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August by Tom Atwood [Email]
Genre: New Age

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Last Played: Mar 09, 2008 - 03:52:59 PM
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Uploaded: Jan 06, 2005 - 10:21:46 PM
Last Updated: Jan 07, 2005 - 07:03:11 AM



Description:
Piano, guitar. This piece was used to score "Lost and Found," a documentary I produced on loss and grief among children. Aiming for a 'timeless' feeling, there is no metre, just filling in empty spaces with notes and chords, and sometimes not filling them.

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soundtrack &mdash 01/06/05 - 10:48:19 PM
Beautiful and subtle. I can hear how this would make a
great soundtrack piece.

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love it &mdash 01/07/05 - 04:56:32 PM
I'd love to see the documentary. Is it posted anywhere?

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love it &mdash 01/07/05 - 05:11:01 PM
Thanks Schroter. There is a brief clip of the doc, "Lost and Found," available
on line at this web address:

http://www.connectwithkids.com/vids/halfhourLostandFound_30.mpg

I produce documentaries on issues affecting children and teenagers for CWK
Network. (www.cwknetwork.com) Normally, professionally produced music is
used to score the docs, but in this case, "August" seemed to work.

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try this address instead &mdash 01/07/05 - 05:19:33 PM
I couldn't make the direct link work. This one will take you to a page with all
the documentaries; scroll down to "Lost and Found" and play the sample.

http://www.cwknetwork.com/products/halfhour.html

Sorry about the other address. I tried this one and it works. However, it is a
very brief clip from the 30 minute program.

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try this address instead &mdash 01/08/05 - 10:18:54 PM
Great work. I checked out all your samples. You hit some pretty tough topics
in a very compelling and real way. Hopefully you will have many more
opportunities to use your original scores in the future.

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hmm......... &mdash 01/12/05 - 01:22:01 AM
nice...slightly reminisent of Claude Debussy...he had that "air" going on....he used spacing of the notes and chords built on the interval of a 4th instead of a third......but I digress.....I like this

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Filling Empty Space with Notes? &mdash 01/13/05 - 07:29:36 PM
While the intent of the song is noble and the end use
admirable, the idea of filling empty spaces with notes, to
me is not good enough. Not when a song with such mood
and atmosphere can evoke such emotion from a listener.

This song creates the empty spaces. It extracts them from
a world of noise. Beautiful job.

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