Hi all,
I just posted a new song made exclusively with Rhino and TConrady's algo patches. It's at
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/hislefthandmusic.htm
and its called Prayer.
(I hope its appropriate to post this here (I know there's a Song forum as well) but I figured it was on topic because it was virtually all Rhino. Let me know if this is a concern. Definately not trying to spam my tunes. Thanks.)
Rhino Song
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- 3833 posts since 8 Sep, 2003 from Santa Clara, CA, USA
WOW..what a really good use of these algorithmic patches! Not overwhelming, but vey gentle and beautiful. It surly sounds like a prayer going to heaven. Please tell us the story behind the piece.
Tim
Tim
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- KVRAF
- 1949 posts since 21 Mar, 2003 from Labrador
Click on 'Lyrics/Story' on the web page.tconrardy wrote: Please tell us the story behind the piece.
Anything beyond that should be respected as being private, I should think.
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- 1927 posts since 30 Oct, 2003 from Frolicking in Dirac's Ocean
First, Tim...thanks for your kind comments. Means alot to me...particularly as you are the "father" of most if not all the sounds that inspired the piece.
dB - I appreciate yr thoughts. In this case, I'll give a little of the background. The daughter of a very, close friend has been hovering in a life-threatening health situation that really has the docs baffled. This has been going on for a couple of months and what makes it even more tragic for the family is that the father (my best friend) died a few years ago of a virulent cancer.
What can I say...I'm not a traditionally religious person by any stretch of the imagination and words in this situation totally fail me. This piece is what came burbling forth from my roots as a response. My wife, a nurse, has told me of triple-blind studies that evidence the efficacy of prayer even when the person being prayed over doesn't know about it or when the person doing the praying doesn't know the "object" of the prayer. This kid needs all the juice she can get.
This piece is yo way different from most of my other compositions. It is ultimately my hope that it can give a few minutes of solace or quietude to those that listen to it.
dB - I appreciate yr thoughts. In this case, I'll give a little of the background. The daughter of a very, close friend has been hovering in a life-threatening health situation that really has the docs baffled. This has been going on for a couple of months and what makes it even more tragic for the family is that the father (my best friend) died a few years ago of a virulent cancer.
What can I say...I'm not a traditionally religious person by any stretch of the imagination and words in this situation totally fail me. This piece is what came burbling forth from my roots as a response. My wife, a nurse, has told me of triple-blind studies that evidence the efficacy of prayer even when the person being prayed over doesn't know about it or when the person doing the praying doesn't know the "object" of the prayer. This kid needs all the juice she can get.
This piece is yo way different from most of my other compositions. It is ultimately my hope that it can give a few minutes of solace or quietude to those that listen to it.
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- 3833 posts since 8 Sep, 2003 from Santa Clara, CA, USA
I think this is a good example where emotion and the composers life events can help to create a piece and also bring a certain healing to the situation. Just like on 9/11, I was able to create a piece that involved my emotions at the time, yet help to resolve my own feeling in the matter. ( just google "Metal Bird" and you should find the piece. The New York Times even wrote about it briefly )
Thanks for sharing this story.It was quite moving.
Tim
Thanks for sharing this story.It was quite moving.
Tim
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- 1949 posts since 21 Mar, 2003 from Labrador
Your decision of course, I just posted because sometimes others really do not know what it's like to go through that kind of situation. Talking about it doesn't always make everyone feel better.mayan wrote:First, Tim...thanks for your kind comments. Means alot to me...particularly as you are the "father" of most if not all the sounds that inspired the piece.
dB - I appreciate yr thoughts. In this case, I'll give a little of the background.
(No offence meant to Tim.)
Been there, know what you mean. One does tend to get rather existential when confronted with the possibility of death.What can I say...I'm not a traditionally religious person by any stretch of the imagination and words in this situation totally fail me.
And yet, it's part of everyone's life. We humans are a strange lot!
The soothing properties of music can only help.This piece is yo way different from most of my other compositions. It is ultimately my hope that it can give a few minutes of solace or quietude to those that listen to it.
Hoping for the best,
db
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- KVRAF
- 4891 posts since 3 Jan, 2003 from Vancouver
So far I have found many, many links to websites advertising bird feeders, playpens and baths made of metal... 10 pages worth, actually!tconrardy wrote:( just google "Metal Bird" and you should find the piece. The New York Times even wrote about it briefly )
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heres some links from google:pough wrote:So far I have found many, many links to websites advertising bird feeders, playpens and baths made of metal... 10 pages worth, actually!tconrardy wrote:( just google "Metal Bird" and you should find the piece. The New York Times even wrote about it briefly )
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New Music Playlist Fall 2001
... ECM CD ECM 1215. Tim Conrardy: Metal Bird. Recording provided by the composer. ... Part
of September 11 Musical Gallery; Tim Conrardy: Metal Bird. ...
kalvos.org/playa01.html
The September 11th Tragedy: A Musical Gallery
... is: Claudio Calmens calmens@netverk.com.ar calle 29 1009 1900 La Plata
Argentina. Tim Conrardy: Metal Bird, Real Audio or mp3. kalvos.org/tragedy.html
The Arts Respond: Expressing emotions the classical music way
... in type from large orchestral scores (Adams) to chamber works (David Stock's wind
symphony, "Nine-One-One") to computer music (Tim Conrardy's "Metal Bird"). ...
www.post-gazette.com/ae/20020908classical0908fnp5.asp
9/11
... A considerably less sublime sampling technique is evident in Tim Conrardy's synth-pop
Metal Bird, which lays the voices of spectators and GW Bush over a Miami ...
www.lovesphere.org/Stone&Coin/ Scriptorium/Reviews/kalvos.html
The Rutland Herald Online - The music of grief
... is not overtly programmatic, although Tim Conrardy downloaded audio clips from online
news broadcasts and incorporated them into his “Metal Bird.” On the ...
www.rutlandherald.com/search/Categories/Article/36906
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Boy...never knew there were so many
Sorry for the OT on this thread.TimC
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- 1927 posts since 30 Oct, 2003 from Frolicking in Dirac's Ocean
Thanks for the great comments, y'all. I'm happy to say that she is -for the moment- doing better. I have no illusions regarding how long of a road she faces but all of us here will take any positive signs very gratefully. I'm so glad yr able to get something from the music...it kinda came through me.