and when the main hammering motif returns at about 4:06. I think my arrangements improves as I keep on composing, learning more and more about my humble equipment (no, I don't even use midi yet), trying to get the most out of it. I've learned more how to cut pieces together in Cubase, to edit, fade in, fade out, cut, paste... And by putting small pieces together into a longer piece my computer holds up a lot better and I can use more sounds and instruments in my music.
I had such fun doing this piece anyway, the music coming straight from my heart. At first I thought about using military march drums, clashing cymbals and metallic sounds but I didn't find any good of these sounds in my keyboard, so I used hammering piano and a lot of pounding drums instead to drive the piece forward. And I'm quite happy how that turned out, the main "hammering" motif is distinctly "trainy" and instantly recognized. Like trains could go on forever, I could do variations on this "train music" forever. The piece uploaded is finished with a little coda, just for fun.
By the way, the "Nightmare Suite" is thrown out in favor of the trains, but can still be heard at www.myspace.con/quest oftheheroes
Regards
/Simon
read more... - Lo Kivikas — "Spirit Warriors"
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New song uploaded! Have a listen to the collaboration of our common work. Three people living and working in three countries in different musical stuff...Thanks for your ears!
read more... - Simon — Horror, bad dreams and a song with no limitations...
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Hi there!
I've uploaded some new tracks.
For the last weeks I've been composing music for horror and death. Nice! I actually had a couple of bad dreams during this time. In my brother's role-playing game adventure there's a lot of nightmares and stories that helps outline the plot. For all these story-telling nightmares, filled with creepy incidents, death and terror, I've composed music. All connected somehow to the big bad guy (err, girl) - the evil witch Kha Harnia. I've uploaded a suite of this "nightmare music". There are plenty of themes and melodies going on in these dreams, weaving them together and connecting them to the story. I had a lot of fun doing "scary" music, and I've been able to twist some of the heroic themes into sorrow and horror. Fun!
Update: The "Nightmare Suite" is removed in favor of my latest piece, called "Trains!". But the nightmares can still be heard at www.myspace.com/questoftheheroes
Another new track I've done is a more uplifting and heroic piece (I had to do it after weeks of terror and nightmares!). The track is still unnamed (suggestions anyone?) since this is one of my first songs ever written and recorded without a specific purpose. As you might know, my musical journey started just a couple of months ago, with me composing and trying to perform and record music for my brother's role-playing game adventure "Ereb Altor 386 e0". This music is always specific to a place, a person, a battle or something else in the adventure, trying to capture the heart of the story. But this track is just done with no such restrictions. I just wanted to do something uplifting and powerful after weeks of nightmares. I hope I'm slowly improving on my arrangements, but I have to get a new computer! The track is based on a slow heroic theme played four times, each time with a grander arrangement. Notable is the last arrangement where my computer didn't hold up, it simply can't work with so many different audiotracks at the same time, so some of the intruments I planned are missing. I didn't get the powerful closing I intended. Some latency problems at the end as well. Ah well...
The third new upload isn't new. Its my old track "Remembrance" but I've added a piano performance of the song after the harp, violin and flute version previously uploaded.
Otherwise, I struggle to find time to compose and trying to learn more about my equipment as usual. I've borrowed a midicontroller and a software synthesizer but haven't had time to use it yet. Perhaps that could take my simple music further, but first - a new, more powerful computer please!
Take care!
/Simon
read more... - rodney — computing humor
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Quotes of the day:
Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. ...The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)
Now you're thinking "oh God, another Linux zealot going off about Windows"... until you see who wrote it: Bill Gates. Full story at Gizmodo Note: this is actually an old story about Windows XP. Vista, as we all know by now, is even worse. read more... - rodney — Symbian is Free Software
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- News just in is that Nokia have bought up Symbian, and intend to release it as Free Software (under the Eclipse Public License) as of today. As far as I'm aware Symbian is currently the most widely used Operating System in the world - there were 100 million phones running Symbian in 2006 - so this means that as of this moment Free Software is now more widely used than proprietary software. That's a pretty significant shift in the way of things, especially considering Symbian own 67% of the smartphone market, with Windows Mobile holding only 13%... read more...
- rodney — Real World stuff
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- Oh, forgot to mention in the last post: I've been spending some time recently talking with The Cedars, winners of the MI7 Real World contest. Looks like the plan is for me to produce the session at Real World Studios sometime next month, if all goes well. I'm very much looking forward to it, they are a great band, and I think we could create some damn fine tracks there. Let's see... read more...
