I love Montréal:
_______________________________________________________________
Did I fail to mention I finally have a cat?
I finally have a cat.
A snow-loving, music-hating (sigh) cat. Django.
_________________________________________________________
Remember my Irish band, Shamrock?
We had a few shows, and though short of one member (he’s out in Alberta tending goats for his last semester of environmental studies), we didn’t do too bad …! (videos [...]
So this semester, we had to score a silent cartoon of Felix the Cat from the 1920’s. It’ll be played live at the Cinématèque in Montréal on the corner of St-Denis and Maisonneuve in March, but for now, I had to make a midi maquette for my end of semester evaluation. It doesn’t sound half-bad, [...]
OK folks. This is official. I’m in an Irish band. “Shamrock.” We consist of four musicians:
Jean-Philip Goupil, voice, guitar, occasional percussions
Dylan Perron, voice, banjo, occasional guitar
Marie-Claire Saindon, voice, fiddle, occasional tin whistle
Alexandre Veillette, voice, mandoline, occasional guitar
AND WE HAVE SHOWS COMING UP in BOTH Ottawa and Montréal regions!! Check out our Myspace page, Shamrock, for [...]
An old little video dad made last year as a spur-of-the-moment thing … I added a little spunk to it …
A wonderful event happened this weekend, called Montréal SHIFT!
Over 150 youth (18-30 years old, and some physically older) got together in the Plateau neighbourhood of Montréal for a skills share conference and workshops. The entire event was organised and executed by a team of youth from different backgrounds and organisations, bringing a wide variety of [...]
I am now studying film scoring composition at Université de Montréal. And within the last 6 days, we had three short clips for which to write music, each having about 24h to 48h to do it.
The work is amazing. It’s intense. Your work has to be short, to the point, and it can’t interfere with [...]
Oliver Schroer is a fantastic Canadian fiddler that has influenced my way of listening and writing unconventional fiddling music. Ever since discovering his music, I have been avidly trying to emulate his style whenever I play fiddle. It even seeps into my classical style once in a while.
His style, if I could describe it in [...]
This was so strange it was oddly cute.
EDIT: Apparently you can’t embed this particular video in a blog, so here’s the direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66C0j2eyGk&
If I were to choose a short to which I’d write music right now, this would be it.
As a musician or a musicophile, ever dreamed there would be an online song search engine based on a tune you’d hum in your computer’s microphone?
Friends and I have joked about this for years.
‘Tis no longer a joke.
Behold.
A functional online song search engine, based on you humming a song for over 10 seconds (with [...]
|
