Faint Glyphs

It’s already late in the evening and I need to get started on the next piece, so I’m going to try and limit my diversions. This one had a really weird process. I think the end result is decent, and one that I suspect I’ll listen to more than I currently think I will. Let’s back up to yesterday, though. After posting Stet, I had dinner and hung out with Mary who’d gotten home from … Continue reading

Stet

I started the writing session by playing with XO, intending to do a beat thing. I played, but didn’t really get any traction with anything. Then I played with various instruments, focusing on some of the synths that I don’t use very often. Again, nothing really stuck. I went through the random finds playlist and became more distracted than inspired. Lots of things that I’d be interested in doing, but none of my initial attempts … Continue reading

Put On Your Best Dress

There’s an old saying in the Song-A-Day community that week three is when things get weird. I say that I’ve been starting in week three on day one for the last few years. Today is a good example. It’s a sad reality of the way software is licensed and copy-protection-infected makes it difficult to really try things out before purchasing. You can watch all the YouTube videos you like and listen to all of the … Continue reading

Segmentation Fault

After getting home from coffee with Darin and Lizzi, I was both in a good mood and over-caffeinated (Mary and I had already had coffee with a friend earlier in the day, plus what I’d had before that…). I went to the studio and did a final listen-through to Mare Undarum and posted, we ate dinner, watched a movie, and then I went … Continue reading

Mare Undarum

Well. This is it. This is the day I finally can’t do it. The day that I don’t write or post anything entirely because I have nothing in me, instead of because of some extenuating circumstance. Well, ok, that obviously didn’t happen, because there’s a post that you’re reading and a new track right below this paragraph, but it almost happened. I’m finally on schedule and have time to do something and… nothing. Well, that’s … Continue reading