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My 2009 Project: Five by Seven

23-Jul-2023 | 8:11 PM
This blog is copied from the old iCompositions site. Songs listed will have links as I upload the songs here on this new site.

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Five by Seven Project Finished
December 24, 2009 | 10:08 pm

Just in time for Christmas, I finished a collection of five songs made from a friend's father's poetry. Whew!

Back in February, my friend Alliya asked me to recover some of her father's poems from an old floppy disk and put them on CD for her. Her father, using the nickname "Seven" on the 'Net, had written 50 love poems for her mother before he passed away in 2001. He called them "Songs by Seven." I asked her if they were actually songs. She said no, and I said they probably should be. She asked me who could do that, and I said "Me!" before I knew what I was saying. Oops!

So my amateur self began working. And working... And pleading... And learning... And finally, thanks to many wonderful folks at iCompositions, there are now five songs put together on a CD which Alliya will be giving to her mother as a surprise gift this Christmas. I hope she likes it!

I created cover art for the CD, which you can see here:

Outside insert: http://www.offbalance.com/other/sandtime1.jpg
Inside insert: http://www.offbalance.com/other/sandtime2.jpg
Back tray: http://www.offbalance.com/other/sandtime3.jpg

The songs are:

1. Colors of Life
2. Between Time & Space is Forever
3. Days of You
4. Movement of Time
5. Sands of Time

Big thanks to pete, lummie, joshua_irwin, and rusticalia for helping out or creating music for the poems! And thanks especially to Alliya for letting me make her father's poems into songs. I hope I've done them justice!

And for those keeping count, yes, it was going to be "Seven by Seven" but it took me almost a year to get to 5 songs, and I wanted it done for Christmas. And "Five by Seven" is a good CD name, too...
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