From what I understand, "plogue bidule" is French for "plug thingy". I've been playing with the software of the same name for much of the last week. I am pretty sure I will pay the $75 for the non-demo version. Despite some weaknesses (e.g. envelope generators and note extractors act a little weird), it seems like a very powerful tool. One use I envision is to gradually replace my Nord Modular, since P.D. seems more powerful. I like that I can save groups/modules to reuse. One of the more interesting modules I created is a note extractor that outputs various equal-tempered scales, e.g. 19 notes/octave. In conjunction with this, I built another module that converts an arbitrary frequency to a (closest) MIDI note and pitch bend correction. What's interesting about this, is that Plogue can take any monophonic synth patch and easily turn it into a polyphonic patch. So the pitch bends from the individual notes all go to separate monophonic synths or samplers, so arbitrary tunings can be achieved easily. Note that when doing this with a normal poly-synth, pitch bend is applied to all notes at once so you can't have it different for each note. So I created a polyphonic patch made of clones of VSamp set to single-note polyphony, and was instantly able to play them in alternative scales without reprogramming. Since in most cases, the sample set was spaced every semitone, there was not that much pitch bend that needed to be done, avoiding the "helium" effect.
The first thing I did with Plogue was a bit simpler, but also useful. It is very easy to take a single MIDI channel, and split the keyboard up into sections to play different sounds. This is important to me right now since my friend and I are thinking of creating a live-performance synth duo. I can control synths, samples, and sequences all from one MIDI keyboard.
The sound quality seems very good as well. I was able to use the delay lines to create a Karplus-Strong plucked string effect, which I couldn't do on the Nord due to the very short delay lines. Actually, I take that back- the Nord couldn't do the low frequency ones, and Plogue can't do high-frequency ones because of the buffer delay. There may be a way around it (pitch shifting?) to extend the range. I like the band-limited oscillators, as they give a cleaner sound than the Nord (G1) as well.
I was less impressed with some of the modules like the ADSR- the range of times is limited (no really long decay or release), and there is some sort of weird interaction between the decay and release times, and maybe the sustain level (haven't quite figured it out yet). Also, the note extractor, in a monophonic patch, only seems to work correctly in lowest-note priority mode. The default setting left a lot of cut-off and missing notes unless I released one key before pressing the next. Other modes, like newest-note priority would be desirable. Other weaknesses include the system for selecting bidules; it involves holding down the mouse button and goign through a tiresome multi-level pull-down menu structure. The "palette" sidebar seems to be an attempt to correct for this, but it doesn't quite cut it. Something like the tabs in the Nord Modular editor are a better approach, since organization is more thought out, and it's easy to find and drag things into the canvas. To be fair though, Plogue has a lot more modules to choose from so there may be no easy way to improve this. Maybe a "favorites" menu? (my "groups" menu is becoming de facto the equivalent of my "favorites").
Despite the weaknesses, I'm impressed overall, and think it's a very nice tool. I'm looking forward to improvements as I and others shell out some money and demand them in return.
29 November 2009
Noise, Water, Meat, and Snow
I remembered something after my last post- one of my favorite conceptual art pieces is a piece by Yoko Ono that I read about in a book called "Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts", by Douglas Kahn. I'm paraphrasing from memory here, but the piece was a set of instructions that said something like, "Make a tape recording of the sound of snow falling. Wrap up an empty box, and use the (magnetic) tape as a ribbon". I read this about 9 years ago, so I may not remember exactly right. But it seems like an appropriate time of year to think about these things.
The other thing I like, when the first snowfall comes, is to listen to Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony (the "Romantic"). There's a long personal story behind it I won't get into right now. I recommend the Mercury Living Presence recording, with Hanson conducting the Eastman Symphony.
The other thing I like, when the first snowfall comes, is to listen to Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony (the "Romantic"). There's a long personal story behind it I won't get into right now. I recommend the Mercury Living Presence recording, with Hanson conducting the Eastman Symphony.
21 November 2009
The Sun is Down!
