About Paul Finch who is a composer arranger and musician who lives in Brasilia Brazil

Biografia

A origem do nome Palmas Jazz deve-se à minha mudança para a cidade brasileira de Palmas, capital do Estado de Tocantins. Palmas Jazz foi criado como um canal para veicular, por meio do YouTube, concertos gravados ao vivo em Tocantins e regiões próximas, bem como mostrar algumas gravações e composições minhas e musicalidade de outros artistas.

Minha formação musical é principalmente Clássica e Jazz . Comecei a tocar e gravar quando tinha cinco anos, logo depois que comecei a tocar flauta e iniciei os estudos clássicos. Na adolescência, comprei meu primeiro Sax, um MK6 Selmer Soprano, não é o melhor do mundo, mas foi um grande incentivo para me interessar pelo Jazz e nos grandes músicos da época, muitos dos quais ainda hoje são tão criativos, quanto os da época em que eu os descobria ano após ano . Experimentei uma variedade de instrumentos, incluindo violino , clarinete e acordeão. Após, descobri que piano era o instrumento que sempre quis aprender. Atualmente, ter o conhecimento de teclados e outros controladores MIDI é essencial para explorar o fantástico mundo dos instrumentos virtuais.

Toco principalmente instrumentos de sopro, saxes , flautas, sintetizadores de sopro, controladores de MIDI , piano e teclados . Jazz é, sem dúvida, a música que gosto de tocar mais, porém considero isso um desafio para ser capaz de tocar qualquer outro gênero musical. Sculpturing de Áudio, esta é a terminologia que eu uso para compor e criar música usando a tecnologia Virtual. Os avanços na amostragem e instrumentos virtuais permitem que o músico moderno componha e toque músicas que antes eram inconcebíveis.

Biography

A little about me and the music.

Wind instruments and pianos by Paul Finch Jazz Musician Woodwind Player Pianist Soprano Sax Baritone Sax Flute Akai EWI USB 4000s Jazz Classical Soundtracks Music for TV Film Pop Samba Bossa Nova MPB VST Instruments Virtual Instruments

Paul was born in Windsor in the U.K. and now lives in Brasilia Brazil where he composes, plays and records a variety of musical genres. Paul's musical background is mainly Classical and Jazz. He started playing Recorder when he was about five and soon after he took up Flute and commenced classical studies. When he was in his teens he bought his first Sax, a Selmer MK6 Soprano, Paul recalls "Not the best Soprano in the world but incentive enough to get me interested in Jazz and the great musicians of the time, many of whom are still as creative today as when I started to discover them all those years ago." Paul experimented with a variety of instruments including Violin, Clarinet and Accordion, later on he learnt Piano which was an instrument which he had always wanted to learn. Paul says "These days a knowledge of Keyboards or other MIDI Controllers is essential to exploit the amazing world of Virtual Instrument Technologies".

Paul principally play Woodwinds Saxes and Flutes, Wind Synthesizers, MIDI Controllers and also Piano and Keyboards. "Jazz is without a doubt the music which I enjoy playin the most, however I consider it a challenge to be able to play any style of music.

Audio Sculpturing. This is the terminology Paul uses for composing and creating music using Virtual Instrument Technology, Paul says "The advances in Sampling and Virtual Instruments allow the modern musician to compose, arrange and play music that was previously inconceivable."

Sycondrian Re-entry

This is the opening track of my Sycondrian Worlds project. After countless light years of interstellar travel the on-board systems disconnect the granular fusion from hyper speed and prepare the ship for the dangerous re-entry sequence to the Anda-Sycondrian atmosphere. The track is meant to represent three stages of the journey back to Sycondria. Deep space, approach and re-entry and finally touch down.

Sycofunk

This track was recorded by the Sycondrian Tribesmen who live high up in the cool mountainous regions of Sycondria. The lead instrument is not dissimilar to the Flauta de Pan or Panpipes that can be found in South America. No loops were employed in recording this track and everything was recorded directly into Audacity using only repetition of playing. All of the synths in this piece are purely analogue.

The Stranger by Billy Joel

This is a variation on the introduction of a wonderful song by Billy Joel from the 70`s called The Stranger. The melodic part of the original song which Billy whistles I replaced with a sampled instrument called a cuatro which is a small South American guitar similar to the Brazilian cavaquinho. Lastly I arranged and played an orchestral accompaniment to conclude the music.