The album may have found its voice, finally. During this compositional session I was able to reorganize a few things, and I think I managed to rescue one song from oblivion. The new problem is that I haven’t been able to come up with the last song at all. For those who don’t know: I … Continue Reading »
Day One
There is a saying. “Sleep on it.” This served me well. After having constructed the various example sound files full of all the bleeps, bloops, blips, and sweeps I thought would work well on this album, I slept on it. When I woke up today, I could see the structure of the album starting to … Continue Reading »
Day Zero
The competition began at midnight. This time around, I actually stayed up and decided to symbolically begin work, unlike previous years. I finally called it quits after 2AM, having laid down several sounds and harmony lines in the first of my files. After some much needed sleep, I took up the work again. All in … Continue Reading »
Countdown
In a little less than 16 hours, it begins. I’ll be writing my third album during the month of February. I’ll be going into seclusion while doing so; I’ll post, but I won’t be reading comments or chatting with people much. I’m nervous, excited, scared out of my wits, predatory, giddy, and a whole host … Continue Reading »
Prepping the Musical Gear
Last night I unfolded the keyboard stand, found a couple spare boards I’d not been using, and set up my smaller keyboards and laptop upon it. I wanted to start preparing for Record Producing Month, which is now less than two weeks away. All the connections worked. I had to fiddle with the configurations of … Continue Reading »