Over the last month I've been working a little at a time to put together an entry for Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band's remix contest. I went to the contest website, and downloaded the audio files of Yoko's voice, and some other electronic effects from the song "The Sun is Down!" which is on their latest CD. I wasn't already familiar with it, so I think it gave me some freedom from preconceptions which are hard to shake. I think this is why I didn't enter a similar contest for a couple Peter Gabriel songs- I was such a huge fan back in the '80's and '90's, and I couldn't get the original versions out of my head. However, when I listened to the audio files of Yoko's voice by itself, it struck me as something very appropriate for a Tea With Warriors song. So I jammed along with it, rearranged the lyrics into an order I thought was nice, and made up entirely new music. I'm not sure that the end result will be what the P.O.B. is looking for in terms of a "remix", but I think it stands well on its own as a piece of music, and if someone had done something similar with my music/voice, I would get a kick out of how totally different it is from what I made. After my version had "solidified" so to speak, I went and listened to the P.O.B. version. Wow- totally different. Mine is kind of jazzy '60's style, lots of mellotron samples. Not sure how I would describe the original, except that it is more modern and hard-edged, lots of electronics.
I can't post it here because of the legal agreement, but if I place in the top 10 it will be on the P.O.B. web site. So I hope it wins, so people can hear it!
The entry deadline is the end of the month, so I'll submit over Thanksgiving. Check back here for updates on what happens!
I can't post it here because of the legal agreement, but if I place in the top 10 it will be on the P.O.B. web site. So I hope it wins, so people can hear it!
The entry deadline is the end of the month, so I'll submit over Thanksgiving. Check back here for updates on what happens!
07 November 2009
Whoosh!
When I sleep, I like to drown out outside sounds with something akin to "white noise". Technically, "white noise" is something quite harsh to listen to; the "White noise" setting on sleeping machines is actually "pink noise", or a filtered noise which is much more mellow. My wife and I had a nice machine made by Sharper Image in the 80's that worked really well, but it died. We looked around for a replacement, but never found one we thought was satisfactory. Usually, the speakers were too small to get the pleasing low end that is soothing and that masks the noises from outside. Second, the sound choices often didn't include just a simple "Static" or constant white noise sound. Third, most of these were hideously expensive for what they did.
So I came up with what I think is a better solution. I put a stereo in the bedroom, with inputs for an iPod. Using a synthesizer, I recorded a pleasing "whoosh" sound in stereo, for about a minute. This can be loaded into the iPod, and played on repeat. The newer iPods, and probably other brands of mp3 players, can play the mp3 without gaps, so you can let it run all night without interruption.
I've done some careful editing so that there are no clicks or pops when the file repeats. This was tricky since white noise (and similar things) are non-periodic and so there are no obvious splice points. I encoded the file at 320 kbps, so it is small (about 4 MB) and shouldn't take up much room on your iPod.
You can download it from the Tea With Warriors website here:
Whoosh!
So I came up with what I think is a better solution. I put a stereo in the bedroom, with inputs for an iPod. Using a synthesizer, I recorded a pleasing "whoosh" sound in stereo, for about a minute. This can be loaded into the iPod, and played on repeat. The newer iPods, and probably other brands of mp3 players, can play the mp3 without gaps, so you can let it run all night without interruption.
I've done some careful editing so that there are no clicks or pops when the file repeats. This was tricky since white noise (and similar things) are non-periodic and so there are no obvious splice points. I encoded the file at 320 kbps, so it is small (about 4 MB) and shouldn't take up much room on your iPod.
You can download it from the Tea With Warriors website here:
Whoosh!
09 August 2009
New music video
I threw together a "music video" for the track "Falls" from the Niagara CD. I posted it on YouTube. So far, not too many views, so pass it the link along:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HolrzDI2pME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HolrzDI2pME
20 June 2009
Acoustic Treatment
After I got back from Buffalo, I installed some acoustic panels in my studio to reduce standing waves and early reflections. I also put the computer in the closet, and put panels to reduce reflection of noise out of the closet since I can't close the closet completely because of heat considerations. This still made a significant improvement in my listening experience. You can see me discuss the technical issues in a video on Youtube, "Cheap Acoustic Room Treatments".
Children and the love of music
A high-school friend of mine sent me the following letter on facebook:
Hello! looks like you had a nice visit to WNY. You were introduced to music at a very young age, I am assuming. What did your parents do to surround you with music so that you grew to love it (and play so beautifully)? Were your parents musicians?
