The Maker of the universe
As Man for man was made a curse
The claims of Law which He had made
Unto the uttermost He paid.
His holy fingers made the bough
Which grew the thorns that crowned His brow
The nails that pierced His hands were mined
In secret places He designed.
He made the forest whence there sprung
The tree on which His body hung
He died upon a cross of wood
Yet made the hill on which it stood.
The sky that darkened o'er His head
By Him above the earth was spread
The sun that hid from Him it's face
By His decree was poised in space.
The spear which spilled His precious blood
Was tempered in the fires of God
The grave in which His form was laid
Was hewn in rocks His hands had made.
The throne on which He now appears
Was His for everlasting years
But a new glory crowns His brow
And every knee to Him shall bow.
The Maker of the universe
The Maker of the universe
The Maker of the universe.
Phil Keaggy - Maker Of The Universe Lyrics @ LyricsTime.com
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Phil Keaggy - Maker of the Universe
So I happen to like good "cosmic" worship songs. Hymns about space and stars and stuff just kinda get to me. Last night, my dad was talking to a guy about a Phil Keaggy song that was taken from an older hymn titled "Maker of the Universe." Overhearing the lyrics just blew me away, so I asked him to send me the link to the full rendition also. Here it is:
Pandora Music
Pandora.. Great selection of music, stays on topic and all that. But seriously..is there a way to prevent the computer inactivity timeout? Stops playing, starts giving me whiny messages of "Are we playing to an empty room? It costs us to play these songs so we don't want to be playing to nobody."
However, I've got my computer set up with a Kensington FM transmitter so I can listen upstairs (bad laptop won't support hardly anything streaming, bad sound card, etc.). So no, Pandora, you're NOT playing to an empty room. You're playing IN an empty room. But yes we are all still listening.
Running a short test right now to see if that notification is based on website or computer inactivity. If computer inactivity (mouse movement, screensaver, etc.), I'll just keep mouse jiggler running when I want to run Pandora, and that should keep it live. If not, I'm screwed. Either that or I'll just by a Wi-Fi media player one day. When I have actual money that is.
Initially I had hoped that they might have something like an open API which would allow me to develop (with more effort than I'm willing to put into it), an application which would let me control playback from a remote machine. But alas. No... However I did find a plugin hack to play Pandora in Winamp. I'll look into that. Hopefully if that works, I can set up a few Winamp tools to work with it and be able to control it remotely from there. However, this hack uses Pandora Mini, which I believe is a scaled down, no controls version. Well, maybe it's like mobile with Like, Dislike and Fastforward. We'll see. I'll have to try it out later, but right now I'm blogging. Come on!!
Step Seq.
Recently I discovered a 'game' on Kongregate called Step Seq. Apparently there are electronic devices that look exactly like this simulation. Their point is to create music on a time and frequency grid. I've been playing around with this one, seen at http://www.kongregate.com/games/quickfingerz/step-seq.
The fun of this is that I've also been video-recording a few of these and have been posting them to Youtube.
The few I've uploaded include an initial boring tutorial and then three more samples. They can be seen with the following links:
I've also created a Youtube playlist for all of my Step Seq. uploads.
View playlist in new window
The fun of this is that I've also been video-recording a few of these and have been posting them to Youtube.
The few I've uploaded include an initial boring tutorial and then three more samples. They can be seen with the following links:
I've also created a Youtube playlist for all of my Step Seq. uploads.
View playlist in new window
Step Seq.
A few days ago I discovered an amazing music program hosted on the game site Kongregate. Apparently the creator, the guy who runs QuickFingers.net is in some sort of contest for a LOT of money to see who can make the coolest music game on that site. Well, his was on top when I checked a few days ago, and I tried it out. It was AWESOME!! The game he created is called Step Seq (try it at www.kongregate.com/games/quickfingerz/step-seq).
Really, this is just like any hardware-based step sequencer, which is apparently some sort of grid of buttons that you can press and it will modulate a midi device and play back notes. Each row on the grid is a single note, while each column is some sort of time index. The sequencer part is based on a concept that the grid will play itself over and over and you can change the settings each time.
