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by Heath PatrieFor Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. (William Congreve)
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Tranquil MMVII.14 [harp] Outback Art Fair 02
28/09/2007
This is from a week-end gig at the Outback art fair in Marquette Michigan this summer. ___ I've fallen so behind with this podcast; i apologise. So, i've decided to just get something new and nice up for you to listen to. This was a gig without an amplifier so you get to hear just the harp -- without an amplified room sneaking into the mikes. This is all from my current album (which i haven't been marketing because i'm so busy taking care of my 4-year old), and some of the numbers are inentionally very short so you can use them as ring-tones. Enjoy! ~heath ___ This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution/Non-commercial/No Derivatives License. ___ Don't forget my other podcasts. I've been putting up a lot of binaural field recording lately in 'Heath and Friends Alive' at http://alive.libsyn.com Search 'Heath Patrie' in the iTunes Store to easily find my 4 podcasts, or find direct links at my website: http://heathpatrie.com
Tranquil MMVII.13 [harp] Outback Art Fair 01
21/09/2007
This is from a week-end gig at the Outback art fair in Marquette Michigan this summer. ___ I've fallen so behind with this podcast; i apologise. So, i've decided to just get something new and nice up for you to listen to. This was a gig without an amplifier so you get to hear just the harp -- without an amplified room sneaking into the mikes. This is all from my current album (which i haven't been marketing because i'm so busy taking care of my 4-year old), and some of the numbers are inentionally very short so you can use them as ring-tones. Enjoy! And, sorry i took so long. ~heath ___ This work is licensed under the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution/Non-commercial/No Derivatives License. ___ Oh, yes! Don't miss my other podcasts. I've been putting up a lot of binaural field recording lately in 'Heath and Friends Alive' at http://alive.libsyn.com Search 'Heath Patrie' in the iTunes Store to easily find my 4 podcasts, or find direct links at my website: http://heathpatrie.com
Tranquil MMVII.12 [harp] Moody Suite IV
20/07/2007
This is 'moody suite IV' -- the last of the evening. I play with the lights low. The wind blows the trees and the moon peeks from behind the swift moving clouds. ___ Music composition and sound recording Copyright MMVII Heath Patrie. Creative Commons 2.5 License = Attribution/NonCommercial/NoDerivs. ___ When this is automatically published (on Friday June 20th) the 29th Annual Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival will be kicking off -- but i'll be missing it because i'll be playing at the Harry Potter Festival (also here in Marquette). Not to worry. Saturday i'll be working all of my shifts, and i'll be spending the weekend camped at Tourist Park and playing into the wee hours of every night -- which in my opinion is really the best part of Hiawatha. {Come check it out.} Share and Enjoy. heathpatrie.com
Tranquil MMVII.11 [harp] Moody Suite III
13/07/2007
After playing Megan's wedding rehearsal earlier i came home and played a few suites by myself alone in the living room at night. This is 'moody suite III'. Tommorrow i will play as the wedding guests arrive, and i will play some more as they leave. But tonight i sit alone with my harp, and i play with the lights low with the wind in the trees and the moon peeking from behind the swift moving clouds. ___ Music composition and sound recording Copyright MMVII Heath Patrie. Creative Commons 2.5 License = Attribution/NonCommercial/NoDerivs. ___ I've not had enough time to keep up with my podcasts; i apologise. I had intened to do something more 'produced' for Tranquility this year, but i'm Mr. Mom to my precocious 4-year-old, and he takes all my time, and i'm not keeping up. ... So, i've decided to put up the raw mp3 audio files (from my M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 mobile digital audio recorder which i've been using at my gigs this year). I run my harp mikes (which i've designed and installed inside my harp) directly into the recorder (which i place behind me on top of my amplifier), and then, using it as a pre-amplifier, i run its line output directly into a couple of Fostex PM 0.4 powered monitor speakers which i've bundled into a re-purposed practice amplifier case (my 'amp'). This is a much more compact and portable set-up than i used to drag around with me. I can even use it with my Rhodes stage piano. {Not that anyone's hired me to play Rhodes since i've been doing my harp.} ... Anyway... As a result of my new 'modus operandi', i have a load of raw 320 kbs mp3 from the recorder (AKA: mike pre-amp). This episode is one of those raw files. I hope 320 kbs is fine. {They do sound good.} If you want to shrink them, just convert them to a lower bit rate ('Convert Selection' in the Advanced menu in iTunes). However, i don't recommend going lower than 160. Pure sounds suffer the most from over compression, and the harp is a pretty good example of pure musical sound. I suggest 192 (which is what i was using normally). And, remember: you can always archive the mp3 files onto an 'mp3' CD (which will play in most DVD players). That way you'll always have the option to copy the original 320 kbs mp3 files into your next inevitably larger hard drive. [grin] ... To hear the Live sets from Megan's wedding this weekend: i've uploaded them to my 'Heath and Friends Alive' podcast (at http://alive.libsyn.com). {To subscribe manually: remember to tag on the "/rss" into your podcatcher. That flummoxed me in the beginning.} You can easily find all four of my podcasts by searching 'Heath Patrie' in the iTunes Store. Share and Enjoy! Find links to my blogs and other goodies at my website: http://heathpatrie.com
Tranquil MMVII.10 [piano] Heart Beat Suite
17/06/2007
Hey! It's my first Anniversary! Actually it was June 3rd, and i've missed it. I was going to do something special, but i'm Mr Mom to my almost-4-year-old, and that date went out the window. So i've decided to upload something which is ready to go. It is still special, though. ___ This is a recording my brother Brian and i made way back in 1991 (i think). We were jamming in the wee hours with 'JoAnne Wurlitzer' (my 1917 Wurlitzer piano which i'd recently purchased for 400 dollars). We had "a couple of quarts of beer" (as Frank Zappa once crooned; actually they were Mickey's 40-ouncers). This was in the makeshift 'Studio' i had set up in the Fernando Street house in Grand Rapids Michigan (with the two-and-a-half dozen size cardboard egg crate squares stapled across the ceiling), and Brian had come over from next door for an evening of making music. About the performance: Brian is improvising against my ostanada in the upper register. Brian starts out playing a nice melody on the bare strings with a wire brush, then progresses to laying down some nice harmonic structure in the 'usual way'. It was a very good groove (and we didn't even finish the beer). ___ This is from the best surviving copy i have: a TDK SA-90 Compact Cassette copy from the Reel-to-Reel master (recorded through my Sony NR-335 Dolby B CoDec). There's a bit of discernible flutter, but it's the best i can do. It's still a pretty good recording as i had the piano well miked in my special way. Plus, we were in the groove. ___ Incidentally: i have posted the prelude to this piece from the same session as 'Tranquil MMVI.35 [piano] Piano For Hands' last year in this same podcast. I figured i would get around to posting the rest of it, and here's my opportunity, so here it is. ___ Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial/No derivatives license 2.5 ___ heathpatrie.com ___ "Share and Enjoy" ___ Yes, that picture is of Claude. ;-]