My 3 year old is always singing everything...making up songs about the slug she found and made her fingers sticky. She enjoys music, classical to sing-alongs to alternative. Do you have any ideas that impacted you personally in your youth to pass along to me? I did purchase a very small violin that she "plays" from time to time, but I have not started Suzuki lessons or anything else for that manner.
We are well here. I hope you are able to open my eyes to ways to encourage Frances to love and take an interest in music.
Keep smiling!
Thanks for the very nice message- I think my musical bent comes almost completely from my mother's side. My dad doesn't seem to listen to music much, except maybe to see the big-busted ladies of Hee-Haw, or more recently, a TV special with Shania Twain. I think the only record he ever bought was "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", because he knew some of the guys who died on it (he worked on the boats in the Great Lakes). My mom also didn't play any instrument, but we listened to the radio and records a lot. We mostly listened to WKBW, a Buffalo AM station that played a wide variety of pop, rock, country, and novelty music. I also remember my mom putting a stack (that was the playlist of the 70's) of Johnny Cash records on the stereo to occupy me while I stayed on the couch while she waxed the floors (I was scared of "Ring of Fire", and liked it at the same time).
My parents didn't push me to play music, it was something that I came up with on my own. When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, at school there was a lady (Mrs. Fluker?) who would come in once a day and play piano for sing-alongs or marches around the room with little instruments. We were forbidden to touch the piano in the classroom, which made it very attractive. I bugged my parents to get a piano, and in 3rd grade we got one and I started lessons. Around the same time, Mr. Mears (who became my violin teacher for the next 9 years) and another music teacher from the middle school came to our class and demoed different instruments. I liked the different bowing techniques that Mr. Mears used, and decided I wanted to try violin. As for guitar, my sister had a crappy toy one laying around that she wasn't using, and one day I heard the opening riff of KISS's "Calling Dr. Love" coming out of her bedroom, and I decided I really wanted to make that kind of noise. So I started teaching myself guitar with the help of a book, and imitating KISS records.
Most of my youth I was really into rock and pop music. First there was the KISS obsession for a couple years- I had "Alive" and "Alive II" memorized, and would give daily "KISS concerts" in the garage in the summer, complete with Paul Stanley's exhortations to the crowd, which in my case were my two dogs.
John: "Do you want a little bit of rock and roll? I said Do you want a little bit of ROCK AND ROLL?! Well SHOUT IT OUT LOUD!!"
Dogs: "Woof! WOOF!".
Then I got "Best of the Doobies" out of the library and that got me interested in more sophisticated stuff. Then there was the Beatles phase, and Genesis, YES, Rush, Pink Floyd. When I went to the School of Orchestral Studies in Saratoga, that's when I started to listen to classical music. I really liked "Pictures at an Exhibition" and the last movement of Shostakovich's 5th symphony that we played. All those bright colorful Russian harmonies really did it for me. Also Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony is a huge favorite of mine.
Recently I've drifted back toward listening more to pop and rock. I don't have the technical skills on piano I used to, but my violin and guitar playing is still pretty good. My own music is a mix of all those influences I picked up along the way. Though I didn't go into music as my main profession, if I'm honest with myself I'd have to say it's the thing I'm most obsessed with. It also got me out of my shell, and allowed me to get to know a lot of nice people. I'm glad I never saw it as a "chore". My parents didn't force me to practice, and I could quit any time (almost did near the beginning). It's nice to have something so fun, and something that I can get totally wrapped up in and forget my everyday problems, and even explore new and strange worlds, so to speak. I hope your daughter has fun with her little violin!
Cheers,
John
Hello! looks like you had a nice visit to WNY. You were introduced to music at a very young age, I am assuming. What did your parents do to surround you with music so that you grew to love it (and play so beautifully)? Were your parents musicians?
My 3 year old is always singing everything...making up songs about the slug she found and made her fingers sticky. She enjoys music, classical to sing-alongs to alternative. Do you have any ideas that impacted you personally in your youth to pass along to me? I did purchase a very small violin that she "plays" from time to time, but I have not started Suzuki lessons or anything else for that manner.
We are well here. I hope you are able to open my eyes to ways to encourage Frances to love and take an interest in music.
Keep smiling!
