Re: Soundtrack music for gliding video - any suggestions ?

Date: 17 Mar 2003 19:46:34 -0800
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Graeme Cant <email-address-deleted> wrote in message news:<email-address-deleted>...
> Jason Armistead wrote:
> > long yadayada...
> > does anyone have any suggestions for
> > some good music to set a gliding video to ?
> >... yadayada
>
> Try Matt Minter. He graduated from the Sydney Con last year and he has
> a great CD out called 'Piano for Glider Pilots'. Half the tracks are
> his own compositions. Buy one. It's great.
>
> The cover is a shot of Matt sideways in the front of Bathurst's Puch at
> the apex of a stall turn. Great cover.
>
> Last time I saw him he was instructing/living at Lake Keepit.
>
> > I'm not really after
> > suggestions of classical stuff, but rather something modern with a bit
> > of "punch".
>
> Sorry, he hasn't recorded any crap - but he plays brilliant ragtime on
> the world's worst piano (saloon bar of the Koorawatha pub) when the
> ridge isn't working just to keep his fingers moving. So he might well
> do something "punchy" just for you.
>
> I'm sure you intend paying well because he's a music teacher/gliding
> instructor and neither of those pay at all.
>
> Now don't be miserable, Jason. Ask Matt and pay him properly.
>
> Graeme Cant
Graeme
It seems that Matt has successfully "stealth marketed" his CD so well
that I don't even recall a posting to Aus-Soaring or a mention of it
in the Australian Soaring magazine. The only mention of the title
actually appeared when I searched Google Groups (Usenet search) and
came up with your posting Graeme. No wonder he's a poor underpaid
music teacher ! Maybe you should write a review for him and send it
and a scanned cover (with Matt's permission) to Anne Elliot for a
future edition of the magazine. He might just sell a few more copies
and fill his coffers a bit.
The cost of composing, recording and mixing down a single track for a
gliding club project is probably too prohibitive to make the exercise
a worthwhile one. As, it seems, is getting the access to pre-existing
commercial music. Gliding is just too marginal a sport with no big
money to be able to outlay on such a project. GFA seems unwilling to
part with too many dollars for promotion beyond reprinting the 1970's
Come Gliding brochure with some new photos but with a number of basic
errors that were missed in the proof reading. So, we're in between a
rock and a hard place when it comes to getting our sport out of
obscurity.
We are now looking at production music instead, which can be purchased
for in some cases less than AUD $100 without ongoing royalty issues.
This footage definitely leaves "Lucy Learns to Fly (revisited)" (aka
the Soaring promotional video being pushed by GFA) for dead. I'd hate
to see it end up with a piano number like The Thomas Crown Affair.
The music needs a certain punch, which, by the way, I don't consider
to be synonymous with "crap" music.
Maybe, when we've sorted out the music, you'll see it available for
streaming download via the web, or we can burn you a CD-ROM with
suitable Windows Media / Real Player files on it.
Thanks also to others who have posted replies on this subject.
Cheers
Jason