This I believe: copyright law as it exists today is a detriment to society and creativity. It benefits mainly large corporations at the expense of the artist, the audience, and the culture. I am a proponent of the CreativeCommons.
I participate (not as much as I’d like to) in ccMixter. SoundCloud is sweet!
Get Up
( Download the mp3 (3.7MB) | Go to the ccmixter page )
Emily and the Djembe
( Download the mp3 (3MB) | Go to the ccmixter page )
Sometimes I play guitar and sing. Less frequently I record it.
My “studio” consists of a PC where I do mixdowns, a laptop I record with, a Shure SM58 mic, a Samson C-valve mic preamp, a Samson S-com 4 gate/compressor/limiter, and an M-Audio Fast Track USB audio interface. A Fostex XR-5 4-track recorder leftover from earlier days occasionally serves as a live mixer. My instruments are a cheap Ibanez acoustic and the old Yamaha PSS-480 keyboard in the picture (gotta love those half-size keys).
I basically do everything with Audacity and Magix MidiStudio. I still want to find a sequencer or composition program for the PC as easy to use as Sonix or Deluxe Music from my Amiga days. Not ready to shell out for a Mac.
Update 12/30/08: I’ve found it! It’s called REAPER and it’s cheap and good. The M-Audio Fast Track had latency and dropped frame problems–it’s been replaced with a Korg digital recorder/mixer.
Here are the recordings.
Cochise
( Download the mp3 | Go to the lyrics )
Cochise (older recording)
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Children of God
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Sentimentally
( Download the mp3 | Go to the lyrics )
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