Monday, October 8, 2007
Track 02 & 03 Catherine Todd.mp3 IRS Studios 9-07
10.8.07
To Jim Goodin
I've attached the other two tracks; I can't remember what the difference is between track 2 and 3; # 3 was a practice piece the next day so I would end with SOMETHING more than 5 or 7 minutes to work with, after all that money!
Let me know your favorite parts. Corin told me it is standard procedure to pick out the best parts and work with those (he even showed me the paper files they kept with markings for measures etc. Looked just like when I would write database programs for my clients! Almost exactly the same, so I think I can do this).
I was wondering about how one chooses and uses "the best parts," as I have lots of really crummy recordings (on a $15.00 tape recorder from years past) with some really nice pieces that I wanted to pull together, and this might also help "bring the music back." The fancy parts that I can barely remember and my fingers hesitate for the first time in my life... since I have been "pianoless" for the first time in years! So this could be a really great thing.
Maybe you can add some guitar to these pieces? Feel free if you want to, and send me what you come up with.
Hope these go though and the Internet stays up. You are changing my life, and we haven't even met!
Thank you so much!
Catherine
P.S. Whenever I would be playing somewhere, people would always come up and ask me "Was that a Windham Hill record playing? No - no - no, it "was just me." So I stayed away from performing ever since I quit the Gaslight in the Village so many years ago. Very quickly I found that performing was not for me, and I worked there as a waitress and manager... much happier "behind the scenes." But maybe that should change just not to be so timid about it. I don't want to have to think about Money and Music, but I shouldn't be so afraid of being in front of an audience. Everyone does love it. And now that you've given me this "stamp of approval" I just don't know what to say! Next step, please!
--
*** Traveling:
"A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on a plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home." ~ Carl Burns
Words to live by: "Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song." ~ Konrad von Gesner
"The world is made anew each day, for God makes it so. It contains within it all the good and all the evil as before; no more, no less, but the same." ~ Paraphrased from "The Crossing," by Cormac McCarthy
Catherine Todd
3007 Bent Tree Dr. Oxford NC 27565
H 919.693.0853 U.S. cell 919.605.0727
To Jim Goodin
I've attached the other two tracks; I can't remember what the difference is between track 2 and 3; # 3 was a practice piece the next day so I would end with SOMETHING more than 5 or 7 minutes to work with, after all that money!
Let me know your favorite parts. Corin told me it is standard procedure to pick out the best parts and work with those (he even showed me the paper files they kept with markings for measures etc. Looked just like when I would write database programs for my clients! Almost exactly the same, so I think I can do this).
I was wondering about how one chooses and uses "the best parts," as I have lots of really crummy recordings (on a $15.00 tape recorder from years past) with some really nice pieces that I wanted to pull together, and this might also help "bring the music back." The fancy parts that I can barely remember and my fingers hesitate for the first time in my life... since I have been "pianoless" for the first time in years! So this could be a really great thing.
Maybe you can add some guitar to these pieces? Feel free if you want to, and send me what you come up with.
Hope these go though and the Internet stays up. You are changing my life, and we haven't even met!
Thank you so much!
Catherine
P.S. Whenever I would be playing somewhere, people would always come up and ask me "Was that a Windham Hill record playing? No - no - no, it "was just me." So I stayed away from performing ever since I quit the Gaslight in the Village so many years ago. Very quickly I found that performing was not for me, and I worked there as a waitress and manager... much happier "behind the scenes." But maybe that should change just not to be so timid about it. I don't want to have to think about Money and Music, but I shouldn't be so afraid of being in front of an audience. Everyone does love it. And now that you've given me this "stamp of approval" I just don't know what to say! Next step, please!
--
*** Traveling:
"A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on a plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home." ~ Carl Burns
Words to live by: "Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song." ~ Konrad von Gesner
"The world is made anew each day, for God makes it so. It contains within it all the good and all the evil as before; no more, no less, but the same." ~ Paraphrased from "The Crossing," by Cormac McCarthy
Catherine Todd
3007 Bent Tree Dr. Oxford NC 27565
H 919.693.0853 U.S. cell 919.605.0727
Track 01 Catherine Todd.mp3 IRS Studios 9-07
Track 01 Catherine Todd.mp3 IRS Studios 9-07
3 messages
Catherine Todd Mon, Oct 8, 2007 at 7:59 PM
To: Jim Goodin
Dear Jim,
Here's the first day almost 5 min. at IRS Studios. I realized that, except for an hour or two practice the day before, I had never played a "real " piano in about 2.5 years. The only thing I'd done was that electronic piece I sent you from March over a year ago. This has to change, and it will!
