Browsing Archive: March, 2013
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Wednesday, March 27, 2013,
I believe that I will be going
to northern California this next weekend.
Will probably leave on Friday.
Arrive in area Friday night.
Hopefully get to spend
Saturday and Sunday
at my regular spot
with all of my animal friends.
Will probably walk on beach,
tide permitting.
And just kick back and rest.
Am hoping for best.
It is 10 minutes to 4 a.m.
Sleepless in Ventura
wonders about
Sleepless from Issaquah.
Here's hoping all is well.
Not just now,
but in
the ever-nearing future,
much moreso.
Know that
you are ...
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Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Sunday, March 24, 2013,
Two more new songs.
Yes,
choir and organ,
again.
The two songs being
032413a,
and 032413b,
respectively.
The first is written at 2:30 a.m.
The second is written at 3 a.m.
I should not have to remind that:
One must remember
that you are in my "workshop",
as it were.
You are getting to hear the raw product
"that no one, but no one"
normally gets to hear.
I do this as a help and service
to musicians
and would-be musicians
who would like to know
how such things are done.
Ultimately,
parts may be cut out
a...
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Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Saturday, March 23, 2013,
So, I FINALLY! began
the continuation
of the continuation
of the continuation
(etc and etc?)
of the, by now,
very notorious
REWIRING!!
Yes!! ---
time to hook everybody together
and make them work
with one another.
Ohhhhhhhh??
Did I just say
"make them work"?
You just knew there was going
to be something
which was going to take
all of this fun
and make it
"not fun",
didn't you?
Well,
you were right,
once again?
But first,
a word on the work area
in which this is all taking place.
It seems that
I was ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Friday, March 22, 2013,
Two new songs.
The first, 032213a,
is a quiet choir song,
written at 3 a.m.
The second, 032213b,
is an organ piece,
written at 3:30 a.m.
Yes,
we are
SLEEPLESS IN VENTURA,
yet once again.
It is now about 5:20 a.m.
Bedtime?
Just wanted to get these songs written
and posted
before doing so.
Also,
Just for the record.
I have not gone organ and choir crazy,
or am stuck on it,
or whatever.
They are, by far,
the two hardest to write for,
so I like to work with them a lot.
I haven't even begun finishing the rewirin... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Tuesday, March 19, 2013,
I wrote this sort of
warmup compostion for pipe organ
this morning at about 10 a.m.
The title of it is:
031813a.
I had a meeting at noon
that I had to get ready for,
so I had to cut things short,
not getting to bounce to disk
until 10 p.m. tonight.
As you should be able to hear,
all too loud and clear,
I am in a sort of melancholy funk
at the moment.
Much good news,
but interspersed with horrible news.
Why can't it ever be just good news?
But, better than all bad news, I guess.
Numerous funerals and ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Friday, March 15, 2013,
Well, things just continue
to get crazier and crazier,
(in a good way).
I just walked out of this room
into the next one
just in time to hear a yelp of surprise
followed by a
"You'd better come and see this"
and then a
"Did you know this?".
One of my (4) daughters
who is in Michigan at this time in her life
sent an e-mail of an article
posted on
SKATEDAILY.com - Skateboardings #1 Online News Source,
with the heading
"2013 Skateboarding Hall of Fame & Icon Awards Announced".
I will quote:
"The resu... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Friday, March 15, 2013,
--- Stature at your high school
rarely guarantees success beyond. ---
Andy Lawler, Agent,
quoted by
K. Callan in
The Los Angeles Agent Book,
9th ed., p. 5
OUCH!!
w/love
from a very tired
and deeply and painfully demoralized
vw
3-14-13
Thursday
9:18 p.m.
Ventura, California, USA Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Wednesday, March 13, 2013,
As you may be able to hear,
from the music,
I am still in a somewhat pensive mood.
Permanently?
This piece is entitled: 031213a.
It is written for choir.
I have told before
that choir writing is far different
from instrumental writing,
and that it takes me awhile
to get into the right form and mood.
These past several songs
have been intended
to put me in that direction.
In the meantime,
my subtractive synthesizer,
by the name of Roland Gaia
has been screaming
across the room at me
for several weeks... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Sunday, March 10, 2013,
New choir piece titled 031013a.
It is quiet and meditative.
Which is how I like it the best,
most of the time.
I just returned from a very moving all day "send-off"
for one of our patriarchal figures in my family.
Of course, this often causes one to become
even more introspective than is normal
as one weighs lives which have come to
completion.
And when you are with people
who are blood relatives
it is all the moreso,
because of the influence
such a person or persons
has on one's early life
and development.... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Saturday, March 9, 2013,
It is 8 a.m.
and I have to get out the door
to go down to Pasadena
for a funeral in the form of a "wake".
It turns out that it is on Saturday,
not Friday,
as I had previously reported
in my previous post.
For those who don't know,
a "wake" is an ancient Irish tradition
which is followed
by many members of my family.
It is for those
who do not grieve the death of their loved one
because they believe
that he or she
has gone on to a better place.
So we have a very sober celebration
among immediate f...
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Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Monday, March 4, 2013,
This is going to be a very busy week,
I can see.
Tomorrow I must travel up north.
Returning following morning.
Then to a seminar on the following morning.
Then to a funeral "wake",
70 miles south of here,
on the next morning.
Just for the record,
on Thursday I am expecting to be at a seminar
regarding the latest findings
in the science of brain chemistry
as it relates to nutrition.
The speaker is one of the leading physicians
and researchers
in this area,
and is from Stanford,
where much of the ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Friday, March 1, 2013,
(note: the following is being written as a memorialization of the facts herein contained, no more, and no less; it is written in the manner of a debriefing, and is intended as such.)
I had agreed to meet with someone yesterday afternoon, af my office/studio.
I just got back from forty-eight hours of travel and was very tired.
All I wanted to do was to get the wiring completed on the four syntehsizers, controller, and sound card and computer.
That is a pretty tall order, I must say.
So, the last t... Continue reading ...
