YouTube and Twitch
I've always tried to share out the music I've recorded at least with the folks who helped create it, but also with our small audience as they have been interested in having a copy. First this was on cassette tape with elaborate covers, then CDs with lightscribe etched art, then iTunes in the form of a podcast, and then MP3 downloads posted on my website. Streaming live on Twitch and posting finished videos on YouTube are just the most recent form of sharing this stuff.
I actually started posting videos back in 2006 but not with any regularity and most of it was just old stuff I had on VHS tapes from the 90s which I had moved to digital formats. Back then I was using iMovie on my PowerBook (remember those?). The process of making videos was a fun creative pursuit all on its own - nothing like writing a song or playing it - but it took me MORE time to complete a video for a song than recording the song itself. I eventually stopped using OSX and went back to Linux and creating videos without iMovie was more pain than it was worth to me.
Over the past couple years the software for video production on Linux has gotten considerably better and I find it now takes me only slightly more time to create a video than to record a tune, and if I stream on Twitch in real time I can cut that time down considerably. I recently wrote about the process I'm using to create videos in a blog post. See How I record and make videos from Aug 29, 2018. As a result I've been making more videos of late and hope to continue.
I have three basic types of videos I plan to keep making and will archive in separate playlists:
- Playin' a Tune with Nate - Traditional Tunes I want to be able to play with others at events
- Courtly Dance Tunes - Medieval instrumental dance tunes for which I have sheet music
- Songs I like that I want to record and share just because - usually Irish folk but not always
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Nate's Music - An Overview
What are these music pages about?
YouTube and Twitch
Music videos I've posted on social media2019
Thus Sang the Bard at Beltaine
tunes I wanted to bring to Bardic Circle but never got good recordings for with the group2013
Bardic Circle - Samhain, MMXI
Sport and Cate Moran help me carry on without Tim2011
TdB Bardic Circle Podcast
All that is left of the podcast which I used to run in iTunes where I posted spippets of practice sessions or other funny stuff2010
Bardic Circle - Samhain, MMVIII
more musicians and more merry music making in the medieval inspired genre2008
Momus and the Fomorians - Samhain MMVI
More originals by Tim rounded out with lots more Irish and English folk2006
Comyn's Bardic Closet - Beltaine, MMVI
Irish and medieval inspired folk tunes with several originals by Tim2006
NRN - Mostly Covers
Mostly inspired by Rob, we worked up a lot of actual recognizable covers for a couple summers2000
Looking For Me
I'm done screaming1998
Uruk Hai - Angel of Mercy
An eclectic miscellany1993
LVC Sessions
an EP of sorts produced by Todd of a few songs Ned and I had worked up1993
PREY
an EP recorded by John in his basement1991
The Flying Mollusks
some more original trip-metal meat puppets inspired material1991
In the daze of Ralph
Ned, Todd, and I collaborate. Todd was a large influence here as he had been writing longer.1991
Identity Crisis
more attempts at writing songs but perhaps a little angrier1991
Introspection
My first attempts at writing songs1990
Chipmunks on Acid
A very silly set of songs inspired mainly by my friend John1989
Me, Him, and the Other Ones
Merry antics and deep lyrics by Morgan, great guitar work by Erik1984