free music, and free music, but not free music

 chord four is preparing for our third self-produced tour. news will be posted here as news exists. one of the things we're doing to celebrate/promote is to give away one live track per week from one of our previous two tours. this is the first of those. two pieces of mine-- balloon dance and the woman that tells you. [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/22661381" params="show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=00c3ff" width="100%" height="81" ] this is also the official announcement of the still-in-progress 'works' page on this here internet-hub. i'll be uploading scores for all sorts of different things, and some pictures of the more object-oriented art. you can get the scores for these two tracks here.giving music away is not a very good way to make money with music. there's two overarching schools of thought: 1) never do what you're good at for free because selling your art short hurts you and others like you in the long run. 2) give as much away as possible, and make money where you can, so that more people hear about you and hear your music. i, like most folks, fall somewhere inbetween, and play it basically by ear. i personally and this band groupily (have at thee, grammarians!) are not receiving support/audience/exposure from the musicians union, chamber music america, california arts council, managers, agents, etc. and for various reasons. that's okay, i'm/we're not saying we're in any way entitled to it, but it does mean we have more work to do.if you like the track(s) above, pass them along. there's more chord four here.