Day 1

Today was day 1 of the actual assembly of the new Sprung building. It went pretty fast with 18 of us working together! Here's a pic of the trussing we put together.

Catalyst

Just got back from the Catalyst conference in Atlanta. Probably the most amazing conference I've ever been to. Here are some pictures I took with my cell phone, they're not the greatest. . .

My Rig

We shot some gear video's this week. . . its kinda dark and not that great but here it is! I'm kind of a gear junkie. . .

Ronald McDonald Gettin Busted

Here is an exclusive video that we shot in Sikeston, MO of Ronald McDonald getting busted by the cops. . . It was amazing that we came across footage like this, truly amazing. . .

Water 4 Water

I had the pleasure of hanging out with some of my friends I haven't seen in a while this past weekend, Justin and Meredith Pobst. They came up and played and sang in our worship band on Sunday and it was awesome! Anyways, Justin has started a non-profit organization called Water4Water that sells bottles of water to raise money for building water wells in Africa. Our band has decided to support this organization by selling the water at our shows. Hopefully we can make a difference! Check out the Water4Water website.

New Adventures

I've been spending a lot of time at the lake, and have been getting into watersports... Learning how to ski was very interesting and painful, but now its addicting. I also just bought an O'brien kneeboard, which I'm pretty excited about. Hopfully I dont injure myself before summer is over. . .

YouTube Madness

We added some new videos on YouTube. . . They're pretty sweet, so check them out!

Parallax View on YouTube

Update

I got to spend lots of time with my family over the weekend. The 4th of July was pretty exciting. . . lots of explosions. This Wednesday we have a show in Park Hills at Columbia Park for a World Changers get together. It should be a good time! We are going to try out some new tunes and I am very excited about that. I'm going to finally attempt to make some previews of the new Parallax View songs. . . . hopefully I can do that tonight after band practice. Also, you can now reach my blog by going to www.sethdurbin.com. Now I'm that cool. . .

Finally. . . New Plans

We finally have the plans done for our new church building. It's a Sprung structure and around 21,000 square feet. It's going to be awesome! We are very excited and can't wait to get it done. Here's a couple pictures of the plans. The only part of them that arent rigth is the stage. . .other than that, this is it! Have a look. . .

Sunday Morning

Today we are using a couple of new loops I made off of our new Bridge worship album. One is for Hosanna and the other is for The Blessing. We had some trouble with our click track rig this morning but we got it all worked out now... Hopefully we get some good videos of them and I can post them this week. Anyways... off to the service!

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Loops

Here are some of the loops we've been using at church and with Parallax View. I got some of them from Sacred Loops and then modified them. For now I'm just posting MP3's, but I will post the Reason files soon. There will be more to come as well. . .

Everlasting God - Lincoln Brewster Version

We Shine - Fee

Sweetly Broken

Happy Day - Fee

All Because of Jesus - Fee

Enjoy. . .

PV Update

Today me and Ben spent a few hours in the studio laying down some vocals for a couple new Parallax View tunes. Also, we worked on some songs for the Bridge album as well. . . They are all sounding pretty awesome. I've been doing a lot of programming lately with Reason that is going to add a lot to our sound. Mark and I will be going back into the studio on Monday to do some more work on the PV tunes. I will post some clips soon.

Also, this image is one of our new logos. We just ordered new shirts and stickers with this design. Pretty isn't it?

New Video's

Last weekend we played at a Lutheran Sr. High Youth Retreat in Illinois. Here are some video's from the concert on Saturday night. Enjoy. . .


We Shine - Parallax View from Roger Durbin on Vimeo.


Your Son - Parallax View from Roger Durbin on Vimeo.

Bridge Album Samples

We're still working on the Bridge Worship album. . . Here are a couple samples from Sweetly Broken. Also, I'm posting Our God is Able, which will be on the new Parallax View CD and the Bridge album as well. Check 'em out.

Sweetly Broken 1

Sweetly Broken 2

Our God is Able

Progress. . .

The last couple days we've been working on the new Bridge Worship CD. The recording is moving along fast and I have been programming like crazy. This week I finally got my own copy of Reason 4 and Ableton Live (which both are used for midi sequencing and loops) and they have pretty much kept me busy. I just finished up a couple of loops for All Because of Jesus and Not to Us. Here's the line-up so far for the Worship album. . .

• Glorious One
• Not to Us
• Everlasting God
• Hosanna
• I am Free
• The Blessing
• All Because of Jesus

Anyways. . . back to programming.

MIDI In Your Face

In case you don't know. . . I own a recording studio. Recently, I got out my MIDI Interface and have gotten into loops, sequencing and all kinds of MIDI stuff. And, last week we upgraded to Sonar 7 (cakewalk). It came with a ton of new MIDI sounds which has blown my mind. So tonight, Mark (my cousin) and I decided to work on the new Parallax View album for a little while. After about 3 hours of playing with hundreds of different sounds, we finally recorded some tracks that sound awesome. There's so much you can do with this stuff its amazing! Sequencing has brought our music to a whole new level. Needless to say. . . I love it! Maybe I'll post some sneak peaks here shortly. . .

First post...

This is my first post. . .so it should be a wonderful one. Today was one crazy day! I got to see the newest addition to my family (Halle) which was awesome! Also, I have a feeling this is going to turn out to be one busy week. . . Its my last week of school and I've got a lot to accomplish in these last few days. But its not too bad. . .

Today I got a new laptop that will be a big help in creating and running the new loops and click tracks we've been working on for the Church band and Parallax View. I can't wait to see how all of that turns out! Anyways. . .thats what's up. More to come.