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- Skill Level:
- Professional
- Craft:
- composer
- Genres:
- folktronica, classical, world
First off, the "Craft" section above doesn't seem to allow "performer", which is the other half of my craft. Now that's out of the way, I am a trained pianist-turned-celtic harper, who performs on those instruments and composes for string quartet, various ensembles and piano. This is what I do full time, so my days are pretty much broken up into rehearsals, composing or filling out the ungodly amounts of paperwork demanded in the commissions and grants process.
A good online collaboration site will help immensely with my goals, because locally it's very often difficult to find just the right artist to help out on a project. Thanks for being there, Indaba.
- Band or Group:
- Irminsul
- Favorite Lyric:
"Because in a village a poor lad has stolen one egg
He swings in the sun and another gets away with a thousand crimes"
from "Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To the Book" by Dead Can Dance
- Day Job:
- music
- Website:
- http://www.irminsul.biz
- How I Work:
My schedule is flexible. I am open to a mere exchange of services (vocal tracks for keyboard track, for instance) or an hourly rate for a session track. I am also open to project arrangements, which can be negotiated on a case by case basis.
- Experience:
34 years playing experience in keyboards. 14 in performing celtic harp. So many hours as a hired studio session player that I've lost count. Touring on the festival circuit. About a dozen published CDs. Several opening slots for big names (Ultravox, Art of Noise) and feature slots at several arts festivals and cultural events.
- Equipment:
Troubadour IV celtic harp (Lyon and Healy)
88 key controller
Roland JX-305
Roland Super JV 1080
Several outboard effects
Computer synth system - Native Instruments and other party VST plugins.
- Payments:
- This user does not accept PayPal for session payment
Thanks for adding me to the group! I look forward to participating. I enjoyed your tracks--nice harp playing! I've always wanted to play the harp and recently started learning on a little Sharpsicle. Let me know if you ever need a flutist (classical or many world flutes), or my new specialty... toy instruments (see Yo-Yo Ma entry "Child's Play").
Hi, thanks for the add. Yeah, I'm new to this and all but it really seemed sweet and all, and yeah, I'm a freshman at a university in horn performance, hoping to get my B.A. and hopefully masters in performance before i start performing and all. :P
My Irish half loves Tapestry. Authentic colors, nice form, and lovely melody over traditional chord play. The celtic harp is a joy. It's great that you let the instruments share lead passages. The reverb is a little much, but it does help the illusion of a cathedral perfromance. In my headphones there seems to be some distortion too.
I'll come back for more later.
Hello! I really love your first track! It is so gorgious, very well played and the music is very emotive, it you have a fantastic song arrangement and your choice of instruments is excellent. I am not too keen on track 2, it is excellent as a piece of music but I am not sure it works well in the same play list as track one as it is just too much of a contrast and sends out a slight confusing message to listeners about what you and your music are all about. But as I said it is an excellent piece of music but I think its important that as artists we are honest with each other.
Track 3 again is a complete contrast, you certainly have a very broad range of genres! I do really like track 2 I think it is very quirky, unusual and would work brilliantly to picture. I love your choice of sounds as well! Your tunes are very well produced as well! Again only negative about track 3 it is such a contrast with your other tracks it leaves the listener feeling confused about what you are all about.
I hope my comments have helped you, you are clearly very talented, keep up the good work!
Hxxx
Wow... your music is really stunning... thanks for listening to my stuff and leaving such a nice comment, too :) I'd love to work with you, let me know as and when you need vocals!
Thanks for adding me! I really love the music you've posted, very dreamy and ethereal yet with contrast from piece to piece. I would love to hear your string quartet live, it's so exciting!