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Time marches on.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLANL_-_zullie_-_Vanitas,_Adriaan_Coorte_(1).jpg Loosely written for the Daily Post Weekly Challenge. I am a child of the 70s, a child of the 80s, and a child of...
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Learning by DOING!
As I look back on all the ways that I have learned, all of the things that I now know, that I have learned it all by doing. When I wanted to paint, I just painted, When I wanted to learn how to play a...
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Traveling west – the digital humanities tour day 12 and 13
Through all the bugs on my windshield! Day 12 (June 12, 2015) – Victoria, BC to Portland, OR (254 Miles) took the Port Angeles ferry to get back into the states, and we ate lunch at the diner on the...
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In the studio with Amelia!
Getting it ready Sometimes Amelia is not happy in her Pack ‘n Play. I usually just try to hold her in my lap for a little while, but when I’m busy in the studio, it’s difficult to do because when I’m...
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Off to the Rodeo!!!
On July 3rd (2015), my country music band played after the rodeo that took place Hickory Creek Wilderness Ranch & Campground in Tidioute, Pennsylvania. I haven’t played music at a Rodeo since the...
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Quora: How do I choose chords or scales to make people feel specific emotions ?
There is no mathematic formula for this part of the art of composing music. But it’s also so subjective because different people feel different things. What are some songs that make you feel moved?...
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Six Year Stretch Demo Video
I got a chance to meet and work with a couple of great singer/songwriters. Andy and Adam Brown, brothers who call themselves and their band Six Year Stretch. This was a quick demo production taken with...
View ArticleLike a wagon wheel – in Luckenback, TX
We had a pretty musical vacation this year. We started by following the course of the song Wagon Wheel (which is currently the only song in iTunes on my phone) – passing through Johnson City and...
View ArticleMy journey back to a dumb phone (the dPhone Part I)
“The iPhone is amazing. You can do almost anything with it. But with all of the apps and capabilities of this piece of equipment, I just wish that it could like, make phone calls.” – a random friend of...
View ArticleNobody Gets Me – Story
This is the first “traditional” blues song that I wrote. The knocking sound at 3:32 was interesting. I searched for an hour looking for samples of knocking, and nothing I dropped into the track sounded...
View ArticleOh Come Emmanuel (1861) – Matt Bennett
Electronic / Synth version of the 1861 Christmas Tune (Hymn). I took some liberties with phrasing in the melody to make it sound more like EDM. I think a lot of the phrasing was in consideration of the...
View ArticleA Mixed Up Christmas by Matt Bennett
I released another album today – this one has Electronic/EDM/Trance styles plus a jazz rendition of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and an orchestral original song called Communion, Pizza, Lights. You can...
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