Music

New microphone…

December 27, 2011
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I love Christmas – the boys conjured up a new room mic so I put it to use yesterday afternoon. A buddy was going to come over and record a track as a present for a friend but the session got cancelled – so I thought I’d record one instead. I worked as a writer [...]

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Wendi 107 – String Development

September 7, 2011
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Back after a lazy labor day weekend (yes – American spelling but it is their holiday ya’ know!) and already fighting the heat. 101 yesterday, promising to be 106 later today – so – up early and getting stuff done before it gets too hot. I really like this tempo – 107 bpm for the [...]

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Annual Members Thank You Clip

September 1, 2011
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After we publish a new piece of music2work2 we always produce an additional piece that is sent to our paying members as a thank you. Having recently published Nath, here is an unedited clip from the 11 minute thank you piece that will be go out to annual members next week. Annual members of music2work2 [...]

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New music2work2 – Nath

August 17, 2011
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So I just hit send to the mailing list to announce the publishing of the newest piece of music2work2 – Nath. You can read the accompanying liner notes here Annual members of music2work2 pay $15 a year and can download this and all current published tracks Learn about membership here

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Wendi – Piano Theme

July 19, 2011
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Nath is coming along nicely – I’ve been listening to Mix 2 all weekend and am ready for the next one. There are some stunning parts to the theme and I’ll probably post one or two later on this week. There are a number of fairly well developed themes that have yet to be completed [...]

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Nath – 57 BPM – Development

July 12, 2011
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Hah! feeling kinda naughty ‘cos I pretty much took last week off to go and celebrate 10 years of marriage – it was awesome (both the marriage and the time off!) Back in the saddle again today – man my chops were lousy! After an hour going up and down the board I thought I’d [...]

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$5 Freakshow

July 6, 2011
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It has been a funky couple of days – fabulous fourth of July weekend down in Venice – playing guitar – watching the world go by – capturing audio here and there. I might work this up soon – it’s about time some guitar made it into music2work2. The guitar track comes from the audioboo [...]

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Music and Creativity – 2 1/2 minute video

June 17, 2011

We caught this video when curating our page on Background music – how music can improve your life – and thought it was well worth posting on the blog. It’s 2 1/2 minutes long and looks at the work being done by Parag Chordia and the team at Georgia Tech into how music can impact [...]

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