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News http://elisabethblair.net/news.cfm Sun, 07 Apr 2013 03:00:00 GMT http://bandzoogle.com Compositions on SoundCloud http://elisabethblair.net/news.cfm?feature=1202279&postid=3925723  Just a note to say I'm putting samples of my instrumental compositions (many of them works-in-progress) up on Soundcloud <a target="_new" href="https://soundcloud.com/elisabeths-compositions">here. :) here. :)

]]> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 03:00:00 GMT 1F4F6CE25E1C7438ACA253D5A7DA9F89 New Album http://elisabethblair.net/news.cfm?feature=1202279&postid=3297160 Today, January 16th, is my birthday and I'm very happy and excited to share with the world a new collection of songs:     THIS WAR WILL LIBERATE US FROM OUR MYTHS: Songs from the Warehouse, Barn, & Other People's Bedrooms If you like long-winded titles, that's not the only one you'll find on this album. :) It's a collection of 28 mostly ephemeral (and often extremely short) songs recorded between 2008-12 in such various places as a kitchen floor, a warehouse, a barn, a sick bed, the Chicago Public Library, and so on. Several songs were completely improvised (tracks 2, 4, 7, 10, 14, 20) and many more have never been performed. Production values? Pretty low. Intimacy and candor? Dizzyingly high. And keep an ear out for Cockney workmen teasing each other, crickets doing their evening stuff, a toaster dinging, my dad giggling, and other goofy bits and pieces. Please pay whatever you can afford. Price starts at $0.00. Just <a href="./albums.cfm">go to my albums page, click on 'Choose A Price' and type any number in, including 0. Thank you for listening. I'm grateful for every person I can share songs with.  
Today, January 16th, is my birthday and I'm very happy and excited to share with the world a new collection of songs:

THIS WAR WILL LIBERATE US FROM OUR MYTHS: Songs from the Warehouse, Barn, & Other People's Bedrooms

If you like long-winded titles, that's not the only one you'll find on this album. :) It's a collection of 28 mostly ephemeral (and often extremely short) songs recorded between 2008-12 in such various places as a kitchen floor, a warehouse, a barn, a sick bed, the Chicago Public Library, and so on. Several songs were completely improvised (tracks 2, 4, 7, 10, 14, 20) and many more have never been performed.

Production values? Pretty low.
Intimacy and candor? Dizzyingly high.

And keep an ear out for Cockney workmen teasing each other, crickets doing their evening stuff, a toaster dinging, my dad giggling, and other goofy bits and pieces.

Please pay whatever you can afford. Price starts at $0.00. Just go to my albums page, click on 'Choose A Price' and type any number in, including 0.

Thank you for listening. I'm grateful for every person I can share songs with.

