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City: ROCK ISLAND
State: Illinois
Country: US
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Sunday, February 22, 2009 

Just a quick note to let you know Terry's "Basket Of Stars" solo album is available here:

http://blueinfinite.com/bos.php

As usual, the album is free for download.


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Monday, October 27, 2008 

Current mood:  artistic
Category: Music
At the end of a street with no houses on the last warm day. In a harvested field in a cold breeze. The sound of farm machines murmur in the distance. Fencelines and wires hum with energy and wind. The insects sing in the fields, the insects are silent after the first freeze.

In each case, arcs of country roads encircle me and spin away into the hills and distance. Drivers and locals wonder who is the stranger in the field.

I'm here, a harvester of the light, to ingather some beauty from the ordinary.

This was October.


A Chronicle Of Lost Sunsets: Two Rituals For Autumn



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Friday, October 03, 2008 

Current mood:  artistic
With material dating back to 2005, the gestation period of our new album cannot be denied. The good news is we're finally finished tinkering!

This collection of ten tracks ranges from the shadowy psychedelic haka of the opening track "Narcissist" to the crackling electronics of "Fragmented Man" to the delicate pianoscapes of "Rainhouse" and "The Aral Sea". Elsewhere, "Spirits" conjures ghosts, LSD, a disappearing Polynesian village, and the anonymity of city life all realized with cinematic swirls of vintage synths, guitars, field recordings, layers of secret textures and tight beats.

"Hymns Of Drift" is available in lossless FLAC and mp3 versions and, as always, is free for you to download and enjoy.

Got here:  http://blueinfinite.com/hod.php

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 

Current mood:  peaceful
Hurricane Fay grazed the beach house on Sunday, and left the surf high and the sky clear on Monday.

I was eating Italian food and sipping a spicy Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon on the beach while the camera watched the horizon fade and a tussock of sea oats dancing with the breeze.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 

Current mood:  optimistic
Category: Music
Our new album of ambient & experimental tracks is available for free download here:

http://blueinfinite.com/aandr.php
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Sunday, August 03, 2008 

Current mood:  luminous
These videos, as simplistic as they may seem, are about a number of things. Most importantly is the "remember to not see through the beauty" manifesto. But there are other facets.

Loneliness. Nature. Electronics becoming organic, or electronics becoming mood. Negative space. Patience, and the subtle changes of light, shadow, and color.

In this case, it was a side trip on a lonely Saturday night before a visit to the grocery store. Near the river, near Sylvan Island, in the remains of the industrial age lay this sort of Stonehenge created long ago to worship machines that turned over earth. It's now a wasteland being reclaimed by prairie weeds and small animals.

The music was written around a single, lush, slowly looping string chord. The surrounding music weaves around this chord organically leaving lots of open spaces, with waves of soft rain and wind field recordings binding it together.


Instruments: Strings & French Horns (Roland Edirol Orchestral), processed Hammond Organ, Electric Piano, Synthesizers (Native Instruments Massive, Spectrasonics Atmosphere), drums

Music written and performed by Terry Skaggs July & August 2008
Video by Terry Skaggs in Rock Island, IL, August 2, 2008

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Monday, July 14, 2008 

Current mood:  quixotic
Category: Music
After the unrelenting cold of my last Chronicles installment I thought I would go to the other side.

Antipode.  The opposite side of a planet.  From December's snow to a land of Forever Summer.  From a riverside to the sea.  From dusk to dawn.

At 3:30am I woke from my falé beneath the cool of Tumutumu mountain on the American Samoa island of Ofu and made my way outside into the quiet dark.  I followed a road along the shore, Crux, the Southern Cross, my only companion just over my right shoulder.  Onto a starlit beach and up on a large lava bolder, I sat and waited for the light.

And soon the stars faded and the color returned to the world.  The planet turned from the cold night of space and warmed its blue oceanic face in the light of its yellow sun.

Somewhere it was snowing in wintertime, but not here.  Somewhere the sun setting into black and white night, but not here.  Somewhere there was a war, but not here.  Somewhere was someone with whom I could've shared this simple but abundant bounty, but not here.  Somewhere else I would've slept late, but not here.  There was only the quiet day awakening and unfolding from the firmament above the mirror of the lagoon just for me, just for today.

For this was the ordinary yet unique morning of December 27th as I experienced it alone on a forgotten and far distant shore.


Video recorded December 27, 2007
Music recorded July 13, 2008
 
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Saturday, July 12, 2008 

Current mood:  warm
Category: Music
The downloadable (and free!) version of my music for Prenzie Player's "Life's A Dream" is now available on my website here:

http://www.blueinfinite.com/elsueno.php

This download also contains the music I wrote for the end of the first intermission which was recorded during production week after our director JC Luxton asked me to extend the music he'd selected for that point in the show.  Since this piece was written and recorded at the last minute I was unable to put it on the CDs we had at the show.

I've also added a mix of what the rest of the first intermission would've sounded like if I had been asked to score it with all original music instead of the film music JC used for the first nine minutes of the intermission.  This is manifested in the downloadable version of the album as several minutes of new soundscaping to score the transfer of Sigismund from the tower to the palace.  That's right . . . even though the show closed two months ago, I've continued to work on it right up until this week!

More information is on the blue :: infinite website.

Enjoy!

--Terry
http://www.blueinfinite.com
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=689983557
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 

Current mood:  happy
Category: Music
El Sueño received a positive mention in Mike Schultz's review of "Life's A Dream".
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 

Current mood:  happy
Category: Music

Terry and Marc are happy to announce a new album featuring two epic length soundsculptures and a third piece based on Tears For Dears "Mad World" featuring Sean Smith (from Terry's old band Trecento) composed and arranged for Prenzie Players' production of "Life's A Dream" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

El Sueño will be released on May 9th as a limited edition CDR in tandem with the opening performance of "Life's A Dream". Each CDR has been hand stamped and is unique in appearance: no two are alike! The CDRs are hand-numbered and housed in simple vinyl sleeves with a full color card. The album features 53+ minutes of new music.

A download version will follow this summer but will not include the bonus outtake track "El Soñador Desperta" which appears only on the CDR version. Only 42 copies of this CDR will be made available.

The limited edition CDRs are now available for pre-order for $7.00. All pre-orders will ship on or before May 8th. The album will also be available at "Life's A Dream" performances for $5.00. (The extra two bucks for online orders is to cover shipping and PayPal costs.)

SUPPORT LOCAL AND INDEPENDENT MUSIC!

Go here for ordering details.


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