Just to drop a short note on this, the free Joomla! Song once written for the community around the free Content Management System Joomla! is available at a clean mix.
The complete background of the song to be found here .
I love the song and while listening to it, I felt always sorry not having found the time to make it available at a clean mix status. So I set down and cleaned it up.
For those not knowing the song I have embedded an MP3 excerpt right on the associated article via flash MP3 player.
The free song Joomla! can be downloaded on various MP3 platforms which are listed here and is licensed under the terms of creative commons.
Please be patient, some MP3 platforms may need few days to publish.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 February 2008 )
Chinmaya Dunster Videos `Concert for India’s Environment`
Written by Omkar
Monday, 14 May 2007
Concert for India’s Environment
Chinmaya Dunster's project for the Indian nature.
This is part one of a dvd Chinmaya Dunster created to raise awareness for India’s environmental issues.
This film was made entirely budget-free. Everyone involved in both the concert and the film project gave their time and skills without payment. It is also available for free. It is an expression of love and gratitude for our planet, the natural world and it’s denizens, both human and animal.
I never expected to see myself as a film director. I never planned to make a film. But then in the three and a half years since the ‘Concert For India’s Environment’ in 2004, a kind of organic growth took over and this simple musician has also had to become concert organizer, film cameraman, interviewer, score composer, film editor and graphics and web designer too!
Introducing the Music Production `Mitram` with Friend Divakar
Divakar has become a friend at myspace. and at the moment he resides in Switzerland.
I listened to his music and was deeply touched by his honest and true devotional singing voice.
At his myspace site is a song on the MP3 player called `Mitram` just with voice and guitar at a crappy status with a lot of noise and rumble on it.
I mailed him and suggested to produce the song in a better quality and with addons of instruments and arrangement. He agreed and so he sent me the accidental recorded vocal parts.
With a little technical voodoo the voice could have been cleaned up to maybe 55%. So the spectrum of his voice is fairly narrowed but I think one can get an idea and I hope we soon can replace the vocals with better version.
`Mitram` is a gentle and lovely song
and I have no idea of the content, what Divakar is singing about. Sounds like Indian language ...
But this endowed me the potentiality to feel the song and to construe on rythm, instruments and harmonies.
An excerpt of the produced song can be prelistened at omkarmusic.com right on the associated article via embedded MP3 player.
Divakar`s site at myspace can be found here and when the song is ready to be released it will be published there.
I expect publishing within coming two weeks.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 February 2008 )
New free Song released by Omkar
Written by Omkar
Friday, 04 May 2007
A new free song `Divine Painting` released by Omkar
`Divine Painting` experiments with lounge, classic and rock and combines electronic instruments with orchestral elements like strings and oboe.
A full prelisten can be accessed via embedded MP3 player right on the associated article at omkarmusic.com
A list of available Mp3 downloads can be found here
Please be patient, some MP3 platforms needs their time to make the song available.
The composition is a free float, done out of the moment without any pre-concept and when the music was completed, I was reminded to a remarkable story:
Did you know ?
In ancient times lived Japanese monks painting with their hairs.
Why with the hairs ?
It was not some sort of avant-garde like it might be used nowadays to make the painter more interesting, more special, to profile the ego. It was quite the opposite ...
You will find the MP3 player embedded right on the associated article.
Currently I don`t have the ability on homepage to provide modem users with lo fi versions of any song, but they are available on MP3 portals where the music of Omkar is represented.
For the new song modem users have to wait till the complete track is uploaded to those MP3 portals.
You will find a list of MP3 portals on omkarmusic.com or omkarmusik.info under the links, free downloads, section
asks noted composer and bioacoustician Bernie Krause. “It's 70 kHz,” he adds as he reaches for a CD-R in his spartan Northern California studio.
The CD that accompanied Krause's recent book, Wild Soundscapes (reviewed in the December 2002 issue), included singing ants, aquatic insect larvae, and the hair-raising growl of an Amazonian jaguar. The singing sand dunes and the calving glaciers mentioned in the text didn't make the CD, so they were first on my request list as our interview wound down. Nonetheless,
Annapurna, a friend on myspace mailed me a comment:
Speaking of trees and their sounds, I recently heard of the phenomenon of Anastasia, and the Ringing Cedars of Russia. This has apparently created an enormous 'back to the land' movement in rural Russia, and a resurgence of spirituality. www.ringingcedars.com
