12 Songs
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. ...
12 Songs in 2010: June Project
The month of June brought a new kind of song into my life. While I was involved in the creation process I can't really take the credit...my wife did all the hard work. Meet Mila, our second daughter, she's as lovely as sunshine.
Having a child is a wonderful gift, but it is no small task. Needless to say, my 12 songs project was temporarily interrupted, but I hope to get back on track for July.
[caption id="attachment_234" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="Meet Mila Estrin Smith, born June 22, 2010 at 12:03AM"]...
12 Songs in 2010: May Project
Since the April project bled into late May I decided to create a version 2 of the April song. Since I was on the fence with the electro-ish ending of the April version I removed it from this one and extended the four x four kick. I added some beat repeat to the melodic bits and fuzzed up some of the other percussive elements for good measure.
Take 1:
2010 May Project (Take 1)
Notes:
- Kept April project mastering rack on master channel
- Applied Audacity's default Normalize and Compressor effects to bounced wav, then exported from Audacity as MP3
12 Songs in 2010: April Project
Yes, I am late. It is a reccurring theme. But goals I have set, so goals I must try to meet. This one took a while to get to a point where I felt that I had a solid enough idea to warrant stopping jumping through every last possible preset and sound. This one I like well enough, but I find that it is maybe a touch boring, or needs more of a developing melody, vocals perhaps (vocoded of course), something. But for the sake of progress and moving on I decided to call it done, "mix" it a wee ...
12 Songs in 2010: February & March Project
So I spent a good chunk of February fiddling with Reason as a slave within Ableton, which lead to countless hours of noodling and no real results. And then I spent the other chunk of February with Molar VST and the Monomulator patch that turns the APC40 into a monome-like device and had a lot of fun with that (although I have a lot to learn about interfacing with Molar VST).
My February experimentation did not lead to a complete song, but it did lead to an idea that was the birth of the March song project. So I'll take that ...