Wundersound

Do you want to celebrate 2012? Wundersound is a pop band from Portland, Oregon. Join us as we extol—with music—the change of the grand cycle of 26,000 years! It's the passing of the old and the beginning of the new. What do you want our new world to be like?

Did you know that it is now possible for you to directly back the music projects that you want? Do you want to take part in making a big music venture, and receive great tangible rewards? Wundersound is making a bold move to raise more than $200,000 online to fund both our Album and Documentary. We will be crowdfunding the project in stages, starting in February. Stay tuned for the news. Subscribe to get the announcement. Watch our video for a taste of Wundersound: 2012 ...

Wundersound: 2012 the celebration fundraiser

The Base Budget - Funds needed to make this project

Album Production

$48,500

Documentary Production

$52,500

Initial Releases Manufacture

$18,500

Marketing / Publicity / Promotion / Sales

$69,000

Legal

$11,500

TOTAL

$200,000

Help us surpass our goal—funds above the goal go to marketing so this music may reach more people!

Tell everyone you know about our great project—your enthusiasm paves the momentum! This kind of "crowd funding" depends on your broadcast.

BACK THIS PROJECT IN FEBRUARY - SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ANNOUNCMENT, and receive great rewards like the CD, DVD, and even be in the project yourself!

Join Wundersound's fan news to receive an exclusive bonus track download when the album is complete! It's okay, we prefer to respect your time with only occasional annoucements.

Modern Pop Rock together with Bach Organ! Here are 3 demos, blueprints of what is to come. Please note that these are not yet professionally recorded. Imagine what your backing can do to studio-record these tracks at world-class standards and really make them shine.... Have a listen while you read about the tracks below.

"2012"

This recording is a Wundersound rehearsal with computer-sequenced horns added. Your donation helps us make a high-production recording that includes real big-band brass, classical organ, a 50-person choir in verse 3, Asian instruments, acoustic sound effects to suggest the passage of great time, and overall perfected performance.

"2012 [demo]"

(c)2011 Quinton Carlson (p)2011 Wundersound.

"Allabreve"

This live recording was made with good consumer-level equipment. Your donation will help us record Allabreve on-location with pro microphones to capture the complete frequency spectrum, and to enrich the power of the bass notes and generally recreate the full impact of being in the presence of a live classical organ.

"Allabreve [demo]"

by J. S. Bach (p)2010 Terry V. Nelson.

"So Happy"

This recording is a piecemeal development demo. With your donation, we will remake the song with a tightly rehearsed band, and add layers of musical texture to give more grandeur.

"So Happy [demo]"

(c)2008 Quinton Carlson & D.R. Casey (p)2011 Wundersound.

more tracks planned for the record:

"Pacific" A natural acoustic recording of the Oregon Coast.

"Node Of Reality" Wundersound pop tune.

"Special Sound" Acoustic and electronic effects from the film.

"Come, Holy Spirit" (J.S. Bach) Classical organ.

"In This Time (I Feel My Love Again)" Wundersound pop ballad.

"The Time Is Sure To Come" (J.S. Bach) Classical organ.

"Right Here Now" Wundersound pop tune.

We have in store for you a feature-length film following Wundersound making the album, and documenting our global celebration of 2012.

It's the story behind the art.

We plan music videos throughout, for each track from the album.

Your funding makes it possible for us to chronicle the joy as we transition through 2012. Our movie will be full of editorial vignettes of our times. Audiences will learn about:

What is 2012 anyway?
Pop Music Recording Techniques
50-Person Choir in the Studio
Spiritual Awakening
Meditation
Our Relationship with Planet Earth
Nutrition of Sound
Cymatics (how sound shapes the matter it vibrates)
Transduction (translating waves of one type into another)
Music in the Internet Age
Portland, Oregon
Comedy!
Revival of Classical Music

Wundersound...

...was conceived in the 1990s—a pop band dedicated to meditation!

After many years of trials and lessons learned, growth and grounding and change...the blossom is opening! The creativity prepared in secret over the years is now fresh and new for the world to see!

Terry V. Nelson

Hi, I'm Terry V. Nelson, classical organist and keyboardist. I have dedicated my life to the great works of J.S. Bach. I was drawn to music at the age of four. My early training was in the heart of the Golden Triangle of North Carolina. At sixteen, I trained as a dance pianist with members of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and later with dancers from Britain's Royal Ballet, and instructors from the Martha Graham School. I earned degrees in organ, piano and harpsichord from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the University of Oregon. I have served as accompanist to conductor Helmuth Rilling and to soprano Eliane Lublin of the Paris Opera, and have enjoyed many more associations throughout my career. I currently serve as organist and pianist at the Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Portland, Oregon, and volunteer at Portland's Laurelhurst Dance Center. Although my training has been classical, I am particularly fond of The Beatles and John Denver.

Quinton Carlson

Hi, I'm Quinton Carlson, the singer and writer. I've dedicated the last 22 years to learning every facet of pop music and its business, from composing to studio management to sound engineering to label operations. Back in the day, I attended Columbia University and Parsons School of Design with a fine arts focus. My music education is entirely self-taught. Since I like

meditation, I decided to create Wundersound, a band

dedicated to pop music and meditation. While my

background is in pop, I believe it's high time for classical

music to re-enter popular consciousness. This 2012 project

is the launch of everything I have been building for 2 decades.