Answered Questions about New Age Music

I recently was asked by a student working on his senior thesis on New Age music if I would have a short interview with about New Age music and this was my response:


Hi Andhi,

When I hear the words, "New Age music" I feel a magical connection to the positive spiritual energy that holds the universe together.  Sometimes the general perception of New Age music can be misconstrued and I feel that the average person has not discovered the power that New Age music brings us.  I consider the music that comes to me to be of the New Age genre, although my music differs from traditional New Age music.  The music that I hear is very melodic and much more structured than the average New Age song.  I enjoy hearing many types of New Age music and feel that there are more sub genres in New Age music than any other genre of music.  I grew up loving the Carl Sagan series "Cosmos" that includes music from my favorite artist Vangelis.  I was very drawn to that series inspiring my artist name "Cosmo Frequency".  I feel that every inspired melody that comes to me comes from the frequencies of the Cosmos.  I can feel connected where ever I am, and the most inspired melodies I hear can be recorded later on using synths, sample libraries, and computer sequencing software.  When I hear a beautiful sound in the studio it will often unlock melodies that I have heard in the past.  I find technology a great blessing to be able to record those inspired melodies.  I feel a need to share the music I hear and look forward as I continue to take that musical journey.

Paul Martinson

"Cosmo Frequency"

World Of Light

I just finished writing my latest song World Of Light.  This is my first Cosmo Frequency song to have Lyrics. I will begin recording the track this weekend and will have it available to hear in the coming weeks. I will be singing my song using a Vocoder Modeled Choir sound from one of my Roland Synths. For now I would like to share the lyrics for the song.

World Of Light:

Listen to what man forgot
Now it's more than just a thought
Conversation waiting to share
Listen to what love begot 
Frequencies of inner thought
Searching for somebody to care
Waiting for a helping hand
Needing love to understand
And everything will be okay
In life we found ourselves  dreaming of love

After every moon lit sky
After every rising sun
You're still breathing
We're still dreaming above
Journey through a world of light
Conscious wisdom taking flight
You're still breathing
We're still dreaming above
Tearing down the walls of doubt
Feeling now what loves about
You're still breathing
We're still dreaming above
Here... Is... Love

Focus on your inner peace
Feel the love and find release
Revelation given to all
Focus on your full increase
Frequencies of inner peace
Asking for the wisdom of light
Offering a helping hand
Will help someone to understand
And everything will be okay
In life we found ourselves dreaming of love


Written by Paul Martinson of Cosmo Frequency 2011

Cosmo Frequency finishes 1st place in music for the Clash of the Artists 2011 Contest

I wanted to thank everyone in this community for supporting Cosmo Frequency in the 2011 Clash of the Artists music contest.  Cosmo Frequency finished 1st place by the panel of judges after finishing as finalist in the online voting:

The international competitions have come to a close and with the panelist review this past week, we have the winners of AFP's 5th annual competitions. Artists were featured from eighteen countries and thirty U.S. states. It was the most diverse Clash of the Artists yet. During the online voting segment over 10,000 votes were cast across the four categories.
AFP is pleased to announce the winners:

Music: 1st place: Cosmo Frequency (Salt Lake City, Utah)

D.L. Byron, Zen Archer Records: "Paul Martinson is the new 'Vangelis.' I enjoyed all three tracks. They showed melody and good structure not often found in a genre such as this. Very Cool Stuff!"

http://www.artforprogress.org/about_artist.php?id=1049

Cosmo Frequency finishes as a finalist for "Clash of the Artists 2011"

*May 13th - May 14th:: Clash of the Artists 2011

The response for the 5th annual competitions has been tremendous. With artists featured from eighteen countries and thirty U.S. states, it's been AFP's most diverse "Clash of the Artists" yet. On-line voting has finished, and we are very proud to present the finalists and the winner of the "Creative" competition.

Paula Collins is the winner of the Creative competition!

The following are the finalists for Clash of the Artists 2011.

Visual Arts:

K.S. Shrivathshan, Tuy Nga Brignol, Cameron Schmitz, Andre Woolery, Emilia Ireland, Carmen Ghecca, Ian Coe, Pablo Damas, Amy Rowland and Michelle Oravitz

Fashion:

Mihaela Cirlugea, Lucia Racekova, Anna Janiszewski, Ricardo Ramos and

Jon Winge

Music:

AndrewVictoria, Multiple Mono, Argotec, Glenn Main and Cosmo Frequency 

The finalists will now be reviewed by our professional panel in the coming days. Stay tuned for the latest news on the top winners, who will all be part of the big weekend showcase May 13th-14th at Headquarters Gallery in Tribeca. 

The showcase event for "Clash of the Artists 2011" is AFP's event of the year, and serves as our major fundraiser for the AFP Arts and Humanities Education Program. The program provides education for New York's most under-served public school kids.

Tickets will be on sale soon via the AFP website!

Studio Upgrade bugs worked out!

I am happy to say the Apogee Ensemble is working great and I have successfully upgraded to Logic Studio 9.  When I had initially updated the firmware for the Apogee Ensemble it did not go through correctly even though I had no error that it had failed.  When I tried to run the firmware again it also did not allow.  The software and drivers went through but not the firmware and that was what was causing all the conflicts.  I finally did a reset on the Ensemble and then I was able to update the firmware.  I am still looking forward to getting the cable I ordered but have elected to buy the Apogee firewire cable.   I have to say I love the Apogee Ensemble sound.  I also have Logic configured just the way I want, and the only thing that is left to do is import my JV-1080 Environment into Logic.  I will be ready to start working on music again this week end and look to have my latest track "Canyon Chant" ready soon.

Studio Upgrades

My digital input on my old Firewire interface started having problems last week so I upgraded to a new interface this weekend.  I am now in the process of implementing the studio upgrades.  I just hooked up my replacement Firewire Audio Interface (Apogee Ensemble) that I purchased off ebay.  I am now working out the bugs, and making sure the device is okay. Testing the device with the firewire cable that it came with worked great with some simple testing, but the cable is too short for the way I have my set up.  I also tried plugging the short cable that works good into my Apple display monitor but there are known issues in doing that causing problems so I have to plug the firewire cable directly into my firewire port on my Mac.  In using my longer firewire cable it is slowing down the data transfer speed causing crackles and pops in the monitoring input and output so I had to order and am now waiting on a high end (Monster) Firewire cable to remedy the problem.  While waiting on the cable I am also performing software upgrades to the latest version of Logic Studio 9.  The new updates will also allow me to use state of the art UV22HR technology with my new interface to preserve every bit of audio with out having to lose the best of the high resolution 24-bit audio when converting to 16-bit, 44.1 kHz for CD or compressed formats like mp3.  I am looking forward to making music soon after these updates.  I will also be re-dithering the final masters on the 4 previous tracks to take advantage of the UV22HR mastering technology.

Horizon: Poem by Matt Bowen

I am pleased to announce that Matt Bowen will be writing poems for songs I compose.  The first poem I would like to share is a poem written for my song Horizon:

HORIZON

Panorama: the vision of all


is become unto us


the words of a song


almost unsealable now, sung in a tongue


we have only to relearn.

We sprint toward a West


where amazement must soon be set ablaze–


flaring skyward in golds, mock oranges,


crimsons, rusts– at what we’ve been,


at what we’re about to be . . .

The circle of all knowledge


that crowns this square earth, 


the rim of heaven itself


growing ever wider


with each westward footfall.