A Song for My Cat...

Another Song

I’ve been AWOL from this blog for quite some time and hope to resume posting on a regular basis, soon.  In the meantime, here is another little original song I just uploaded to SoundCloud.  I wanted to make a test using TX16Wx Celtic high whistles.

The photo is of me from “back in the day.”  I’ve been thinking about the past quite a lot, lately…choices made, times when I simply chose not to choose (out of fear or confusion), roads not taken… and I marvel at how I arrived at this place of blessing and peace.  My mom would have laughed and said it was “more luck than management!”  I am married to a man who is altogether lovely from the inside out. He’s “the warmest chord I ever heard” to quote Joni Mitchell.  Long ago, a friend described him as an angel that God had sent to land at my feet.  And just in the nick of time, too…
 

Another New Song: "Steampunk Serenade"

I used to have a bunch of synthesizers and a rack of effects modules plus a hardware mixer to produce music.  Nowadays, everything is done in one computer plus a keyboard driver.  I record my songs in a digital audio workstation (DAW) called Sonar using a variety of softsynths.  Each instrument (soundfont) is recorded to a midi track and, when the song is finished, the midi tracks are converted to audio tracks.  Then the song is mixed down and exported to an MP3 file.  That file is uploaded to SoundCloud which you can hear, here: