8-Bar Grooves
Michael Calienes

Some of the music I make winds up here. Other stuff doesn't get to come out and play.

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31 May 2011
May 31st, 5:31pm 0 comments

Week 7 Bass Assignment

Here's one of my own lines from week 7. Dig it.

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19 Apr 2011
April 19th, 5:45am 0 comments

Koko Taylor Bass Line is [no longer] Killin' me

Week 3 of Rock Bass with Berklee Online is killin' it. Fun learning the bass line to Yes It's Good for You.

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31 Mar 2011
March 31st, 8:02am 0 comments

Producing Music with Reason at Berklee -- Final Project

Production complete on this 3 minute tune. Still lots to learn, but had a blast.

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28 Feb 2011
February 28th, 5:43pm 0 comments

Production reference song.

For our Producing Music with Reason course, we were asked to choose a track to use as a production reference for the song we'll be writing and laying down over the next few weeks. This is "Cactus" by David Bowie off the Heathen album.

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18 Feb 2011
February 18th, 9:01pm 0 comments

A Walk in the Sun.

It was a warm and funky Friday. G'night.

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18 Feb 2011
February 18th, 10:24am 0 comments

Playing along w/ Two Ton Shoe's "Believe" off Figures

Bass player, Jeff Gilman, and the crew always lay it down. I never tire of slapping and popping my way through this tune. Like the goods? Grab the record, available on iTunes here.

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17 Jan 2011
January 17th, 9:43am 0 comments

A reader only a mother could love.

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I saw this on display at Office Depot and could not believe my eyes. I think Steve Jobs may have dreamed this up in 1966. But it's available now.

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13 Dec 2010
December 13th, 12:14pm 0 comments

Grunt

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10 Dec 2010
December 10th, 7:43am 0 comments

Visiting artists crowdsource inspiration.

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Last month, my wife, Director of the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, told me about an assignment their Choreographic Fellow, Katie Faulkner, of Little Seismic Dance Company, had set on FSU students and the local public. As part of the project, Brink — slated to be presented in San Francisco in the Fall of 2011 — Ms. Faulkner asked would-be participants to imagine the most perfect place they knew. With that image and feeling in mind, she asked willing participants to create and submit writings, audio, video, and/or still photos of what it would feel like if this place was gone forever.

Yesterday, I had the distinct pleasure of seeing the result of just a few days of working with the submitted source material.

Faulkner and two professional dancers of her choosing, along with San Diego multimedia artist Michael Trigilio, worked with students to give movement to the submissions, challenging them to choreograph a 30 second piece for each in just a few minutes — an exercise that gave no opportunity for inner critics to rear their ugly heads.

Being a musician, I couldn't help but take on the assignment myself, and I was thrilled to see their physical interpretation of my interpretation. Below are the brief compositions I submitted.

If you'd like to learn more about the project visit Little Seismic Brink on Facebook, and please support the arts in whatever way you can.

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7 Dec 2010
December 7th, 8:29am 0 comments

Rhythm Matter

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