I wrote this song – Shadow Blue — and dedicate it to my friend and drummer, Bob, who had some unexpected life changes (it’s all good).
Peace (and light),
Kevin
Jeff Tweedy on Music and Connection
Good interview with Jeff Tweedy on being creative.
Peace (and sound),
Kevin
Music: Dangerous Girl
This is a new song that I wrote and recorded, inspired by my wife and other strong women in my life. I was hoping to capture the spirit and independence of these women.
Peace (and sound),
Kevin
Daily Create: Dogs Without Cats
Today’s prompt was to create a fake album cover for a fake band, based on the word play of Men Without Hats. I chose Dogs Without Cats, and then created a little piece of music, too.
Peace (and woof),
Kevin
Song: Take It To Heart
I posted a new song at Bandcamp this morning — Take It To Heart. I’m still trying to find ways to express hope to myself, and my wife, in the midst of this terrible chaos of the United States. It’s not easy to find ways to channel the possibilities of the future when the present is day after day of chaos.
Hang in there.
Peace (and hope),
Kevin
Daily Create: The Pulse of The (Dis)combobulation
As I was doing some thinking about the concept of “combobulation” for the DS106 Daily Create sharing over at Reclaim Hosting’s conference and our site that is gathering our collective RSS feeds (how cool is that?), I thought about how to represent that sense of wooziness and pulsing energy through music and loops. I had the idea to add elements of my sampled voice into the mix, too, saying “The Daily Create Is …” collaboration, community, experimentation. I like how it came out.
Peace (surf the flow),
Kevin
Song: Mind The Quiet
I usually gather songs before posting, but this new song is on its own at Bandcamp.
Peace (and song),
Kevin
Music: Woody Guthrie Lives Inside of Me
I wrote this song a few years ago and revisit it now and then, and now is a good time to remember Woody Guthrie. Plus, a friend gave me a Woody LP that I now have near my writing space.
Peace (in song),
Kevin
The DS106 Daily Create Loop Song
The prompt for this morning at the DS106 Daily Create had to do with coming up with a band name and music style for the handful of us who do the prompts (and this prompt connected to another prompt from another day).
My suggestion for a band name: The Unexpected Prompts
And then I did some loop composing to craft a little song for us, weaving some acoustic sounds with electronic.
Peace (sounds like),
Kevin
Patterns And Evocations: Musical Memory
My wife and I spent just over two weeks in a fairly remote part of Nova Scotia right after our school years ended as a way to decompress and, to be honest, get ourselves away from our country for an extended period of time. We even took our dog, Rayna, for the long, long drive and our adventures on remote beaches and trails.
While in Nova Scotia, I did three things every morning:
- I handwrote a journal entry in my Travel Journal
- I wrote a morning poem (some of which I shared recently)
- I composed a small piece of instrumental music via Garageband to capture a musical memory of places and experiences as we made our way around the south-eastern coast of Nova Scotia
Today, I pulled all of those musical tracks together into Bandcamp under the title of “Patterns And Evocations” as a way to remember our time in that beautiful place.
If you are interested in what I produced, here is the link for listening to the 18 tracks of Patterns And Evocations.
Peace (in place),
Kevin