Check out Audesi on Jango Radio @ http://www.jango.com/music/Audesi. Also, full length previews of Audesi’s Breathing single are available on Last.FM @ http://www.last.fm/music/Audesi/Breathing+(Single). While you’re there, make sure to check out our label, Octava Records, page at http://www.last.fm/label/Octava+Records. You can hear new tracks by Polaroid Kiss and music from the Underground Bass Masters.
Audesi’s ‘Breathing’ single is now available through Octava Records on Amazon.com, Amie Street, eMusic, Napster and Shockhound.
Audesi’s remixes are available on Amazon.com.
Listen to Audesi’s music streaming on LAST.FM. Last.fm is a UK-based Internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. It has over 21 million active users based in more than 200 countries. Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user’s musical taste by recording details of all the songs the user listens to, either on the streamed radio stations or on the user’s computer or some portable music devices. The site offers numerous social networking features and can recommend and play artists similar to the user’s favourites.
Audesi is currently recording a debut album for release on Octava Records, as well as producing albums for Polaroid Kiss and Xavier Orengo. Please check back occasionally, or subscribe to our mailing list and be updated as soon as announcements become available.
New York, NY, April 17, 2008: To remind the public, members of the music industry and U.S. legislators of the central role and rights of those who conceive and create music, ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) today officially launched a ‘Bill of Rights for Songwriters and Composers.’
This awareness-building initiative centers around 10 core principles, including ” We have the right to be compensated for the use of our creative works, and share in the revenues that they generate” and “We have the right to license our works and control the ways in which they are used.”
For those of you who don’t know. ASCAP is one of the societies that collect performance royalties for us when our music is licensed and played on things like TV, video games, radio, or other public performances..
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My longtime friend Xavier and I are planning to start a record label. It took me a while to find a suitable name. The name is actually a term I used in the early 1990′s to describe the bass-line style of my old music project at the time, UBM (Underground Bass Masters). The style had very jumpy octave and fifth intervals, therefore making “Octava” a suitable and descriptively simple name.
www.octavarecords.com is now online, it’s just basically a splash page at the moment. I wrote a newsletter subscription code for the front page today, so anyone who signs up may be updated of the official launch. I’ve done massive amounts of work behind the scenes on the administration panels and database structure mostly. I’ll soon be into the front-end user interface stuff.
I basically created an editor in php that I can use as a common editor for all the various database functions, much like how scaffolding works in Ruby on Rails. If you’re not familiar, there is a screen cast called Creating a weblog in 15 minutes to show how much it can speed up and simplify things by not repeating a million lines of code. I basically lay down definitions in my php pages containing information about the database structure, such as:
The common included file will then generate pages to Display, Add, Edit and Delete database entries based on an array of information describing the database. It’s been a lot of work creating the code, but it will simplify things in the long run, because I’ll be able to re-use the code in other projects.
So, basically, I’ve just been über-geek lately… Perhaps it’s time I buy one of those illuminated wi-fi signal status detector shirts from ThinkGeek? Oh well… What am I talking about? Take a look! You, too, are entangled in this infernal cobweb of a net, so I know you want one!
Octava will be the new home for my various music projects and collaborations, past and present. Including: The Underground Bass Masters, Polaroid Kiss, and Audesi. I will also be producing and mastering new music by Xavier Orengo.
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Audesi – Wave Profusion (Rough Draft)
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There, just two feet below him, was the stream — alive, sparkling, thrilling. He had known about it all along, but at that moment he actually saw it flowing beneath him.
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Audesi – The Infernal Machine
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I decided I’m sick of the flow of slow computers and waiting for softsynths to load and of connecting tracks and everything… It just seems like the flow of everything is becoming SO SLOW!! I’m sick of it!
I hooked up all my hardware synths, at least with as many audio and midi cables that I could find. So now I’m surrounded in keyboards at the moment. I programmed a beat on my Electribe ES-1 and started playing my synths. :) It’s nice to record things quickly, although Cubase was crashing a ton for some reason when dealing with real MIDI and then my Korg controller KB quit working, so I couldn’t make better piano with one of the softsynths I was using… lol.