Well, this game-based one here is absolutely incredible. When I first looked at it, it was barely viewed and still in the testing stages, meaning that the rating numbers were not high. This was ONLY because it was fairly new. I played with it and immediately rated it 5 stars and favorited it. When I came back the next day, it had 10,000+ views already. Obviously this thing is a huge hit.
Well, yesterday I recorded a video of my 11th song using version 0.3.
You can view it at: http://youtu.be/UOFSO7n-obo
It was done as sort of a tutorial, so it's a bit long.
When I came back just like 20 minutes ago, I decided I wanted to record another video. Mostly my songs are fairly random. I start out with a single note and see where it goes from there. So far, they've ALL been different. Well, I clicked through the mandatory get started screens when loading and then started playing, when I noticed the Pad panel was missing!
I looked around and saw that instead of the percussion being a selection of a few different pre-programmed sequences, it suddenly had its own entire submenu! That's when I realised that sometime during the night or today, he updated it to version 0.4! I explored around (which you will see in the following video), and found that not only had he given users the ability to create their own percussion as well as the previously-available instrument 1 and 2, but there was an entirely new menu of Advanced options. This gives the user the ability to change keys, change the actual instrument definitions of Instr 1 and Instr 2, and even edit the reverb and echo settings! TOTALLY a surprise!
The only thing I hope for now is that once he reaches version 1.0 or something, he makes an installable offline program. Loading it from a website is very taxing on my computer, and I usually have to turn off everything in order to play with it, but if it were a standalone program, I think most of those problems could be alleviated.
In any case, I'm totally loving this thing. Not only is it letting my creativity out, but the features he's adding are making the thing so much better many times over.
One thing my mom suggested is that I make ringtones from it. I think I'll do that soon!
Here's the sample of version 0.4: http://youtu.be/jgsZEvezWaI
Really, this is just like any hardware-based step sequencer, which is apparently some sort of grid of buttons that you can press and it will modulate a midi device and play back notes. Each row on the grid is a single note, while each column is some sort of time index. The sequencer part is based on a concept that the grid will play itself over and over and you can change the settings each time.
Well, this game-based one here is absolutely incredible. When I first looked at it, it was barely viewed and still in the testing stages, meaning that the rating numbers were not high. This was ONLY because it was fairly new. I played with it and immediately rated it 5 stars and favorited it. When I came back the next day, it had 10,000+ views already. Obviously this thing is a huge hit.
Well, yesterday I recorded a video of my 11th song using version 0.3.
You can view it at: http://youtu.be/UOFSO7n-obo
It was done as sort of a tutorial, so it's a bit long.
When I came back just like 20 minutes ago, I decided I wanted to record another video. Mostly my songs are fairly random. I start out with a single note and see where it goes from there. So far, they've ALL been different. Well, I clicked through the mandatory get started screens when loading and then started playing, when I noticed the Pad panel was missing!
I looked around and saw that instead of the percussion being a selection of a few different pre-programmed sequences, it suddenly had its own entire submenu! That's when I realised that sometime during the night or today, he updated it to version 0.4! I explored around (which you will see in the following video), and found that not only had he given users the ability to create their own percussion as well as the previously-available instrument 1 and 2, but there was an entirely new menu of Advanced options. This gives the user the ability to change keys, change the actual instrument definitions of Instr 1 and Instr 2, and even edit the reverb and echo settings! TOTALLY a surprise!
The only thing I hope for now is that once he reaches version 1.0 or something, he makes an installable offline program. Loading it from a website is very taxing on my computer, and I usually have to turn off everything in order to play with it, but if it were a standalone program, I think most of those problems could be alleviated.
In any case, I'm totally loving this thing. Not only is it letting my creativity out, but the features he's adding are making the thing so much better many times over.
One thing my mom suggested is that I make ringtones from it. I think I'll do that soon!
Here's the sample of version 0.4: http://youtu.be/jgsZEvezWaI
Jazz Hands needs to OWN the Newsboys "Way Beyond Myself Remix"
Let's get WayFM's TotalAxxess remix of Way Beyond Myself (Newsboys) on the top.
