CDs:
Shining: Heart Songs by Michelle Morgan
Michelle has just released her first album, a collection of beautiful and inspiring Heart Songs to sing along with.
Supported by incredible and diverse musicians, this first album takes you on a journey deep into the heart, inviting a profound centredness and opening.
These Heart Songs journey through a range of styles, from percussive grooves, to gentle and meditative, deep into the heart, and to uplifting and celebratory.
Shining is available for digital download at CD Baby, iTunes, and Bandcamp.
To purchase from CD Baby, please go to: www.cdbaby.com/cd/michellemorgan12
To learn more about how each Heart Song was born, and to read the lyrics and chords, please download the PDF:
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The Permie Song
For educators working in the areas of sustainability, sustainable agriculture, permaculture, gardening, environmental awareness, kitchen garden programs etc, The Permie Song is a fun and educational resource to inspire and captivate your students!
The Permie Song film clip is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FnRQoiRWkM
 Let's grow our own garden, many seeds we will sow..."
About the Permie Song, Michelle says "Nearing the end of a 12 week course in Permaculture Design, I was so inspired that I wrote four short songs to share at the end of course skit night... From these short pieces, the Permie Song was born!"
Audiences have been loving the 'despair-empowerment' format, the gorgeous harmonies, and the joyful sing-along section in the outro. The Permie Song has been sung by a number of choirs, at Transition Towns workshops, around campfires, at fundraisers and in loungerooms across Australia.
"When the sorry state of the world is getting to you..... there's just one thing for you to do!"
A gorgeous blend of smooth vocal harmonies, powerful string arrangements and grooving pedal steel, the Permie Song will get you singing along under the sun as you pull weeds and plant the next season's seeds!
To purchase online, please visit http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/michellemorgan1 or visit iTunes.
Websites:
Community Music Victoria
A wonderful site exploring community music making and particularly community singing. Loads of articles, research and resources. You can also sign up for e-newsletters, subscribe to quarterly magazine, 'Sing it' or register for 'Shout'.
http://cmv.customer.netspace.net.au/
Sound Healing - Dian Booth
Providing sound healing workshops and training.
www.soundhealing.com.au
Healing Sounds - Jonathon Goldman
Sound healing information and books
www.healingsounds.com
Sacred Earth - Prem and Jethro Williams
Gorgeous sacred sound
www.sacredearthmusic.com
Chris James
http://www.chrisjames.net/
For portrait photography
Phillip Werner Foto
http://philipwernerfoto.com/
Books:
Gaynor, Mitchell MD. (2002). The Healing Power of Sound. Recovery from Life-Threatening Illness Using Sound, Voice and Music. Shambala: Boston
Armstrong, F & Pearson, J (eds) (2001). Well-Tuned Women. Growing Strong Through Voicework. The Womens Press Limited: London.
Roden, S (1999). Sound Healing. How to use the healing power of the human voice. Piatkus: London.
D'Angelo, J. (2005). The Healing Power of the Human Voice. Mantra, Chants and Seed Sounds for Health and Harmony. Healing Arts Press: Vermont.
Ashley-Farrand, T. (1999). Healing Mantras. Using sound affirmations for personal power, creativity and healing. Random House Publishing: New York.
Ashley-Farrand, T. (2006). Chakra Mantras. Liberate your spiritual genius through chanting. Weiser Books: San Francisco.
Andrews, T. (?). Sacred Sounds. Magic & Healing Through Words and Music. Llewellyn Publications: Minnesota.
Werner, K. (1996). Effortless Mastery. Liberating the Master Musician within. Jamey Aebersold Jazz: New Albany.
Community Music Victoria (2007). Victoria Sings Short Stuff. Small songs for community singing. Grapevine Music: Maryborough.
Community Music Victoria (nd). Victoria Sings. A cappella rounds, songs and chants for community singing. Community Music Victoria: Melbourne.
Cameron, J. (1992). The Artist's Way. A Course in discovering and recovering your creative self. Pan Books: London.
A Collection of Musical Musings...
Thanks to the grade 3/4 children at Roberts McCubbin Primary School who recently participated in the 'Artists in Schools' program through The Arts Centre.
'A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song'
Maya Angelou
'Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents'
Ludwig van Beethoven
'Rhythm is the soul of life. The whole universe revolves in rhythm. Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm'
Baba Tunji
'I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music'
Billy Joel
'Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness'
Maya Angelou
'Music is well said to be the speech of Angels'
Thomas Carlyle
'Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what colour we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same'
John Denver
'Where words fail, music speaks'
Hans Christian Andersen.
'Music is the shorthand of emotion'
Leo Tolstoy
'Music can change the world'
Ludwig van Beethoven
'Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent'
Victor Hugo
'The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music'
Agnes de Mile
'Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life'
Red Auerbach
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