My egoistically personal favourites of 2013

Toonz

Stein Thor

melancholic

Playing a lot of Bach these days,,  doing all of the Preludes and fugues for the organ. Discouraged by Soundcloud but like to keep in touch with you all who like to listen to my music. Hope you enjoy this morning improv.  and now I´m off to study some c -minor Preludes/Fantasies and fuges by the maestro.

Preludía í c - moll - Stein Thor

To have a muse, in person or in spirit, is an artist's greatest yet most fickle gift. This closes the loop, completing a set of 3. 

The Muse: http://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/the-muse
The Muse II: http://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/the-muse-ii

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The Muse III

Time Remembered

Bill Evans - Time Remembered (Philippe Edison Rework)

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Minimal Piano No. 11, At Down

'Evoke' appears in a behind the scenes video for Alexia Sinclair's tableau of Edward Jenner for ’The Art of Saving a Life’, commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOvFyUqOaag

’The Art of Saving a Life’ is an initiative that combines art and public health to raise awareness and funding to vaccinate millions of children in developing countries. 

The campaign is a collection of stories on the success of vaccines throughout history, told by over 30 world-renowned artists.

More information on the project can be found at: 
• http://artofsavingalife.com
• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/arts/design/gates-foundation-uses-art-to-encourage-vaccination.html
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dl-cade/this-hauntinglybeautiful-_b_6537890.html

'Evoke' also appears in 'Moed', a short film by David Dang. Filmed in Cape Town, South Africa and starring actor Lunga Tshuka.
https://vimeo.com/122980348

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Steve Gibbs - Evoke

The track "Away" is my latest  collab with pianist Dirk Maassen https://soundcloud.com/dirk-maassen-official.
 I just loved to arrange Dirk's beautiful piano part with my musical ideas. It was a great time to play with his open collab piece. Hope you enjoy the result.
piano: Dirk Maassen, arrangement and piano additions: MACRIMA 


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Away

Dirk Maassen & MACRIMA - Away

I know this sounds like Einaudi, but it's really just about memories.

(to my wonderful girlfriend of 8 years, I can't wait to see the world with you.)

Shoebox (Free download)

This set primarily contains samples from Agitato Grandiose Legato for Violins, Violas and Cellos - a set virtual music software instruments (VST) by www.8dio.com

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8Dio Agitato Grandiose Legato Bundle: "Forgive Me" by  Antongiulio Frulio

saturday morning music, so much to think about and do,,,  but instead I do this :)

it´s an imrov of sorts in passacaglia style, although just a touch of it,  same chords for six minutes,,, and isn´t our lifes usually the same much of the time. Blessed are the people that manage to live and revitalize all the time.

Birth to death - a waltz about life (19. jan 2013) (downloadable)(found)

Was playing around with Studio 1 from Presonus tonight,,, and this is the result...  hope you like it.  I´m starting to think I could do nothing except write music all day long, only problem is that it does not pay any bills :)....   

I tried analog delay from S1 on my piano sound and let that run the tempo,  played around with the echo effect,  and sometimes let the echo lead me on.  Then I did the string part, which took awhile since S1 has worse midi workings that Logic, and for classical nerds like myself it has no sheet music option.  Seeing the notes helps me when scoring piano improvs, I can see the harmony and read the lines.

So mixing and everything is done in Studio one (old version),  still waiting for Cubase 7 upgrade,,,,  moving away from logic, it´s not keeping up with times.  Apple seems to have given us musicians the finger.... 

Life´s little echoes

Had a lot of emotions of late,,, good ones mostly,,,   still revamping my mind,, trying to find my zen, still far away but some progress.  My heads not too clear, full of ideas but time is quite full of work, odd jobs and stuff I need to do.  Need to find a mountain somewhere and climb it, maybe just stay up there.

This piece here is not letting me alone,, it swims around in my head,,,,   this is the version I´m going to work with,, still 70% improvised, but I probably will write it up on sheet and record it.   The first part is conflicting F- major with f-minor in the melody,,, the second part changes hands,, so the f- minor becomes the harmony under.... then it goes into major of sorts in the end,, so ends in harmony without dissonance....

We all seek harmony and a world without fractures,,, but it´s hard to find,,,  and to be honest,,  music would be so boring without dissonance,,, most of the pop music is today without any dissonance,,,  hence it dumbs the mind,,, quite mindblowing stuff.....    I know the conflict A Ab is going to disturb some of you,,, sorry about that :)   

Dissonance in life´s perfect harmony

At a pivotal moment in the drama, The Muse makes herself known to the protagonist whose sculpted art begins to multiply into abstract forms, drifting and scattering in his ragged space, filling his vision with reflective fragments of his dreams.

One of three:
The Muse II: https://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/the-muse-ii
The Muse III: https://soundcloud.com/oliversadie/the-muse-iii

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Photograph © 2012-2013 <a href=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=532762340073690&set=pb.156806751002586.-2207520000.1370912183.&type=3&theater>Cap Photography</A>.

The Muse

Last day, tomorrow I go home, but it was a really nice day. Been living in the past, finding my childhoods favorite places, and spending some time with my 92 years old grandmother. Went with her to my grandfathers grave and then I came back to the farm. Been sunny but windy, really nice, and I´m starting to feel at home. I really should just stay here :).

When I came inside I decided to check on my inspiration and this song came out, fully functional and I think the best one in the series, maybe one of my best songs, when I listen to it I think, yes, this is the song I was supposed to write here.

The picture now is of the house where I´m staying,,,   such a lovely place and I find that I have a really easy time staying alone, way too easy....   should just find a mountain somewhere.....

Maybe this is the last song of this session,  if so I thank you for following,,, for me this has been really nice.  I´ll see if the midnight sun gives me one more song.

Tjörnes session - 5. Memories

I like to work in sets, sorry for that,,,  when I have time and energy to write songs they do come out pretty fast.  This one is a response to the one I did this morning, I like this one much more....

Good night my friends ..... sleep tight,, (here in Iceland it´s about 23:30 and full light outside)

Good night my friend, the midnight sun sends it´s greetings

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Always happy to lend music and would love to take part in cinematic projects.

Preludía í c - moll - Stein Thor

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