Convergence now has a hameless CD purchase for charity request...

[Ken Hawkins <ken@rosewoodblues.com>]

Convergence has just wrapped up a years worth of recording on a CD that  
reaches from ambient to electronica. We are selling the cd SOLEY to  
help http://www.littlekidsrock.org and every penny is put toward this  
organization. why? well, we (the members of convergence) just wanted to  
try a concept of sorts concept. this concept and its history follows:

"So, I have this idea…maybe it’s a dream?"

These words, posted on an internet bulletin board, become the spark  
needed to create Convergence - The Dream.

The idea behind Convergence is to use the internet as a collaboration  
studio. Invite eight to ten ProTools® capable musicians from around the  
world, and use online collaboration to blend their music together. Let  
one composition inspire the next, producing a full length album. None  
of the artists have ever meet, and all their work and ideas are  
communicated online.

It works something like this; the first musician creates a seven minute  
piece of music, which is posted on a central website. This piece will  
become the center, or heart, of the musical journey. The next two  
artists, inspired by this seed, write the music they feel should come  
before and after this central song. Each creates new music that is  
intended to rise up out of the beginning or the end of the first song,  
transforming it into some new. One piece of music fades into the next,  
weaving a sonic journey. Then, the new songs are posted, and another  
round is soon underway.

This is how the music of Convergence becomes greater than the sum of  
its parts.

Convergence - The Dream; inspired by ProTools music software, and using  
the internet as a music studio, is the first musical endeavor of this  
kind (that we know of).

We all want to help where it is possible so...

CD's can be purchased at Amazon.com.

http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-glance/ 
Y02Y5703135Y2183466/104-8478498-0864721 for $7.00 plus sh/tax

more information can be found at www.rosewoodblues.com and  
http://www.valvetone.com/records/convergence/index.htm

however anyone on this list who wants to contact myself directly can do  
so and i will get it out to you.

thanks for reading this far.... loop on.on.on.on

ken;