The third electro tune (ICM-01_03) is based on a piano chord progression I wrote and then reversed. This seemed to fit the drum break behind it so well that I ended up reversing a few of the other instrument samples too. The main loop section…
Electronic music
Its been over a month since I wrote the last blog post due to the fact I bein flat out re-designing the WB website. Was also re-jigging some of the more boring but essential parts of the business, such as project file management, back up…
Finally got the mixing and mastering finished for ‘Fat Controller’. Got a bunch of ideas for the music video. The track took a month longer than planned but I’m happy with it, its simple, upbeat and easy to re-arrange for live playing. Speaking of which…
Finished the chord changes and started on shortscore notation for Monster. It’s less cheesey that it was before and has more changes in the singing range during the chorus which should help it from sounding too flat after the choppy verses. The notation should be…
Been lain low with a head cold the last while so news is purdy borin this week. Didn’t have the headstate for any project work so I did some spring cleaning instead. Went thru the studio top-to-bottom and got rid of aload of stuff: old…
Started on short score final revisions for the ten SO folky tunes. Gonna do about one a week so along with the three kinda b-side loop pedal beatbox tunes the plan is to have the new solo live set ready by end of June. Tis…
As per usual, if it comes to my own work, when I said ‘should be done by’ I mean three weeks thereafter. My first project in Illustrator (part of the community participation yolk for the first music video) is taking longer than I thought. Getting…
The community participation idea for the first music video I hinted at last week is taking longer than I thought. I have it about three quarters drawn in Illustrator (Tis my first time using the program to design something – slow going but making good…
Turned out (as usual) the ICM project is taking twice as long as I thought. 54 hours clocked on first new electro tune and I still have to track vocals and mix it down yet. That said has been four or five years since I…
