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My Music Part 1 – Daybreak
This audio track is the intro song to an album which I still haven’t finished, it’s also connected to the Daybreak image in the digital image section of this blog.
The recording is in mp3 format and the recordings are about 6-7 years old to date so the quality is not the best, all the tracks in this series will all be remixed and the vocals redone before I put them on the album but I’ll keep you informed on that one when it’s finished.
For the musicians and technical geeks
This song was recorded using Steinberg Cubase VST V 5.0 recording software, the keyboards where recorded via midi, the sound effects were recorded with a Sure Sm58 microphone and the song was mixed onto a Fostex DAT Recoder.
The guitar used was my own W.S. Custom hand built by my good friend Willie Schroder in Germany, the only two ever made with the “W,S,” logo on the head were mine and his own personal one, after that they have the “Shroder” logo which happend to be my suggestion that he liked and used.
The guitar was played through a Marshall jmp1 midi preamp and plugged direct into the mixing desk and the effect was produced by tapping the low notes with my left hand and the high notes were produced by carefully tapping the strings at various harmonic points on the same strings with my right hand, I added some delay to it on the final mix to give it more spread. here are a couple of pics of my home studio.
Daybreak
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Digital Image – Daybreak
One of my many hobbies is playing around with images in Photoshop, they usually start by looking at photo’s and trying to find something else in them.
This image “Daybreak” symbolizes my own birth as I will explain now.
Unfortunately I’ve lost the original photoshop file of all the different pieces but I’ve opened it up in photoshop and I’ll try to point out some details by altering the image slightly.
DAYBREAK
Looking at the whole image you can see that it’s been based on the idea of the stork delivering the baby, a story s I’m sure you’ve heard when you were a child.
I’ve exaggerated on the idea in showing that the stork has eaten it’s way through the night sky creating a hole where the daylight shines through (Daybreak) to deliver the baby to the earth.
Where the daylight meets the ground the baby is delivered and the start (Daybreak) of my life has begun.
As you can see, the beams of daylight shine through the arms of my Guardian Angel and the positive things in life appear within that light.
I, just like you and everyone else also have to deal with the negative things in life that are destined to appear on our paths, I have shown these outside the light.
Following are a series of pictures where I have zoomed in on various parts of the image for a more detailed look.
The Stork Area
Looking at the above image you can see where the stork has actually eaten it’s way through the night sky, (the flesh around the hole is actually made up from clippings of photo’s from a bad accident and edited in photoshop to get the final result).
In the blue square you can see a woman’s face. this is my Mother who is sadly no longer with us on earth.
It’s difficult to see in this image but the stork still has the empty sling in it’s beak which it used to carry the baby in.
The Dark Area, Part One
In this area of the image you can see the negative things I was talking about earlier waiting to come into my life, I’ve exaggerated on this idea by using the above sections to express this.
In the blue rectangle you will see the Holy Cross standing by the side of the pond, the reflection in the water is the cross upside down which is the symbol of Evil (Negative Energy) the position of the Holy Cross above the reflection symbolizes Good over Evil, (I appreciate that according to your religious beliefs/disbeliefs that you may have a different view on this which I totally respect but for now this image is about my idea’s) this section was freehand painted with the brush tool.
In the red rectangle you can see two ferocious looking dogs (The hounds of hell) this is another symbol of the negative side of life.
The Dark Area Part 2
To the bottom right of the image just outside the light you can see more sinister and evil looking figures that also symbolize the negative things in life.
The Light Area
In the middle area of the image within the light you can see the positive things in my life.
In the foreground you have of course the baby for obvious reasons and just behind on the grass you see a guitar which symbolizes the fact that I’m a musician.
In the blue rectangle you can see a Unicorn which is the symbol of virginity, this is my way of expressing the purity of the Purusa (A yoga term for the divine spirit within us) also to the right of the unicorn is a funny looking man symbolizing happiness.
Well that just about finishes this explanation about the Daybreak image, I hope you liked it and understand now a bit more of what it’s about
Bye the way the image here below is where it all started, it’s a photo I took from inside the car in Holland while we were travelling back home from the airport.
They say A Picture paint’s a thousand words and it’s took me 650 word’s to explain this picture (I’ve just counted them) so I suppose there must be something in the saying………………Just a thought.
Thanks for reading……Endy
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