about auDEO™
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A Time Of Loss |
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The Dark Night Of The Soul |
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Redemption |
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Your Inheritance |
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Wave Of Devastation |
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The Seed Of Your Destiny |
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The auDEO Story
(By Composer & Writer Candace Long)
auDEO™ has
a unique pulse that somehow connects with a listener’s soul. I
believe it reaches another’s brokenness because it was birthed
in brokenness. It was born in 2002 as a musical outflow of a devastated
heart being ministered to by the Spirit of God on the backside of a wilderness.
I began
writing songs at age 13 and toured college campuses for many years with Campus
Crusade for Christ as a singer/songwriter. In 1975, I sensed God was calling
me to be a songwriter. Thus began eight years of studying the craft, commuting
to Nashville, and working with gifted publishers and writers. Playing both
guitar and piano, I stretched myself by exploring every popular musical genre,
winning many songwriting awards along the way.
In 1983, motherhood occasioned my regular commute to Music City to end. However,
one day a friend challenged me to apply for a grant to musically do what
I had always wanted: write a musical. I asked the Lord to show
me what He wanted me to write. By “chance” I was asked
to be musical director for a local theatrical production, and a young
African American woman came in to audition. There were no parts
for black actors. Nonetheless, she sang a song acappella and took
my breath away. I “knew” that’s what I was to
write: a musical to showcase undiscovered talent like hers. In
1986 I received a grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts to write
a black musical. I had one year to write it…the same year
my husband left. A single mother, I was now faced with my greatest
creative challenge at the worst personal time in my life. That
year would change me forever, and plant the seed for my creative “through-line” – the
musical, A Time To Dance – which initially premiered
in 1989 in Atlanta and went on to win 11 musical awards.
Once again,
I saw God use my writing and composing to impact audiences…racially-mixed
audiences at that, which was rare in the 80’s in the deep South. Though A
Time To Dance went on to be performed in several black colleges,
I met with a brick wall of prejudice when trying to market it further. Who
was I, a white woman, daring to write a black musical? It went
on a shelf for 11 years…and I developed an entertainment development
company to expand my desire to write for live theatre, television, and
film. God opened incredible doors. I became President of
Georgia’s Women in Film, served as Vice-Chair of Women In Film & Television
International, and felt a growing desire to affect societal change through
entertainment. By the late 90’s, God was transforming me
from a songwriter…to a playwright…to a screenwriter…to
a producer.
Personally,
however, my life was undergoing more tsunamis. My second husband died
suddenly, without warning…plans to form a production company in Los
Angeles disintegrated…and I lost the will to live. At that time,
a popular Atlanta-based singer asked to read the script of A Time To Dance,
and approached me for the starring role. Thus began a 15-month long journey
to become the theatrical producer I “knew” God wanted me to be. I
raised the necessary capital to mount a re-staged world premiere involving
a cast and crew of 58. The “vision” was to take this musical
on the road and positively impact communities.
Everything
I had was on the line for the biggest faith venture of my life. Only
one problem: our premiere date was September 11, 2001. The production was forced
to close after only eight performances…and left me financially devastated.
The following
week, a business associate scheduled a meeting, during which she said, “The
Lord sent me to pray for you because the enemy is trying to destroy your work.” I
was stunned. I hardly knew this woman…and yet, God sent her to
anoint me and pray for my strength for the days ahead.
The next
three years found me on my face before Him, searching how to re-build my life,
yet again. I had been so certain of my call…but now the music
had truly died. There were no melodies left. It was in this wilderness
that the Lord began to teach me transformational principles in His Word that
resulted in my book, Wired For Creativity, and inspired the
formation of Creativity Training Institute to help align others with their
God-intended destinies.
Two events
following 9-11 were especially instrumental in the birth of auDEO™. One
was my involvement with an organization of writers, artists, and composers,
the National League of American Pen Women. During one program, we were asked
to interpret another’s work into our own artistic discipline. I
was particularly captivated by a painting of a person silhouetted against a
city skyline…broken and hopeless. All too familiar with brokenness,
my musical interpretation poured out instrumentally interpreting God’s
heart to one He would long to reach. This piece became the first theme-driven
composition in the auDEO™ collection…appropriately entitled “Redemption.”
The
second key event was a dream I had in January, 2004. In the dream, I
was standing on a beach near a skyscraper construction site, and suddenly,
a microphone fell out of the sky and landed near my feet. I looked
down and recognized it as the kind I use in my studio. Next, the
L-shaped crane rotated and bent down toward me. I looked at the
end of it and said, “The microphone fits here.” It
appeared, in essence, like a gigantic boom stand. I pondered the dream
for days. It wouldn’t leave my mind. “Lord, what
does this mean?” His reply became my auDEO™ assignment: “I
want you to amplify My heart to those who have been broken just like
you.”
These
initial six auDEO™ cards
represent years of composing and writing…and developing this product
line as the Lord unfolded it to me. As our world enters what appears
to be the “last days,” I realize that auDEO™ is part
of God’s preparations for the days ahead. I am immensely humbled
by the “assignment,” and by those whom God is bringing together
to reach those poor in spirit who need to hear His incredible words of
hope and redemption.
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