mp3.is jingle music gig
MMMMMm peppermint tea.
I like starting an entry with those words. It's been a long time. Both since I did that, and since I drank tea last.
So yesterday my old friend and fellow former MH-schoolmate Arnór hailed me on MSN. He was starting an experimental radio station associated with the site he's the main person behind, mp3.is. It's a month's trial run that they're doing, just to see how it will work. But he asked me if I had some sort of a jingle for it - like for "[music starts]...you're listening to mp3 dot blablabla... [music stops]" kind of thing. I don't typically listen to radio, so I wasn't familiar with the word jingle.
To explain the site a bit, mp3.is is a website launched last december that is influenced by the old mp3.com (in more ways than the naming) in such that it offers obscure musicians or people just starting out a chance to have their music heard. As such, it hosts a lot of music from young Icelandic musicians, so if you're in thirst for checking out the scene here it is a good place to start. We have another site like that, Rokk.is, but that one started out mostly for rock (hence the name) and still has mostly rock-aligned bands featured. Check them both out if you're open to everything.
Anyway, that's the music they'll be playing on mp3.is's internet radio. Probably just random cycling through all of the site's music, and they've garnered quite a lot in fact.
You can't set the mp3.is website to English, but it's fairly easy to get to the Icelandic music - you click the link near the top of the main page that says "mp3 - tonlist", which will lead you to a page that has a list of names on it's right-hand side. Clicking one of those will lead to that artist's page, and on the right side of that page you'll see a line with the words "Lög / Songs" - under which is a list of names of songs by the artist, that if clicked, open a small window with a link to the file and the terms you have to agree to if you want to download. Those terms are basically those that these songs are only for individual use, not sale or redistribution.
But back to my story. I was intrigued by the notion, but still a bit of a gamble since I haven't really been making any music for two years. Aside from the music I made to the play Johnny Casanova in summer 2002, one of which's tracks I developed further into the song I won the MH music composition contest with that following fall, I've just not been in music-making mood, or mindset. Well, I've been thinking really a lot about different music that I'd like to make, but I haven't materialised or realised those wants in oh so long.
I have though been thinking for a few months now more heavily about getting myself back on track, set my eyes on the free-time in the summer-time to delve into the various music programs and regulate my composing sessions. So I had my trusty old Modplug Tracker set up right and good to go in this re-install of Windows XP I did in February.
So after finding the right samples to use and playing around for two or three hours, I came up with these two: 5s and 10s jingles.
Arnór had told me to have it light but a bit rough, but as I tend to do really moody and dark songs I had to really strain myself to be able to keep it relatively happy sounding:P
Overall, I think it turned out ok, considering I was asked to do it the day before it was needed and only had time to spend 2-4 hours on it. Tell me what you think.
Or better yet, you could head over to mp3.is/utvarp, (try to be among the few that can listen to it in this trial run) and listen to the broadcast. [Press the big button on the right that says 'Hlusta á útvarp mp3.is' and has blinking arrows] You'll hear it every once in a while, and you can tell me what you think of it there.
I like starting an entry with those words. It's been a long time. Both since I did that, and since I drank tea last.
So yesterday my old friend and fellow former MH-schoolmate Arnór hailed me on MSN. He was starting an experimental radio station associated with the site he's the main person behind, mp3.is. It's a month's trial run that they're doing, just to see how it will work. But he asked me if I had some sort of a jingle for it - like for "[music starts]...you're listening to mp3 dot blablabla... [music stops]" kind of thing. I don't typically listen to radio, so I wasn't familiar with the word jingle.
To explain the site a bit, mp3.is is a website launched last december that is influenced by the old mp3.com (in more ways than the naming) in such that it offers obscure musicians or people just starting out a chance to have their music heard. As such, it hosts a lot of music from young Icelandic musicians, so if you're in thirst for checking out the scene here it is a good place to start. We have another site like that, Rokk.is, but that one started out mostly for rock (hence the name) and still has mostly rock-aligned bands featured. Check them both out if you're open to everything.
Anyway, that's the music they'll be playing on mp3.is's internet radio. Probably just random cycling through all of the site's music, and they've garnered quite a lot in fact.
You can't set the mp3.is website to English, but it's fairly easy to get to the Icelandic music - you click the link near the top of the main page that says "mp3 - tonlist", which will lead you to a page that has a list of names on it's right-hand side. Clicking one of those will lead to that artist's page, and on the right side of that page you'll see a line with the words "Lög / Songs" - under which is a list of names of songs by the artist, that if clicked, open a small window with a link to the file and the terms you have to agree to if you want to download. Those terms are basically those that these songs are only for individual use, not sale or redistribution.
But back to my story. I was intrigued by the notion, but still a bit of a gamble since I haven't really been making any music for two years. Aside from the music I made to the play Johnny Casanova in summer 2002, one of which's tracks I developed further into the song I won the MH music composition contest with that following fall, I've just not been in music-making mood, or mindset. Well, I've been thinking really a lot about different music that I'd like to make, but I haven't materialised or realised those wants in oh so long.
I have though been thinking for a few months now more heavily about getting myself back on track, set my eyes on the free-time in the summer-time to delve into the various music programs and regulate my composing sessions. So I had my trusty old Modplug Tracker set up right and good to go in this re-install of Windows XP I did in February.
So after finding the right samples to use and playing around for two or three hours, I came up with these two: 5s and 10s jingles.
Arnór had told me to have it light but a bit rough, but as I tend to do really moody and dark songs I had to really strain myself to be able to keep it relatively happy sounding:P
Overall, I think it turned out ok, considering I was asked to do it the day before it was needed and only had time to spend 2-4 hours on it. Tell me what you think.
Or better yet, you could head over to mp3.is/utvarp, (try to be among the few that can listen to it in this trial run) and listen to the broadcast. [Press the big button on the right that says 'Hlusta á útvarp mp3.is' and has blinking arrows] You'll hear it every once in a while, and you can tell me what you think of it there.