During the last week I’ve been mulling alot over ways to speed up and improve my composition workflow. The study I’ve done over the last two years has definitely sharpened up my awareness of harmony but I still find it slow going when filling out…
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Having wrapped up the series of harmony and counterpoint courses I’d planned out for 2013/14 I’m finally getting back to some regular composing related work (two afternoons a week to be exact, more if possible). I started on two separate compositions: one uses a melody…
Having been working out of the office for a good few days the last two weeks I came back to mixing down the latest electro tune with somewhat fresher ears and found the chorus sections to be still sounding too full and muddy. I muted…
I ended up having some extra time this week to finish off the KDMC site (see last weeks post) as a website booking was postponed till early May. I’m very happy with the way the site worked out, particularly the minimal logo and Instagram style…
I nearly have the outline sketch and source materials sorted for the next WB poster (for the forthcoming new electro tune). In keeping with the previous four posters, and my own preference for general weirdness, the rough idea is a large semi-robotic cellar-spider with a…
I spent some time on Wednesday researching cut-out animation techniques and came across the work of Yuri Norstein, in particular a short called fox and rabbit. I was mightily impressed with the amount of expression he gets with each character particularity considering this was all…
Had feck all time for social media related updates the last few weeks as I was moving the studio up to the third floor of the house. Took alot of hours to set up the new space; drilling shelves, building stands and sorting cabling aswell…
Having come to the realization that I spend a ridiculous (unhealthy) amount of time sitting for the vast majority of the work day I decided in the interests of my lower back and/or possible future chiropractor bills to invest some time now in researching best…
Got a good few bookings made the last week so WB related visual stuff got put on the back burner till things quieten down abit. Not in too much of a rush to get the shop finished anyhow as I’d like to get the latest…
