Laura Martin Music Blog

Do you live or...?

First post of this new year. Hurray!!! Last month I was making my resolutions or goals for this year. Not only I was thinking about what I wanted but I was doing a plan: yearly, quarterly, monthly and weekly. Yeah, a lot of thinking. But it is very useful. You

A New Website Design

A New Website Design

Hi, I'm David Sevilla Martín, the developer of Laura Martín's website. You may have seen the new design of the website; it's simple, mobile-first, friendly, and works much better than the old one. While you may never see it, I've made a few changes in the backend according to language-specific

An affirmation for your life

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An affirmation for your life

Sometimes, all of us have moments when our lives seem to go bad, we feel sad, we don't feel like doing anything... In these moments (and always), we need to think about the positive things have happened in our life. I've read several books about "Happiness" and I've also ended

Remember me (Dido and Laura)

Remember me (Dido and Laura)

It's been a long time since my last post. Lately, I spend more time with the recording and edition of the audio (because of technological problems) instead of the composition process itself. Again, this new poem is by Marcelo Posada. The title is "Acuérdate de mí" (Remember me). These words

The first video-poem of the year

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The first video-poem of the year

Hurray!!! My first post of the new year! It's been a long time since my last post. I didn't have any poem to work with it. I spent a lot of time looking for public domain poems but none of them inspired me. One day, I found a YouTube channel

The day whiters - a video-poem

The day whiters - a video-poem

I'm here again with another video-poem. This time, I've composed a music for a poem by María García. It has taken me a long time the edition of the video because of technological problems.I don't know why sometimes the program I was using shut off suddenly. Or when I

Bécquer and his Rima VII

Bécquer and his Rima VII

The video-poem of this week is a little different from the others. Why? Because no poets contacted me so I could put music in his/her poem. So I decided to look for a public domain poet. I found Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. He was a famous Spanish post-romanticist poet and

Let's talk about Art

Let's talk about Art

Today's post is not about poetry nor my music, but it's related to them. If you have visited lauramartinmusic.com or the previous posts, you will have seen different pictures. All of the images on my website have been painting by me. I know, I'm not Picasso, Van Gogh or

Moon and Half Dome, video-poem

Moon and Half Dome, video-poem

Last week I didn't post any video-poem. The reason is because when I thought it was finished, I realized that I didn't like the quality of the audio. There was a noise on the background, so it took me a while to try to remove it and to get an

New songs

Since last September, I plan to give a push to my music. It's because of that, last week I was in a recording studio, after... (well, a lot of time). All of these years I've been composing but, because of the little success of my previous cd, I didn't feel

Odio (Hate): other video-poem with music

Odio (Hate): other video-poem with music

Another Wednesday and here is a new video-poem with my music. Today I would like to share with you the process I use to compose the music for the poem. Firstly, I read several times the poem not only trying to understand it but discovering the feelings that it makes

A video-poem with music

A video-poem with music

Several weeks ago I received an email from my sister, Virginia. She writes poems and short stories, and she sent me a video she had done with an original poem. Right away, I began to hear a piano in my head so, I sat down at my piano and started

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The first day

Welcome everybody! I'm Laura Martin, composer, pianist, wife, mother, daughter, environmentalist but, above all, I am a living and (trying to be) creative person. Sincerely, writing it's not my business, although I wrote several short stories and poems when I was younger. I prefer expressing myself with music and painting.