O Canada!

[gurdonark]

In honor of Canada Day, I created this song, "O Canada". Happy Canada Day!
Click on the song below to listen. It's free to share under a Creative Commons license, so feel free to download and share it:

Watch on YouTube

Song and sample credits:

Poem in French written by:
Adolphe-Basile Routhier
Poem in English written by:
Robert Stanley Weir
librivox.org readers of public domain materials:
French:Christiane Levesque
English: Elizabeth Palmer
Samples from soundtransit.nl, all recorded in Canada:
1215 and 1217 by Kristen Roos, British Columbia
0104, Paul Thomson, Hornby Island
0985, Toby Sinkinson, Pilot whales, off Newfoundland
licensed under Creative Commons licenses
from the freesound project:
sample 2143, by Jovica, and sample 223, by erratic,
all issued under Creative Commons licenses
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
music: gurdonark

This work, "O Canada" is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution

license, attribution: Gurdonark, http://www.negativesoundinstitute.com

Comments

beauty!

[dkeifer.livejournal.com]

This is terrific. The music is so plain and true. (Plain in the [very]good sense, that is.) An ideal--and very unconventional, I think--setting for an anthem.

Re: beauty!

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love to be plain in the best sense in anything I do.
Lately, I keep using a 25 dollar stand-alone softsynth called sawcutter 2.0 (www.cuttermusic.com, v 1.0 is free) as a composition device. It's fun to work out melodies in two octaves and four voices, particularly as the synth will actually sample small wave files, much more easily than other samplers I have known (great poem title: "samplers I have known").

I was just thinking today how it's time for me to make a youtube of Creative Commons Canada nature shots, with this as the backing.