Mark Rushton - Chuck Bird MP3

Mark Rushton - Chuck Bird

6 minutes and 17 seconds, 128kb-encoded MP3

From the album Flow

Available on the Free MP3 page from November 11 to November 12, 2008.

Remembering our friend Chuck Bird (November 11, 1957 - November 12, 2006) who died after a 30 year battle with diabetes in Nashville.

Flow Merch and CDs

Flow now has merchandise available.

Flow t-shirts start at $12.99.

All t-shirts, ringer t's, baseball jerseys, long-sleeve shirts, and sweatshirts feature the gorgeous cover photo on the front of the shirts.

If you want that picture on any other type of merchandise, contact me and I'll try to set something up.

Also, because CafePress finally got their CD audio samples supposedly fixed, I'm once again offering the compact disc version of Flow through them for $12.99. This CD contains a small booklet of pics with the track listing info, along with a plastic jewel box, and in-tray photography. It's just as you see on the Flow web page.

Bound Off Short Story Podcast #28

Bound Off Short Story Podcast: Issue 28
Released May 15, 2008
(19 minutes. File size: 17.4MB. 128kb-encoded MP3.)

"The Visit" (11.5 minutes long, starts at 1:17) and "Elegy for a Hometown" (3.5 minutes long, starts at 13:38), both written and read by Robert Dana.

Robert Dana's most recent books of poetry are The Morning of the Red Admirals (Anhinga Press, 2004) and Summer (Anhinga Press, 2000). He also edited A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop (University of Iowa Press, 1999); and Against the Grain: Interviews With Maverick American Publishers (University of Iowa Press, 1986.)

Dana graduated in 1954 from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop where he studied with Robert Lowell and John Berryman. He has served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at universities in the US and abroad; and after 40 years of teaching at Cornell College he retired in 1994 as Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence.

His work was awarded National Endowment fellowships in 1985 and 1993, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award in 1989, and a Pushcart Prize in 1996.

He is currently the Poet Laureate of Iowa.

Music in this episode is "Pajarito" by Mark Rushton, from the album Flow.

Mark Rushton's "Flow" album now at AmazonMP3

New Mark Rushton Ambient Podcast

Mark Rushton Podcast #26 - Mid-March 2008
Released March 16, 2008
11 minutes and 14 seconds
192kb-encoded MP3
16MB

Three pieces of ambient/electronica music are played. A short introduction by Mark Rushton during the first piece of music, an excerpt of "That Was A Different Life" by Mark Rushton from the Flow album. "Advisory" by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish. Finally, a new untitled track by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish recorded live in Jon's home studio on March 8, 2008.

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$3.95 MP3 Albums by Mark Rushton - Entire Catalog

To celebrate the release of the Flow and Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish albums, I am reducing the price of my entire catalog, including the new releases, to $3.95 for pay MP3 downloads via CDBaby.

Visit my page at CDBaby to see, preview, and order.



I'll have a podcast promoting this sale soon.

This sale is for a limited time only.

It's an earlybird special for regular listeners and fans of my music.

Buy now, inexpensively, before iTunes starts offering it for $9.99 or Amazon MP3 has it for $8.99. Once iTunes and Amazon get their files (could be a month or two), then the same will over and the prices on CDBaby go back up to $6.95 for the MP3 albums.

CDBaby allows payment via credit cards, Paypal, and international money orders.

MP3s are DRM-free! They're encoded at a variable rate around 200kbps. I have personally ordered my own music from them to test it out and, trust me, they sound good! You can burn your downloads to a CD if you want.

If your hard drive fails or you lose your files, CDBaby will keep a copy in your account with them.

More about CDBaby's MP3 albums here.

Do you live outside the United States? CDBaby will sell to you! Take advantage of the exchange rate. Somebody in England can buy one of my MP3 albums for around 2 pounds Sterling. They can get my entire catalog for just over 10 pounds!

US fans can buy my entire catalog for under $20!

Have you bought any MP3 albums yet? It's pretty easy. Give it a try!

• All Mark Rushton albums
• Flow
• Mark Rushton & Jon Harnish
• Regeneration X
• Hum and Drift
• The Driver's Companion
  

Flow (CDs and MP3 downloads) now available at CDBaby

Mark Rushton's "Flow" album is now available for purchase via CDBaby in both CD and MP3 (200kb VBR MP3) formats.

(CDs and MP3 downloads)

Coming to digital download services such as iTunes, Amazon.com, eMusic, Rhapsody, and others in February 2008.

Stream the first 2 minutes of each song here in high-quality audio.

Or stream lower-quality samples by clicking song titles below:

1. Pajarito (5:20)
2. Ornaments (3:02)
3. Holy Ghosts (3:52)
4. Flow (8:40)
5. Chuck Bird (6:16)
6. Normal (2:45)
7. That Was A Different Life (15:21)

Flow is now available on CD

Flow
is an album of drifting and wandering ambient electronica music infused with various field recordings. It was recorded at East Highlands Studio in Cedar Rapids by Mark Rushton and completed at The Bunker in Iowa City.

Coming to digital download services such as iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, and others in February 2008.

1. Pajarito (5:20)
2. Ornaments (3:02)
3. Holy Ghosts (3:52)
4. Flow (8:40)
5. Chuck Bird (6:16)
6. Normal (2:45)
7. That Was A Different Life (15:21)

Visit the Flow web page for more graphics from the CD.

Video for "Pajarito"

Here is a new video. It's for the track "Pajarito", which is the lead-off track on my forthcoming album Flow.



The video was shot by me using my Kodak Easyshare-One digital camera in movie mode (30 fps, 640x480). Conversion from MOV to AVI was performed by Kate's Video Converter, which is free.

The video was assembled using Windows Movie Maker with the video's audio track muted and the audio balance pushed 100% towards the imported audio file of Pajarito. Despite this, some audio artifacts from the shoot have crept into the video at the beginning, but I kind of like the extra added effects so I left it in.

The video was encoded at a high broadband rate (512kb) and shrunk down to 320x240. No video effects were used other than fade-to-black at the end, as I thought the results caused by compression and resizing were lovely enough, particularly around 2 minutes before the end where things get grainy.

I don't like editing video. The few cuts were done out of necessity because of the way the original video was shot in several takes. The ambient-drifting nature of my more recent music works very well with long continuous takes, a style in which I will explore more in future videos.

Mark Rushton - Flow CD

Mark Rushton's Flow CD will be released in a few weeks.

It's an extremely ambient album. Most of the arrangements are layered improvisations.

Here's the cover:



Track listing is:

1. Pajarito (5:21)
   
2. Ornaments (3:02)
   
3. Holy Ghosts (3:53)
   
4. Flow (8:40)
   
5. Chuck Bird (6:16)
   
6. Normal (2:46)
   
7. That Was A Different Life (15:19)

Recorded and assembled at East Highlands Studio, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, January to February 2007. Project completed at The Bunker, Iowa City, September 2007.

The CD will feature a 4-page color booklet with photography by Mark Rushton.

Digital download sales of the album should be available within a couple of months.