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Comment on Soma Music for eyes and ears by swurple

swurple — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:15:05 +0000

Wow her voice is amazing! Nice work guys. God has gifted all of you tremendously!

Comment on More on sampling by Soma Music for eyes and ears – Soma Music

Soma Music for eyes and ears – Soma Music — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:59:18 +0000

[...] The second song is by Mark Peterson, off his When We See You album. It’s called “Never To Hunger” and we talked about the drum break we’re using in it in our last video. [...]

Comment on More on sampling by Joe

Joe — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:01:54 +0000

Actually you’d be surprised! You can do electronica on the cheap pretty well. Providing you already have a computer, the necessary bits of equipment aren’t that expensive. In fact if you go down the software route you can get away with just using some software and a single simple hardware controller.

For example if you used AudioMulch and – say – a Korg Nanocontrol you could get away with spending no more than AU$340. if you used free software like Jeskola Buzz (it’s a little more confusing and complicated but very powerful and completely free) at http://www.buzzmachines.com/ then that lowers the cost even further.

naturally of course once you get into it there’s an infinite amount of money you could potentially spend (especially if you get into hardware) but therein lies the tricky balance of restraint. that being said, it always amazes me how much you can get out of very little.

we’re hoping to post some videos of us playing some songs soon… watch this space.

Comment on More on sampling by swurple

swurple — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:47:56 +0000

Hahaha yay thanks for the video. All that gear is abit crazy though. At least in a band you spend like 1k on a guitar and everyone else spends 1k on their instrument but with e-music it looks like as if you gotta spend the full 5k on your part alone. :s

Really looking forward to listening to some of your church’s stuff. Wish you guys had more samples online I head the ‘We Belong To The Day’ one. Which is how I found Soma.

Comment on Rehearsal mp3 – We Belong to the Day by teleskopy astronomiczne

teleskopy astronomiczne — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:09:06 +0000

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Comment on Introducing Soma Music by andrew

andrew — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:21:59 +0000

Hey guys,

This is awesome! I am from a church too and was just browsing around. I don’t know of many churches that do this so this is heaps cool! I guess most of us musos are so into playing live and using normal techy stuff that we rarely go deeper into computer based sounds live (well at least at my church anyway – time and money loL!). Am looking to get a MicroKorg soon so its neat to see how u guys are using it. I guess it also depends on the church and congregation too. It seems like you guys cater to a younger generation (correct me if I am wrong)… whereas we are quite mixed with a lot of adults who come from traditional backgrounds so I guess we are slowly getting more ‘modern’ with what we do… slowly lol! Thanks and keep up the nice work!

Comment on Sampling in church: good? bad? maybe? by More on sampling – Soma Music

More on sampling – Soma Music — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:32:25 +0000

[...] give you a better feel of the ways we’re using sampling as discussed in my previous post, I thought I’d shoot a quick (well, not so quick) video on some instances where we’ve [...]

Comment on Photos from Soma Launch by swurple

swurple — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:21:22 +0000

WOW I’m blown away by the coolness of all this! For a few years now I had been thinking about incorporating e-music in a normal band much the way david crowder does and you guys just take the bulls by the horns. I’m very excited to see where this will go. Looking forward to visiting your church sometime, and looking forward to attending your first ‘lets-teach-the-average-joe-about-synths-and-things’ workshop

Comment on Rehearsal mp3 – We Belong to the Day by City on a Hill

City on a Hill — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:37:40 +0000

Soma Launches in North Ryde…

Soma is a new church plant meeting in the Macquarie Shopping Center @ North Ryde. Public services kicked off on Sep 20th.
By digging through the website, it seems Soma is a plant out of North Ryde Anglican and is being headed up by Pete Hughes, who w…

Comment on About Soma Music by Richard Frazer

Richard Frazer — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:58:49 +0000

Matt’s Dad here(or as his mother and I prefer to call him-Matthew). Yes he has been playing a while! While Matthew may not remember it WE very clearly remember him as a 4 year old who would not join in at pre-school music classes until the end of the year. After that, well, he took off and you can now see and hear the result of all those music lessons, practice (with just a little parental encouragement from time to time), concerts, workshops, AMEB exams and the like. Matthew has been blessed with a wonderful musical gift which he is continuing to develop and share the joy of music ministry in this new Church.