Soundtrack music for gliding video - any suggestions ?

>... yadayada

Try Matt Minter. He graduated from the Sydney Con last year and he has a great CD out called 'Piano for Glider Pilots'. Half the tracks are his own compositions. Buy one. It's great.

The cover is a shot of Matt sideways in the front of Bathurst's Puch at the apex of a stall turn. Great cover.

Last time I saw him he was instructing/living at Lake Keepit.

> I'm not really after

Sorry, he hasn't recorded any crap - but he plays brilliant ragtime on the world's worst piano (saloon bar of the Koorawatha pub) when the ridge isn't working just to keep his fingers moving. So he might well do something 'punchy' just for you.

I'm sure you intend paying well because he's a music teacher/gliding instructor and neither of those pay at all.

Now don't be miserable, Jason. Ask Matt and pay him properly.

Graeme Cant

The CD sounds good as well. Does he have a webpage. If not, how is the best way to obtain a copy of his CD? Thanks!-MarkAt 12:42 10 March 2003, Graeme Cant wrote:>Jason Armistead wrote:>> long yadayada...> > does anyone have any suggestions for>> some good music to set a gliding video to ? > >... yadayada>>Try Matt Minter. He graduated from the Sydney Con

Matt was instructing at Waikerie Gliding Club last November and expected to stay for their summer season. Contact Mark Morgan

pianist and a top young man!

Cheers,

Jim Kelly

> long yadayada... > does anyone have any suggestions for > some good music to set a gliding video to ? >... yadayada Try Matt Minter. He graduated from the Sydney Con last year and he has a great CD out called 'Piano for Glider Pilots'. Half the tracks are his own compositions. Buy one. It's great. The cover is a shot of Matt sideways in the front of Bathurst's Puch at the apex of a stall turn. Great cover. Last time I saw him he was instructing/living at Lake Keepit. > I'm not really after > suggestions of classical stuff, but rather something modern with a bit > of 'punch'. Sorry, he hasn't recorded any crap - but he plays brilliant ragtime on the world's worst piano (saloon bar of the Koorawatha pub) when the ridge isn't working just to keep his fingers moving. So he might well do something 'punchy' just for you. I'm sure you intend paying well because he's a music teacher/gliding instructor and neither of those pay at all. Now don't be miserable, Jason. Ask Matt and pay him properly. Graeme Cant

I don't think so, Mark. He was at Lake Keepit Soaring Club in

sure you can contact him through the club.

Graeme Cant

Graeme

It seems that Matt has successfully 'stealth marketed' his CD so well that I don't even recall a posting to Aus-Soaring or a mention of it in the Australian Soaring magazine. The only mention of the title actually appeared when I searched Google Groups (Usenet search) and came up with your posting Graeme. No wonder he's a poor underpaid music teacher ! Maybe you should write a review for him and send it and a scanned cover (with Matt's permission) to Anne Elliot for a future edition of the magazine. He might just sell a few more copies and fill his coffers a bit.

The cost of composing, recording and mixing down a single track for a gliding club project is probably too prohibitive to make the exercise a worthwhile one. As, it seems, is getting the access to pre-existing commercial music. Gliding is just too marginal a sport with no big money to be able to outlay on such a project. GFA seems unwilling to part with too many dollars for promotion beyond reprinting the 1970's Come Gliding brochure with some new photos but with a number of basic errors that were missed in the proof reading. So, we're in between a rock and a hard place when it comes to getting our sport out of obscurity.

We are now looking at production music instead, which can be purchased for in some cases less than AUD $100 without ongoing royalty issues.

This footage definitely leaves 'Lucy Learns to Fly (revisited)' (aka the Soaring promotional video being pushed by GFA) for dead. I'd hate to see it end up with a piano number like The Thomas Crown Affair. The music needs a certain punch, which, by the way, I don't consider to be synonymous with 'crap' music.

Maybe, when we've sorted out the music, you'll see it available for streaming download via the web, or we can burn you a CD-ROM with suitable Windows Media / Real Player files on it.

Thanks also to others who have posted replies on this subject.

Cheers

Artist-Gogol Bordello.
Song-Ultimate.

Many of their songs could be fitting in my opinion.

I think the majestic theme has been overplayed a bit...

This band is in many ways refreshing.

Trust me!

It's ok to rock a little more from time to time.