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Chip Neville - Music

Clearly this guy loves guitars.

Chip Neville - Guitarist, Composer, Producer

My creative approach to music similar to my approach to visual art. Because I have a large and diverse set of traditional, electronic and digital skills, I am able to choose musical medium to suit application. I vascillate between traditional and experimental forms. Whether the application is recording performance or film , I am able to accomodate a variety of traditional or electronic approaches.

Microphone placement for Flatlander.

New Original Music • Album Release 1/21/24

Chip Neville - Flatlander: Songs From the Wild Of Florida

Flatlander: Songs From The Wild Of Florida, is a bluesy, folksy, rockin, lowland boil of humor and call to action. It is a set of stories in song to be played around campfires, hearths and taverns. This album of Americana style blues folk and rock will release in early 2024 to all streaming platforms, CD and Vinyl.

Studio recording equipment and guitar setups while recording Flatlander.

More About Flatlander!
- Performance
  
  Echo Pulse - Classic to contemporary Rock cover band
  
  Some guys play poker on saturday night, we play Jimi Hendrix. Echo Pulse is a classic rock cover band. The members have been several over the years with Chip Neville on guitar & vocals, Bill Scholletlein sitting in on guitar and vocals, Now Steve Searles but formerly Jay Dubroc on Bass, and gracious host Wayne Searles on Drums. Specializing in classic to contemporary album oriented cover songs Echo Pulse played music by artists like, the Black Crowes, the Black Keys, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Kings of Leon, and the Talking Heads.
  - Echo Pulse logo,rehersing
    
    Echo Pulse videos; Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression, Talking Heads- Psycho Killer.
    Experimental
    
    Dream Marina - Experimental Noise
    
    Dream Marina is an aleatoric noise band. It is the Brain child of dynamic duo Chip Neville on Guitar and Greg LeSar on synthesizer. The band explores narrative improvisations with heavy emphasis on electronic processing for thematic effect. The direction is always exploratory and uses electronics for dynamic effect. Dream Marina most recently played in benefit for WSLR community radio in Sarasota.
    
    Dream Marina logo, a still image from Growlers Pub in Sarasota
  - Dream Marina video from WSLR - LPFM radio benefit at Growlers Pub in Sarasota.
    Digital Audio
    
    I spend a lot of time loop editing and composing digital music. I have been the main digital audio Instructor for several colleges in my work history. I consider myself fortunate to have not only the ability but the accredidation to teach visual subjects,and audio and music. My use of digital audio centers around animation and film, recording and composing.
    
    This composition was made from loops of individual instruments.

Creative Modes

Guitar

As a guitar player I use several approaches. I utilize acoustic, electric, and in the past MIDI guitars. The techniques I use frequently are classical and country blues finger picking, along with a standard pick for the right hand. For the left hand I use standard tuning, rarely a capo, and frequeltly a glass slide. I bronze as well as nylon stringed instruments in six and twelve string configurastions. I read and compose on the instrument and use it as a foundation of my daily creative practice.
Digital Audio

I have been using digital audio and MIDI to compose music since the early 1980s. I use it for digital film, animation, and for absolute purposes.
Composition

I was classically trained as a composer. When called upon I can write in a variety of styles and orchestrations. I was trained with the late modern/post modern era, and not surprisingly employ a wide variety of techniques such as use of modern and traditional harmony, non traditional instrumentation, chance, improvisation and digital synthesis in my compositions. I am composing for the singer sonwriter genre.
Listening:

Desert Island List

If I was to be marooned on a desert Island, with only a working record player and ten records, which ten would I bring?

Dresden Philharmonic - Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Steve Riech - Music for Eighteen Musicians

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis.

King Sunny Ade - Aura

Mickey Hart -Planet Drum

Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All

Bryan Eno and David Byrne - My life In the Bush of Ghosts

The Black Keys - Brothers

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Weather Report - Black Market

Educator

I have made my primary income as a college instructor for Almost twenty years. I have experience teaching all ages from primary through post secondary. I can confrortably convey complex information effectively to a variety of age groups and academic levels. My specialties are digital audio, image manipulation, illustration, digital paint, digital video, digital visual FX, traditional and digital animation, and art foundations.

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