APC40 

The APC40 allows me to control Ableton Live (my music production software) without having to use a mouse. This means I can compose and mix faster. It’s also a great way to control live performances. I’ve started experimenting with performance versions of some of the singles off of Reboot.

If you are an electronic musician, checkout my more technical posts on the APC40 on ModulateThis.com.

MASSIVE

I’ve also added a new virtual synthesizer to my rig, Native Instruments Massive. It’s a great synth that can produce sounds with a lot of “movement” in them as well as some very aggressive sounds. As a matter of fact, this is pretty much the ONLY synthesizer used on Dave Gahan’s (lead singer of Depeche Mode) recent solo album Hourglass.

Mark Mosher
http://www.markmoshermusic.com
http://www.twitter.com/markmosher

I posted “They Walk Among us” on SoundClick last Saturday. I’m very excited to report that only 4 days later on May 13th, 2009 the song hit the top of the charts:

• #2 on the overall Electronica chart out of 260,278 songs
• #1 in Electronica>Electronica SubGenre out of 43,850 songs

Thanks so much for everyone who listened to the song and passed the song along to friends. Also, thanks for the all the great comments about the song.

You can help keep the song at the top of the charts by listening to the song in the player below.

If you don’t see the player or want to share the song with others click HERE to launch a player which includes social links.

Visit the Reboot page to listen to more of my Electronica singles.

Mark Mosher
http://www.markmoshermusic.com
http://www.twitter.com/markmosher

All songs Copyright Mark J. Mosher 2007-2009.

“They Walk Among Us” and Songs on REBOOT by Mark Mosher are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license and commercial license may be available at www.markmoshermusic.com/contact.htm.

All songs on Reboot are Copyright © 2004-2009 Mark J. Mosher
Published by Newecho Productions, LLC

My new electronica single "They Walk Among Us" is online.

This song has an interesting story. You see -  I traveled back in time with my music production laptop and a pile of virtual synthesizers to score a 50's Sci-Fi B-Movie. “They Walk Among Us” is the result.

Will any humans survive? You’ll have to listen to find out. Extra points if you can tell me the Morse code message in the end of the song.

So If you like theremins, 50’s SCI-FI B-Movies, flying saucer sounds, big beats and ear candy I think you’ll really dig this track.  It’s been a lot of fun to put compose and mix – especially the creation of all the special effects.

Click play in the embedded player below to listen to the song now. If you can’t see the player, and/or want to download a high-rez 256kbs MP3 of the song for your personal entertainment, click here.

Enjoy and if you liked the song share it with friends:

• Download high resolution 256kb MP3
• Email link to song
• Text an MP3 to Your Phone 
• Get a Soundclick widget to embed my songs your page
• Listen on Reverb Nation
• Get a Reverb Nation widget to embed my songs on your page

Visit the Reboot page to listen to more of my Electronica singles.

Mark Mosher
http://www.markmoshermusic.com
http://www.twitter.com/markmosher

All songs Copyright Mark J. Mosher 2007-2009.

“They Walk Among Us” and Songs on REBOOT by Mark Mosher are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Permissions beyond the scope of this license and commercial license may be available at www.markmoshermusic.com/contact.htm.

All songs on Reboot are Copyright © 2004-2009 Mark J. Mosher
Published by Newecho Productions, LLC

I’ve not posted in a number of weeks. I’ve been quite busy working on various music related projects. Here is a quick run-down.

• I’m have a really fun new electronica single that is almost finished.
• Ableton Live 8 released. Live 8 is the software I use for all my compositions so I’ve been busy learning it and blogging about it over at http://www.modulatethis.com.
• Last weekend I attended the Communikey Festival of Electronic arts in Boulder where I got to meet a lot of other electronic musicians and see some great performances.
• Almost daily I’m doing sound design work for an upcoming library for http://www.Modulatethis.com.

I've also placed my music on more social media sites. Ade me on:

• Reverb Nation
• Bandcamp

Mark Mosher
http://www.markmoshermusic.com
http://www.twitter.com/markmosher

I’m a big fan of Twitter. Twitter has been a great way to find and connect with others with similar interests – more so than any other social networking too I’ve used.

I recently met the composer Dean Ogden  on Twitter and discovered that he and fellow composer Lee Sanders have a great podcast called SCOREcast (Podcast | Facebook Page). It’s a Podcast for the Emerging Film Composer which offers an insider's view into the art, technology, and business of writing music for films and television.

Dean asked me and many other composers around the world to contribute to a segment in Episode 18 by offering some links to web sites recommend for emerging composers.

I recommended:

• http://www.modulatethis.com – My blog on electronic music production
• http://www.mindjet.com - Makers of the fantastic Mindmanager visual planning and productivity tool

SCOREcast Episode 18 just went live. My portion appears at the 26:24 Min mark. It’s a great podcast  and the "links" segment had so many great links in it I decided to take the time to create a mind map to document all the composers pages and their recommended links. I posted this "bookmark" map to a web site so you could browse through the composers and easily jump to the web sites mention. The web site has links to a downloadable Mindmanager version and interactive PDF version of the map.

 Click here to access this hyperlinked bookmark map.

Mark Mosher
www.markmoshermusic.com
www.modulatethis.com
www.twitter.com/markmosher

I’ve removed the single “I Love Music” from the Reboot album. I just didn’t think it fit with the “Midnight”, “Stealth”,  and the other tracks I’m working on. I’ve therefore changed the track order so “Midnight” is track 1 and “Stealth” is track 2.

If you download these two tracks again, the track order will show correctly in your MP3 software or player. I also want to mention that when you download from the official Mark Mosher Music site you'll recieve high-quality 256kbs MP3s.

Click here to go to download page.

New tracks are coming soon. Subscribe to this blog for notification.

Mark Mosher
www.markmoshermusic.com
www.twitter.com/markmosher

Back in 2003 & 2004 I was the Sound Designer for following shows with the award winning  theater company, Theatreworks at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
- Inferno (2003)
- A Streetcar Named Desire  (2004)
- Treasure Island (2004)
- Ma Rainey (2004)

They’ve just posted a Facebook page, so if your a member click here to check it out.

They have an events calendar and have start posting some great pictures.The picture above is a photo from a show I worked on - "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" from November 2004. 

You can visit their official site at http://www.theatreworkscs.org.

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Thought I'd give a shout out with a list of social links. You can add me on:

• Twitter
• MySpace
• SoundClick
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• Read and Subscribe to my blog on digital music production, Modulate This!.