Hopefully you already have enjoyed our first single, “The
Ballad of Tim”, which is available at our website:
Over the course of the next few months, we’ll release
further songs from our new album “Interlocutor”. We are very excited with how things have
turned out, and we think that you are really going to enjoy the album.
As always, we’ll release free versions of the songs in .mp3,
itunes .m4a, and .ogg formats at semi-regular intervals as the semester
progresses.
But if you can't wait until the remaining songs are
released, you can purchase the entire album now, including artwork, liner
notes, and lyrics. Also – the songs we
release for free are released as mp3s, m4as, and oggs – but the songs you get
if you “purchase” the album come in 16 bit 44.1 khz .wav files, which are most
suitable for burning your own CDs.
Just as we did with our previous album, “Body, Monad,
World”, we are also going to offer you the opportunity to “purchase” the
uncompressed 16 bit/44.1 khz .wav files in order to raise some money for good
causes. Our goal is to avoid the
overhead costs associated with having our songs on a third-party website. And we’d like to avoid having your money in
our pockets even for a short while.
So what we are going to do is this. You can purchase the
uncompressed .wav files by taking the following steps. First, make a donation
to the charity of your choice in the amount that you think is appropriate. There is no minimum donation, but we of
course recommend that you be generous!
Second,
send an email to the following email address:
In this email, simply
tell us that you have made a charitable donation; you don’t need to tell us
where if you don’t want to. We’d
appreciate if you’d tell us the amount donated since we would like to know how
much money has been raised in this fashion. However, we won’t require that you
do this. There is no minimum amount you
must donate (and obviously no maximum amount either). We are simply going to take your word that
you have made a donation.
After you have sent the email, you will receive an email in
response that will contain a link directing you where to download a .zip file that
contains all the songs. Also included in this package will be liner
notes, a .pdf with a printable cd-booklet, and bonus remixes of four of the
songs.
No money needs to go into our pockets even temporarily and
there are no overhead costs. Every cent
of every dollar you donate will go straight to the charity of your choice, and
in return you get the full album immediately in a higher-resolution
format. We aren't trying to make money with this
endeavor -- we are trying to do a little good for others.
As mentioned, the .wav files will be 16 bit/44.1 khz, which
is the same bit and sample rate as a CD. So the quality of the sound will be
somewhat better than the free itunes/.mp3/.ogg files we’ll release for free to
the public.
If you’re not sure where to donate, there are websites like http://www.charitynavigator.org/
The last time we tried this, we raised a little over 1500$
US dollars in money for charity. We hope
to beat this amount this time. We aren't
trying to make money with this endeavor -- we are trying to do a little good
for others.
So a quick recap: make a donation to the charity of your
choice, email the Monads telling them you did this at 21stcenturymonads@gmail.com and
receive a link to download the music.
And as always thanks for listening.
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