Head to: http://newsboys.heroku.com/107 and click the Vote! link. Whoever wins the Newsboys Remix contest gets to have that cut on the newest collection release (which Newsboys has way too many of), AND they get a year of some free service...I don't know what that is, but having your mix on the official CD would be awesome! Especially Wally's Jazz Hands mix.
Lack of Lyrics
Ha! This Tuesday we had a great time at the Men's meeting at church. However, due to a real good worship time, we had to come up with a few songs on the fly. This was a bit difficult, due to the fact that the two we were given ahead of time were put into the overheads software ProPresenter.
ProPresenter is REALLY cool, not because it's Mac only (I don't like Mac that well), but because it can do EVERYTHING without using another program. You can import video files, audio files, images and text files. The idea of this program is to pipe this stuff to a full-screen window on a second monitor which would be piped into an overhead projector feed. Thus you can get lyrics for songs up. Of course, you probably wonder, why the video and audio and images if the program is for putting lyrics up on an overhead projector? Well, modern media technology is trending toward an animated background beneath your words, which really enhances the experience.
Of course, this is not degrading the music itself, or the purpose of the music, which is to worship God. Instead, think of it this way: a moving background can enhance the music a great deal. I mean, if music is a tool for worship, then video can be too. And I've found that I get a huge connection to God if I put up a really sweet animated background that totally fits the current song. I don't know if anyone else can relate to it, but there was one case last year...I'll explain that later maybe.
So ProPresenter can put up an animation below the words on the overhead projector feed. But of course, ProPresenter is not just for lyrics in worship services. You can also run slideshows, video presentations and even music. The idea is that the entire synthetic part of the church media presentation (excluding the live video and audio mix) can be consolidated right down into this ONE program.
On Tuesday night's during the Men's meeting, we have a short 10 to 15 minute worship time in which a sound man (that's usually Steve Engel) a video person (that's me) will run either a DVD or an audio file. If it IS a DVD, we usually put it in a seperate DVD player which we can key the words from ProPresenter over, or if possible, just turn on the DVD subtitles. However, if we run audio only, I usually try and do a 100% ProPresenter consolidation. This means that I can import the MP3 file into the program, load an animated background, load the lyrics which are seperated by verse and play the audio from the program, plus switch verses live as the song progresses.
Oh, and if I WANTED to and had enough time, I could actually automate the verse-switching using some scripting built into ProPresenter, but that's fairly complicated and takes time, which I don't usually have any of before the meeting.
But anyway...back to this last Tuesday. We had a huge worship time, and so the two songs that we were given by the leadership just weren't long enough for what we needed to do. So on the fly, we came up with a few more, those being run from a DVD. We didn't put the video up, but we did run the audio through to the soundboard and put a plain words/background up for video. However, the lyrics for these songs hadn't been imported into ProPresenter, so I had to go online and search for them myself. These lyrics were from Bethel Live's CD "Here is Love." Well, I couldn't find anything at all online and the song was playing as I was looking, but nobody knew the words, so nobody was singing along. And the leadership was getting pretty miffed by it. So we had to resort back to the older Jesus Culture album "We Cry Out," which was really cool. But still, we weren't able to put words up for that last song and I was really disappointed that I couldn't find them online.
Getting to the point: HERE ARE THE WORDS! I have the audio files at home, so I was able to listen and type them out as I listened. And these are accurate to a point, except that Brian Johnson can't sing clearly, so it's really hard to understand him. Point being: next Tuesday, I can load up this blog post at church and copy them into the program! HA! Anyhow, enjoy. And right now, these only entail approximately four songs.