]]> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:05:00 GMT D7757C85043AC8BA4B7992BD65DB217D Latest music video animation - for Neil Campau's band, Electrician http://elisabethblair.net/news.cfm?feature=1202279&postid=2236186 ]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:40:58 GMT 0D9D20F8CD0273C7A724E3961DAB50E2 Dear Kid: Songs Born from the Historical Archives of Traverse City http://elisabethblair.net/news.cfm?feature=1202279&postid=2201807 A new mini-album! A set of 5 songs inspired by postcards and photographs I found during an in-person visit to the Traverse City Historical Archives. Download it on <a href="./albums.cfm">my albums page. It's free, or you can click on 'Choose Price' and type in a dollar amount to make a donation. See below for more details about each song. Nevermind is inspired by <a href="http://grandtraverse.pastperfect-online.com/36237cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=85005100745.JPG" target="_new">this photograph of a woman (written on the back is the year 1909) from the archives. Maria Amelia is about a <a href="http://grandtraverse.pastperfect-online.com/36237cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=85005100742.JPG" target="_new">woman from East Prussia - one who features in <a href="http://grandtraverse.pastperfect-online.com/36237cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=85005100740.JPG" target="_new">several <a href="http://grandtraverse.pastperfect-online.com/36237cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=85005100739.JPG" target="_new">photographs in the collection, taken at various points in her life. Dear Kid is based on a postcard in the collection. The lyrics are taken almost verbatim. A Course In Poultry is based on multiple sources; a <a href="http://grandtraverse.pastperfect-online.com/36237cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=85005100750.JPG" target="_new">photograph of a group - the course in poultry for 9 weeks in Lansing that's mentioned at the beginning of the song - and a collection I put together of charmingly antique names while looking through the archives. Green Sky (7 Glimpses) - a live improvisation at the organ while looking at my notes. Some of the images referred to in this song are <a href="http://grandtraverse.pastperfect-online.com/36237cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=82502250605.JPG" target="_new">here (looks like I got the words 'Shah-ske-ke-shirk' wrong when I read them out of my notebook!), <a href="http://grandtraverse.pastperfect-online.com/36237cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=3485.jpg" target="_new">here, <a href="http://grandtraverse.pastperfect-online.com/36237cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=204.jpg" target="_new">here and <a href="http://grandtraverse.pastperfect-online.com/36237cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=95308170914.JPG" target="_new">here. A new mini-album! A set of 5 songs inspired by postcards and photographs I found during an in-person visit to the Traverse City Historical Archives.
Download it on my albums page. It's free, or you can click on 'Choose Price' and type in a dollar amount to make a donation.
See below for more details about each song.

Nevermind is inspired by this photograph of a woman (written on the back is the year 1909) from the archives.

Maria Amelia is about a woman from East Prussia - one who features in several photographs in the collection, taken at various points in her life.

Dear Kid is based on a postcard in the collection. The lyrics are taken almost verbatim.

A Course In Poultry is based on multiple sources; a photograph of a group - the course in poultry for 9 weeks in Lansing that's mentioned at the beginning of the song - and a collection I put together of charmingly antique names while looking through the archives.

Green Sky (7 Glimpses) - a live improvisation at the organ while looking at my notes. Some of the images referred to in this song are here (looks like I got the words 'Shah-ske-ke-shirk' wrong when I read them out of my notebook!), here, here and here.
]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:40:00 GMT FC9CB2D4BF563E748283E68D6918FB52 Thousands and Thousands of Muggers in Bed http://elisabethblair.net/news.cfm?feature=1202279&postid=2160549 A fun art-director-in-the-round game I've been playing with friends for a few months. I just set up <a target="_new" href="http://muggersinbed.blogspot.com">this blog for it. : )            this blog for it. : )

]]> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:35:00 GMT 371BE031660C86B23642E0302FE7370D Animations for sale! http://elisabethblair.net/news.cfm?feature=1202279&postid=2030778 I've officially put my animated music videos up for sale - well, commission! My prices are cheap as I build my reel so now would be the time to order one! I use clay, found objects, shadows, seashells, cloth, blackboards, antique photographs, paintings and other bits and bobs. I describe them as moving still life pictures. They tend toward the visually colorful but thematically dark, with some humorous edges. See examples on <a href="./animations.cfm">my animations page. Prices (until the end of June 2012) by the length of the song: Under 2 minutes: $50 Between 2 and 3 minutes: $75 Between 3 and 4 minutes: $100 Between 4 and 5 minutes: $125        
See examples on my animations page.

Prices (until the end of June 2012) by the length of the song:

Under 2 minutes: $50
Between 2 and 3 minutes: $75
Between 3 and 4 minutes: $100
Between 4 and 5 minutes: $125

]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:35:00 GMT 41EF6934658E9B9590F03DE707ED6738 Free Halloween Album http://elisabethblair.net/news.cfm?feature=1202279&postid=1424897 Download it now <a href="./albums.cfm" target="_new">here for FREE - from the horrors of a very boring day in the life of an 18th century man, to the terrors of an ever-expanding ghost ox --- and it's free. :) Enjoy! <a href="./halloween.cfm"> Download it now here for FREE - from the horrors of a very boring day in the life of an 18th century man, to the terrors of an ever-expanding ghost ox --- and it's free. :) Enjoy!

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