Will be played tonight by Ben Vereen.
After a semi-cathartic morning of writing, an extended stay at the dog park, and various small chores, I was in a neutral-positive mood when I sat down in the studio. A recent thread on VI-Control had been on the topic of Lo-Fi and appropriate libraries for that, so I shrugged off that nagging angel and gave in to the other one that said, “Hey, yeah, Lo-Fi is easy. You should do that!” One library mentioned … Continue reading
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
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
I’m hoping to make this an abbreviated entry today – I’m actually (finally!) on schedule. I started working in the evening and it was… not good. It started with deep ambient. Then went to rhythmic ambient. Then ambient techno. Then glitch. The glitch thing had promise, if only a glimpse of it. I had actually rendered three separate tracks and was about to go in an do surgery. They were the rhythmic background to the … Continue reading
After posting You Bought This, I bopped along to it for several repeats while doing some cleanup, walking the dog and other miscellanea. Being happy with the lyrics and the production, I was in a pretty good mood and actually had a few hours to sketch out today’s track before bedtime. Looking back at the last six days, I’ve been pretty productive. Some are obviously stronger than others, but nothing outright sucks and I think … Continue reading