Thanks for the very nice message- I think my musical bent comes almost completely from my mother's side. My dad doesn't seem to listen to music much, except maybe to see the big-busted ladies of Hee-Haw, or more recently, a TV special with Shania Twain. I think the only record he ever bought was "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", because he knew some of the guys who died on it (he worked on the boats in the Great Lakes). My mom also didn't play any instrument, but we listened to the radio and records a lot. We mostly listened to WKBW, a Buffalo AM station that played a wide variety of pop, rock, country, and novelty music. I also remember my mom putting a stack (that was the playlist of the 70's) of Johnny Cash records on the stereo to occupy me while I stayed on the couch while she waxed the floors (I was scared of "Ring of Fire", and liked it at the same time).
My parents didn't push me to play music, it was something that I came up with on my own. When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, at school there was a lady (Mrs. Fluker?) who would come in once a day and play piano for sing-alongs or marches around the room with little instruments. We were forbidden to touch the piano in the classroom, which made it very attractive. I bugged my parents to get a piano, and in 3rd grade we got one and I started lessons. Around the same time, Mr. Mears (who became my violin teacher for the next 9 years) and another music teacher from the middle school came to our class and demoed different instruments. I liked the different bowing techniques that Mr. Mears used, and decided I wanted to try violin. As for guitar, my sister had a crappy toy one laying around that she wasn't using, and one day I heard the opening riff of KISS's "Calling Dr. Love" coming out of her bedroom, and I decided I really wanted to make that kind of noise. So I started teaching myself guitar with the help of a book, and imitating KISS records.
Most of my youth I was really into rock and pop music. First there was the KISS obsession for a couple years- I had "Alive" and "Alive II" memorized, and would give daily "KISS concerts" in the garage in the summer, complete with Paul Stanley's exhortations to the crowd, which in my case were my two dogs.
John: "Do you want a little bit of rock and roll? I said Do you want a little bit of ROCK AND ROLL?! Well SHOUT IT OUT LOUD!!"
Dogs: "Woof! WOOF!".
Then I got "Best of the Doobies" out of the library and that got me interested in more sophisticated stuff. Then there was the Beatles phase, and Genesis, YES, Rush, Pink Floyd. When I went to the School of Orchestral Studies in Saratoga, that's when I started to listen to classical music. I really liked "Pictures at an Exhibition" and the last movement of Shostakovich's 5th symphony that we played. All those bright colorful Russian harmonies really did it for me. Also Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony is a huge favorite of mine.
Recently I've drifted back toward listening more to pop and rock. I don't have the technical skills on piano I used to, but my violin and guitar playing is still pretty good. My own music is a mix of all those influences I picked up along the way. Though I didn't go into music as my main profession, if I'm honest with myself I'd have to say it's the thing I'm most obsessed with. It also got me out of my shell, and allowed me to get to know a lot of nice people. I'm glad I never saw it as a "chore". My parents didn't force me to practice, and I could quit any time (almost did near the beginning). It's nice to have something so fun, and something that I can get totally wrapped up in and forget my everyday problems, and even explore new and strange worlds, so to speak. I hope your daughter has fun with her little violin!
Cheers,
John
14 June 2009
Traveling 1
I went for a short vacation to see my family in the Buffalo area. The drive into the city, from the Southtowns where my parents live, was beautiful. Buffalo is much flatter than Pittsburgh, and has a beautiful sky. The drive up 219 is something I took for granted as a kid, but now I understand what people mean when they say it is scenic. Of course, Pennsylvania is also very scenic. The Pennsylvania part of 86 East, the road on which I based my piece "Southern Tier Suite", was a mess, with bumps every couple seconds where the road had cracked and been filled with patching asphalt.
I realized one day that I liked listening to old YES music as I drive, though I have to be careful not to let Bruford's propulsive drumming make me speed! A lot of the longer pieces, especially "Tales From Topographic Oceans", remind me of landscapes, that become more interesting as one becomes familiar with them, and all the detail within. This is what inspired me to write my first "geographical" music, the "Southern Tier Suite", and later things like "Niagara". The "Suite" refers to the three sections of the piece: "86 East", which represents the usually boring part from Erie to about Chautauqua lake- though a bit monotonous, it does have a "groove" to it; "Plateau" which represents all the places where the road feels as if it has reached some kind of summit, sometimes within view of either Chautauqua Lake or Lake Erie; and "The Senecas", which represents the Seneca Nation which lives around Salamanca. In this way, I never run out of inspiration- I can always just do a "musical landscape".
