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| 57 |
Piledriver (7:30)
120K |
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A driving beat and power
chords galore. This sounds absolutely
terrible on the SB-Live. |
| 58 |
Jumpshot (9:57)
14K Zipped (160K Unzipped) |
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These were the days of the
2000 Summer Olympics, which took place in
my home city, Sydney. My pride at the
quality of the show we were putting on
for the rest of the world would result in
two pieces of music. (It should have been
three but one simply wouldn't cooperate)
This tune is a tribute to our women's
basketball team, who made it all the way
through to the gold medal round. Alas,
like the performance it commemortates, it
falls just a little short at the final
hurdle. The SB-Live does not help it make
a favourable impression. |
| 59 |
  Downstream
(4:07) 75K |
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This piece is quite unlike
anything else I have done before or since.
Based around some unusal instruments like
Kalimba, it speaks to a raft drifting
lazily downstream in summer. Not helped
by the SB-Live, and possibly not
salvageable. Regrettably. |
| 60 |
Gold (10:07)
205K |
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This is the second of what
was supposed to be three pieces inspired
by the Sydney Summer Olympics. (The
missing one was a celebration of our
unexpected success at the water polo.
Parts of that tune got incorporated into
this one). This tune was directly
inspired by the Australian Swimming Team,
and is intended to contain suggestions of
the endless hours of training, the
personal sacrifices, the tension at the
start of an event, the immense effort of
the competition, the ultimate victory,
and the barrage of emotions as the
realisation of achievement sets in, and
the your national anthem is
played. I quite deliberately did not
incorporate any specific national anthem,
as for me, this piece speaks to every
competitor in every sport.
This doesn't sound quite the same through
the SB-Live but it still sounds great. It
could probably do with a tweak or two,
but needs very little more than a coat of
paint in terms of a remix.. |
| 61 |
Facets Of A Deeper
Feeling (6:19) 76K |
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It can be hard to
articulate deeply held emotions.
Sometimes that difficulty stems from
being unable to clearly identify just
what you're feeling. Like the Blind Men
describing an elephant, all you can do is
relate parts of the emotion, and hope
that the person you're talking to can put
it all together. This piece attempts to
offer a musical analogy to this process.
The intro (the first 50 seconds or so)
don't work as well as I hoped &
expected, but once the main sections get
underway, it's not all that bad. Every
time I listen to the whole piece I have
to ask myself why it isn't amongst my
favorites - it sucks you into it's frame
of referance - but, objectively, it's not
there because the first 3 minutes or so
aren't as good as the rest. The SB-Live
doesn't help this piece much but doesn't
hinder it as much as some others. |
| 62 |
Victims Of War
(7:39) 18K Zipped (135K Unzipped) |
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This is a lament for the
innocent victims wounded, maimed, and
killed, in any conflict, and an
expression of anger over the outrages
committed by both sides. Although a
laudible sentiment, the music just
doesn't quite work for me - and the SB-Live
only makes it worse (due to the featured
French Horns, which I've commented on
before). |
| 63 |
Happyness (6:54)
119K |
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After such a heavy subject,
a piece of good uptempo pop was called
for, and this piece delivered. It needs a
substantial remix to work properly on the
SB-Live, but the nature of the song
should make that fairly easy. |
| 64 |
Synergy (3:44)
42K |
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A synergy takes place when
two or more ingredients, placed together
(usually by accident), combine to form a
whole greater than the sum of their parts.
That makes the word the perfect title for
this piece of music, whose instrumental
belnd was pure synergy from start to
finish - I picked the wrong patch and it
sounded great. It's almost as good
through the SB-Live, though some parts of
the mix need a little tweaking. Even so,
it's quite listenable. |
| 65 |
Reflex Action (6:06)
67K |
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This spiritual successor to
"Take A Chance" (page 2 of the
year 2000 midi's) in that every note,
every change of key, was entirely
instinct - and worked right, every time.
This fades in, so use another piece of
music to set your volume levels and then
be patient. Much of "Reflex Action"
sounds different but just as good through
the SB-Live, but there are some sections
that just aren't quite right. This will
be an easy remix. |
| 66 |
The Eyes Of Love (all
I need is you) (9:06) 85K |
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If you havn't been able to
tell that I'm a romantic by now, you
havn't been paying attention! Certainly,
hard-nosed practicality has it's place,
but it takes all the pleasure out of life.
This piece has a lot in common with
"Electric Melcancholy" but is a
lot more upbeat, if slower in tempo. I
wanted to describe musically the
emotional electricity that results when
two people stare into each other's eyes
and see love for the other in the
reflection - just about as romantic a
notion as you can get. The SB-Live tries
hard to ruin the piece, I'm afraid, but
it doesn't quite succeed - it remains
beautiful even with the somewhat mangled
instrumentation and despite the french
horns (again!). Parts certainly need a
bit of a remix for this to be at it's
best. A high priority. |
| 67 |
Homecoming (3:25)
55K |
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There's a different kind of
homesickness that you feel when you've
been away for a long time and are finally
going home. The Sb-Live completely
mangles this piece. |
| 68 |
Promises (6:07)
122K |
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This piece promised lots -
a nice uptempo pop-rock number - but it
never quite delivered the way it should
have. The Sb-Live doesn't help this song
- at all. Like "Homecoming"
above, it's virtually unlistenable
through that soundcard. |
