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Remaking a Partnership!

26 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

  My violins and violas are the ones that generally get the most use... those are the instruments that I will be usually called upon to play in ensembles and orchestras. So, those guys are always in a steady rotation in my hands and I'm playing th...

Bleeding Noises

23 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments newb0Xsir

Nothing too fancy here, just decided to share some music. https://audius.co/JimJams66556123/bleeding-noises https://odysee.com/@newbjamsir:e/a8a769b0-409a-4c40-8d26-cd35a9095bb0.16:6 This is something rather simple I concocted within Sonic Pi. If you...

An Audience of One (You Are The World)

20 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

I feel like I do when a beloved celebrity dies.  While looking for images to use as a thumbnail for this article, I did an image search for "We Are The World," and was horrified to learn that they remade the song sometime in the last decade or 2 for...

American Refugee (How To Kill A Muse)

17 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Apparently, one of my old lyrics is trending as a hashtag on Twitter.  Something similar happened to me in Hollywood:  I heard a line from a song I used to play regularly at a well-attended open mic in a movie that came out the next year.  The song w...

The Move Part 7: Putting the name out there!

15 Oct 2021 4 minute read 0 comments bengy

    Unsplash   This is my little series on the big move back to Australia. Perhaps I will look back in the future and laugh... or cry!Part 1: Finding a Moving CompanyPast 2: A Slight Travel PanicPart 3: Comparing Crypto Tax Accounting platform...

The Move Part 6: Letting Go...

12 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Unsplash This is my little series on the big move back to Australia. Perhaps I will look back in the future and laugh... or cry! Part 1: Finding a Moving Company Past 2: A Slight Travel Panic Part 3: Comparing Crypto Tax Accounting platforms (Coint...

Raising Ravens

10 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Ever feel like you're clinging to a piece of driftwood, tossing to and fro in a sea of artless, myopic sanctimony?  Ever feel like you're the only person in the room, regardless of how many people are there?  Not in a solipsistic, "other people are m...

Rock & Roll Garage Sale

6 Oct 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

From now until Oct. 12th there will be a 50% off the entire discography sale.  Normally, the deal is $20 for 3 albums and $100 for the whole discography of 21 albums (20, actually, since my first album Angels on Fire is already available for free on...

Excerpt from Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo - Handel): Harpsichord doodle 2

5 Oct 2021 3 minute read 1 comment bengy

  ▶️ Watch on 3Speak       Okay, now that I have the first fail post on 3Speak done... this was the post that I had actually tried to make yesterday! So, the harpsichord is mostly tuned (both 8 feet sets but NOT the 4 foot set... because...

Excerpt from Chaconne in F (Fischer): Post Harpsichord Tuning Doodle 1

4 Oct 2021 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  ▶️ Watch on 3Speak   EDIT: I'm an idiot and posted the wrong video... so, this is a very short excerpt from a Fischer Chaconne that I was also doodling with... tomorrow, I will have the right Rinaldo Aria up instead! EDIT 2: Wow, I made a g...