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 Sonic Wallpaper News  Friday, Feb 17, 2006 4:39:26 PM
Free Sample Packs for Making Tracks I started a Free Sample Pack series today - all
samples are free for you to use in your own tracks. The only limitation, is giving credit
that you used my samples. This doesn't mean it needs to be in the m3u
file - just somewhere. Click the link below to check out the samples or to download the zip.http://www.sonicwallpaper.com/samples/1/ So far, I don't have any plans for these yet - but most likely, I'll just release a pack ever week or so with samples I've generated along w/ a few I've found. If anyone is looking for a specific: - BPM - instrument - key/note that they'd like - just ask and I'll see about adding it in on the next pack if I can. Post back here if you end up using any of them. Enjoy! 
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Sonic Wallpaper News Tuesday, Aug 16, 2005 9:22:18 AM
We're jamming, jamming - And I hope you like jamming too I have maybe 5+ fairly 'good' tunes that are not complete that thend to sit on my drive and never get finished. Some of these tunes have been there for more than a year.Yet, I still listen to them. Not only that, but it seems they serve more as interactive listening since I find myself filling in the missing parts as I'm listening. For example - I have a tune w/ just drums and a bassline played on my bass. It's fairly solid on it's own, but it has all kinds of 'room' since there aren't any other instruments in the mix. Since there's no melody or chord progression or decorative elements, I'm free to create them both in my mind and by singing out the parts I hear in my mind. I'm finding this "cognitive karaoke" to be a fun way to pass a few minutes - a way to explore a song before commiting it to a recording, and a way to simply enjoy music more. In some cases, this leads to plugging in a guitar and jamming along, but even here - I tend to feel like the music is serving a function as opposed to being a desired outcome. I might even record a few jams - but in the end, I keep closing the project and leaving it at just drums and bass. Maybe this is just jamming withdrawl? That I need to jump into some local jams? Yeah - I'd love to do that. I have a enough friends and friends of friends to get something going - but it might be enlightning to jam with some strangers. Do you jam? Have you hit flow? Do you know what I'm talking about? :) Flow, in terms of Jamming, is the point where you cease to actaully be playing - that the music is locked in so well that the jam itself is playing you. It's the point where you are no longer thinking, where movements, listening and feeling are focused without effort. It's like sky-diving, or skiing down a silent mountain at high velocity. Certainly, one can 'Jam' within all sorts of contexts - with various types of media. I would like to see Jamming grow as a concept, as an approach - as it's a healthy mehtodology to apply to anything. But what is jamming? I would define it as: "An effortless utilization of resources in an improvisational manner which serves to feed a focus, and is often achieved through creative means." Hmmm... sounds good doesn't it? Don't you think everyone should be jamming... on something? You don't have to jam with music - you can jam w/ video or text or cooking or with your sport or your workout. The key here, is to bring in the principles of jamming, to apply them to your lifestyle, your work and your play. And to close this out, I'll leave you with some of the lyris to "We're Jammin" by Bob Marley. We're jamming
Bob Marley
Flow
jamming
Sonic Wallpaper News Friday, Dec 17, 2004 12:44:50 PM
Sonic Wallpaper - collective works release... I started working my 'collective works' project again...I don't have a realease date set yet, as not all of the content is complete - but I hope to be done by the end of summer 2005. Each release will contain the following ======================== 1 audio CD - a 'best of' Sonic Wallpaper collection - 14-15 songs 1 data DVD w/ * 120 Sonic Wallpaper Songs grouped into 13 albums, encoded most likely at 256kbps (most songs will get Re-EQ'd, etc. for the release) * playlists for all 13 albums * CD artwork - for all 13 albums so people can create the CDs if they want * a collection of photos, live, in the studio, w/ Lou, etc, various flyers, etc * 3-4 music videos - not sure on the format yet, maybe an interview in the studio for fun * Maybe remix packs for 3-5 songs * and if they fit, an additional 4hrs of live recordings most likely in 128kbps mp3 format ================== I'm figuring I'd make it a limited edition release - maybe only 50. Lou is going to help me with the packaging, etc - and most of the Photos will be hers (for those who don't know, Lou is my lovely wife). I still have to encode all the songs at 256kbps and before that, I have to actually find all my masters. The other day I found a bunch on a drive - and I think the other half is divided across 2 other drives. One really good thing about this, is that I'm going to finally make a complete backup of all my masters to DVD I also need to make 2 of the videos, the artwork for the CDs, and work out the interface and packaging. I'm not sure if the DVD will be readable in a MAC - I'll have to look into that. Usually you see on DVD's that the DVD-ROM portion is PC only - so that may have to be the case for my release. The plan is to just self release it - I'm not sure there's any labels that would be interested, maybe over at Unschooled - but I don't think he'd be interested in such a small run, and a large run probably wouldn't sell well. I'm also considering doing the DVD only and not having a CD to keep the cost down. The same tunes will also be on the DVD, but in mp3 format - so there's no loss in that respect. Plus, I think it's a bit of a novelty to release a DVD stuffed with music for the cost of a commercial CD... except in this case, you'd get something like 12-16hrs of music instead of 70min. How much? not sure yet - but it won't be too much.
Sonic Wallpaper News Saturday, Jan 03, 2004 3:39:46 PM
Music Stats for 2003 Hi - hey - hello and happy new year :)Some people over at ElectronicBBoard were talking about their stats concerning downloads and streams for 2003 - so I went and took a look at mine. I thought some others may be interested, so here they are: Sonic Wallpaper ========================= Total Downloads: 8,509 Total Streams: 4,641 Total Preview: 369 Turbogeek ========================= Total Downloads: 1,118 Total Streams: 705 Sonic - Remixes ========================= Total Downloads: 653 Total Streams: 428 Total Preview: 7 Sonic - Live ========================= Total Streams: 168 Total Preview: 27
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