I realized one day that I liked listening to old YES music as I drive, though I have to be careful not to let Bruford's propulsive drumming make me speed! A lot of the longer pieces, especially "Tales From Topographic Oceans", remind me of landscapes, that become more interesting as one becomes familiar with them, and all the detail within. This is what inspired me to write my first "geographical" music, the "Southern Tier Suite", and later things like "Niagara". The "Suite" refers to the three sections of the piece: "86 East", which represents the usually boring part from Erie to about Chautauqua lake- though a bit monotonous, it does have a "groove" to it; "Plateau" which represents all the places where the road feels as if it has reached some kind of summit, sometimes within view of either Chautauqua Lake or Lake Erie; and "The Senecas", which represents the Seneca Nation which lives around Salamanca. In this way, I never run out of inspiration- I can always just do a "musical landscape".
demo track: Harbingers of Spring 2009
Here is a track I started working on during the "Quiet Revolution" sessions, which didn't make it on to the CD. It's a rock instrumental based on Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", and it's called "Harbingers of Spring".
27 May 2009
The Healing Power of Rock
You might never guess this about an ambient/new age artist, but my musical beginnings were actually with straight-ahead rock music- KISS was the first band I obsessively listened to, and were the reason I picked up a guitar (the opening chords of "Calling Dr. Love" coming out of my sister's bedroom were what first got my attention). After a couple years, I graduated to learning songs by the Doobie Brothers, the Beatles, and then prog rock bands like YES, Pink Floyd, Rush, Genesis. In college I started listening to more classical and a little bit of jazz, and I continued to branch out into ever more exotic things as I got older.
About 4 years ago I was working at Intel, as one of those guys in the bunny suits, a job I hated. As I drove home after work, I would tune into the Portland classic rock station (KGON), which gave me great comfort. KGON seemed not to be a "classic rock" station in the ClearChannel sense of the word, they actually played the stuff I was listening to on my clock radio back in 1981 or so. It took me back to a more peaceful time, before the emotional turmoil of high school, college and career, and this is when I realized, I believe in the healing power of rock. Rock is a type of music that exists simply to make people feel good- it doesn't invoke subtle, possibly melancholy moods, it just rocks. This is also why I so appreciate the work of comedians like Jack Black and Bruce McCullough (of the Kids in the Hall)- they appreciate what it means to ROCK!
I think music really is food for the soul, and over time, determines our moods. It was only after I came out of a years-long depression that I really "got" Mozart's lighter music (it sounded emotionally bombastic to me before, like someone on happy pills). I have a friend who suffers from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and he seems to prefer listening and creating happy music, and he certainly appears happy to me. I have made a conscious decision to create music that is uplifting and beautiful, even if it has what I think of as murky or bittersweet qualities. Hey, there has to be some darkness to notice the light.
I'm going to experiment with listening to some more energetic music as well. I just ordered the latest Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD, and am looking forward to that (I liked their performance on SNL this last weekend). I'm also checking out some of the late 70's and early 80's punk bands like the Clash, Violent Femmes, DEVO (actually I've been into them for a few years), and Blondie, which I kind of didn't notice when they were active. Also some newer bands, not sure how I'd classify them, like John Vanderslice, New Pornographers, White Stripes (I guess "new" has a broader meaning when you get to be my age :)
Of course I still like my mellow, melancholy, and minimalist stuff, but I like my variety too.
About 4 years ago I was working at Intel, as one of those guys in the bunny suits, a job I hated. As I drove home after work, I would tune into the Portland classic rock station (KGON), which gave me great comfort. KGON seemed not to be a "classic rock" station in the ClearChannel sense of the word, they actually played the stuff I was listening to on my clock radio back in 1981 or so. It took me back to a more peaceful time, before the emotional turmoil of high school, college and career, and this is when I realized, I believe in the healing power of rock. Rock is a type of music that exists simply to make people feel good- it doesn't invoke subtle, possibly melancholy moods, it just rocks. This is also why I so appreciate the work of comedians like Jack Black and Bruce McCullough (of the Kids in the Hall)- they appreciate what it means to ROCK!
