Here are some shots of where I am working nearly every day, cataloging the samples from Tower Music, and (when that’s done) where I’ll spend many more hours: creating my virtual instrument composing the music creating the sheet music scores pre-mixing the finished audio files for mastering in the studio Center foreground is my vintage digital keyboard, the Yamaha SY85… Read more →
Tag: Musique de la Tour
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 7 – CATALOGED!
The stats to date: Day 7 provided roughly 1450 raw samples yielding roughly 320 chosen samples. The sum of the 7 days’ recording so far is roughly 6791 total listened-to samples yielding roughly 1989 chosen samples. This was the heaviest recording day to date (though I know we have at least one heavier one coming up). This day’s work included… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC DAY 6 – CATALOGED!
The stats to date: Day 6 provided roughly 800 raw samples yielding roughly 206 chosen samples. The sum of the 6 days’ recording so far is roughly 5321 total listened-to samples yielding roughly 1578 total chosen samples. I’m now past the halfway mark in terms of days but if memory serves, not halfway thru the number of samples. Still, this… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC DAY 5 – CATALOGED!
Another day closer to the actual beginning of composing. The stats: roughly 1400 samples yielding roughly 372 chosen samples. The sum of the 5 days’ recording so far is roughly 4521 total listened-to samples yielding roughly 1372 total chosen samples. This nice photo from Day 5 (by Joe Popp) shows me smiling, looking much less bedraggled than I do now,… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 4 – CATALOGED!
For Day 4’s work I sorted through roughly 660 samples yielding roughly 220 chosen sounds. The sum of the four day’s recording so far is roughly 3121 samples yielding roughly 1000 chosen sounds. I’m progressing a little slower now than before because with the constant impact of the metal sounds against my eardrums, I have to take breaks for several… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 3 – CATALOGED!
Well, I’m a quarter of the way through cataloging the Eiffel Tower recording dates if not a quarter of the way through the total samples, but it feels good. Thursday morning I started at 7:30am for the final push…at 11am I looked at the clock and said to myself “I’ll still be here twelve hours from now…”. So finishing at… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 2 – CATALOGED!
Another day down, 9.5 more to go. I really have gotten faster at choosing and editing the samples. Once I’m all done I may go back and re-check the earlier samples, bringing some of the expertise I’ve gained to the earlier editing, such as smoother fades to cover ground noise. As I read the time-stamps, I see that, unlike most… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC – DAY 1 – CATALOGUED!
It took a few extra weeks to actually get started but I finished cataloging the first day’s samples from May/June’s trip to the Eiffel Tower. That would be roughly 828 raw samples yielding roughly 170 chosen sounds. And that was from a short day; we had preliminary meetings with the Eiffel Tower administration on Day 1, and only started at… Read more →
BACK IN THE USA
Returned to the USA on Monday. Cataloging all the sounds begins next week. It’s astounding how the story of Tower Music has traveled in the press from Europe to North & South America to Australia, Malaysia and even the Himalayan Times! Who knew? Here is video that was used in The Guardian newspaper and other ITN news affiliates: You can… Read more →
TOWER MUSIC IN PARIS BEGINS
Great first day on the Eiffel Tower Monday, we met with the admin, got our badges and started to vet our first day’s locations. Banging the tower fence on Monday, photo by Franc Palaia Paris had good weather, but it changed throughout the day, at times overcast & breezy, then sunny, then cold… and so on. The team worked mainly… Read more →