Archive for August, 2010
Still In The Night
by Tom Anthony on Aug.21, 2010, under Music
This is really a great melody. Although I tried to keep this clean with simple instrumentation it ended up getting a little complicated.
There is a bass line track in there I played manually and another one generated by the automated accompaniment track in my Technics Digital Piano. When I took out the accompaniment track and replaced it with just the drum track it sounded flat so I put it back two separate base guitar tracks and all.
It is intended to be a romantic ballad, and I think it sort of has an anthem feel to it. Hope you enjoy it too!
Dotin Dah
by Tom Anthony on Aug.10, 2010, under Music
I am sure there will be a post detailing this further – but all my personal and professional web sites are in one master directory inside my Rackspace server account. Several weeks ago the sites were hacked by a program called a SQL Injection Trojan – which is a sort of attack dog on the internet searching for weaknesses in websites. At the time there was just such a weakness in the WordPress content management platform, the software I mainly use to build web sites. While that issue has now been corrected I found myself re-building all of my websites about a month ago. Then it happened again two weeks ago – only this time an old forum software platform was the culprit and the results were just as catastrophic. 
Today I am finishing up the re-launch of the Open Source Music Project site with a cleaner and corrected set of files. Some of the songs here had been originally listed in such a way as to allow iTunes to randomly select which track was the final mix – other tracks were uploaded to the server but for various reasons never posted. Dotin Dah falls into that category. It is up tempo and features a lot of the Sax voice from my keyboard. enjoy!
Sunday Morning
by Tom Anthony on Aug.09, 2010, under Music
From November 2008 this song was at least inspired in part by the song “Mornin’ “by Al Jarreau. It has a sort of atmospheric opening which reminded me of bird song and it breaks into a kind of Jazz Swing arrangement. I am not sure why I never got this posted to the Open Source Music Project site – but I have been listening to this track for a long while.
I hope you enjoy it!
Superman Sings
by Tom Anthony on Aug.09, 2010, under Music
Years ago when I lived in Central Florida I would love to stand on Main Street USA in the Magic Kingdom and listen to the Main Street Electrical Parade. I was always fascinated by the way the music was presented. I believe there was a master recording of individual tracks that would be sent to each individual float. So float one would be playing track one, float two would be playing track two and so on. It all blended in the open air.
This recording is from October 2008, and I’m not sure why it never got posted. As I rebuild my sites in response to being hacked off the internet I wanted to include it here. The first part of the song – especially the “moog” sound at the begining was inspired by those warm nights in Orlando standing on Main Street.
Sweet Meet Re-post
by Tom Anthony on Aug.07, 2010, under Re-post
Back in October of 2008 I posted this fun little ditty called Sweet Meet Blues – thanks to some hacker two years later I find myself re-posting the entire Open Source Music Project site files. I noticed I never uploaded the track stubs – the individual music tracks used to mix this song in the first place.
Since that is the whole purpose of the Open Source Music Project – I thought that qualified this song for a re-post. I know my music has evolved a lot over the past two years – I think for the better – but I wanted to stay true to the mission of this site… so hear we go again with Sweet Meet Blues!