I think music really is food for the soul, and over time, determines our moods. It was only after I came out of a years-long depression that I really "got" Mozart's lighter music (it sounded emotionally bombastic to me before, like someone on happy pills). I have a friend who suffers from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and he seems to prefer listening and creating happy music, and he certainly appears happy to me. I have made a conscious decision to create music that is uplifting and beautiful, even if it has what I think of as murky or bittersweet qualities. Hey, there has to be some darkness to notice the light.
I'm going to experiment with listening to some more energetic music as well. I just ordered the latest Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD, and am looking forward to that (I liked their performance on SNL this last weekend). I'm also checking out some of the late 70's and early 80's punk bands like the Clash, Violent Femmes, DEVO (actually I've been into them for a few years), and Blondie, which I kind of didn't notice when they were active. Also some newer bands, not sure how I'd classify them, like John Vanderslice, New Pornographers, White Stripes (I guess "new" has a broader meaning when you get to be my age :)
Of course I still like my mellow, melancholy, and minimalist stuff, but I like my variety too.
24 May 2009
trivia
Here is some trivia related to the "Niagara" CD:
1) This trip to Niagara Falls was actually to go see a reunion show
by my favorite comedy troupe, "The Kids in the Hall". The next
morning, my wife and I walked around Goat Island, and that's where I
was inspired to write "Niagara"
2) My grandfather told me he was the body double of Joseph Cotten in
the Marilyn Monroe movie "Niagara", in the scene where he drives a
boat in the river just up from the falls (both he and my dad worked
for the Great Lakes Towing Company on the boats).
3) I didn't see Niagara Falls myself until I was 19, though I grew up
just a couple hours away!
4) Margaret Sharrow, who painted the paintings I used as a background
for the CD cover, is a friend of a close friend of mine (Chris
Terpin, who contributed to a couple of my earlier efforts) from
Buffalo. She was always fascinated with the U.K., and moved to Wales
to study art. Check out her blog to see more of her art.
23 May 2009
Welcome to the Tea With Warriors blog! I may not have a lot of updates, since I also work a demanding day job in addition to my creative life, but I hope to post things about my new musical plans, mp3's of works in progress, and discussions of music that has meant a lot to me.
I thought this would be a great time to start a blog, since I recently released a new CD, called "Niagara". I got the idea for the CD after a visit to Niagara Falls, a little over a year ago. As the CD liner notes describe, I was really struck by the power of nature, and thought it would be good to translate that into music. The end result was a mix of new age, minimalism, rock and jazz. I started with some synthesizer background "colors" and added layers of guitar work, percussion, and violin. I think it makes excellent background music, of a cinematic sort. I had visual images in mind as I composed it, and for the CD cover enlisted my friend Margaret Sharrow for the paintings. I would like to find someone who would be interested in making some videos that I could put on YouTube to promote it. Any takers out there?
I was pretty happy that over the last month or so, one of the tracks, "Skydiver" got played on the "Echoes" radio show several times, giving me some national exposure. I think the other tracks from the CD are also very good, and deserve some exposure, thought I understand that they are not really the right style for a radio show, being more "minimalist" or textural. I think they would make a beautiful background for a nature movie or something like that, though.
I thought this would be a great time to start a blog, since I recently released a new CD, called "Niagara". I got the idea for the CD after a visit to Niagara Falls, a little over a year ago. As the CD liner notes describe, I was really struck by the power of nature, and thought it would be good to translate that into music. The end result was a mix of new age, minimalism, rock and jazz. I started with some synthesizer background "colors" and added layers of guitar work, percussion, and violin. I think it makes excellent background music, of a cinematic sort. I had visual images in mind as I composed it, and for the CD cover enlisted my friend Margaret Sharrow for the paintings. I would like to find someone who would be interested in making some videos that I could put on YouTube to promote it. Any takers out there?
I was pretty happy that over the last month or so, one of the tracks, "Skydiver" got played on the "Echoes" radio show several times, giving me some national exposure. I think the other tracks from the CD are also very good, and deserve some exposure, thought I understand that they are not really the right style for a radio show, being more "minimalist" or textural. I think they would make a beautiful background for a nature movie or something like that, though.
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