Tidewater CD

Work is still getting in the way of music, but I finally cleaned up the production on a batch of my favourites and put it out on CD

The CD is "Tidewater", and is available at CDBaby (and eventually, locally here in Oz): http://www.cdbaby.com/timfatchen

Music is acoustic piano and electronic keyboard, neoclassical/new age/celtic new age, mainly quiet and pensive

Half the tracks (5/10) were built with Midinotate Composer: the three synth keyboard tracks and two of the acoustic tracks. "Built" means either originally worked out on, developed on, or used to produce sheet music used for re-input or performance. I'll leave to the listener the attempt to work out which ones are live performances and which the Midinotate sequencer at work (the right answer will surprise you).

Regulars will be delighted to hear I don't sing anywhere on it...

Some of the acoustic was recorded during a dinner party, so there are some, let us say, character-building moments.

All songs are and will remain streaming for 2 minutes or their length, whichever is first, on CDBaby. Most of the songs are still present elsewhere on the web, generally as earlier or pre-master versions, either as free downloads at http://music.download.com/timfatchen or on http://www.soundclick.com/flyingtadpole
but I'll be pulling the music.download.com songs shortly to start a new run, so if you like the streams, rush to the free site and download the 192kps versions before they vanish!!!

OK: that's the pitch, here are the reasons...I'm interested in seeing whether I can get a trickle royalty stream out of digital distribution, and CDBaby seems the cheapest way to enter the pool. But to do it, there has to be a real honest-to-goodness CD...so a CD there now is.

The few who've heard the music locally include a local gallery with a lot of tourist through-traffic, so we're starting negotiation to sell there (I'm amazed but I keep a straight face).

But work really gets in the way: I haven't even started getting any promotional stuff through, not even a simple website. So it'll all just shamble on, but it's difficult to work on website design when you're 300 miles from anywhere, and 600 miles away from your nice machine and synthesiser and piano, entertaining the local dingoes while the flies attempt an airlift during the day and the mosquitoes at night...but Midinotate lurks on my laptop, and strangely, things do get worked on...

Hello Tim,

Thanks for showing us your music. I can definitely spot your charmining 1880 piano and your live performances in the recordings. I'm not sure whether the harmonica in Dead Drummer Blues is a live recording or not; I suspect not, but it is convincing.

Perhaps you'd like to show some of the Composer .not files for your music at http://notation.com/notesoftfiles.htm
This page just got started. Clyde beat you to being the first listed, but you could be the second!

Cheers
-- Mark

Hi Mark & Tim,

Can I just report back on the value of Mark's Notesoft files page. Its only been available for a short time, and already I've had over 25 people directed to my website because of it. Of course, genre of music greatly affects the public response.

Thanks Mark for having a win-win situation where you can promote both Composer products and our compositions.

Cheers ... Clyde

Clyde,

I do hope that the http://notation.com/notesoftfiles.htm page will grow. I'll be sending out an announcement to current Composer customers about the availability of the new MidiNotate Player. That will be a good time to let them know about this new NoteSoft files page. This will hopefully encourage more activity on the NoteSoft Files page. It will be fun to see the variety of music that Composer users create.

Cheers
-- Mark

Sorry Mark, I should've said "of the synthesised"! You can tell the old piano is real from the action and the fumbles, though I had to edit out a cuckoo clock at one point...FWIW, the synth. version of Tidewater is a lvie performance. Half of Autumn's End is live and the other half sequenced.

Sorry I've been away so long people, live has gone frantic, though in an OK way. Yes I'll certainly head for the notesoft files page too.

The harmonica on Dead Drummer BTW is synthetic, but I used to play a mean blues harp and about 5th Grade harmonica many moons ago. It's like SHerry and her synthetic whistle. When you know how to play the real thing, you can get remarkable sounds out of a keyboard! But I'm really stuck when it comes to bowed strings, sigh...