Holiday Greetings from SD

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and <insert your observed winter solstice holiday here>!.

Feline Demise was updated with a remix/remaster featuring MORE BASS. Enjoy. Also, we've completely updated the main site, as well as myspace (much bug squashing there and here on the blog--some missing images and other browser formatting errors should be addressed now).

We've added two new pages. One will be used to update all places on the Internet where we'll host tunes for listening and download. The other lists all the professional services we offer, including inexpensive, high-quality mastering for your 2-track mixes.

Transduction Euphony is coming along and will hopefully be shipped for manufacture by mid-January.

"Under the Stairs" appears on The Word Nerds

Shane's tune Under the Stairs from Celestial Icons' 1993 album Timid Blue Planet (featuring drummer Alberto Vargas) appeared on The Word Nerds podcast episode 81 (Prepositions).

Thanks to Dave Shepherd et al. for using the tune on their show!

Download Mozart's scores--FREE!

Mozart's entire musical score now free on Internet:

"Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available from Monday for the first time free on the Internet.

The International Mozart Foundation in Salzburg, Austria has put a scholarly edition of the bound volumes of Mozart's more than 600 works on a Web site."

Here's the link:

http://www.mozarteum.at/

SD featured on sufferingfromsanity.com

Coffee Bean was featured on The Suffering from Sanity podcast in the first half of Episode SFS-034 on December 1, 2006.

The theme? Coffee and tea. Hence the title, “Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea.”

Thanks to Bryce Allen for including us in this array of talented musicians.

MP3.com Deja vu

Good news for us musicians! Store and share your music projects with MP3.com once again. Deja vu!

MP3.com reopens servers, accepts files - Yahoo! News: "The site, acquired by San Francisco-based CNET Networks Inc. in 2003, has recently undergone a redesign. Relaunched officially on Tuesday, the site now offers up to 100 megabytes of storage space for audio tracks and unlimited space for videos, free of charge."

Now on iCompositions

You can check out SD's new site now on iCompositions! Come on over and vote for Shane's music...

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"Feline Demise" now posted on My Space

You can check out Feline Demise now on the My Space site.

Here's the current incarnation of the album cover for the upcoming CD, Transduction Euphony. Thanks to Michael David Jones for allowing me to use his bacteriophage image for the CD cover.

"Coffee Bean" appears on ReMARKable Palate Podcast

Shane's jazz tune "Coffee Bean" will be featured on the ReMARKable Palate Podcast episode #63 for November 1st, 2006, featuring Executive Chef of The Guilded Fork, Chef Mark C. Tafoya, out of New York City.

Thanks for the play, Chef Tafoya! Great podcast!

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Accepted: Pump Audio Catalog

Nearly all of Shane's entire catalog of instrumental music (recorded since 1993) has been accepted by Pump Audio, LCC and offered in their music licensing catalog.

Hopefully, you'll hear some of these tunes soon in movies, commercials, television, games, answering systems, environmental sound systems, etc.

PSN listener comments on "Feline Demise"

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A few PSN listeners have emailed some really nice comments to Big Al Wagner and Mike Big Honey" Bolan over at Project Studio Network regarding their review of my tune, Feline Demise, in Show #39.

In Show #40 at 34:30, Dave Criddle from Home Recording Odyssey sent some nice comments and an appropriate criticism regarding the lack of a strong bass instrument in the tune:

"Hey, tell Shane Hendricks I really enjoyed his song. Like a strange siren, I kept being drawn to it. I actually rewound and listened to it three times."

In Show #41 at 39:24, Nick Dodson had some really nice comments too:

"Not only were there Zappa-esque allusions, but there's also references to Captain Beefheart."

"Penguin" appears on Dorm Room Daily

The Dorm Room Daily podcast entitled Wiped-Out Wednesday featured the tune "Penguin With A Ruler" at 6:23 into the podcast.

Thanks Sir William for the play!

"Sing Me" appears on 2 podcasts

Shane's jazz tune Sing Me My Breakfast was featured on Career Mom Radio Episode 9 out of the United Kingdom.

The tune was also featured on Pirates Week for 10/15/06.

Thanks for the support!

Shane gets a mention on IHR

Inside Home Recording's Neat links for October 12:

Derek from Inside Home Recording makes a mention of the Feline Demise review that appeared on PSN Show #39.

Now on Podsafe Music Network

Shane has posted 24 old and new tunes and licensed them for use in podcasts or other legitimate, legal uses under a Creative Commons license.

As a matter of fact, all original music posted on the Internet (under the names Sonic Deviant, Shane Hendricks, etc.) is hereby licensed under the Creative Commons 2.5 license listed below; all music is freely useable and distributable in accordance with the license. Have fun and enjoy the fruits of my labor!

These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License.

Featured on X-Pat Podcast!

Shane's older tune East Wind Blows West was featured in episode 58 on the X-Pat Radio podcast via podshow.com. This happened within hours of posting the music, so thanks X-Pat!

PSN reviews "Feline Demise"

Project Studio Network Podcast #39:

Shane's tune, Feline Demise (from the upcoming CD Transduction Euphony), is reviewed by the guys at the Project Studio Network podcast in Show #39. The review is located at 39:36, but you'll want to catch all the other great information within the podcast if you're a home recording enthusiast.

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Web Presence updated!

Be sure to check the changes to all the sites on the web, starting with sonicdeviant.com. My Space has been updated as well. The changes are in anticipation of finishing my next CD, Transduction Euphony.

I'm working hard on the next CD, but grad school takes precedence most of the time. I've posted some of the tunes from the forthcoming project at the sites listed above. Also, check out the awesome video Leo Alves Vieira put together for Mutation p53.

Avid sucking up everything musical

Macworld UK - Avid buys Sibelius for $23 million:

Macworld Daily News

Wednesday - August 02, 2006

Avid buys Sibelius for $23 million

By Macworld staff

Avid Technology has acquired London-based company Sibelius Software in a $23 million deal.

Sibelius makes music notation software that is widely used by musicians for movies and songs and by scho.

Avid Technology now owns Digidesign (ahem...ProTools), M-Audio (midi controllers and other music hardware/software), and now Sibelius (a top notation program). I fear companies that become too monopolistic.

Inside Home Recording

I've been meaning to send folks over to visit my friends Paul Garay and Derek K. Miller of Inside Home Recording. They're running a nice blog and podcast that I found whilst perusing the iTunes catalog one day, looking for podcasts to consume for an upcoming long road trip. The discussion forum is here, there's some great fickr content, and there are many RSS feeds with which you can cram your newsreader.

They not only review new gear but also provide useful tips and techniques vital to us home recording and project studio nuts. Go check 'em out.

Pump Audio - Amateur film composing

Pump Audio | Welcome: This seems like a great new site to check out. Amateur composers and musicians can license their work for use in amateur film!