Jim Aikin's Oblong Blob

Random Rambling & Questionable Commentary

My Music

I have a well-equipped home music studio, which includes a big rack of software-based synthesizers. From time to time I rouse myself from my stupor long enough to compose some original music. Not too long ago I realized I had enough music for a new CD, so I banished the stupor entirely in order to put together The Murmuring Shell of Time. Both it and my first CD, Light’s Broken Speech Revived, can be purchased by visiting my website, MusicWords.

To save you the trouble of clicking through before you’re actually convinced (as you soon will be) that you should place an order, here are links to two demo mp3s, each of which showcases brief excerpts from five of the tracks on a CD. First, here are some tasty excerpts from the new CD:


And here are some excerpts from Light’s Broken Speech Revived, which was released 18 years ago. (Yes, I still have a few virgin shrinkwrapped copies):


If you enjoy the music, I hope you’ll leave a comment on this page. Musicians who work in the studio seldom get feedback from listeners!

6 Responses to “My Music”

  1. Tim Scott said

    Hi Jim–I did listen to and enjoy several of your pieces. Nice work! I’m definitely going to come back and check out all of your blog entries and go to your other site too.
    I’m in the process of writing you a long email, particularly regarding the great “Csound beginner” debate.

  2. Ken Kiser said

    Really great pieces you’ve got here. I’ve got a friend who’s very talented with MIDI… I’m going to send him here to have a listen.

    “Cooking with Gravity” reminds me a lot of my favorite band’s material 9ALan Parson’s Project)

    Great stuff!!!

  3. Hi Jim,
    I found you via the O’Reilly site and am enjoying reading the articles and listening to the music.
    Thanks!

  4. Cindy said

    Jim,

    Your music is wonderful. My two pieces that grab me at first listen are The Swan and Peace in Palistine. Awesome – all of them. I like what you wrote about acoustic playing and the physical engagement in making music. Great piece of writing, that unpublished chapter.

    Lots of stuff on your web and blog. I’m not done reading, listening and looking around here by any stretch. Thanks for sharing your stuff.

    Cindy

  5. Mandy said

    hello, i quite enjoy your music, but i was also wondering if you could share with me where you got the little widgets, as i’d like to host some of my own. thank you.

    • prophet-5 said

      By now I don’t remember where I got them, but they’re a WordPress widget. Or maybe I got them from my friend David. The code looks like … well, I’ll munge it so you can read it. It would look sort of exactly like this, except replace anything in angle brackets with an actual thing. The word “audio” should be printed as shown:

      (open square bracket)audio(space character)(url where the mp3 is stored)(close square bracket)

      My mp3s are hosted on my own website. It’s possible WordPress has storage space for audio now … dunno.

      Try it and let me know if it doesn’t work.

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