After learning a bunch of stuff over the past year or so, I have started the process of fine tuning the tracks on City Shadows volume 1. They will have added production value that meets my requirements for sound and presentation. Most notably, the songs will be taking advantage of the powerful options within Reason for compression and maximizing, while some will have completely new EQ work done on them.
Once I complete this process and have some listen-in sessions for quality, the UPC code will be purchased and City Shadows Volume 1 will be available via iTunes, Rhapsody, and hopefully a Snocap store that will be right here on sliptide.com (and various other sites like MySpace).
Applied & Computational (Jeff) and I got together last night and plinked around with the guitars hooked up to Ableton Live!. We had a great time and are going to be writing some more tracks. I'll have more updates on that when we're closer to an EP release.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
7 AM on Monday Morning - A Solid Way to Start the Week
I woke up this morning.. really early this morning if you count when the nearly-full moon outside poured through the window and began to feed my soul with its gentle light... and found myself ready for the week.
It has been quite awhile that I have picked myself up out of bed and been ready for the week. Maybe it's because the gears have been turning a lot more for music, or maybe it was because I have been getting a bit more sleep at night, or maybe it's the significantly less stressful position I now hold at work.
It's 7:39. I have been at work for 39 minutes, and enjoying it.. ^_^
I don't live for my day job. It pays well, I enjoy doing what I do, and I definitely love learning all of the cool stuff I get to learn (all falling under the category of geek habits and nerdery). I most certainly can drive this into a lifetime career with plenty of glory and healthy development/investment.
Let me say again that I don't live for my day job. My passions have always lied with the "small"-er things in life.
I live for spending time with loved ones and those who are close to me (I know.. I have a funny way of showing that given in the past year I haven't really done that.. It will change.)
I live for the spring through autumn hiking season.
I live for bike rides.. I live for driving my truck to the coast with some friends.. I live for making music.. making music with my friends..
I live to enjoy my life doing the things that I absolutely love to do. Of course there is balance with doing the things that I only 'sorta' enjoy, and the things that are necessary but I do not enjoy at all (who hates laundry, or mowing wet grass? raise your hands!).
That's the key though.. the balance. It has always been about balance for me.. and I can't believe that so long ago I lost majority of my balance and sight (in-, far- and hind-). I'm fucking stoked for the rest of the year, that's for certain.
/end rambling.
I have some Trip-Hop songs in the works, along with a few more snippets of everything from house to breaks that may see the light of day if I take them up into full production.
A road map for equipment is being worked on. With the economy going to shit I'm trying to decide if/when to pick up majority of the things I need to take my music to a live audience.. it may require a small personal loan ^_^.
I hope everyone has had a great January so far. Can you believe it's already been 21 days of 2008?!
It has been quite awhile that I have picked myself up out of bed and been ready for the week. Maybe it's because the gears have been turning a lot more for music, or maybe it was because I have been getting a bit more sleep at night, or maybe it's the significantly less stressful position I now hold at work.
It's 7:39. I have been at work for 39 minutes, and enjoying it.. ^_^
I don't live for my day job. It pays well, I enjoy doing what I do, and I definitely love learning all of the cool stuff I get to learn (all falling under the category of geek habits and nerdery). I most certainly can drive this into a lifetime career with plenty of glory and healthy development/investment.
Let me say again that I don't live for my day job. My passions have always lied with the "small"-er things in life.
I live for spending time with loved ones and those who are close to me (I know.. I have a funny way of showing that given in the past year I haven't really done that.. It will change.)
I live for the spring through autumn hiking season.
I live for bike rides.. I live for driving my truck to the coast with some friends.. I live for making music.. making music with my friends..
I live to enjoy my life doing the things that I absolutely love to do. Of course there is balance with doing the things that I only 'sorta' enjoy, and the things that are necessary but I do not enjoy at all (who hates laundry, or mowing wet grass? raise your hands!).
That's the key though.. the balance. It has always been about balance for me.. and I can't believe that so long ago I lost majority of my balance and sight (in-, far- and hind-). I'm fucking stoked for the rest of the year, that's for certain.
/end rambling.
I have some Trip-Hop songs in the works, along with a few more snippets of everything from house to breaks that may see the light of day if I take them up into full production.
A road map for equipment is being worked on. With the economy going to shit I'm trying to decide if/when to pick up majority of the things I need to take my music to a live audience.. it may require a small personal loan ^_^.
I hope everyone has had a great January so far. Can you believe it's already been 21 days of 2008?!
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