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  • Octaver25 Day 10 – Desert island disc, what music would you bring?

    Here is my 10th installment for #octaver25 where I answer the age old question, what one dessert would you bring to your disc island? Wait…that’s not it, ahem, what deserted disc would you bring to your dessert table, no, no that doesn’t sound right…oh heck, just listen to the audio…

  • #Octaver25 Day 9 – Your favourite music for driving, walking or working out.

    A noisy #octaver25 9th installment where I’m really not all that surprising with my answer. 🙂

  • #Octaver25 Day 8 – Your favourite musical-themed movie or musical.

    Here is my 8th installment for #octaver25 with the prompt brought to you by yours truly. Now that I look at the prompt, I realize how redundant it is, who has ever heard of a non-musical musical. 🙂

  • #Octaver25 Day 6 – Music I dislike and why?

    I like most music genres but there is one that I particularly don’t like and hopefully you’ll hear why.

  • #Octaver25 Day 5 Instrumental or Choral music? Why?

    With or without lyrics, music always inspires me but during different activities.

  • Octaver25 Day 4 My Nth favourite genre of music

    For this 4th installment, yes on the fifth day 🙂 for #Octaver25, I answer the question what is my second favourite type of music, as you’ll see, the answer is shrouded in ambiguity and mystery.

  • #Octaver25 – Day 2 The Music I first liked

    This entry is one day late and rather noisy as you’ll hear. I also realized how rusty my delivery is 🙂 Enjoy this second installment of #octaver25 as I look back to the early music that I remember first liking as a kid.

  • #Octaver25 Day 3 My favourite genre of music

    I had no trouble at all answering Paul O’Mahony’s question as to what is my favourite genre of music. In this episode I’m still in the same, rather noisy, recording environment and explaining my love for a certain type of music and plugging a few websites, WHICH I GOT WRONG! Ha Ha!

    The radio station I was eluding to is Jazz 91FM, don’t ask me where the decimal number came from :), and can be found at https://jazz.fm/

    SOMA FM can be found at https://somafm.com/

    Finally Jazz24.org is found at…oh will you look at that! https://www.jazz24.org/

    Check them out and give them some love if you like what you hear.

  • #Octaver25 – Day 1The first music I remember hearing

    Hello and welcome to my first entry for #Octaver25, OK, so what the heck is an Octaver you might ask. Well it’s a portmanteau of the words Octave and October and was originally coined back in 2012 by yours truly for a musical festival that took place on an audio-based social network called Audioboo. During Octaver people were given a set of prompts about music, and they would create audio messages of themselves talking about music, and in some instances even playing small excerpts, those among us who were more talented, I don’t include myself in that group 🙂 would also play musical instruments and/or sing.

    In any case, Audioboo was purchased many many years ago and re-baptized Audioboom and they changed their approach to social audio and started charging more. Unfortunately the social network slowly caved in and we all went our separate ways and Octaver faded into the distance, like the end of a great song. During my years on Audioboo I met a wonderful group of people, many with whom I still keep in touch with today. In fact, two of those great folks ask me to participate in a revival of the hashtag some 13 years later, has it really been that long?

    Back then in the 2010’s I would put quite a bit of production time in these Octaver episodes, I’m not so sure I’ll be able to give it that much devotion this time around, but I did want to at least contribute and participate in some way. So here it goes, below is my first entry for this new month and the launch of my #Octaver25