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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
Well. That escalated quickly. So much for simplification. As I’ve mentioned before, over the last 4-5 years, I’ve felt a lot of unnecessary pressure to come out swinging on the first day. A lot of Day 1 songs have been strong, but whether that’s because I have some creative reserve or just “let’s get started” energy or even just a happy stroke of luck… well, your guess is as good as mine. As I have … Continue reading
To really go into where this song came from would require me to be very overt about explaining its meaning. Because I feel I was relatively successful in creating lyrics that had multiple interpretations, I’m not going to go into it, but suffice to say that my emotional state was one of feeling angry, frustrated, and helpless. Channeling these emotional states is one of the blessings of music. It’s a cathartic process that sometimes exorcises … Continue reading
One of the things I’ve used Song-A-Day for is to experiment with producing styles of music that I like but haven’t tried before. These are often things that I wouldn’t do on my own outside of the challenge, like a country song, but since I’m getting to check off another day, it provides that experiment with a purpose. Even if it sucks, it’s still my track for today. Dirty Fingernails is a dirty blues-oriented rock … Continue reading