2006 - People 1

Following on from the early years, I was starting to get the idea of working with people as inspiration for the music: Paul was an attempt to get the strings to feel like a real violin, Vincent was an exercise in how to write a simple solo piano lullaby, Charlotte, Richard and Cassie were all examples of me sitting down and just focusing on the subject with piano tracks then string tracks and then whatever else came to mind!

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Paul (21:44) [audio:paul2.5.mp3 | titles=Paul |artists=music2work2]
Charlotte (10:09) [audio:charlotte2.5.mp3 | titles=Charlotte |artists=music2work2]
Cassie (20:01) [audio:cassie2.5.mp3 | titles=Cassie |artists=music2work2]
Richard (13:52)[audio:ram2.5.mp3 | titles=Richard |artists=music2work2]
Vincent (10:45) [audio:vincent2.5.mp3|titles=Vincent |artists=music2work2]

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Paul - 13 minutes 23 seconds

Strings and Piano - written for Paul.

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It’s a crazy information overload world – especially for those of us who live in front a screen. Where do you start: email, internet, tweetdeck, rss feed, facebook or the word document and spreadsheet that you’re supposed to be working on – the telephone rings, a colleague appears – the distractions are endless and procrastination could now be an Olympic sport.

I find that the right kind of music can be critical to me actually starting something and this piece is one of my favorites for that. It starts out so simple and clean, delicate piano, aching string melody – it actually calms me down and helps me decide where I want to focus. But there’s a change at around 10:00 minutes, the energy of the piece just picks up and whether I like it or not, I start typing – it’s great! If I’m lucky, the next time I look up is when the piece is nearing the end.

Written for Paul Ruffin, owner of ECI Networks, a fabulous bass player and all round good guy.

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Changes

Some more changes have been made to the music2work2  MySpace page. The logo that you will now see associated with music2work2 is the water drop rather than the notes. I love the water drop; I think it is perfect for the sessions of music2work2. I also put up a clip from Paul. This session was composed at the end of last year. I had a hard time knowing where to end the clip - the entire session is so good. But, I finally just chose a section that is a particular favorite and hope visitors to our MySpace page will like it also. It is a really lovely piece of piano and strings.