Let me know what you think; thanks for asking. I've been listening to your Celtic CD quite a bit lately. Really enjoy it.
Catherine Todd
Track 01 Catherine Todd.mp3
6406K
Jim Goodin Mon, Oct 8, 2007 at 8:24 PM
To: Catherine Todd
Catherine this is incredible. Sure I can hear the influence of so many particularly the haunt of Windham Hill, Winston and others is there but your feel plus I think the most interesting thing as I just now hear it a second time, is the sense of modulation or key change to my ears. This trakc is very spacial harmony with the openness I love and the ending last minute or so is really interesting harmony. If Will would happen to be interested which he always deny's I think for fear of the past haunting him, if he hears this I can't help but believe he will go ape over what you're doing. Of course in a sense it means nothing other than to know that you've attrated the time to listen of someone that touched us all that know him. I really mean that to both he and you as a very positive sentence. Anyhow feel free to share other trax as you want, this is really great. What are you doing near the end it sounds really open like 5th's but like tension of a cluster at times. I'm happy that I encouraged you to go there to record, will def'ly send Corin a note of praise on the recording. I alos need to be in touch with him as I felt that Daryl and I did a poor job on presenting our project as I've told you. Thanks re Celtic Journey, though it is a bit primitive to me now there is a certain presence in that record that still brings good response. Despite all my other recordings I haven't quite done one like that. Anyhow congrads on what sounds like a marvelous session Catherine.
Best
Jim
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--
The Acoustic World Guitar of Jim Goodin - http://www.jimgoodinmusic.com
MySpace (solo) - http://www.myspace.com/jimgoodinmusic
Chinapainting -
http://www.chinapaintingmusic.com
Chinapainting on My Space -
http://www.myspace.com/chinapaintingmusic.com
The Jim Goodin label and home for 7 other creative souls - http://www.woodandwiremusic.com
Jim Goodin uses GHS Strings - http://www.ghsstrings.com and Seagull Guitars - http://www.seagullguitars.com , Jim Goodin is published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc. - http://www.melbay.com
Associates and friends on the web -
Daryl Shawn -
http://www.swanwelder.com
Adam Werner - http://www.adamwerner.com
John Stowell - http://www.johnstowell.com
Matt Richards - http://www.mattrichardsmusic.net
Michael Manring - http://www.manthing.com
Will Ackerman - http://www.williamackerman.com
New Land Music - http://www.newlandmusic.com
Catherine Todd Mon, Oct 8, 2007 at 9:42 PM
To: Jim Goodin
Dear Jim,
Wow... thanks so much. I will have to re-read your wonderful email and digest all this. I am overwhelmed. In such a good way!
You are the only person I have sent the music too as yet. Note: I was never "influenced" by Windham Hill or anyone; I have played like this since I was 10 years old! Can you believe it? I remember sitting at the piano playing with tears streaming down my face, just as they do now (didn't at IRS thank God, but you get my drift...) My "signature piece" was playing "The Theme from Exodus" when I was ten (the first and last piece I ever learned to read music for) and I remember being in a piano store playing away in the far back of the store, and the owner coming back searching all over for "who was playing the piano." I thought I was in trouble, and it took a long time for him to believe it was me! But he said "continue, continue" just like people have always said all my life. But I am not a performer, as you can gather from my letters!
About the last part you liked so much (and thanks for the details in your email, more are always welcome): I have some pieces that are" really dis-harmonious" but are always "harmonious" at the same time, that I hope to have the courage to play the next time I go up there (in the Spring, I hope). I have somehow found a way to make "any key fit." Just like in Nature, no matter what is going on. It all comes down to "one note" anyway. Searching for that "perfect note" just like Clapton said. That perfect "moment" I reach at the altar of the piano... at least I used to, long long ago. I pray I can recreate the experience by somehow opening up my life once again to those "perfect spaces." It's been a LONG TIME.
