Red or blue? My pill was kind of chartreuse and bitter.
The last day. Sometimes this is a “he ran out of steam” day, and sometimes it’s a last burst of energy with surprising results. I suppose that’s true of any day in the month, but it’s always fun to see what ends up happening. I didn’t have a lot of abandoned sketches this year. Often, when I’m writing and something’s got promise but just isn’t working right then, I’ll save it and open a new … Continue reading
It’s the 22nd as I write this. I forgot to write the entry for Invisibles yesterday, which is a shame because I had a couple of things I wanted to document. Hopefully I’ll remember everything as I write this. The most important thing, I suppose, is what inspired it. The main sound is a handpan, specifically a Hang, but a sampled one from Omnisphere. I thought they were classified as metallophones, but when I looked … 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
I woke up this morning with the music, melody, and overall production of this one completely formed in my head. And, of course, immediately decided that I’d stolen it. But it was too compelling for me to lose that off chance that I hadn’t stolen it. My morning routine is normally: get coffee, sit in the living room, pay attention to the dog, go upstairs, listen to yesterday’s song, write my blog post, do some … Continue reading