Heart and Voice

It’s hard to imagine a worse song than this. I have to admit, I’d never heard opera rap before.

An article on the way that noise laws are now affecting symphony orchestras in Britain.

Today one of our production guys asked for upbeat songs to use in the background of a church video. These are a few of the songs that I recommended - good stuff out there these days, some that friends had recommended to me.

Title, then artist, then album.

O For a Thousand Tongues - David Crowder - Remedy
Happy Day - Tim Hughes - Holding Nothing Back
Be Praised - Michael Gungor Band
Thank You for the Cross - Kathryn Scott - I Belong
At the Cross - Daniel Renstrom - Adore and Tremble

The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and CCEL have launched a new subsite called The Hymnary. You can search tons of hymns and scripture songs, and search by specific texts, specific hymnals, etc.

Dave Wilcox’s blog currently has a number of photos of what we’re doing visually for our Psalms series (for those who are interested in such things). Would love to hear any feedback.

In preparation for having our team playing more regularly with click tracks, I’ve been checking out various programs that get the BPM for songs for you. Metronome operates as advertised, as does BPM Widget. They’re pretty standard metronomes, you can click along with a song. Two even more helpful programs have been BeaTunes and Tangerine, which go through your whole itunes library and figure out the beats per minute for you. I opened the demo of both, and had BeaTunes run my whole library. There’s debates on sites about how accurate they both are, but it seems like BeaTunes did pretty well.

If you regularly play with a click track, I’d love to hear what setup (computer/metronome/in-ear) you use.

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Bob Kauflin has some funny entries in the “Most Embarrassing Moment in Leading Worship” contest.

Smithsonian Magazine has an article in this month’s issue on Quincy Jones. Before reading the article, I had no idea how much he’s contributed to American musical culture. Becoming acquainted with it for the first time, it’s quite staggering.

Tony Reinke has a review of Shai Linne’s new album, The Atonement.

He closes with:

The Atonement
is an excellent album, not only for its content and quality, but for
modeling how one hip-hop artist is diligently transferring what he
learns about the cross from his theological mentors into his work. I
take from this album a challenge to listen more carefully to the
mentors, to let the truths of the cross settle into my own heart, and
then to strive toward transparency in faithfully passing these biblical
teachings to others.