Marty’s Song Live Performance

I am still reeling from yesterdays performance of my piece, Marty’s Song. It is the first piece of mine performed by a live orchestra. The Rockford Community Orchestra performed yesterday at the Rockford High School Fine Arts Auditorium and featured Marty’s Song.

It was an amazing experience to hear my music performed live – and to hear it all come together over the months of rehearsals. I can’t thank the Orchestra and Char Lothian enough for their willingness to perform Marty’s Song. It was a dream come true.

Thank you!

Suite for Friends – I. Marty’s Song

Marty’s song from Kayle Clements on Vimeo.

My First Orchestral Piece played by a live orchestra.

This is the Rockford Community Orchestra under the direction of Char Lothian. Kayle Clements, piano.

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New EP’s released today

just a quick note about two new releases today. From my new collection series – one kind of soundscape/ambient the other more orchestral.

I invite you to head over to www.music.clementunes.com and check them out. Only $5 each!

This one goes to XI

The artwork is complete. The music is recorded. The mixing is nearly finished. The duplication is set to start. The release date is coming. And it’s time to change the winter blahs into year round ahhs.

I’m thrilled to announce my new CD, XI, will be released December 7th

And to celebrate, we are having a sale. From now until November 8th, you can save $5 off the regular price and buy this soon to be classic for only $10.

I can’t tell you how much fun I have had developing this album – the composing, recording, mixing – it has all been a blast. I also have had a great team working with me. Charlie, Gordon, Pace, Andy and Stuart – you really stepped up and made this album so much better. I can’t thank you enough.

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Hello Everyone -

wow – we made it!
Thanks to your efforts and support we have reached 103% with 50 some hours to go. I can’t thank you enough. I am so excited about this project – today I called the studio to book time, called my rep at the CD duplicator to tell them to expect the project – now into the studio to write, write, write.

I have been a member of the KickStarter website for a long time, but waited to post a project until the time felt right. I had a number of ideas for projects, but I kept thinking to myself, what if. What if I could book an outside studio? What if I could hire musicians to come and play? What if I could have it professionally mixed and mastered? So I put together a budget and shot for the moon. I never imagined that I would reach my goal – I was sure it was too much to ask of my network. But thanks you, we made it.

So what happens now? Well, we have just over 50 hours left to continue to fundraise. The more we raise, the more studio time I can use – or I can buy extra pizza for the band. But everything we raise will go to make the project as great as possible. So please continue to pass the links around and ask people to contribute. Use it as your facebook status, twitter and where ever else you can post it. Let’s see how high we can go.

Kayle.

Simple

After many months of work (and many delays), I have finished the tracks sitting on my hard drive and complied them together into my newest album titled Simple Pleasures. Some have been posted before on various sites,and some are new. But they are all now available in one place. And that one place would be Bandcamp.com. In an effort to simplify life I have decided to use this great site to host my music. It supports album artwork and encodes the files in various high quality formats, AIF, WAV, FLAC, and high resolution MP3s. You choose which format to download – I’m all about choice.

So please check it out at http://kayleclements.bandcamp.com.

Focus.

Over the summer I have been doing a lot of thinking. And as I sat there working on yet another new design, it occurred to me – I spend more time thinking about and designing new looks, finding the right templates, customizing them to look cool and re-writing the text to fit, all at the expense of actually sitting down and writing music. It seems to me that lately, my website has been mostly show and very little substance. And certainly lacking in focus.

Well, I have turned a corner my friend, and have designed my last website. No more fancy graphics and flashy roll-overs. No more shopping for new templates and new music players and new widgets, and new gizmos. I am committed to getting back to basics. With this post, I have switched to WordPress and this very simple, clean theme. My goal is to shift the time I spend constructing a fancy website to writing more music and updating my site more often. No more working on new logos. No more putting off writing music for just one more tweet.

Now, admittedly, I am an internet addict and I am easily distracted. There are a number of very cool developments online, sites such as bandcamp, soundcloud, kickstarter and others that I think open up a ton of opportunities for independent artists. It seems everyday there is a new way to promote, publicize, and get the word about about what indy artists are up to. And I love finding out about them, taking them for a test drive and kicking the tires a little bit. So I will use this space to comment on things I find from time to time. Maybe that will provide the outlet for my addiction and allow me to focus on making music again. I’m calling it controlled distraction.

For the last year or so I have tagged myself as a composer and musician. Now, it’s time to focus.