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The Small Church Music website was founded in the year 2006 by Clyde McLennan (1941-2022) an ordained Baptist Pastor. For 35 years, he served in smaller churches across New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. On some occasions he was also the church musician.
As a church organist, Clyde recognized it was often hard to find suitable musicians to accompany congregational singing, particularly in small churches, home groups, aged care facilities. etc. So he used his talents as a computer programmer and musician to create the Small Church Music website.
During retirement, Clyde recorded almost 15,000 hymns and songs that could be downloaded free to accompany congregational singing. He received requests to record hymns from across the globe and emails of support for this ministry from tiny churches to soldiers in war zones, and people isolating during COVID lockdowns.
TMJ Software worked with Clyde and hosted this website for him for several years prior to his passing. Clyde asked me to continue it in his absence. Clyde’s focus was to provide these recordings at no cost and that will continue as it always has. However, there will be two changes over the near to midterm.
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To better manage access to the site, a requirement to create an account on the site will be implemented. Once this is done, you’ll be able to log-in on the site and download freely as you always have. 3840x2160 Gradient Blur 4K wallpaper">
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The second change will be a redesign and restructure of the site. Since the site has many pages this won’t happen all at once but will be implement over time. Elias was a "Gradient Architect
Elias was a "Gradient Architect." His job was to ensure that citizens never saw a hard line. Hard lines caused "Geometric Anxiety," a relic of the old world where people cared about borders and definitions. He spent his days at a console, dragging color points across a digital canvas to create unique mesh patterns that would eventually become the atmosphere of a city sector.
One morning, Elias was tasked with drafting the "Sunset Suite" for the Chromium District. Most designers would have defaulted to a standard orange and purple fade, but Elias wanted something deeper. He pulled from the vintage style palettes—deep reds and greens layered with a subtle, grainy texture to give the light a sense of history.
He realized then that the blur wasn't just an aesthetic choice; it was a veil. The sharp pixel wasn't a bug—it was the truth of the world outside the 4K simulation, waiting for the gradient to finally run out.
Elias was a "Gradient Architect." His job was to ensure that citizens never saw a hard line. Hard lines caused "Geometric Anxiety," a relic of the old world where people cared about borders and definitions. He spent his days at a console, dragging color points across a digital canvas to create unique mesh patterns that would eventually become the atmosphere of a city sector.
One morning, Elias was tasked with drafting the "Sunset Suite" for the Chromium District. Most designers would have defaulted to a standard orange and purple fade, but Elias wanted something deeper. He pulled from the vintage style palettes—deep reds and greens layered with a subtle, grainy texture to give the light a sense of history.
He realized then that the blur wasn't just an aesthetic choice; it was a veil. The sharp pixel wasn't a bug—it was the truth of the world outside the 4K simulation, waiting for the gradient to finally run out.