Internal Innuendo

One day I'd like to create a quicktime video of when this song was presented at our Senior Recital in high school. I had taken some slides of various entryways and pathways around my hometown and I combined it with this piece that I wrote in my music classes. The pictures are of doors, pathways, openings... basically different kinds of thresholds and portals, if you will. Click on Lyrics/Story for more about it.

Enjoy...

vina,

i just took a look at your page... i tried to download but unfortanitely i couldn't on this dream machine. I love the titles and the pic that come with the downloads. it will b a beautiful day when the downloads are recieved.

i am waiting with such antisipation.

until then may the flowers bloom in your garden.


-Blue Jesus
using The Electric Purple.

I would love to hear all of your early compositions. They sound really good and remind me of film scores. This particular piece of yours reminds me of something off of Stevie Wonder's "Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants" What keyboard did you use to record this?

psykosoul said:

Oh my Lord, it was a cheap casio with MID-SIZED keys!!!! Thanks for the compliment. People would always tell me that my stuff didn't sound computerized even though I made it on the computer. I haven't heard too much Stevie Wonder (shame on me), but from you I take that as a high compliment.

I went to a performing arts school and they built a new campus during my senior year. Our class was the last graduating class of the old school, no pun intended. The next year I visited my music teacher and the new electronic music lab. They had Mac SE30s and Roland D-10s, I think. I was sooooo jealous, at that time (1991) that was pretty cool.


This piece was composed using a dinky keyboard with 1/2 sized keys and 3 (maybe 4) octaves! LOL! The computer was an Apple IIe, I think. I saved it on a 5-inch floppy (remember those disks that actually were floppy?), we're talking OLD SKOOL, yo. I wish I could remember the name of the sequencing program we used.

ElectricPurple said:

Thanks Blue Jesus!

Internal Innuendo.
JUST HAD A LISTEN VinaBlue.

SIMPLE BUT ENOUGH, BROKE MY HEART!
Takes me inside, reflecting as to your feelings at the time
So Regal and beautifully succinct.

I can't wait to hear this. Need good speakers so some night this week I will post on it.

ive got 2 check this out

Nice, moody instrumental. I agree it sounds like a film score; if I were a film maker, I'd definately want to use this somewhere anyway
Beautiful.


Heh, I still use a Roland D-5 as my synth (which is a D-10 without reverb) and I still think it's pretty cool for some types of old school synthy sounds.

FLUX said:

Thank you.

erikd said:

Thanks! I've always loved movie scores, even tv scores.

I did end up getting a Mac (back then) and when I went to college they had them there too. The lab had a Roland D-10, and the advanced classes had a Moog, a sampler that I cant recall and a Roland tone generator. Anyway, Since I had a Mac at home I was able to do my assignments at home. Now I'm rambling.

perfect music for Final Fantasy XI! very beautiful!!! Is this my favorite of yours so far? ?

VinaBlue said:

So how old were you when you did this composition with slide show and have you always been a creative genius?

This is really cool and dark and a quicktime video or something in Flash would be perfect.

paisleypark4 said:

Wow, really? LOL and it's the FIRST thing I ever composed and completed! Guess it all went downhill from there, lol. j/k.

Thanks.

Slave2daGroove said:

I dunno about genius... but thank you

I was 17 years old. I was also taking photography in school so I had use of a camera. It's a lonnnng story, but I had a really hard time getting my own slot in the recital... Even though some people were in 4 dance numbers. Damn those popular people. I wanted to incorporate lighting effects too, but that was a bit much. I love stage lighting.

They had a slide show already happening with all the visual artists that was about 30 minutes long and they wanted to LOOP my song over all their work. Can you imagine a 1:34 minute song looped for 30 minutes?!?!? Anywho, they finally agreed to allow my song over my slides only, BUT they just went into the artist slide show after it. No pause for applause. Now there was another slideshow at the end of the recital that was a multi-media presentation. These guys wrote a story, created a slide show of illustrations and either recorded it or read the story live. I can't remember. I taped that too. Lou Romano, now that was a creative genius.

The only way people knew that I wrote the music is if they read the program. I was in the catwalk clicking the slides. What they did is show a picture of the artist first, then their work, so people knew I took the pictures. A classmate came up to me and said she really like my pictures and I said "what did you think of the music?". Her eyes got really big... "You wrote the music?!?!?!"

Definitely a highlight of my Senior year. Anybody want to see my prom picture? LOL!

#57 in the Film music chart!

This has an almost Baroque-like feel at times. Were you asked to write in a particular style?
The "entryways and pathways" makes sense as the word discovery came to mind while I was listening.

Tres cool ,
tA

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Tribal Disorder

theAudience said:

Thanks! Well, I was studying 4-part chorale harmony at the time, one of the main melodies came from an assignment. I've always loved the idea of counterpoint, and there was only one arpegiated chord in this piece. I took the melody from my AP Harmony class and created the piece in my Electronic Music Lab. I don't believe this was an assignment, so no, I wasn't asked to write in a particular style. This was just what I felt at the time. I think I worked on it for a month in class. I didn't have a computer at home back then.

I just watched the video of the presentation and there were more tree pictures than I remembered. Maybe I'll scan in the slides right now so you guys can see...

Wow, to have that from when your 17 is so cool. The playing is beautiful ( I was a theory class drop out) I would give anything for my High Scholl talent show redition of Purple Haze, I played the solo with my teeth, place went bonkers and I was hooked much to my parents displeasure.... Do you have any more stuff from that time?

Hey Kevlar, thanks for listening. The only other thing I might have from that time is a rehearsal of when I sang Riders on the Storm for my voice class recital. That was fun. I have some instrumental midi pieces from college that are similar to this one. Sounds like you tore it up on Purple Haze!

5/25 update... #35 in the film music chart!! http://www.soundclick.com...rentpage=1

[This message was edited Tue May 25 6:10:59 2004 by VinaBlue]

Hey V,

This is beautiful. It sounds like a fantasy piece, it definaltly takes you too another place.
very molody, good conterpoint arrangements too.

Keep up the good work!

But where is that sexy voice of yours!.....

I miss all that voice.... ...lol

Littlewing said:

Thanks! I really really appreciate your compliments. Heh heh... The voice wasn't a part of my music until about 5 years ago. Before then I would write instrumentals like this and lyrics with melodies but nothing came together to create "songs".

I love it Vina, i closed my eyes and i was watching a movie in my head of a scene in ancient Romen times of people doing their daily things, the camera is panning throughout room, and i can hear ur music as its score.