I’ve composed a choral piece titled “Turn to the Sun.” It’s yet another reworking of “Sunshade.” I’ve decided to submit it to Open Game Art’s weekly challenge and it can be downloaded or streamed there.

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I’ve written a new song called “Shadow Rain.” It’s an ominous neoclassical piece. As with “Shadowdrone,” “Sunlight Rising,” and “Shadows Falling” it’s another reworking of “Sunshade” intended as soundtrack music. As with “Shadowdrone,” I’ve decided to submit it to Open Game Art for their Weekly Challenge. This time the theme is Dark Fantasy and I think this fits. It can be streamed and downloaded from OGA or MySpace.

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Two more soundtrack pieces, “Sunlight Rising” and “Shadows Falling”  have been written.  As with “Shadowdrone,” they are radical reworkings of “Sunshade.”  The whole project, in fact, is to create a 40+ min. soundtrack by using nothing but “Sunshade” and reworkings of “Sunshade.”  This can be seen with “Sunlight Rising” and “Shadows Falling,” which sound very similar to each other.  The first 3 songs of this project can now be streamed via MySpace.

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I recently recorded a dark ambient piece called “Shadowdrone.” The song is a radical reworking of “Sunshade,” and is intended as suspenseful soundtrack music. When I saw the website Open Game Art had a contest going for post-apocalyptic game content, I decided to upload “Shadowdrone” to their site, as it sounds appropriate for that sort of game although it was not originally intended for a post-apocalyptic setting. The song can be streamed or downloaded there.

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The Shifting Language is now available in a lossless format, as FLAC files, from the Internet Archive. The package also includes album artwork in a lossless format, as PNG files, as well as midi files, notation, tablature and more…

The Shifting Language (lossless)

Bassoon notation, cello notation, clarinet notation, flute notation, french horn notation, guitar notation, oboe notation, piano notation, trumpet notation, tuba notation, violin notation, and tablature for “Vernal” are now available from Scribd.

Bassoon Notation
First Cello Notation
Second Cello Notation
Clarinet Notation
Flute Notation
French Horn Notation
Guitar Notation
Oboe Notation
Piano Notation
Trumpet Notation
Tuba Notation
Violin Notation
Tablature

Piano notation, violin notation, guitar notation, and tablature for “A Gentle Rain” are available now from Scribd.

Piano Notation
Violin Notation
Guitar Notation
Tablature

Finally, the Jamendo Upload Saga is over and the The Shifting Language is now available.  It’s been a long struggle.

It first began with my inability to upload tracks to Jamendo.  The tracks never even reached the encoding stage.  After having uploading problems elsewhere, and learning about a bug in flash for linux, I decided to install wine so that I could run flash for windows in linux.  Using flash for windows, I was able to upload tracks but they froze on the encoding stage and were rejected by the server.  I then emailed Jamendo about this problem.  I didn’t catch the response from Jamendo for a few days because Yahoo mistakenly threw the email from Jamendo in the spam folder.  Jamendo asked me to send them one of the files that had been rejected the server so they could examine it.  I sent a response with the file attached but never heard back.  After more than a month went by, I emailed them to ask if they had received the file.  They told me they had never received it and asked me to resend the file.  I attached the file to an email and sent it.  After more than a week went by with no response, I emailed them again to ask if they had received the file.  They told me that, once again, they never received it and asked me to send it one more time.  This time, however, rather than attaching the file to my email, I uploaded it to zShare and sent them the link to the file.  This time I got a prompt response telling me that they had received the file and determined the problem to be a low sample rate (8k), that the file needed to have a sample rate of 44.1 k.  I looked at audacity’s default settings and, indeed, the sample rate was 8k.  I then spent the next few days re-recording the tracks at 44.1 k.  Finally, using flash for windows, I uploaded the tracks successfully and finalized the album.  Just this morning, I received an email from Jamendo telling me that the album was no longer awaiting moderation and was now publicly available.  Finally.

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Notation for “Dancer” is now available from Scribd in pdf format.

Piano Notation

Piano notation, flute notation, bass notation, bass tablature, and drum tablature for “Moments of Elation” are available now from Scribd.

Piano Notation
Flute Notation
Bass Notation
Bass Tablature
Drum Tablature