my friends' blogs
- Jan vander Gaag — Producer Conference's September 20 + 21
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- Hi all. Just to let you know that we have planned 2 new Producer Conferences in Amsterdam and Brussels! 20 September - Producer Conference in Brussels 21 September - Producer Conference in Amsterdam http://www.theproducersconference.com/ Look forward to see you ALL! Ciao - Jan read more...
- Emil Hansson — Back from vacation
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Four weeks really fly by when you´re having fun.
I've found a new computer game to look forward to.
Have a look at this teaser/trailer! :) Can't go wrong with that one.
read more... - Geomatic — New track "Sacrifice" is uploaded!
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New track "Sacrifice" is uploaded
All comments are welcome!
Thank You!
read more... - colab — Introducing Ghosts Inc.
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I just finished up a longer collaborative project with two other musicians here at MI7.
It's called "Ghosts Inc." and is instrumental illbient type of music.
We have five tracks posted on the profile right now, and I would be very interested in hearing your comments on the music. See community.mi7.com/profile/12178 for more info.
Thanks.
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...
- Tom Pedroli — Benjamin
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Today at 12.00 hrs my (our) son was born. We named him Benjamin. The Clair the Lune remix was specially written for this child (as a modern lullaby).
All is well and we are all very happy. read more... - Doghouse Riley — My shovel's too small. . .Or is it?
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- Where can I get me a big enough shovel to make a dang difference here in the total manure spreadin music bidness? I went down to the hardware store and they just laughed at me. But ever time I git on the internets thang it's plain ta see that ifn ya don't got one as big as a backhoe you aint' goin nowheres. Any ideas? I mean I'm willin to hyperbolize as much as the next fella or gal. Scruples, have I none. So, I got that goin fer me at least. How do you folks handle it? read more...
- Blue Planet — collaboration with Uncle Steve (Canada) an Lo Kivikas (Sweden)
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- starting some months ago with Uncle Stevies wonderful lyrics of "Spirit Warriors", we finished our first collaboration together with Lo Kivikas. If you like, have a listening of this new song on her MI7 site. 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... - Marianne M — My latest demo CD now available at CD Baby
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Just wanted to let you know that my latest demo CD, clips from which you can hear here, is now available internationally at CD Baby! Here's the direct link:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/mariannemilde
With love
Marianne
read more... - Mindmovie — two new songs online
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- Mekon Peppers and A New Kind Of Man are the working titles and both unfinished looking for some collaboration if this kicks you please contact me. read more...
- siflaar — back again?
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Last update about 2 months ago.. hmmm whell there was a reason for it.
I moved to our new home and that costs a lot of time, not to mention that moving an internet connection was horrible.
I have some internet connection now, but hopefully next week my new provider will connect me with fiberglass.In the meantime, my studio is still a mess (some other things got a higher priority). So my gear is now situated in a boombox ;o)
hopefully just a few weeks to rebuild the studio and to start working again.BTW. Great news ... We (as in KSK Productions) composed the music and wrote the lyrics for a school musical here in Holland. And last week the musical was performed.. great to see what kids are doing with your creations. I loved it.
read more... - colab — New track posted
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- I've posted a new-ish track here, featuring the same vocals that Jenny Grettve here at MI7 provided for the Blake remix earlier. I wanted to hear the vocals in a new context, so I created all new instrumentals for them - and this is the result. read more...
- Emil Hansson — Air piano
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Nice!
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- Jan vander Gaag — Free Ableton workshop at the Winston Club Amsterdam
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Hi all.
25.07 we do a free Ableton LIVE 7 workshop at the Winston Club Amsterdam. Start is 7.00 PM and the workshop is performed by Pitchblack and Tom COSM before their show - read more about the spectacular event on:
http://www.ableton.com/pages/2008/pitchblack_tomcosm_workshop
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...
