Transcription of Dreams

joshua carro’s latest internet release will

be a gift to the first 100 subscribers of

this blog!!! This new gentle work is presented

in six perfect length tracks that will open the

gate to the surreal dream world of the artist.

Message from the artist:

Each of these pieces are in fact soundtracks

to the reoccurring dreams that have captivated

my being for as long as i can remember.

This album is the most important

and most personal work that i have ever produced

for the fact that these two realities have crossed and

now exist both in the dream world and the world

that we call reality. i will admit, it was extremely

difficult to make this album. (Both production and

personal) These six simple works were very carefully

sifted from a collection of about forty short works.

Although all of these works were just as beautiful as

the final six, i didn’t feel that it would be right unless

i put the tracks that meant the most to me and also

felt that these works had the capability to take the

listener to a certain place. Maybe at a later time if need

be, i will release more of these works on compilations

or even start a library of these “dream” albums but for now,

i need some time to forget some of these fantasies.

Psychologically, over this period i was listening

to these works for over seven hours a day. They kept me in

this “dream world” and i started to break apart. In a way,

loosing my mind in fact to the point where i couldn’t even

reply to people or calculate simple problems like choosing

a t-shirt to wear, conversing with people, and being so

disturbed that i had to leave an establishment without

saying goodbye to the group.

This work

is a mind release and i am extremely happy to let them go and

maybe come back to them later. i am curious to see what happens

with these works on the internet and hope they will find another

home.

i hope that those of you who subscribe will send

me a comment or an email telling me your name

and maybe share with me some of your artistic

visions. i love all of you:)

-joshua carro

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by Jeffrey Javier – Mar. 31, 2009 08:52 AM
The Arizona Republic

Hard work by the members of the Peoria High School Winter Drumline, paid off with a third-place finish this past weekend in the state championship.

Each participant in the 30-member ensemble spent about 12 hours every week during their five-month season. They also had to commit to rehearsing at a high level in preparation for the championship, in which they placed in previous years.

Cutler Boughn, percussion director of the winter drumline, said earning numerous awards in the past several years and placing third in the 2009 Winter Drumline Arizona Championship on Saturday could not have happened without the students’ dedication and hard work. OAS_AD(‘ArticleFlex_1′)

“Regardless of the outcome, whether its last or first place, its all about the hard work that they put into it,” Boughn said. “Showing up and working hard as a team is what I hope they learn from every season.”

Winter Drumline is similar to a marching band, with some key exceptions. Wind instruments, such as trumpets and clarinets, are not allowed. Shows are four to five minutes long, and all of it is performed indoors on a basketball court.

Much of the instrumentation is percussion, with a marching snare, tenor and bass drums, a front ensemble consisting of xylophones, a timpani and other auxiliary instruments.

The color guard – members who perform through movement and the use of props – performs alongside the drumline.

The audition process is competitive. Boughn and his staff look at all aspects of a student’s ability to perform, from the ability to march to the level of talent with an instrument. Boughn makes sure each year’s ensemble is made up of committed students.

“Through an interview, we also make sure they are willing to work hard,” he said. “It’s not about fast hands but about their work ethic.”

Michael Sebring, 16, is a sophomore at Peoria High School. He said he’s learned a lot about prioritizing and responsibility since he joined the drumline.

When he first started , he spent more time practicing than paying attention to his schoolwork, but he has since applied the work ethic he learned in band to class.

“Drumline has taught me a lot about individual responsibility and now I am doing good in band and in class,” he said.

Through the hard work and long hours of rehearsals, the students have created a strong bond of camaraderie that sophomore Tamlyn Thagard, 16, has come to realize throughout the season.

“When I came to Peoria (High), all of my friends I knew were from middle school. But after joining band, I know people in every grade level,” Thagard said. “I was able to branch out and get to know people that I now love like family.”

by Jeffrey Javier – Mar. 31, 2009 08:52 AM
The Arizona Republic

New Work Brings Peoria High School a Medal From WGAZ

Orchestral Celebration

About 2 years ago, my creative interests

started to leave the traditional medium.

Being an improvisor/sound fanatic by nature,

i used to have such a hard time “composing” for

such mediums that were not meant or even

created for the works that were in my being.

Although i was “classically trained” at a “school of

music”, i never truly accepted preconceived mediums

(even though i tried) of this nature that were limited to

range, timbre, form, logic, a somewhat true rhythmic system,

and a somewhat intellectual, egotistical, and elitist outlook of self.

It was just the fact that “these are instruments “we” write for”.

This was extremely difficult for me as an artist simply for

the fact that i felt uncreative and was a sort of depressed

and bitter human being. In my view, my work was just a vomited version

of all the other great artists who created these very mediums.

Not to say that the western classical medium amounts to regurgitated

stomach acids but, it was my creativity that was captive in this

world. The beauty of the electronic medium is that anything is possible

and i mean anything. This alone can and is scary for composers

who may need or like this comfort of knowing or owning their

orchestration book:) but for myself it was an open gate with nearly zero filter

from my vision to the manifestation of my work.

Thankfully i had mentors who opened my eyes to the hell like

environment that i had created for myself. After this epiphany i

was truly free and had then realized that i could

venture into the realm of true creativity and found my self in

a energy that was my yoga or union of self. This place showed me that it was

not my music that was beautiful but the sounds that were true beauty.

Orchestral Celebration is one of the three works written after my

complete abandonment of traditional music. It is much

much different from my other orchestral works in that it is modal

(p4, +4, m7, and M7). This move to modal composition comes

directly from my first thoughts as a sound artist which was the study

of the harmonic series and how to manipulate it (and perhaps my

personal study of North Indian Classical music as well:)). The ideas

are very simple but for the reason that the audience can manipulate

the harmonics themselves with the mind to hear beauty in this Raga-like

composition. In essence, this piece is inspired by North Indian Classical music.

My message to you is not to look at joshua carro’s piece but, to let joshua carro

share with you the beauty of sound because it is not the music that is beautiful

but sounds aura which captivates us in ways that are indescribable in any spoken language.

-josh carro