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Deviousness `ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We're absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi. Congratulations, Sharon! Read More
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"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
-Emily Dickinson.
I don't know what you think about that, I hope you don't mind. But I just wanted to share this.
While Emily Dickinson is not my favorite poet, that poem DOES rather fit and it is quite nice. It has a lot of imagery and I believe that I will use it somehow with my next major project in printmaking class, which is drypoint etching on plexiglass. Or perhaps my next "for fun" painting.
I'm rather flattered that you joined DA to write to me; welcome! I always take anonymous comments since I have quite a few family and friends take a look here that obviously might not otherwise need a DA account. I'll be sure to visit your website as well to see what kind of music you like to create, as I am fond of music even if I only dabble at piano and sing acapella.
You can leave anonymous reviews on here? I had no idea...maybe most people don't go for that on here. So you play piano and sing acapella? I think acapella singing is the toughest, actually, because you have to tune to yourself, lol. I'd be honored if you checked out my page. There's only a clip of an unfinished song which plays on the main page- I need to change that out, I think. Then the (really lame) "blog" page has a full tune, as does the (also lame) "buy" page. Arrrg. Little steps, I'm just starting out, I'll get better at this as I go, lol!
Anywho, sorry for writing such a long, rambly response to your response. Keep up the lovely artwork! (And the music, which soooooothes the soul. ^_^)
I love acapella singing precisely because of being able to tune to myself; lots and lots of scales helps. I know my vocal range and can adjust to it easily (more easily than with some tracks), I'm not drowned out by a recording, I don't have to follow along exactly (if one gets off track on a recording it's REALLY OBVIOUS, which is why recordings scare me), I can keep my own beat and change the song slightly to fit the mood if I want to do so. I love singing also in parts; my Mom sings tenor, my sister sings alto, and my brother CAN sing base if he bothers to learn it. Dad can play guitar and sing also, but he doesn't sing with us very often.
If I'm not singing acapella, I love to sing in choirs where I'm not the only voice following a track and I have a choir director leading the way --if we mess up it's not going to necessarily be my fault! Since I don't try to do strange things with my voice it's also easy to match other soprano singers, meld my tone with theirs and catch the high notes. A good acapella song causes shivers up and down my spine and feels more powerful sometimes than other songs. I was always advocating that the last choir I went to should sing some acapella songs but they never went for it, unfortunately.
Your mom can sing tenor? WOW. She must have a very deep voice! I admit, when I was a little girl, I (yes this sounds weird in retrospect) really thought it would be cool to have a bass voice- a really deep, warm, resonant voice that vibrates your body when you sing. lol...I'm a mezzo soprano, so much for that, ahaha.
It sounds like your family could form a band if you wanted to.
Choir was my first experience in an ensemble, there's some really beautiful music out there. I feel like sending you some links, let you know a few of my favorites, if you want, anyway...
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Also, this is just a great piece for choir and orchestra by Mozart:
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Here's one called "Nigra Sum", just beautiful:
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Just so you know, I'm grabbing quick stuff from youtube, not doing a lot of searching for the best recording out there, lol! And now that it comes to it, most of these aren't acapella, hope you don't mind! This is stuff I sang in choir myself.
As for written music...woops, I was just thinking of youtube stuff, sorry! But any of this is probably found lots of places, if you wanted to get it- though I've been sending you huge choir stuff, sorry! D'oh.