Professionally I have dwelt in the area of Software Engineering all my life. In Education, Industry, and Science (current status).

I have not dwelt professionally in Music yet.

That said, I am a composer since my teens. On 2007, my catalogue has circa 100 items of many genres (progressive rock, contemporary, piano solo, symphonic, etc.)

A few works have been performed publicly, but not widely enough, and have not circulated long enough to make me a known composer.

Now let's see how they strive on the Internet!

I have been meaning to webify my works for a long time now, but never got the time to "do it right." Finally I decided to put my perfectionism aside. Something is better than nothing. SoundClick sure is a helper.

Henceforth for more about the musical facet of myself see my homonym artist page.

I am listening back: Many thanks to all who listen and comment. I really appreciate. Even in places other than SoundClick, e.g. the Cakewalk forum. There I've learnt the Duran-Starr mix of my op.17 "Dialog (Feeling Low)" has the vocals overamped. My fault. Duran gave me two mixes to chose, one with the vocals "a bit more up front", which I chose. In the SoundClick forum I've learnt my The Dream mix has the vocals a bit underamped. Thanks. Will try to fix all eventually.

Serenade to go latin -- call for lyricist/singer: Got an epiphany the other day listening on the radio to Alejandro Sanz's superhit "Corazon Partio": my "Serenade" op.55 (on Masters of Silence) has the same format and hit potential. So this project is to replace the current English lyrics and overall too "Western" arrangement with a more "Latin" style. Probably Castillan (aka Spanish) lyrics, but Galician, Portuguese, Italian would also work. So far I got this hint for Castillan: where the English version say "girl", "say" (spanning three notes), the Castillan version could say "llamame", "bejame", and the rest of the lyrics would develop a correspondingly romantic, sexy, story, "llam

GarageBand now plays my Quartet right : I found out how to make GarageBand play General MIDI, and with that solo strings instruments (which are missing in the GarageBand default sound banks), and with that I made it play my Quartet op.86 as it should. Check it out.

(Next is the promised "marimbas mix" of Dialog op.17. Also, I think I can import SoundFonts into GarabeBand too, so watch out World, my demos are going to really rock soon:-)

Photo: "Castelo de Ourem II" by Paulo Vaz Fernandes (C) 2005 fotografiasempre.blogspot.com - some rights reserved.

The power of demos - Dialog spurred Serenade: Encouraged by the success story of my Dialog op.17 (on Masters of Silence), I've taken the time to produce a MIDI demo of another of my circa 100 compositions: Serenade op. 55 (also on my Masters of Silence page). Opinions, performers, plays, downloads (gratis), all very welcome.

Fully covered now!: Vocals are no longer missing in Dialog (Feeling Low) op.17, see the Duran-Starr mix on my Masters of Silence page. Grant Starr contributed his great rocking voice to produce a truly full mix of this song. Grant worked with multi-instrumentalist and producer Michael Duran, from my original "score" and "email directions". This "pure composer" is now extremely proud and thankful of this extraordinary network of musical friends. Now it's up for "listening" friends to push this great song to #1.

Top 100 artist: I just noticed at least one of my "songs" (1) is a SoundClick Top 100.

I suspect that about everybody here is a Top 100 artist (there's a lot of crap on the top of the charts), but it feels good anyway (even if there's a lot of crap on the top of the charts).

Thanks all!

(1) 1st mov. of my string quartet op.86 played by artificial string sections courtesy of GarageBand http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6502003

I have been covered!: Renowned Internet musician Michael Duran has taken an interest in my op.17 Dialog (Feeling Low) composition, channeled on my Masters of Silence page. Michael has no classical training but he knows more about music than most such musicians. Michael worked from my MIDI+vocals demo to create the splendid guitar rock mixes you may now ear on his page and on Masters of Silence.

MP3 and drums: MP3 ruins the drums don't you think?

It must be the compression algorithm, based on FFT I think, that does not work well for pitchless sounds.

Alternatives?

News: Nobody must read this blog but anyway here it goes...

Friends:

I have updated my bands with new "songs", add vocals to demos, even created a new band (Anome).

Check it all out!

SC's Blue Pearl edit fixed: I have fixed the Blue Pearl edit for part 1 and start of part 2 on my SC band. The bass was an octave down (Garage Bad).
Check it out now

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