A cool fellow in Tokyo used one of my remixes, "seeking human love in a robotic world", in a fun youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pdmrzuxkbo

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Come join me for a north Texas hike on Trinity Trail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Po_PpfW5Uw

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I'm back in composing mode. I did the instrumentals to which I added a spoken word track by fireproof babies of ccmixter.org to create my own remix of his poem "if the weeds ever win", over at:

http://ccmixter.org/media/files/gurdonark/11321

It felt good to do something more successful than my recent efforts at songfight.

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I remember now why I so rarely sing and so rarely play analog instruments. But it's fun to sing and play acoustic things even if I do not do them well.

The skill I want to acquire this Summer is to be better able to remix melodies behind a capella vocals.

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I am having fun.

Lately, I've entered a NIN remix into the latest remix "fight" at http://www.remixfight.org and a song in te upcoming "song fight" at http://www.songfight.org.

Each site is based on the idea of a "for the fun of it" song creation--in songfight, the site supplies the title, and then the creator does the rest.

This month's title was "That's What She Said", and I used that to build an electronic track with a spoken word voice-over. "that's what she said", indeed, and I'm off to the races. I hope my friends here all do well!

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I am one-half of an electronica-rock project called The Thomas Nunnally Ensemble. Today we released our second EP on http://www.negativesoundinstitute.com

Here's a write-up about our album, which is a Creative Commons album available for free download:

The Thomas Nunnally Ensemble -
The Tunnel At The End Of The Light

Negative Sound Institute is proud to announce the release of Thomas Nunnally Ensemble's EP: "The Tunnel at the End of the Light".

It's available for free download here:

http://www.negativesoundinstitute.com/download.php?file=130

"The tired old saw proclaims that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train. Essayists and songwriters also explore the further paradox of the "tunnel at the end of the light". On this EP, the Thomas Nunnally Ensemble ride the hand-car down the rails in an recording about the way in which the process of living renders both sweet and bittersweet the transfers and railway stops that characterize coach travel in the human condition.

Dark/light imagery permeates the popular consciousness, with rigid notions of "good" and evil". Yet in the tunnel live the Good Samaritan, the dolphin in glacial waters who only looks like a killer whale, and the bat who will emerge to eat the malarial mosquito. My light is your scorching laser. My darkness is your cool Summer night.

TNE create music in juxtaposition---an ambient drone might be accompanied by an electro beat, a narrative about passing clouds might be married to an urban frenzy. In so doing, they seek to neither darken the light nor lighten the tunnel. They aim instead to provide a pleasing reality in the fantasy of divergent musical ideas. Life is not lived in neat packages, but rather in scarce liberations and omnipresent redundancies.

TNE take their contentment where they can, and share it, as they feel they must, with near-religious fervor,
with all inclined to download it. As ever, Verian Thomas brings to this album the foreground of the painted subject, while Robert Nunnally contributes the fervent atmospheres of a droning cloud-cuckoo-land. Yet the goal is not fantasy, but interconection. The music is not gamesmanship, but the game itself. TNE hope you find the game worth the candles the listener must burn to hear its catcalls. When the train reaches station, may the sounds and silences conduct you to the first class section of the TNE line".

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Today I added my song "Driving through Rural Texas on Sunday Morning" to the site. It's a melodic chill song.

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I did the following video about a fellow on the streets, from a poem by Ken Munro, called "Randy". Ken Munro recites, a sleepless sample called "frozen" is used, and my own contribution is the melody to the song, and the production of the video comprised of creative commons pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prWUaEvIdT0

I love doing overlays of spoken word pieces over my audio,and this particular piece touched my heart.

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Tonight I was affected by a poignant prose poem called "Randy", by poet Ken Munro.

Did you ever hear something that made you realize that life is hard and full of facts and yet deserving of a lot of compassionate care anyway?

My song setting/remix is here:

http://ccmixter.org/media/files/gurdonark/9766

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Hello dmusic friends:

I'm focusing on new material for my next release, which I've tentatively titled "Pleasant Memories". It's more in the "chill" direction than the ambience in which I usually linger.

I've also had a lot of fun over at http://www.splicemusic.com. If you've not tried their on-line remixing sequencer, then it's worth a try--it's remixing for people who are not remixers--as well as for people who are remixers. Creative Commons fun at its finest.

best, Robert

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