Music of the Grackle

Tiny Bird Song Music

2008-04-03T07:04:00.001-07:00

The connected web and electronics have totally surrounded me. It's a mixed blessing - at least enough information and at least enough music equipment!

Duckie and I have been producing Tiny Bird Song stage performances for a year and trying them on various sensitive audiences. Now, it's time for a full multi-media trial on the internet. We're tying music, fine art and poetry together in an all-out effort to produce meditative moments and reverence for quiet Nature. Subscribers will be able to download the music portion to their iPod, phone or computer (no charge for individual music pieces).

So it's going to be Tiny Bird Song of the Month productions! They will be offered free to opt-in subscribers. Free as the birds with no bothersome extra emails.

See: TinyBirdSongs.com to try this program.

- Glenn Nelson McBride
AKA the Grackle

2006 Music Production Resolution

2006-01-21T09:59:00.000-08:00

The music grackle has made his 2006 New Year’s Resolution ... a commitment to going completely "computer digital" with his music production. This means everything will be housed inside a single Mac except for amplifier, speakers and keyboard.

It’s already happening in Los Angeles in a big way ... for both contemporary and conventional sounds in Film / TV production. In Vermont, Robert Fritz, author of The Path of Least Resistance recently released a wonderfully clear and powerful cd (The Little Pinecone) using synthesized orchestra instruments (from East-West) and the software Digital Performer.

Also, the grackle intends to try composing some music soon using only the computer keyboard while on a jetliner flying very fast and very high. Very portable ... It’s a New Day for songwriters and composers!

Trumpeter Needed

2006-01-19T06:17:00.000-08:00

I am looking for a trumpeter for next year's (2007) Columbia Space Shuttle remembrance. It occurs on the last thursday of every January. One short solo piece: "Columbia Forever."

Place: Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.

Glenn Nelson McBride
Composer, Grackle Music Studio
979 297-8708

Music of the Stars in February

2006-01-18T19:31:00.000-08:00

Hope to see all of you in February at the Brazosport Planetarium. Diana Klebenow and I will be playing under the starry, starry roof. Diana, a delightful flutist, is backing the stellar Subaru projection. I will be keyboarding another portion. Judi James is the event director.

Amazingly, the Brazosport Planetarium is becoming a true venue for both science and art in this area, thanks to Judi and Diana.

Glenn Nelson McBride
- the music grackle

Texas Songwriters Journal

2006-01-16T10:43:00.000-08:00

Texas Songwriters Journal

Rumor has it that Sara Pavlisak has finished her first book - cd album package for children.

Glenn Nelson McBride

Using New Internet Services in the Music Industry

2006-01-11T10:44:00.000-08:00

One thing we learned from the Texas Songwriters Cruise is that we must stay on top of techniques.

In February, I'm releasing articles that review Pandora.com for those of us in the music industry. If you have any ways you are using this music service in your endeavors, please let me know.

Glenn Nelson McBride
email at: mcb (at) sbcglobal.net
or phone the studio: 979 297-8708

Texas Songwriter Workshop Cruise - The Best!!!

2005-11-21T07:27:00.000-08:00

SONGWRITING! Duckie and I experienced a songwriting workshop cruise out of Galveston recently. We highly recommend it. Shoulder to shouldered with industry professionals and songwriters from around the country!

John and Jo Anne Brehany, Ted Lowe, Jason Blume, Lealean Peace and many others.

I recommend this yearly cruise for any songwriter wanting inspiration, motivation, learning and contacts.

Begin planning for next December's cruise. Visit: http://www.txsongwriterscruise.com/

- Glenn Nelson McBride
Grackle Music Studio - Music for Stage and Screen

Las Hadas House ... Dreams Waitin' on Me

2005-02-12T15:27:00.000-08:00

The Grackle's February project is Las Hadas House. A lively Latin beat accompanies this romanza piece about Las Hadas in Mexico. Las Hadas is where the Grackle and Duckie took their first vacation - and amazingly, the Grackle, a sworn-single person ... proposed. He did it in a big, big way ... in the top of the deserted white Moorish tower. It's the tallest tower you see in the travel pictures of Las Hadas.
It happened right after that romantic dinner in the patio restaurant overlooking the bay and Duckie was melting his heart.
The Grackle didn't know that this was actually a working water tower and he almost slide off the thing near the top, taking Duckie with him. White-faced and feeling lucky to be alive, he proposed to Duckie under the watchful eye of a bright full moon ... right on top of the tower.
They then inched back down the slippery, mossy, rounded steps with leaking water rivulets running right along with them ... and lived to tell the tale.
Las Hadas House would work well in a screenplay set in Old Mexico.

HAPPY VALENTINE, DUCKIE!
... FROM THE GRACKLE

Austin Wood - For The Snow of the Millenium

2005-01-22T16:01:00.000-08:00

The Grackle has been busily writing and arranging Austin Wood . This (probably choral) piece was inspired by our One Hundred Year Snow that began at 9:30 Christmas Eve. It wouldn't stop! It wouldn't melt. It wouldn't go away. Someone sent us the snow of the Millenium for Christmas here in Texas where it never snows. It was quiet. It was soft. It was spiritual. Brazoria County people were absolutely enchanted - mesmerized - inspired through Christmas Sunday and on into Monday.

The Austin Woods are the thin lines of hardwood along our three rivers: The Brazos, The San Bernard and The Colorado. They are the guiding beacon-tree landmarks for half of North America's birds migrating north and south each year. The visiting birds remained very quiet during the snow!

Somethin's Comin' Down in Austin Wood! - copyrighted 2005, Glenn Nelson McBride.

Welcome to Music of the Grackle!

2005-01-20T08:34:00.000-08:00

Welcome to my Web Log.
Music of the Grackle will keep you (the world) informed about the Grackle's new music compositions and productions.
Expect to see music about:

Meditation, Peace and Creativity (many instrumentals)
Historical People
World Historical Events and Feelings
Romantic Music

Look Out World!

Thank you!
the Grackle