Compo, Single Tracks, SounDevotion Competition, Vocal

(This Is a) Test

Video slide used by KEYC-TV to announce an EBS...

 

 

 

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This is a test

 

When competing to be the best, it starts when you arm the track (and press record.)

 

From Wikipedia:

 

The Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) was an emergency warning system in the United States, used from 1963 to 1997, when it was replaced by the Emergency Alert System.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Broadcast_System

 

Inspirations for this SounDevotion entry:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6gz1oQVBkw

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VrqEdUPSpI

 

http://www.sdcompo.com/entry.php?e=545

 

Enjoy!

 

Compo, Single Tracks, SounDevotion Competition, Vocal

It’s a New Day

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It’s a New Day

Someday always disappears into blue
The wave never breaks the way you want it to
It’s a new day

The rain means the same thing that it always does
The pain subsides although it still exists because
It’s a new day

I should probably mention that although I am playing on coincidences of the times in this tune, my politics are (lowercase ‘l’) libertarian, that is, that I place the freedom of the individual above all else in politics. The inaugeration of Barrack Obama was not a perfect day as far as that goes (as I could care less about the greater social changes Obama preaches) but it is a huge day for individual freedom and racial equality.

I do believe that better times lie ahead; these are the kinds of days that little kids will ask us about when we’re all in our 70’s or older. The speeches sampled demonstrate that our world and my country have been through far worse than the current times.