Title: Star of the County Down - Interrupted
Recorded: 24 October 2009
Location: Broadway Park on the banks of the Mighty Huron
Instrument: Burke aluminum narrow bore high D whistle
Notes: I guess there are worse sounds to be interrupted by. :) Another traditional tune I'm learning. I'll record it in full again later. For this and the other whistle shot on this date, I hung my Hague Motion-cam stabilizer in a tree and pointed at me and the river. :) Edited in Final Cut Suite.

Title: The Water is Wide
Recorded: 24 October 2009
Location: Broadway Park on the banks of the Mighty Huron
Instrument: Burke aluminum narrow bore high D whistle
Notes: Traditional Irish tune recorded on a Canon HF20 in Broadway Park, Ann Arbor, Michigan on the banks of the mighty Huron River. For this and the other whistle shot on this date, I hung my Hague Motion-cam stabilizer in a tree and pointed at me and the river. :) Edited in Finalcut Suite.

Title: The Foggy Dew (2nd Go)
Recorded: 23 August 2009
Location: My Apartment
Instrument: Burke composite narrow bore high D whistle
Notes: Here's the second try at getting a drum loop synched up to my playing in the video. Much more success this time as I set up the loops in Final Cut Pro and played that while recording the video. With the help of a friend I also got the fade in/out from black and titling figured out.

Title: The Foggy Dew (1st Go)
Recorded: 16 August 2009
Location: My Apartment
Instrument: Burke composite narrow bore high D whistle
Notes: This is the raw video clip for the video. I have a headphone plug in my ear because I was playing along with a bodhrán drum loop with the plan to put it in the video in editing.... only to discover I apparently have not figured out how to make the Apple Loops Utility output at the new tempo. Anyway, here is the whistle alone, I'll reshoot this again with the drum playing live in the background... not really how I want to do it though.

Title: Aura Lee (2nd Go)
Recorded: 18 July 2009
Location: My Apartment
Instrument: Burke composite narrow bore high D whistle
Notes: So yesterday I found a MIDI file on the internets of Aura Lee / Love Me Tender. I imported it into Logic Studio and stripped out the melody line so I could play along. This should help me get more used to playing along with others. Still very rough, but it sounds good I think. :) Not very much sunshine today so the lighting sucks in this one. Someone posted in the YouTube comments that the backing track is out of tune with my whistle. It's true, I'm having a hard time with Logic, getting it to transpose to exactly the right pitch.

Title: Aura Lee (1st Go)
Recorded: 21 June 2009
Location: My Front Stoop
Instrument: Burke composite narrow bore high D whistle
Notes: I gave myself 15 minutes with the musical score to 'Aura Lee' (a.k.a. 'Love Me Tender') to memorize as much of it as I could. Here's me playing it a few minutes later. This was the better of two takes from memory. I only flubbed a note or two! :) I'll record this song again in a week or two after I've gotten the groove of it and can play with more ornamentation. And yes... I got ANOTHER whistle. :) This is a Burke composite narrow bore high D whistle. It has a beautiful tone and is extremely easy to hit the second octave notes. It is made of a composite material composed of wood fibers and Bakelite resin. It sounds great. :)

Title: Tunnel Tunage
Recorded: 14 June 2009
Location: M-14 stormdrain
Instrument: Parks high D Walkabout Whistle
Notes: Dawning of the Day and Amazing Grace in my favorite acoustic tunnel. :)
I'm playing around with ornamentation... with varying results. Hey, I'm learning. :)

Title: Down By The Sally Gardens
Recorded: 07 June 2009
Location: The little stream in Kuebler-Langford Park
Instrument: Parks high D Walkabout Whistle
Notes: Recorded beside the little stream in Kuebler-Langford Park. I used the
'natural green' setting on my camera and it looks like I'm in a frickin' rainforest. :)

Title: Cockels And Mussels
Recorded: 25 May 2009
Location: M-14 stormdrain
Instrument: Parks high D Walkabout Whistle
Notes: Back into the tunnel for more acoustic goodness.

