ALBUM: "HIDING PLACE" Preview my debut album!

Listen to my album in it's entirety or step forward to any track:

Track listing (updated 2-12-2012):
  1. The Rest Is Just Me
  2. Hiding Place
  3. Polyester
  4. Never Slow Down
  5. Occupy Me
  6. Bedtime
  7. I Once Was Young
  8. Alone
  9. Anger
10. Racing Towards Destiny
11. Love Is Not A Game
12. Dreams of Flying
13. Eta Carinae
14. Stephenie
15. Midnight
16. The Arrival
17. Melancholy
18. Sleep (bonus track)


Other than needing to go into an actual studio to have these tracks mastered by a professional I think the album is ready to go.

If any of you know of a producer or record company that you think might want to release my album, please let me know. I also need singers for the songs. Right now the melody lines are played but there are words to many of them and I simply don't want to be the singer.

Please share this post with anyone and everyone you think might like my music. Also, let me know which tracks you like and which ones you don't. I think I should shave off 2 tracks but not sure which ones. Oh, and the track order isn't in cement yet either. All input is welcome!

Thanks!

PHOTOS: Closeups of Mars from HiRise

The images below are tight croppings/edits from photographs taken by the HiRise camera (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) mounted to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). To the right is an artists concept of it.

I was playing around in Microsofts Worldwide Telescope recently and started zooming in on these images and couldn't believe the beauty and detail. These are just a few that I made into wallpapers for home use.

Doesn't even really look like the surface of a planet. Looks to me more like microscopic images taken here on good ol' mama earth.

Click on these to see the detail. You won't believe the textures.

All images property of NASA

SONG: "HaydenPong" by Sanvean

ABOUT THIS SONG...

Written April 4th, 2011.

I have a genius of a nephew who's been hard at work making a game for Xbox 360's Arcade (I think that's what they're calling it anyway).

Well he asked me to write music for this game. He said he wanted it to be "technoey" and even sent me a link to a song that he thought it should kinda be fashioned after.

I took him up on the project but inside I was thinking "holy crap I can't do that".

After a week of stressing on it and trying again and again to do a song he'd approve of I finally got on a good track and busted it out in one night. One looong night.

He approved! Phew!!!!

So here's my fun, happy, addicting, technoey song that I wrote for Hayden's pong reincarnation coming soon to an Xbox near you!

Music player requires Adobe FlashPlayer 9 or later, or just click the song link to listen.
SONG LINK:  HaydenPong.mp3

Comments are welcome, good or bad. =)

Thanks!

VIDEO: "Midnight" by Danvian (aka Sanvean)

I made this video to accompany the song "Midnight" that I originally wrote back in the 90's but didn't actually get around to arranging until 2009 while living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The lyrics are in the video.

PHOTO: Snowstorm brings visitors

I was working on my song "Alone" when I glanced out the window and saw this scene so I grabbed the camera and snapped it quick.

I LOVE MY HOME!

SONG: "Alone" by Sanvean

ABOUT THIS SONG...

I wrote this on April 5th, 6th & 7th, 2011.

I'd just finished the final mix for Hayden's pong game project (see the blog for HaydenPong) and once I'd uploaded it to his server and notified him it was done I decided to start a brand new one.

I started with the simple but driving rhythm (made up of 4 different kick drums) you hear near the beginning and that took about 10 minutes but since it was 5 a.m. and I was too pooped to go further, I went to bed. When I woke up I jumped back in the saddle and started playing with layering sounds and samples over the rhythm. Very soon I had the melody line in place and then added more layers to thicken the ambience. The song contains 39 different instrument tracks, 19 of which are percussion. I'm using just 9 effects sends.

Oh, and it's all done on this computer I'm sitting at. I have a synthesizer but no way to hook it up to my PC so every note and cymbal is placed with a mouse click, in case you were wondering.

As for the very first sound you hear (the scratchy record sound), that's a blend of two different samples that I EQ'd the hell out of, a blend of rain (sped up) and white noise (slowed WAY down). I wasn't going for the "scratchy record" sound initially but that's how it ended up sounding and I liked it.

Anyway, I've spent the past 2 weeks messing with this song incessantly but as usual, I like the way I first wrote it the best and that's what you're hearing here. All my hours trying to tweak songs after I finish them are just wasted time since I rarely like the tweaks better than the first effort. lol

Anyway, this is my first blog EVER (YES, EVER!) so I hope you like it and I hope you'll come back for my blogs to come.

THX!

Music player requires Adobe FlashPlayer 9 or later, or just click the song link to listen.
SONG LINK:  Alone.mp3

Comments are welcome, good or bad. =)

Thanks!