Ariana Gillis is damned remarkable
July 16, 2011
A bit more music
April 19, 2009
From my MIDI page:
Five Elements: Various sounds and instrument loops in an atmospheric mix. 3 minutes 50 seconds.
Moonlit landscape with tinnitus.m4a A twirled-camera photograph of a lamp run through Voice of the Goat Cactus and Garagebanded to yield 32 minutes of a sound texture: a gentle, hypnotic background noise on the edge of madness.
Juseige.m4a From a chanted sutra found at yosotattoo.wordpress.com. The words of the mantra, spelled in phonetic english, once again provide the melody played in synthetic sound textures.
Kirtan with Brenda McMorrow
January 25, 2009
Last night. Wonderful.
Brenda McMorrow’s website has links to everything you need to know and even better, a link to her mySpace site where you can hear merely the music.
What an exquisite experience it was.
You can listen all you want to the music over tiny computer speakers, or even spin the Ameya CD and listen over more substantial woofers and tweeters, but you have to attend - to be present – to feel the sound and the vibration and the resonance and the breath and the voice and the rise and the fall and the full and the calm and the space that makes you disappear and be fully there.
Great Compassion Mantra 2
October 27, 2008
The Maha Karuni Dharani or Great Compassion Mantra.mp3
Update: 04/19/09. I can’t seem to embed this one. Probably has something to do with Apples server settings. Anyway, you can listen to it by clicking the link above, or go to my MIDI page through the link in the comment below. The file is shared also at files.me.com/dougrogers08/3p7lxg.mp3
Who is that girl?
March 20, 2008
Basia Bulat. Why doesn’t London Ontario know anything about her?
A playdate in her negligent city: Call The Office at 9 pm APRIL 4 2008
Jeff Healey
March 3, 2008
I looked forward to hearing his radio programs on the CBC. I enjoy the music of his favourite period fascination too, but he knew it inside out. Blind and with a cancer that made him so, dying from that cancer, but being alive to the joy in this music, to the life in his own music. You can hear a sample at http://www.jeffhealey.com/home.htm . He started playing the guitar at 3 years old, holding it unconventionally across his lap. He formed his first band at 17. Dead at 41.
I think one of my favourite concert memories was when we tagged along with Jeff for his show at the Ontario Place Forum. After the sound check, Jeff let it be known that he wanted to go and hang out for a while in the Children’s Village. Some of his handlers didn’t think it would be such a good idea because of the crowds. Well, the next thing we know is they have come to get us because they shut the Children’s Village down for an hour so Jeff and family and friends could go and play! No kidding, this really happened. It was quite a sight to see Jeff running through the boomers (that’s what I call those big pillow bags that hang by ropes . . . ), laughing and yelling and even falling over after getting walloped. When the hour was up we were escorted back to the venue and then Jeff went on stage to be the “rock star” for a while.
Willie P. Bennett
February 19, 2008
Willie P. Bennett; October 26, 1951 – February 15, 2008
“…..we’ll understand it all in time…….”
Another Version: Great Compassion Mantra
February 18, 2008
Here is another version of The Great Compassion Mantra running 6:37 minutes.
Great Compassion Mantra
January 23, 2008
Some time ago, I began a project to translate text strings into MIDI. You can read about the project here at http://home.golden.net/~samu/Ears and listen to some experiments. Recently this tune came up in my iTunes playlist again and I was reminded just how much I like it and decided to share it here.
It runs a about 8 minutes. It’s from an English phonetics version of the Sanskrit.