Title: Amazing Grace
Recorded: 17 May 2009
Location: Riverside Park
Instrument: Parks high D Walkabout Whistle
Notes: This is a lovely whistle I just got this weekend. It's from Parks Whistles
(Carey Parks gives great personal service too!), its his Walkabout model Its made
of PVC tubing (so its just about indestructible). It breaks down into three pieces and
fits into a nice nylon case smaller than my iPhone. It will be great for taking traveling.
The wind was really kicking up when I was recording this so it takes the notes away
once or twice... plus I'm still a whistle noob. :P

Title: May Song
Recorded: 02 May 2009
Location:The little stream in Kuebler-Langford Park
Instrument: Feadóg high D Whistle
Notes: This is the best of the tooooo many takes to try to record this tune. If it was not
traffic noises it was airplanes, or the wind making the whistle all squeaky, or too many
errors in my playing. So I am happy to get this mostly decent recording out of the 35
minutes of raw footage I took. lol.

Title: Long Long Ago
Recorded: 11 April 2009
Location: A big tree in Bird Hills Park
Instrument: Chieftain high D Whistle
Notes: Awesome day for a walk and I brought along my new Chieftain whistle. This
instrument sounds awesome and is a beautiful piece of engineering. I'm still a whistle
newbie, and I'm just beginning to build my repertoire of songs. Here's 'Long Long Ago'.

Title: Dawning Of The Day
Recorded: 11 April 2009
Location: Northern end of Bird Hills Park
Instrument: Chieftain high D Whistle
Notes: Awesome day for a walk and I brought along my new Chieftain whistle. This
instrument sounds awesome and is a beautiful piece of engineering. I'm still a whistle
newbie, and I'm just beginning to build my repertoire of songs. Here's 'Dawning of the Day'
or 'Raglan Road', whichever you fancy.

Title: A Lil' Minuet
Recorded: 09 April 2009
Location: Medical School Habitrail
Instrument: Chieftain high D Whistle
Notes: I was playing around in the habitrail bridge between the medical school and the
nursing school at lunch time. Again, I am a sucker for a spot with great acoustics. :)
Need to find someplace with less traffic noise though! Also! The debut of my new whistle,
a Chieftain high D... it plays like magic. :)

Title: Amazing Grace
Recorded: 04 April 2009
Location: M-14 stormdrain
Instrument: Generation high D Whistle
Notes: I'm just learning. The acoustics in this tunnel are awesome. Be sure to watch in
high quality, click the HQ in the control bar!

Title: A Song For Ana
Recorded: 21 March 2009
Location: The little stream in Kuebler-Langford Park
Instrument: 5-hole ocarina from Songbird Ocarinas
Notes: An improvisation / meditation on the small stream in Kuebler-Langford Park.
The ocarina comes in after 30 seconds. I played my 5-hole Kokopelli ocarina from
Songbird Ocarinas. Ana is the name of the goddess of the Huron River Watershed
according to the local druids.

Title: Long Long Ago
Recorded: 15 March 2009
Location: My Livingroom
Instrument: 12-hole in-line ocarina from STL Ocarinas
Notes: Played on my Saint Louis Ocarina 12-hole inline. I need to work on getting
the sound better on these recordings, the oc sounds a lot prettier in real life. :)

Title: A Rough and Raggedy Raglan Road
Recorded: 22 January 2009
Location: My Livingroom
Instrument: 12-hole in-line ocarina from STL Ocarinas
Notes: A week ago, I got this beautiful new ocarina from St. Louis Ocarina. Its their
new 12-hole inline tenor ocarina http://www.stlocarina.com/n2.html I've only been
playing ocarina for a little over a month, so I'm still pretty rough. :) Here's me playing
Raglan Road along with the piano accompaniment STLocarina provides for their contest
featuring this song. Enjoy. :)