Lyrics From: Bethel Live - "Here is Love"
'LET HEAVEN SHOUT'
I surrender all to You my God
I will give You all I have
Oh You took my filthiness and made me clean
I love You, Lord
Your praises I will sing
Let Heaven shout
For I have been redeemed
I lay down my life my plans my rights
For I'm captured by Your love
And though I lose this world I will know You
Nothing compares
Nothing compares
Nothing compares
Nothing compares
'WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE'
What does it sound like
When you sing Heaven's song
What does it feel like
When Heaven comes down
What does it look like
When God is all around
Let it come
This is what it sounds like
When you sing Heaven's song
This is what it feels like
When Heaven comes down
This is what it looks like
When God is all around
Let it come
'WORTHY IS THE LAMB'
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
For me (For me)
For me (For me)
He gave it all
For me
Hallelujah
King forever
Hallelujah
Give praise to our God
Hallelujah
King and Savior
We will sing
'HERE IS LOVE' (Dashed-words/lines are unclear and inaccurate)
Here is Love
Vast as the ocean
Loving-kindness as a flood
When the Prince of life I ransom
Shed for us His precious blood
Who is Love
Will not remember
Who can cease to see His praise
He will never be forgotten
Throughout Heaven's eternal -reign-
Oh the mount of Crucifiction
Fountains opened deep and wide
Through the floodgates of God's mercies
For a vast and gracious -prize-
Grace and Love like mighty rivers
Pouring -sense and- from above
Heaven's peace and perfect justice
---blah---blah---blah---------------
No Love is higher
No Love is wider
No Love is deeper
No Love is truer
-So let me -
That love accepting
Love forever all my days
Let me see Thy kingdom -wholy-
And my life be to Thy praise
That my all shall be Thy glory
Nothing in this world I seek
Thou hast cleansed and sanctified me
now Thy son has set me free
---and---maybe---some---more---
--------below--------
ProPresenter is REALLY cool, not because it's Mac only (I don't like Mac that well), but because it can do EVERYTHING without using another program. You can import video files, audio files, images and text files. The idea of this program is to pipe this stuff to a full-screen window on a second monitor which would be piped into an overhead projector feed. Thus you can get lyrics for songs up. Of course, you probably wonder, why the video and audio and images if the program is for putting lyrics up on an overhead projector? Well, modern media technology is trending toward an animated background beneath your words, which really enhances the experience.
Of course, this is not degrading the music itself, or the purpose of the music, which is to worship God. Instead, think of it this way: a moving background can enhance the music a great deal. I mean, if music is a tool for worship, then video can be too. And I've found that I get a huge connection to God if I put up a really sweet animated background that totally fits the current song. I don't know if anyone else can relate to it, but there was one case last year...I'll explain that later maybe.
So ProPresenter can put up an animation below the words on the overhead projector feed. But of course, ProPresenter is not just for lyrics in worship services. You can also run slideshows, video presentations and even music. The idea is that the entire synthetic part of the church media presentation (excluding the live video and audio mix) can be consolidated right down into this ONE program.
On Tuesday night's during the Men's meeting, we have a short 10 to 15 minute worship time in which a sound man (that's usually Steve Engel) a video person (that's me) will run either a DVD or an audio file. If it IS a DVD, we usually put it in a seperate DVD player which we can key the words from ProPresenter over, or if possible, just turn on the DVD subtitles. However, if we run audio only, I usually try and do a 100% ProPresenter consolidation. This means that I can import the MP3 file into the program, load an animated background, load the lyrics which are seperated by verse and play the audio from the program, plus switch verses live as the song progresses.
Oh, and if I WANTED to and had enough time, I could actually automate the verse-switching using some scripting built into ProPresenter, but that's fairly complicated and takes time, which I don't usually have any of before the meeting.
But anyway...back to this last Tuesday. We had a huge worship time, and so the two songs that we were given by the leadership just weren't long enough for what we needed to do. So on the fly, we came up with a few more, those being run from a DVD. We didn't put the video up, but we did run the audio through to the soundboard and put a plain words/background up for video. However, the lyrics for these songs hadn't been imported into ProPresenter, so I had to go online and search for them myself. These lyrics were from Bethel Live's CD "Here is Love." Well, I couldn't find anything at all online and the song was playing as I was looking, but nobody knew the words, so nobody was singing along. And the leadership was getting pretty miffed by it. So we had to resort back to the older Jesus Culture album "We Cry Out," which was really cool. But still, we weren't able to put words up for that last song and I was really disappointed that I couldn't find them online.
Getting to the point: HERE ARE THE WORDS! I have the audio files at home, so I was able to listen and type them out as I listened. And these are accurate to a point, except that Brian Johnson can't sing clearly, so it's really hard to understand him. Point being: next Tuesday, I can load up this blog post at church and copy them into the program! HA! Anyhow, enjoy. And right now, these only entail approximately four songs.
