This year’s New Works program kicks off on September 9th at the Cincinnati Ballet. Performances will go until the 19th. You can get tickets here: http://www.cballet.org/performances/newworks

For those of you unable to come, the music will be on sale here shortly after the performances. I can’t wait to hear people’s responses – it has been a massive amount of work for me, not to mention Heather, who only got the final version of the music a few weeks ago!

I don’t know if there’s really a demand for it out there, but I’m making available the “stems” for my song Bending Sky. The stems include the original song broken down into its constituent parts; in this case, Drums, Organ, Synth, Vocals, and Violin. You can download the stems and use them however you want – remix the song, use snippets of it for other things, or just to get a better sense of what’s going on in a typical recording of mine. If nothing else, you can discover places where I messed up, like around 0:47 on the vocal track where you can hear a truck driving by outside my window. If the demand is there I could make other songs available down the line.

Here’s the download: http://peteradamsmusic.com/remixes/Bending%20Sky%20Stems.zip

Open up the zip, extract the 5 stems, and start a new project in whatever audio sequencer you use. Set the BPM to 180, and import all the tracks. Everything should line up perfectly. Now have at it!

Thanks to everyone who bought music after hearing me on Whad’ya Know. I hope all the downloads went smoothly. On that note, if anyone has any bright ideas about a better way to handle digital distribution, I’m all ears. Preferably something that generates a unique link for each person who buys a download, and that can automate replies so that I don’t have to manually reply to each order, which of course causes a delay between buying and downloading. Oh, and preferably one that doesn’t cost anything.

I’ll be performing on the radio show Whad’Ya Know when they broadcast live from Cincinnati on July 17th. Listeners can tune in on their local NPR/PRI affiliate station. Info and tickets for the Cincinnati show are here.

So I’ve been kind of behind the curve on Facebook (by choice). But it seems to be colonizing more and more of people’s experiences online, so I added a little box where you can click “like” to prove that you’re really a fan. It seems pretty soon if something doesn’t exist in Facebook form, its status in the real world will be cast into doubt.

What I’m up to:

The Vivian Girls – A musical being written by Stacy Sims and composed by me. You can see a brief video introducing the work on our KickStarter page.

The Ballet – For the second year in a row I’ll be producing a piece for the Cincinnati Ballet New Works program, to be choreographed by Heather Britt a performed in September. Here’s a clip of what we did last year.

The Album – Writing and recording my own songs for release. Very excited to share what I have been working on. “Planets” feels like a long time ago.

Added a bunch of random pictures I had floating around on my computer on the media page. I’ve lost the photographer credit in lots of the shots, so if anyone recognizes anything they took and want credit, please let me know and I’ll be happy to post it.

A more streamlined site, and some new options for buying music. I’ve taken out the “pay what you want” option and replaced it with the ability to stream for free, along with a paid download of either high-quality (VBR) mp3s or loss-less FLAC (equal to CD quality). Right now I have it set up so that when you purchase a download, I’ll simply reply via email with a link to your download. More often than not I should be able to respond within a few hours, and hopefully down the line I’ll figure out how to automate it securely.

Lost a few of my recent posts in the move, so just wanted to re-announce that I’m playing an acoustic set tonight to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of Park + Vine downtown.

Come see us perform for the first time in almost a year! We’ve been on hiatus, and who knows when the next show will be, but I guarantee we will be at Baba Budan’s on Friday night, February 12th. Playing all the oldies, plus some of the music I wrote for the Ballet last Fall.

Opening for us will be the mesmerizing and antioxidant-rich Tumeric.

Music should begin around 10pm. All ages, free admission, no reason not to come!

239 W. McMillan St, Cincinnati OH

The final animation by Gastón Viñas (http://grapevineindustries.com) for my song “Bending Sky”

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xUgrEdFhQ4)