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Summary

Playlist for thinkers to think to contains 5 tracks and over 77 minutes of music. Set up in a similar way to the Reader’s Playlist – the music is piano and string based and mostly inspired by people and events that get me thinking.

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Individual Tracks

Image Credit: Brian Hillegas

Continuing the development around individual personalities – it’s ironic that this album starts with a track called Identification.

Identification is a very chilled out string heavy piece, Lally and Emma’s Numbers are both solo piano developments and Irene and Marsha both have additional voicings.

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Identification (14:13)Download audio file (id2.5.mp3)

Lally (15:21)Download audio file (lallydev2.5.mp3)

Emma’s Numbers (14:30)Download audio file (emmasnumbers2.5.mp3)

Irene (13:49)Download audio file (irene2.5.mp3)

Marsha (18:56)Download audio file (marsha2.5.mp3)

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Piano, Organ, Strings with a renaissance edge

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I used three voices on this track: Piano, Organ and Strings. I have been using organ more and more on the Kelli project and I wanted to see how it would fit into the overall style of this kind of piece. As ever, the piano track goes down first, then the organ and finally the strings. Listening to the tracks afterwards, I then remove what doesn’t work. There is an interpretation of one of Wendi’s earlier themes tucked into the middle of the piece, which felt fairly appropriate with Wendi being Marsha’s daughter.

One of my most visceral memories is of seeing David in Florence. I remember being 18 and not terribly into “Culture” per se – however, the sheer size of the sculpture, the perfection, the human achievement, was enough to change my attitude towards art forever. Legend has it that when they asked Michelangelo how he did it, he replied: “I just removed what wasn’t David.” I have had that concept in my head for a while now and am actively incorporating it into my approach to creating music. When I look at the finished piece, I use about 30% of the organ track and about 60% of the string track – with apologies to Michelangelo, but: “I just removed what wasn’t Marsha!”

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Marsha is part of The Thinker’s Playlist.

I posted a clip of the new music session, Marsha, on our MySpace page today. A while back I downloaded the program to edit the sessions and cut out sections short enough to be used on other web sites where uploading music is allowed. It is not technically difficult to do, but I have such a hard time deciding what section to use for the clip. I think a lot of the problem has to do with the fact that I think all the sessions are so beautiful. I want everyone to be able to hear them in their entirety. Thank goodness Andrew helped me with the decision as to what section to use as the clip on Marsha.

Decision-making has never been easy for me. I usually end up second-guessing my decisions. I know the clips are necessary due to the length of most of the music2work2 sessions. But, the longer length is one of the things that makes them the perfect background music that is not distracting. It seems such a shame to have to “cut them up.” The entire sessions, such as Marsha, can always be heard on the music2work2 web site. I just have to keep reminding myself of that fact when I am cutting sections from these beautiful pieces of music for a reason. Hopefully the clips will just make the listener want to hear more!

There is a great new music session on music2work2. Marsha was composed in honor of Andrew’s mother-in-law’s birthday.

It is a beautiful, three-voice piece – piano, organ and strings. I love the description Andrew has written about the process used in composing this piece. Be sure to listen to this new music and to also read the accompanying text.