I couldn't tell much difference between my playing and Dana Cunningham (name?) whose CD I was listening to while I was there, so that was encouraging.
The "special harmony" you speak of is something I really love, as well. I'm glad you do too. It was hard being so out of practice but the feeling was still there, which surprised me and it was "easy" since the room and the piano and microphones were all set up really nicely. It was so private and peaceful.
I'll try sending you the 15 min. session (unedited) from the next day. I don't know how in the world the first day (4 hours) ended up being just this less-than-five minute Track 01, but there you have it. At least what was captured is pretty nice.
More later? Hope so! Write all you want, send me some of your new stuff.
Note: “If Will would happen to be interested which he always deny's I think for fear of the past haunting him, if he hears this I can't help but believe he will go ape over what you're doing.”
That is so nice to hear... but thank God Will was on vacation in Italy when I got there or I would NEVER have had the courage to play! Maybe next time... Corin just said "there's some things worth recording here" so your letter has really bolstered my confidence!
I'll send the second piece "Track [02 &] 03" separately.
Thank you so much! Catherine Todd
P.S. I'm glad you wrote to Corin about not recording there; sounded good to me, and I'm sure he's OK with it all. Next time, maybe I can come up there around the same time. Would love to hear you in person.
[Quoted text hidden]
--
*** Traveling:
"A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on a plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home." ~ Carl Burns
Words to live by: "Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song." ~ Konrad von Gesner
"The world is made anew each day, for God makes it so. It contains within it all the good and all the evil as before; no more, no less, but the same." ~ Paraphrased from "The Crossing," by Cormac McCarthy
Catherine Todd
3007 Bent Tree Dr. Oxford NC 27565
H 919.693.0853 U.S. cell 919.605.0727
3 messages
Catherine Todd
To: Jim Goodin
Dear Jim,
Here's the first day almost 5 min. at IRS Studios. I realized that, except for an hour or two practice the day before, I had never played a "real " piano in about 2.5 years. The only thing I'd done was that electronic piece I sent you from March over a year ago. This has to change, and it will!
Let me know what you think; thanks for asking. I've been listening to your Celtic CD quite a bit lately. Really enjoy it.
Catherine Todd
Track 01 Catherine Todd.mp3
6406K
Jim Goodin
To: Catherine Todd
Catherine this is incredible. Sure I can hear the influence of so many particularly the haunt of Windham Hill, Winston and others is there but your feel plus I think the most interesting thing as I just now hear it a second time, is the sense of modulation or key change to my ears. This trakc is very spacial harmony with the openness I love and the ending last minute or so is really interesting harmony. If Will would happen to be interested which he always deny's I think for fear of the past haunting him, if he hears this I can't help but believe he will go ape over what you're doing. Of course in a sense it means nothing other than to know that you've attrated the time to listen of someone that touched us all that know him. I really mean that to both he and you as a very positive sentence. Anyhow feel free to share other trax as you want, this is really great. What are you doing near the end it sounds really open like 5th's but like tension of a cluster at times. I'm happy that I encouraged you to go there to record, will def'ly send Corin a note of praise on the recording. I alos need to be in touch with him as I felt that Daryl and I did a poor job on presenting our project as I've told you. Thanks re Celtic Journey, though it is a bit primitive to me now there is a certain presence in that record that still brings good response. Despite all my other recordings I haven't quite done one like that. Anyhow congrads on what sounds like a marvelous session Catherine.
Best
Jim
[Quoted text hidden]
--
The Acoustic World Guitar of Jim Goodin - http://www.jimgoodinmusic.com
MySpace (solo) - http://www.myspace.com/jimgoodinmusic
Chinapainting -
http://www.chinapaintingmusic.com
Chinapainting on My Space -
http://www.myspace.com/chinapaintingmusic.com
The Jim Goodin label and home for 7 other creative souls - http://www.woodandwiremusic.com
Jim Goodin uses GHS Strings - http://www.ghsstrings.com and Seagull Guitars - http://www.seagullguitars.com , Jim Goodin is published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc. - http://www.melbay.com
Associates and friends on the web -
Daryl Shawn -
http://www.swanwelder.com
Adam Werner - http://www.adamwerner.com
John Stowell - http://www.johnstowell.com
Matt Richards - http://www.mattrichardsmusic.net
Michael Manring - http://www.manthing.com
Will Ackerman - http://www.williamackerman.com
New Land Music - http://www.newlandmusic.com
Catherine Todd
To: Jim Goodin
Dear Jim,
Wow... thanks so much. I will have to re-read your wonderful email and digest all this. I am overwhelmed. In such a good way!
