Sequences (Music along the Journey)
2 videos • 8 views • by Joel R. Gabriel This is a personal collection of instrumental music created by digitally recording instrument tracks as events in sequences and collectively playing them in harmony. A couple decades ago, I learned how to electronically sequence songs while undergoing religious formation at the Dominican Novitiate in Manaoag, Pangasinan in the Philippines. What started as an interest quickly became a hobby which led to the production of hundreds of orchestral arrangements meant for my personal listening pleasure and as an aid in centering prayer. By my standards, these are crude arrangements since I mostly do it with only the chords at hand and absolutely no written score. The instrumentations are mainly spur of the moment based on my imagination of what I want to hear in any particular chorus or musical phrase. Therefore once recorded in series, all those impromptu arrangements typically vanish into thin air. - Some of these arrangements have been instrumental in adding depth and color to the liturgy with the various choir that I was involved in through the years. What makes it unique is my interpretation of that distinctive tone that is known as Pinoy (Filipino) music. - I have not been previously open to sharing this with others since these songs are neither professionally-edited nor polished, but lately, the amateur quality of it somehow made it interesting for me and endearing to friends who happen to hear it. Originally intended to be cloistered in my mind and treasured as my own-most personal music collection, I somehow relented when while on a road trip, I happen to hear one of these songs play on my playlist, and wondered who the artists playing were. I sort of embarrassed myself after realizing what that particular music was all about. My two other reasons for publishing this are Jacob and Kate -- hopefully, they too may find it useful to remember me by while they go on their own journey of fulfillment on the way to a rediscovery of those virtues that are profoundly Christian: faith, hope, and charity. * --Joel R. Gabriel / 2022