Re-launch!

I've left this blog really unattended for a while now. Strangely enough, these last months I've been making lots of music and working in really exciting projects. I have lots of things to post about, but until now I hadn't put aside some time to do it.

Well, it takes much more time and work to make music than to write a few things about it, so there's really no excuse. I have a lot of catching up to do, and I'll start now :)

Soundcloud

I'm switching to SoundCloud. It'll make things easier for me (and you?). Instead of a download link after the player SoundCloud's player has an integrated download button (with a pointing down arrow).
All new posts will be made with the SoundCLoud player, and I'll change progressively the older ones.

Replaced Kopimi for Creative Commons Zero in Ephemeral Music and Trip Journal

Kopimi and CC0 are more or less the same so I can now have the same style of license button for all my posts. That's really the only lousy reason ;|
Good luck to Kopimi, and bye.

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Update: I removed the license button in every single post (it looked too cluttered). The two licenses I'm using are at the bottom of the blog and in the tag-cloud.

Trip Journal presentation

I'm back from an incredible trip of -as put by my brother-"mental hedonism". A month of forgetting my studying and other responsibilities and just delivering myself to aesthetic experience.
Instead of recording any Ephemeral Music in September and October I'll record the ideas I got during the trip and wrote down in my sketchbook. I'm trying to imitate a bit this journal style of presentation from Bashō's haiku books, simply because I love them. (And I highly recommend them to every one).

No posts in August.

I won't be posting during the whole of August :(
... because I'm going on a trip :)

I'll take my moleskine music notebook (I love it) and will come back with lots of things to record. I'll also be able to get hold of some good quality accordion microphones, so I can produce better recordings.

Cheers to everyone, I'll be back in a while.

Podcast now available!

I just arranged some things so that it is now possible to subscribe to my music log as a podcast.
The address is:

http://alexdaniels.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

To subscribe in iTunes, you can copy the URL and paste it in the "Subscribe to Podcast" option, in the "Advanced" menu.

There is a small bug if the feed is opened in Google Reader (and I would imagine it happens in other RSS Feeders), and that is that there are two players with the same file. The one I embed in the posts of the blog and an automatically generated one for the enclosure link. Twice the fun! (...?)

Kopimi up again :)

Well, the site is back up again and the C triangles (or pyramids?) can be seen again under the Ephemeral Music posts.

Kopimi site down :(

It seems the Kopimi site is down. I'm not sure if it will be up again anytime, as the creator of the concept, Ibi Kopimi Botani sadly died some time ago.
As I "license" (if the term even applies) all of the Ephemeral Music posts with Kopimi, I'll wait for a week to see what happens with the site.
For the moment I'll leave the posts as they are.

Ephemeral Music presentation

The Ephemeral Music series is music I'm not very attached to: improvisations, not fully worked out compositions, ideas that just come up and I scribble in a little piece of paper, and so on.
I've been doing this for a while now, mainly for my own enjoyment. Some of it I forget, some I don't. I decided I would share it all in this blog. So I hope you enjoy it.
Unlike my compositions (which I'll probably publish with Creative Commons licenses), the Ephemeral Music series will be totally free, no rights reserved, kopimi....

First post!

Well I'm finally starting up my music log.
I'll upload here all the music I do and get to record.

Ok. Let's go!