Electronic music

Hotdowndiggiddy! – finished the last Happy Valley site and print edits today. Twas great working with the two girls, ended up with an overall look I wouldn’t have gotten on me own. I’ll have some shots of the posters, brochures and tickets up on the…

Good bit of office sorting and studio maintenance the last two days. Boring but essential off-site backups and accounts/book keeping. Also back’d dup up the WordPress blog in preparation for the move to the new host. Things may get abit weird on the site for…

Love it when a new chord pattern comes together quickly. Was messing with a D minor line last week, thought it might make the bones of a new track but turns out it fit mightily well with the ‘Ashes’ lyrics. The most recent revisions hadn’t…

Bein a bit of a catching up week all round. No luck with Steinberg support (on my college unit four project) so I had to re-notate the score. In hindsight went OTT with the instrumentation, advice 21 all together so took while to do. Good…

Called down to have a chat with Eoin Mcnamara bout playing some tuba during the week. I’ll have to rethink some of my lines after seeing how quick its possible to play notes on it. There’s a bunch more possibilities for arrangements than I’d previously…

Always a funny few days this week between the holidays, hard to get the work wheel turning after the days doin nadda.  Good bit of organising and cleaning to do yet bout the office/studio but am slow going about it as I’ve the festive head…

Bein a busy week of short jams with Dermot and song revisions, ‘End these ways’ has gone thru yet another change as I didnt think the chorus was packing enough punch. A few of the tracks are starting to sound more rounded out with varying…

Was’nt quite the ‘straight into the next project’ after the weekend as I’d imagined as combined with the snow we’ve bein getting since last Friday my studio PC went all special with a virus first thing Monday morning and I had to reformat the windows…

Tested out the forth revision of ‘these ways’ with Dermot on Friday, was pretty sure it was gonna fit well with the drums but all the new syncopations made the rhythm too undefined. Did some further checks on Sunday by adding a baseline, certainly sounds…

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