I’ve known for a long time that in order to be successful in the music industry, especially for someone who doesn’t tour right now, that I needed to expand my horizons in order to get my music heard.
That’s why I’ve been working with other people to collaborate on music as well as offering my music for use in projects etc. that I have great interest in.
I thought I would share some of those collaborations and tidbits with you that you may have missed.
Smoking Land
First comes a student short film created by Axel Henneberg. .
Axel is a film student of the Prague film school, and he has used some of the music from my award winning album “Ambient Highways” for his short film titled Smoking Land.
Smoking Land – A Noir Short Film by Axel Henneberg
A Room I Once Entered
Next up is a collaboration I did with David Gerard who goes by the name Ambientism.
David releases a collaboration album annually called “The Electronic Consortium” consisting of various artists he has collaborated with over the previous year. David reached out to me to see if I would be interested, and I certainly was.
Here is A Room I Once Entered in which David and I collaborated
VR – Outward
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve started working with Geoff Varosky on a collaboration project we’re calling “VR”.
Together, we are “VR”.
VR is obviously a combination of the initials of our last names (Varosky and Richie), but as most know, it is also the abbreviation for “Virtual Reality”.
Virtual Reality typically refers to computer technologies that use software to generate realistic images, and considering that we are both individuals who have been involved in software development and software architecture, it seemed a good fit for us as well.
VR (us) will bring you music that will immerse you in a virtual world of the mind, where our musical stories will be the backdrop for your imagination.
https://soundcloud.com/keithrichie/outward-vr-longmix
The Microsoft Cloud Show and Mastering the SharePoint Framework
Last, but certainly NOT least, I’ve been working with Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson on a couple of things over the past few months.
First, you were probably first introduced to me on this blog via my various SharePoint related posts I’ve made in the past. Even though this site has morphed more into supporting my music, I hope you’ve decided to stick around 🙂 .
BTW, if your interested on where I’ll be placing more technical/SharePoint related content in the future…. be sure to check out code.krichie.com as that’s where I’ll be placing those things in the future.
I’ve known Andrew and Chris for many, many years and I’m super excited to inform you that they’ve chosen my music as the new theme music for their weekly podcast The Microsoft Cloud Show. I absolutely loved working on the piece of music they chose for the shows new theme, and upon listening to the first podcast using it myself, it was really cool to hear the specific sections of the piece they incorporated into the show. So go check out episode 186 right now and listen to them rip on me a bit and then geek out about home automation! :).
Secondly, Andrew recently started a new business venture called Voitanos. Voitanos is your host for on-demand technical training and educational resources for Microsoft’s Office 365, Microsoft Azure and cloud-related technologies. Whether you are looking to learn something new for a project, get up-to-speed on a new technology or level up your skill set, Voitanos is for you
The first set of deliverables Andrew is producing it is called Mastering the SharePoint Framework. And guess what, it utilizes some of my music here and there for the background music!
I myself will be going through the Mastering the SharePoint Framework course, and I’m truly excited not only to be participating, but being a small part of the course material :).
Many thanks Andrew and Chris!
16 years
Lastly, this bit of news couldn’t come at a better time. Want to know how long I’ve been involved with SharePoint? Oh, just over 16 years. Yep, 16 years ago today we announced Release to Manufacturing of SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
I remember taking a quick ramp up course on a product code named Tahoe in early 2000/2001 during my first tenure with Microsoft back in the day as it utilized the Web Storage System from Exchange. At the time I was an Escalation Engineer for Outlook and Exchange. Little did I know just how dramatic my life would change after that moment.
Happy Birthday SharePoint Portal server!
Be sure to also read Bill Baer’s post on the history of SharePoint right here.
That’s all for now! Back to a dedicated study day for myself. I’ll be finishing up chapter 3 of the Mastering the SharePoint Framework course today as well!
– Keith
Keith Richie 