You are the only person I have sent the music too as yet. Note: I was never "influenced" by Windham Hill or anyone; I have played like this since I was 10 years old! Can you believe it? I remember sitting at the piano playing with tears streaming down my face, just as they do now (didn't at IRS thank God, but you get my drift...) My "signature piece" was playing "The Theme from Exodus" when I was ten (the first and last piece I ever learned to read music for) and I remember being in a piano store playing away in the far back of the store, and the owner coming back searching all over for "who was playing the piano." I thought I was in trouble, and it took a long time for him to believe it was me! But he said "continue, continue" just like people have always said all my life. But I am not a performer, as you can gather from my letters!
About the last part you liked so much (and thanks for the details in your email, more are always welcome): I have some pieces that are" really dis-harmonious" but are always "harmonious" at the same time, that I hope to have the courage to play the next time I go up there (in the Spring, I hope). I have somehow found a way to make "any key fit." Just like in Nature, no matter what is going on. It all comes down to "one note" anyway. Searching for that "perfect note" just like Clapton said. That perfect "moment" I reach at the altar of the piano... at least I used to, long long ago. I pray I can recreate the experience by somehow opening up my life once again to those "perfect spaces." It's been a LONG TIME.
I couldn't tell much difference between my playing and Dana Cunningham (name?) whose CD I was listening to while I was there, so that was encouraging.
The "special harmony" you speak of is something I really love, as well. I'm glad you do too. It was hard being so out of practice but the feeling was still there, which surprised me and it was "easy" since the room and the piano and microphones were all set up really nicely. It was so private and peaceful.
I'll try sending you the 15 min. session (unedited) from the next day. I don't know how in the world the first day (4 hours) ended up being just this less-than-five minute Track 01, but there you have it. At least what was captured is pretty nice.
More later? Hope so! Write all you want, send me some of your new stuff.
Note: “If Will would happen to be interested which he always deny's I think for fear of the past haunting him, if he hears this I can't help but believe he will go ape over what you're doing.”
That is so nice to hear... but thank God Will was on vacation in Italy when I got there or I would NEVER have had the courage to play! Maybe next time... Corin just said "there's some things worth recording here" so your letter has really bolstered my confidence!
I'll send the second piece "Track [02 &] 03" separately.
Thank you so much! Catherine Todd
P.S. I'm glad you wrote to Corin about not recording there; sounded good to me, and I'm sure he's OK with it all. Next time, maybe I can come up there around the same time. Would love to hear you in person.
[Quoted text hidden]
--
*** Traveling:
"A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on a plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home." ~ Carl Burns
Words to live by: "Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song." ~ Konrad von Gesner
"The world is made anew each day, for God makes it so. It contains within it all the good and all the evil as before; no more, no less, but the same." ~ Paraphrased from "The Crossing," by Cormac McCarthy
Catherine Todd
3007 Bent Tree Dr. Oxford NC 27565
H 919.693.0853 U.S. cell 919.605.0727
Catherine Todd's recording - Jim Goodin
Re: Catherine Todd's recording
 | from |  | Catherine Todd | 10.8.07 details | 9:19 pm | |||||||
| to |  | Jim Goodin | ||||||||||
| cc |  | Corin Nelsen | ||||||||||
| date | Oct 8, 2007 9:19 PM | |||||||||||
| subject | Re: Catherine Todd's recording | |||||||||||
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PrintThanks! I can't believe you said this: <<>>
Are you serious? Thanks!
