Daily Creation Challenge

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Daily Creation Challenge | Day 243 - Disappearing vision

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Okay, so has anyone ever had their vision disappear due to a migraine? That is the inspiration behind today's piece!Anyway, I fancied doing something 'orchestral' as it has been quite a while and i wanted to get my composing chops going again (orchestral composing chops that is!), you can't beat a bit of 4-part harmony writing every once in a while. Unfortunately, I only had a basic copy of Logic with only the EXS orchestral instruments to use. Whilst they aren't terrible, they aren't great and are actually quite old now! (will we ever see Logic X? Will Logic 9 ever be updated? Where is Logic 10 X it has been nearly 3 years since the last update!). I also didn't have a controller keyboard, so this was done using the computer keyboard and mouse!Hope you enjoyPeaceNeil

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One year of music (and photography) and Daily Creation Challenge | Day 237 - One year in music

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Yes, today marks the one year anniversary of starting the piece a day (and now daily creation challenge), where I write a piece of music (and latterly upload a photograph) every day. The challenge started as a positive way to approach the period of redundancy I was under going at the time. I wanted to do something positive for myself and I also wanted to see if I could actually discipline myself to actually sit down everyday and produce a piece of music (or photography). I can't actually believe that a whole year has gone by already! Doesn't time fly! The next stage is to actually sit down and apply all the learning I have obtained from this challenge to finished the next Light B4 Sound album.With the Daily Creation Challenge (where I am continuing the piece a day challenge and producing a piece of music/photography everyday from the 1st of January until the 31st of December 2012), I have another 93 days to go until I make it until the end of the year and the end of the challenge!! I think it is going well and I am on target to achieve it!! I would like to say a massive thank you to everyone out there for their support, I hope that you have all enjoyed some of the output! Feel free to drop me a line or leave a comment on which track(s) you have enjoyed the most!I think the biggest thing I have learnt from this challenge is that you can do anything if you put your mind to it, and after about 15 days it starts to become a habit which is then hard to break! It is now something I have to do everyday! The other thing I will take away from this is about how I work. It is crucial (for me) to have a set time to do something (i.e. a deadline), having that removes the biggest of all creative endeavor evils....procrastination. With time against you and a blank canvas, things just seem to happen, rather than putting things off until you are in a more creative mindset, the deadline forces the creative lobes of the brain into action and things start to come out! Perhaps we all need deadlines :)Enjoy<iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F57416059&show_artwork=true"></iframe>PeaceNeil