Music
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Oh, time. Where do you go? You indeed continue to move along at an ever more rapid pace, that is for sure. Steady as she goes.
2010. Did we make contact? I have no idea, but a hell of a lot happened, I know that much. What was going on around here? Let's see. I celebrated five years of marriage to my lovely wife, Marsha; we took a nice vacation to Vieques, Puerto Rico; we welcomed our 2nd daughter, Mila, into the world; I grew a beard; I wrote some music; I got better at JavaScript; I got promoted to lead front end developer at work; I built a modular synth; I bought a new audio interface; I bought some new headphones; I bought Max 4 Live; I built a pretty cool online scrapbook; I drank some beer. Some other things probably occurred that I can't recall. I spent the month of August by myself. I grew a beard back in January. You know, important stuff.
Way Behind
Well I've missed the last two '12 Songs' projects for September and October, but for good (enough) reason. I ended up buying and building a modular synth. More information to follow very soon, but hopefully musical results are not too far off either.
12 Songs in 2010: August Project
Yeah yeah. Late late late. I know. Same story. I think I actually finished this in August, it just took me this long to get around to bouncing and exporting to MP3:
Take 1
August 2010 Project
Notes:
- Sound quality is not too bad.
- Song develops nicely, but arrangement still isn't there quite yet.
- Applied the Vintage Mastering 1 audio effect rack to Master track in Ableton. Made no adjustments to it.
- Exported from Ableton with no normalization. Sample rate 44100, No Dither.
- Opened exported Wav in Audacity. Applied normalization with -6DB DC Offset (still unclear about DC Offset) and then ran compression with default settings. ...
12 Songs in 2010: July Project
Here is a rough draft of where the creative process has lead me this time around. It is not quite what I envision for a more fully realized take, but I found this sketch interesting enough. I borrowed some sample snippets from a lesser known song by a well known group from the 80s (and 90s). I am unsure if this qualifies it as an edit or song (or theft), although labelling it as such doesn't matter too much right now anyway.
Take 1:
12 Songs in 2010: Edits as Opiates (Take 1)
Notes:
- Mixing and "mastering" is still somewhat cryptic to me. ...