I also can't believe I actually went there and did this, especially after being so out of practice. You have no idea how difficult it was, and how frightened I was going, and insecure I was feeling once I got there. But I somehow got through it; you would think I was playing to a crowd of thousands! Ridiculous... I have NEVER felt that nervous and just flat insecure about EVERYTHING ("there's nothing worth recording here, or paying $500.00 for! But don't chicken out now; finish what you started! Mine own drill Sergeant in my own mind). Now, of course I am so glad that I did it. Better late than never, that's my current motto... before it's all gone!
I finally started to "get a grip" when I told Corin that the recording wasn't worth the money, but the "recording seminar" definitely was, and I got a little something to take back with me. I have another 15 minute piece from the second day (unedited) which I am going to work with in GarageBand to see about layering, etc.
The most amazing thing is that the music "came" at all, and it did! I couldn't do the fancy trills and glissandos and all the rest for lack of practice, but that can be rectified as soon as I get some kind of small "real" piano to fit in this tiny little house I'm in now in NC, and my tiny little house in Panajachel, Guatemala, on Lake Atitlan. Plus Corin and I talked about my getting the newer M-Adio 17 lb. "weighted keys" keyboard that might make a difference compared to the dinky $99.00 I bought at the Apple store when I got my first laptop with GarageBand last year.
Where have I been all my life? What the heck have I been doing? Lots of things, but the last 20 years seem to have gone by like a blur... going to Vermont was definitely a new / earlier door opening in the right direction, and it's all due to you for recommending it and making it a possibility in my mind, and for Corin for opening that door and welcoming me in.
Shades of the Gaslight in NYC back in the late sixties - early seventies. It's all coming back to me now...
What a wonderful experience. I hope to go back in the Spring with more to do, now that I have a "musical map" and know a bit of how to go about all this mess.
Thanks to both of you... Your friend "in Art & Music," Catherine Todd
P.S. You are the first person I have sent this little piece to, so let me know if you think others would enjoy it. I haven't even had the nerve to send it to my friends yet. People always seem to when I sit down to play wherever I see a piano, but I could never really "hear" the music when I was playing, so I feel like a real novice in this area. Critique away! And thanks again to you both!
Corin did such a great job recording AND answering all my questions and letting me learn a bit about the whole actual recording business, and making me feel welcome and not like a pure flat out idiot! I can't imagine that I could have got through it without the mat he put out. What a nice person, just as you are! I got lucky two times...
On 10/8/07, Jim Goodin <jimgoodinmusic@gmail.com > wrote:
Corin hey. Catherine just shared with me a track from her recent IRS session. Really really lovely capturing on your part as I would only expect. Her playing is new (equally as lovely as the sound) to me this being only the second thing I've ever heard from her but I had a good sense from our Web meeting that she would bring a good magic to IRS as so many have. Last time I was there there wasn't a piano yet so pleased that that is now part of the sound there, this one sounds wonderful. I don't know when I'll get back there. I'm still a bit disappointed that we didn't present the Chinapainting concept very clearly to you which really resulted in Daryl and I finding another room. In the end for the money that we had and the desire for the amount of time, the studio we used in Woodstock was really perfect and we've got a great record in the works. Still describing Daryl's technology needs was not presented right on my or our part and it was no wonder it sort of hit you like this may be a mess perhaps. Regardless the capturing of his analog machines was done in a separate room and the noise in the end wasn't really an issue. Hope you are well. Again Catherine's recording sounds really nice Corin.BestJim
--
The Acoustic World Guitar of Jim Goodin - http://www.jimgoodinmusic.com
MySpace (solo) - http://www.myspace.com/jimgoodinmusic
Chinapainting -
http://www.chinapaintingmusic.com
Chinapainting on My Space -
http://www.myspace.com/chinapaintingmusic.com
The Jim Goodin label and home for 7 other creative souls - http://www.woodandwiremusic.com
Jim Goodin uses GHS Strings - http://www.ghsstrings.com and Seagull Guitars - http://www.seagullguitars.com, Jim Goodin is published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc. - http://www.melbay.com
Associates and friends on the web -
Daryl Shawn -
http://www.swanwelder.com
Adam Werner - http://www.adamwerner.com
John Stowell - http://www.johnstowell.com
Matt Richards - http://www.mattrichardsmusic.net
Michael Manring - http://www.manthing.com
Will Ackerman - http://www.williamackerman.com
New Land Music - http://www.newlandmusic.com
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