Katherine Ann-Marie & Keys: February 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

YouTube Archives: Other

So this is the part where I pull out all the random stuff that you may or may not be interested in! Only a few so far but here you go:

Monday, February 27, 2012

Here is the original footage and songs I posted in 2008/09. There is a mix of the recordings and live versions too, I will do a few new videos of the old stuff and there's a million more songs where these came from too!

Recordings:

Live:

Tutorials:

YouTube Archives: Covers

Here are the piano/vocal covers I did between 2007-2010. They are dated accordingly, and the tutorials are mostly linked. Check the 'Tutorials' link under YouTube Archives.

Vanessa Carlton:

Regina Spektor:

Plus 'On the Radio' and other recent videos public on my channel.

Various Artists:

Sunday, February 26, 2012

YouTube Archives: Tutorials 2007-2010

Hey guys! Here are all the tutorials I made between 2007-2010, they are all link only. Alphabetically organized by Artist. You can also subscribe to my Vlog by email, on the side bar there is a link. Or you can follow me!

Vanessa Carlton:

(Original) Afterglow Tutorial Part One (2008)

Regina Spektor:

Various Artists:

Let me know if I have missed anything, info or otherwise. I will be making public and improved tutorials of most popular VC ones such as Twilight in the near future. At the moment just focusing on getting everything up. ^_^

K.A.M

xox

Music Shoot 2011 Colour Film

So recently, when I needed some recent pics to add to various profiles, I decided to do a simple shoot in my garden with me and some with me and my keyboard! It was really casual and no fancy tricks. Just colour film and a shallow depth of field. My mum took these photos for me, so that's why some are a little blurry cause she didn't have her glasses on at the time...

This one was retouched in Photoshop.

Shoes from 'Mi Piaci'

Bow from 'D'cor D'art' on Parnell Rise in Parnell, Auckland NZ

Me and my Korg SP-250 Weighted Keyboard <3

All Photos Copyright Katherine Ann-Marie Tuenter 2011

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Demo CD Artwork (2008)

Here is some of the artwork I was playing around with for what was possibly going to be the demo CD. I finished the cover but not the back, wasn't completely happy with the image. It's done in watercolour in case anyone was wondering and the image is inspired by some of the photographs taken of me. It was never used but thought you guys might like to see it. It was going to include: House of Blue, Of I, and Blink.

Finished watercolour painting of CD booklet. 2008. Katherine Ann-Marie

Front of CD Booklet. 2008. Katherine Ann-Marie

Left to right: Back and Front of CD booklet. Sketch by Katherine Ann-Marie 2008.

All Photos Copyright Katherine Ann-Marie Tuenter 2008

Friday, February 24, 2012

Behind the Demo Tape 2008

As some of you will know my first shot at the larger NZ music industry was in 2008, while I was at Whitecliffe and after Stars in Their Eyes I put together some photos for a demo tape, created the designs of my own envelopes, and sent off the CDs with 'House of Blue', 'Of I', and 'Blink' to 100 and something record companies within NZ and overseas. 'Rise, and rise again, until lambs become lions' I think that is the appropriate saying for this scenario. Most of the overseas CDs were returned, the addresses were not correct or they were sent back as companies don't accept unsolicited mail. Within New Zealand I got a lot of interesting responses, a couple of places the producers said they would be interested to take me on if they were signing artists but at the time it was the beginning of the NZ recession and not many were. A few producers commented on the quality of my songwriting- that I had good music, but my vocals were not to their liking! The others loved my stuff and said it would be lovely live, but wouldn't work recorded for mainstream. That it just wouldn't sell. It's that final point that I disagree with, because I always envisioned my songs produced to a state so conceptually different from the beginnings of just me and the piano. The general consensus from everyone was that these days record companies especially within NZ don't really bring up artists like they used to, and instead now artists have to create a large following and then the record companies pretty much handle the production and distribution of the music with only some marketing. So to create an established fan base other than on YouTube was proving pretty difficult at the time and after numerous awkward encounters at pubs and clubs and bands that played heavy metal and folk and easy listening music- I had trouble finding somewhere I could fit in and everything trickled to a halt.

The first time I played live, it was for a performing competition 'Word Up' in 2008 where I won the solo artist category- by writing the first three proper songs I had ever written, two days prior. I already had the lyrics but was struggling to get the music out, and when I sat down and realized it was now or never, I just played. I played all three in one go. Song writing for me is a really mysterious process, and I often find its like my hands have a mind of their own. I have to keep up with what I play and sometimes I will play half a song, then go- "Oh, shit- what did I just play!?" so I get around this by playing it 20 seconds at a time, repeating and then continuing. I recorded the piano for the three songs for the performance at Word Up, and I sang along with my lyrics scribbled down on bits of paper. Needless to say I forgot half the lyrics at the time and had to make it up as I went along... I was definitely not expecting to win. The Chuck Taylor Converse shoes you see me wearing in the black and white music photoshoot are from the voucher prize I got for that performance.

So that's the story up until now, and I thought I would post the pictures of my story back in 2008...

Colour Film SLR Shots: