Monotony

"Monotony" by Manuel Catez "Golog".

At one time, life felt way too cyclical. Day after day.

The repetition made me feel dull inside, like a featureless lanscape.

The same comfort that I sought to find inside of a pattern.. slowly traped me.

I began to dream of change... what did it feel like?

Listen as I struggled to fight the monotony.

(Composed in 2003 when I felt trapped in my job... little did I know that change was on the horizon.)

Monotony.Mp3 (c) 2003 William Cushman (4:14 / 3.9Mb) Click here for a small preview.
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Bonus---------------------------------

My good friend Christian Holihan from http://www.holihandesign.net/ has sampled the first couple seconds from Monotony, looped it and created his own version. He has given me permission to post the following two derivative works under the same royalty free stipulations that cover all of my works on this site... enjoy and use in your projects!

Monotony Remix 1 (Mp3) - 1:04 - with added solo. (cc) 2005 Holihan/Cushman
Monotony Remix 2 (Mp3) - 1:04 - without solo. (cc) 2005 Holihan/Cushman
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-Bill

Fear Itself

"Calabi-Yau Cross Section" Indiana University.(click)

There's all types of fear. I've discovered through life that I'm not only afraid of extreme heights or the inside of a MRI, but also hundreds of other fears.

What the heck happened? No wonder so many teenagers get in wrecks. We were fearless... I was.. fearless.

But time goes on, we get broken and built back.. and our fears change, some disappear (like being grounded by your dad or dentists) and others come along that are more complex. I am scared to death that something would happen to my family.

A strange fear is the fear of change. Change of life, job, love. Change of knowledge... like, the fact that the Earth isn't flat or the center of the Universe. Those used to be fighting words. Or how about the idea that there are more than 4 dimensions? But there is not a single human alive that can visualize more than four. But science now tells us that there could be more... that "shape" up there.. the "Calabi-Yau".. that's a six dimensional shape. Believe it or not, this scares people. It implies so much more about reality than people are willing to believe.

Fear. We've all got it.. and sometimes it sucks. But I'll tell you what..

It's saved my life. And in a weird way, It's saved my soul.


Fear Itself.Mp3 (c) 2003 William Cushman (4:41 / 4.3Mb) Click here for a smaller preview.
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17

So.. I normally get emails requesting permission to use the music on this blog for commercial royalty-free purposes.. like wedding videographers, etc..(and I always say yes and send a permission email back.)

A couple weeks back I got a request to design a short loop for a webpage..something that would play in the background when people clicked on the page.

There have been several versions and several "out-takes". This was version #1 and my personal favorite.. so I figured I'd share it since nobody is using it.

I went a step further. It's 17 seconds long (hence the name) and you could easily loop it in your video software for the credits or whatever.. but I figured somebody also may want to use it for what it was created for.

So..

I embedded it for you. Go ahead and click on the link to get a sample of how it works. All you would need to do is copy the code (that I provide on the sample page) and paste it into the html on your web page.


Example 3 (Flash version.. my fav.)

Or.. you can just listen or directly download the loop below..

Have fun!

17.Mp3 (c) 2005 William Cushman (0:17 / .3Mb)
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