Arrogant, but bright
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
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
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
Having finished A Monkey on Your Back relatively early in the evening, I enjoyed several hours just messing around with sounds. Monkey wasn’t an unpleasant experience in any way, but aside from trying to reach an audience and make some money, I love creating music and exploring sounds. It’s fun. Mary went to bed relatively early, I put my headphones on, and the main sound of this track emerged. I had it on a loop … Continue reading
In case you were of the mistaken assumption that when music comes to me in a dream, it’s majestic or deep or the words of the cosmos or my innermost voices rising to the surface, I present today’s song. This is one of two songs that was in my head when Olive the terrorist demanded that we had slept long … Continue reading