Music by Huckleberry

[Huckleberry]

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[Harmony]

I can hear the love for our natural world in your words and music. :Music::rose: It takes me back to times when life seemed simpler and fresh and innocent (even if it may not have been on another level) Thanks so much for sharing:heart:




It's good to be here on the Project Avalon Forum. I am a singer/songwriter and guitar player. I produced an album about living in harmony with nature entitled "Magic Meadow Music". My avatar is the cover of my album.

You can hear my original music free of charge on my Reverb Nation page that has all nine songs from my album blended in with nature sounds that I recorded in the Pacific Northwest with binaural recording. I also have some of the other songs that I wrote there.

https://www.reverbnation.com/sonicbloomband9

[Huckleberry]

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[Harmony]

Your description of how your music came about and your attunement with nature is a wonderful thing. I also grew up with nature all around, the land and the sea, and "felt" it deeply and still do. I have no music talents, but my heart knows the songs. The enrichment in our lives, our earth companions, is the most wonderful thing, music is a wonderful way to share that. :heart:

[Huckleberry]

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[Huckleberry]

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[HopSan]

It's good to be here on the Project Avalon Forum. I am a singer/songwriter and guitar player. I produced an album about living in harmony with nature entitled "Magic Meadow Music". My avatar is the cover of my album.

You can hear my original music free of charge on my Reverb Nation page that has all nine songs from my album blended in with nature sounds that I recorded in the Pacific Northwest with binaural recording. I also have some of the other songs that I wrote there.

https://www.reverbnation.com/sonicbloomband9

Thanks a flowery bunch!

Especially #3, "The Wind" hit heavily, in a good way.

And of course, the final bravura is worth many a listening:
"Not of this world", like many of Avalon members.

[Huckleberry]

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[Huckleberry]

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[HopSan]

It's good to be here on the Project Avalon Forum. I am a singer/songwriter and guitar player. I produced an album about living in harmony with nature entitled "Magic Meadow Music". My avatar is the cover of my album.

You can hear my original music free of charge on my Reverb Nation page that has all nine songs from my album blended in with nature sounds that I recorded in the Pacific Northwest with binaural recording. I also have some of the other songs that I wrote there.

https://www.reverbnation.com/sonicbloomband9

Thanks a flowery bunch!

Especially #3, "The Wind" hit heavily, in a good way.

And of course, the final bravura is worth many a listening:
"Not of this world", like many of Avalon members.

Thanks for listening, HopSan. These two songs are two of my favorites as well. IMO, the sounds of the wind through the pines is one of nature's top ten sounds as well as the sound of water. The lyrics to "The Wind" came through to me during meditation.

"Not Of This World" is the only ballad I've written that tells a story. I am looking forward to producing this song as soon as I have more time and money to pay the musicians. Each verse will be different and instruments will include cedar flute, cello, violins, percussion, piano, synthesizer, electric guitar, 12-string guitar, bassoon and bass.

I feel obliged to tell that your work hits many synchronistic bells in my life.
I won't explain more, but you might be interested to know that (as many artists)
you are delivering messages (for others).

I pray your music gets wider audience, in this world of ugly machine-music.

[And BTW, since you mentioned conducting: In about 1988 I was in a library (a student, studying, walking), and suddenly I had a full symphony orchestra in my head. I enjoyed enormously, played all kinds of grand sounds with it. But it only lasted about one minute. I have no musical education at all.]

[Huckleberry]

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[Denise/Dizi]

I am so happy to see you posting your music here "huckleberry".. wink... It's just beautiful... and it deserves to be heard... and enjoyed... I am going to have to go see what I have missed!

[Huckleberry]

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[HopSan]

When I first recorded my "Magic Meadow Music" album in 1976 I had the idea to blend in nature sounds with the music. However, at that time I knew of no other recording artist who did that and the pre-recorded nature sounds that were readily available were not very applicable to my music and they were on 33 1/3 records. One of the very few nature records I found was a recording of bull frogs and alligators at the Okefenokee Swamp, which was anything but soothing. So I decided to record the nature sounds for my album myself.

I ended up buying a high-quality Nakamichi portable cassette recorder to take into the field and binaural microphones. Binaural recording really interested me because it records sound like the human ears hear it. However, to get the full effect of binaural recording it is best to listen with headphones.

There are two ways that binaural recording is done. One, the small microphones fit into the ears so the the head and ears capture sound as we humans hear it. In order to do that I had to breathe slowly and quietly and stand perfectly still. However, that becomes more challenging when you're out in the woods in the spring and summer recording continuous and subtle nature sounds such as high mountain birds, etc. The problem is, to state it in one word--mosquitos!

After having made many blood donations while recording nature sounds with microphones in my ears, I found a solution to the problem. They made a plastic human head for binaural recording with the same capacitance as a human head. So I put it on a pedestal and hooked it up to two fifty foot microphone cables and sat in my van away from the mosquitos. For a natural rain recording I fastened a lamp shade frame covered with speaker foam to the plastic head. It looked rather strange but it also kept the wind from hitting the sensitive microphones.

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Before I bought the plastic binaural recording head I tried recording elk in the Tillamook Mountains in Oregon. I slept on the open ground in a sleeping bag. In the middle of the night several elk ran around me and one of them actually jumped over me and coming within inches of my head. A rutting elk may try to kick you or chase you off if they feel threatened. Since that pretty much scared the crap out of me I knew I had to find a better way to record elk during rutting season.

So I bought the binaural recording head and headed to the Jewell Elk Refuge (https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/oregon/jewell-meadows-wildlife-area-or/) in northwest Oregon. On one occasion there during the night, an elk began bugling so I pressed the record button. Soon afterwards a coyote began howling as if it were imitating this elk. Perhaps it was. Then another coyote joined in with more elk following. Soon the whole pack of coyotes were howling like elk along with several elk. Amazing!

Although the coyote/elk recording was very unique it didn't really fit into my album so I chose a single elk bugling. You can hear an elk bugling on the song "Natural Man" at about 7:17 in the song blended in with the "wee-oohs".
https://www.brighteon.com/d5f9c62b-4b3d-4622-91ac-bef8fa49a307

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Thanks Huckleberry, I had no idea that you were so enthusiastic and careful about the quality of recording.
I assumed you added the sound of nature just because it is -- beautiful.

I have had the same passion in recording my choirs, but with much lesser equipment.

Now I understand why I was so drawn into your music -- you really care.

[Huckleberry]

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[Huckleberry]

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[HopSan]

Thanks Huckleberry, I had no idea that you were so enthusiastic and careful about the quality of recording.
I assumed you added the sound of nature just because it is -- beautiful.

I have had the same passion in recording my choirs, but with much lesser equipment.

Now I understand why I was so drawn into your music -- you really care.

I am interested in hearing more about your activities as a choir director (if that is the correct word).

Sorry, I'm just a humble singer who tries to help the choir sound better.
But I can say that three directors of highest quality have appreciated my efforts.
(As I of them being happy!)

If you are curious, I can send links to some live recordings,
but unfortunately all private messages in Avalon seem to be public.
Maybe a mail address?

[Huckleberry]

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[HopSan]

Sorry, I'm just a humble singer who tries to help the choir sound better.
But I can say that three directors of highest quality have appreciated my efforts.
(As I of them being happy!)

If you are curious, I can send links to some live recordings,
but unfortunately all private messages in Avalon seem to be public.
Maybe a mail address?

Not to be difficult, but this is not in my rights to share more than privately.
Fine people trust in me, and I have to trust to any listener as much.

[Huckleberry]

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