Hi All,
Mad summer thinking is here! Everybody goes on holiday…..and stops work or other….I’ve had a break doing house stuff-painting, repaired house etc.
Looking forward to Autumn-had one or two musical ideas and recorded them on handheld tape. Continuing with Electronic EP-have to alter some of the mixes when I get back to studio……working on third work today-few bars of drum sounds. Maybe the recent Perseid meteor showers will inspire some ideas, although the tracks for the EP are essentially Astro-Physics and Particle Physics related.
Looking forward to more results from the Large Hadron Colider to get yet more inspiration………..!
Cheers
PS
Hi All,
I have been busy composing tracks for the forthcoming EP today. It is purely Electronic in feel working on the Kore 2 series of Synthesizers. Had a good bash at it today, working out Bass parts for the 2nd half of the track, although there is a more to go. The sound is spacey though up front in parts with a good synth lead sound that I have designed. Just as I was getting it deep, I had to give up due to the daughter ringing me for a lift 
Having a night out with the 3 stooges (Ian Boddy, Marcus Howarth & me) tomorrow night!-a music seminar ending in the most important part-a curry!
Cheers
Paul
by Stokes-Herbst on October 4, 2009
in Music
Hi All,
I’d like to introduce you to Musiczeit.com who are purveyors of Hi Quality downloadable music. I now have posted 4 albums Cosmic Renditions, Storm, Chthonic Netherworld, and Easy Street up for download. The site claim to be the only one worldwide where you can download albums at full CD Lossless quality and 256K mp3 quality-here’s what they have to say:
“We all jumped for joy when CD came along, right? Great sound quality, no scratches, no messing about. So now what’s happening? Download music is everywhere, and CD is being put out to pasture. But wait, there’s a catch. Most download music is “lossy”. And this means inferior sound quality to CD. MP3, AAC, WMA. It’s all lossy.
We at MusicZeit.com believe you should have the best of both worlds. Instant download access to the music you want, but no loss of quality. That’s why all our albums are available in lossless CD quality as well as top-notch 256K MP3 if you want to listen to things “on the move”. And we don’t do individual tracks. Like you, we feel the music needs to be heard in context, as part of a full album or EP.
You don’t have to compromise in the digital download era. Let your kids get their “quick track fix” on other sites, while you download the full album, full artwork, in full CD quality, from MusicZeit.com
Full albums. Full artwork. Full CD quality. The only way.”
Perhaps they have a persuasive argument? As a composer of music and not spending a lot of hours listening, I’m not sure whether I can comment authoritatively . I swing between the thought that mp3 at the low end sample rate, is all that most people are interested in, and, that maybe those who can be bothered to buy music are more discerning than I think. Speaking personally, I was always interested in as high a quality of sound that I could get. This has carried over to my compositional side where I follow the ‘holy grail’ of top recording quality as standard. Does that make me a an audiophile?-I don’t think so in that I am thinking of the people that would be listening, and hoping that the high end quality that is available relatively easily makes the listening experience a joy-drawing scenes and pictures that only a few decades ago were unheard of.
Returning to musiczeit-good on you and I am sure that the idea will catch-on. You get full CD quality, artwork and at good rates…there is a market here!
Paul Stokes
by Stokes-Herbst on September 5, 2009
in Music
No-if you saw a painting in a shop window, you wouldn’t expect the artist to walk up to you and give it to you free-he has spent many hours crafting it, thinking about it, putting it on canvass-work done. Why is the shop window of the Internet any different? I can see no argument that works-do you? Yes there me ‘tasters’ as when people give away samples of cake in a cake shop, but the bulk of the work is paid for-you wouldn’t expect the whole cake as a taster!
Nature expects a return-even bacteria have a symbiotic relationship with a fungus they live inside of-the fungus gets something, and the bacteria also gets something-mutually helpful! Life isn’t free!
79 pence for a track as on itunes is also up for grabs-I personally think it is on the low side but that is not for this blog today.
