Zero 7 Remix Contest Entry - To be honest, I didn't remix this to compete.  I just really love this song, so made about 10 simple remixes in GarageBand for my own personal pleasure.  No tracks were added, but some tracks were muted, others were moved around, and some have effects added.  I hope others like these remixes, too.


Zero 7 - Home (RareWaves Acoustic Reverb Remix)

Zero 7 Remix Contest Entry - To be honest, I didn't remix this to compete. I just really love this song, so made about 10 simple remixes in GarageBand for my own personal pleasure. No tracks were added, but some tracks were muted, others were moved around, and some have effects added. I hope others like these remixes, too.

Zero 7 - Home (RareWaves Stringy Instrumental Remix)

Zero 7 - Home (RareWaves Multi-Voice Almost-Acappella Remix)

Zero 7 Remix Contest Entry - To be honest, I didn't remix this to compete. I just really love this song, so made about 10 simple remixes in GarageBand for my own personal pleasure. No tracks were added, but some tracks were muted, others were moved around, and some have effects added. I hope others like these remixes, too.


Zero 7 - Home (RareWaves Percussive Remix)

Here is the complete 65 minute memorial service for Loren Binford held at Evanston Friends Meeting on May 5, 2013.  I've also uploaded the song led by Margaret Nelson during the service.  Both are downloadable if you choose to copy them to your own computer.  This recording does not include the trombone playing in the balcony after the service as it was too difficult to isolate the music from the background talking.  I may attempt it at some time.  The outdoor portion of the service is on YouTube http://youtu.be/frXx1JgrdzE

Loren Binford Memorial Service at Evanston Meeting

Here is the intro to the song and the song itself as led by Margaret Nelson during the Memorial Service held for Loren Binford at Evanston Friends Meeting on May 5, 2013.  The entire memorial service is also uploaded here and the outdoor portion of the service is on YouTube http://youtu.be/frXx1JgrdzE

Promised Land - Loren Binford Memorial Service

This is the trombone tribute played by friends of Loren (from the balcony) following the regular service.  I did my best to reduce the crowd sounds, but at times, the audible background sounds may distract from the music.

Loren Binford Memorial Service at Evanston Meeting - Trombone Tribute (from Balcony)

This was made in 2002 on an old iMac (OS 9.2.1) with an original version of Mixman that allowed you to assemble various sounds and loops into a song.  This was my only composition as they no longer supported the Mac once OS X was released.  Just figured I'd upload it for fun and nostalgia. 

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Made in GarageBand in 2007 with the addition of G-Force's MTron Mellotron emulator.  I've always loved the Mellotron (Beatles, Moody Blues, and so many great progressive rock bands from the sixties and seventies).

Heavennaire

I’ve been playing around with sounds and music since the late fifties when my parents acquired an Ampex 2-track stereo reel-to-reel deck.  My mom taught and played piano, guitar, and clarinet and I would record these instruments, but figured out that if I recorded in mono on track 1, I could flip the tape over and play along with the backwards track.  After acquiring another similar deck, I was able to bounce these forwards and backwards tracks and would add ambient sounds and drum tracks to previously recorded music.  I guess I could say that I’ve been remixing and manipulating music and sounds for most of my life.  

By the late sixties, I found that I enjoyed mixing sets of songs rather than composing or remixing songs.  I was originally inspired by the work of John DeWitt, creator and producer of “The Young Sound” which peaked in popularity from 1967 to 1972 and aired on many CBS-FM affiliates including WBBM-FM in Chicago.  “The Young Sound” consisted of a series of fifteen-minute segments—specially arranged, blended, and mixed such that the relationships among the songs were as artistic as the songs themselves.  

I studied John DeWitt’s work, practiced and practiced the art of the segue, and created hundreds of sets using a 4-channel Teac 3340.  My tag line has always been: “The Set Is Greater Than The Sum of The Songs.”  I define these sets as, “an uninterrupted arrangement of songs, mixed such that the set becomes a work in itself.”  Much attention is given to themes, musical eras, beat, key, rhythm, and most importantly: relationships.  I found that I prefer building sets one song at a time rather than creating sets live with multiple turntables.  While I totally appreciate live DJs, my instrument is the multitrack recorder.  

Now with non-linear recording, I can create sets in MixTape Pro, Toast, and Reaper (or another DAW) and have revisited many of the original sets that were created from the seventies through the nineties and have uploaded them to Mixcloud along with newly created sets.  So while I still love composing music and remixing others’ music, my real love is making “mixtapes.”  Check out my work on Mixcloud.

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