CD Project

Well I've finally gotten off the couch in the evenings and started my new CD project.  (By the way, DVRs are evil- I have HOURS of my favorite shows to catch up on!  Oh well.)  I had done some planning for the project earlier, but hadn't really actually sat down at the keyboard until last night.

The new CD will be called Shelter, which I think I mentioned in a previous post; it'll be new arrangements of old hymns.  This is a bit of a challenge actually, because if you're familiar with hymns, they're usually short and repetitive.  Obviously this doesn't make for a great instrumental contemporary classical CD!  So I'll need to be very creative, writing additional passages, maybe merging hymns, and so on.  But I'm optimistic, especially from the piece I started last night.

Film Project?

Another project (which may actually delay Shelter) that may be in the works: I may get the opportunity to write some cues for a film student doing a feature length documentary.  We'll see how that works out; until then, I'll continue working on the CD.

Other Stuff

Taxi forwarded one of the pieces I wrote for the Olympics to the requestor.  That means it's possible it could be used in something- a commercial, DVD, whatever.  I'm not sure who the requestor is, but my best guess is an ad agency or a company that makes sports-related equipment.  Anyway, however it's used, if it is, is fine with me.