Lyrics From: Bethel Live - "Here is Love"
'LET HEAVEN SHOUT'
I surrender all to You my God
I will give You all I have
Oh You took my filthiness and made me clean
I love You, Lord
Your praises I will sing
Let Heaven shout
For I have been redeemed
I lay down my life my plans my rights
For I'm captured by Your love
And though I lose this world I will know You
Nothing compares
Nothing compares
Nothing compares
Nothing compares
'WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE'
What does it sound like
When you sing Heaven's song
What does it feel like
When Heaven comes down
What does it look like
When God is all around
Let it come
This is what it sounds like
When you sing Heaven's song
This is what it feels like
When Heaven comes down
This is what it looks like
When God is all around
Let it come
'WORTHY IS THE LAMB'
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
For me (For me)
For me (For me)
He gave it all
For me
Hallelujah
King forever
Hallelujah
Give praise to our God
Hallelujah
King and Savior
We will sing
'HERE IS LOVE' (Dashed-words/lines are unclear and inaccurate)
Here is Love
Vast as the ocean
Loving-kindness as a flood
When the Prince of life I ransom
Shed for us His precious blood
Who is Love
Will not remember
Who can cease to see His praise
He will never be forgotten
Throughout Heaven's eternal -reign-
Oh the mount of Crucifiction
Fountains opened deep and wide
Through the floodgates of God's mercies
For a vast and gracious -prize-
Grace and Love like mighty rivers
Pouring -sense and- from above
Heaven's peace and perfect justice
---blah---blah---blah---------------
No Love is higher
No Love is wider
No Love is deeper
No Love is truer
-So let me -
That love accepting
Love forever all my days
Let me see Thy kingdom -wholy-
And my life be to Thy praise
That my all shall be Thy glory
Nothing in this world I seek
Thou hast cleansed and sanctified me
now Thy son has set me free
---and---maybe---some---more---
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12-9-09
Well then! Finals this week and I had a nice day yesterday taking a test on the Classical period of music. Then we have the comprehensive listening test tomorrow which will be our full final. Ha! Maybe if I worked hard enough at it I could....never mind. I can't even think.
Aaaanyway, we got like six inches of snow at the house. And it's been below zero for something like a full day now. Well, it got down to -20 at our house at 6:00 this morning, and it's now at 0. Wow. We also ran out of wood in the garage for our fireplace, so I had to tromp out to the woodpile and refill it.
What else? Nothing much. Mom and I are struggling with her blackberry version of Live Messenger. I've always loved the quirks of MSN in general. And that WAS sarcasm. Maybe I should switch over to Google 100% and make everyone else live with it. One email for every service on the planet is getting pretty annoying. I've got Yahoo for the Yahoo folks, Live for the MSN people and yesterday I got a GMail because my iGoogle (which is where I'm writing this from) was urging me to do so. But I really really like Google, so maybe I should consolidate.
Nothing else to report, other than the fact that the snow is AWESOME! Except it's not warm enough to pack and make stuff. Maybe it'll warm up enough tomorrow. We'll see.
Aaaanyway, we got like six inches of snow at the house. And it's been below zero for something like a full day now. Well, it got down to -20 at our house at 6:00 this morning, and it's now at 0. Wow. We also ran out of wood in the garage for our fireplace, so I had to tromp out to the woodpile and refill it.
What else? Nothing much. Mom and I are struggling with her blackberry version of Live Messenger. I've always loved the quirks of MSN in general. And that WAS sarcasm. Maybe I should switch over to Google 100% and make everyone else live with it. One email for every service on the planet is getting pretty annoying. I've got Yahoo for the Yahoo folks, Live for the MSN people and yesterday I got a GMail because my iGoogle (which is where I'm writing this from) was urging me to do so. But I really really like Google, so maybe I should consolidate.
Nothing else to report, other than the fact that the snow is AWESOME! Except it's not warm enough to pack and make stuff. Maybe it'll warm up enough tomorrow. We'll see.
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