Mystery
in Our Lives (3 megs
MP3 - recorded March 28, 2004) - I composed this song in Montreal in May
2002 after moving to the city from Ottawa and living with two roommates:
Veronica Charnley and Alex Richardson. I mainly wrote this song
for Alex who at the young age of 21, seemed very cynical about life despite his bizarre collection of
old LPs and
an apartment full of dusty trinkets that no curio shop could ever
equal. Song has minimal instrumentation.
Wreck
Beach (3.5 megs MP3 - recorded July 4, 2004) - I composed
this song in Montreal in 1987 after having a bunch of friends from
Vancouver show up at my miniscule Montreal downtown apartment.
I'd never been to BC and they kept mentioning "Wreck Beach" which I
thought had such a cool name so I wrote a song about it after they
left. Of course, it's a nudist beach for those out there that
don't know. This is a slow song, and almost comical.
I finally recorded it 17 years later! And I still haven't been
to BC yet!!!
a growing collection of classical
piano solo works and Lieder
150 miscellaneous songs (ie. rock, jazz,
parody, Christmas songs)
I also found a
piano/vocal Leider score I did
based on a poem by Verlaine "Il pleut doucement sur la ville."
MIDI STUFF:
MIDI and Audio Recording Stuff
Most of my MIDI sounds are generated from the Soundblaster
Audigy Platinum
soundcard. I like to use MIDI a lot and create audio recordings from midifiles scored in
Finale 2006. I then import them into Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.03 and add more
effects and vocals, and sometimes real instruments. Here's some links to
MIDI and audio.
Two Soundblaster sites with everything you need to know : ALive!
and Live! center
Good places to get free Soundblaster Soundfonts: HammerSound
and Audio Recording Stuff