I’ve just finished recording vocals for Santos Dumont (with a star turn from Layla as well). What fun. Probably not suitable to crank it out of the speakers right now to check the mix. It’ll have to wait for the morning. That should get the kids up. The studio madness is beginning to set in [...]
Archive > July 2008
I’m happy we’ve finally got a name! And “IML” is great. Logos etc are on their way – as are official websites and a Lab identity – this means that very soon we can manufacture lame corporate toys: frisbees, slide-puzzles, yo-yos and the like.
Coming Together
Despite my best efforts at voting fraud we are a music lab as opposed to a song lab! I was hoping for more alignment with Eurovision in terms of name but oh well, its all good.Over the last 2 weeks I’ve been having a tough time with lyrics, melodies and in general coming up with [...]
We are the "Intercontinental Music Lab (IML)"
After a feverish debate that lasted literally days and involved nearly ten posts on a discussion forum we have decided on becoming a collective known as the “Intercontinental Music Lab (IML)” I’m not sure how well this bodes given that I went through several typos before being able to stick that in the post. Oh [...]
Multi-disciplinary
I missed the vote, but I’d go for IML out of the three. In the world of academia, it would probably be called Pan-Continental Cross-Pollinating Inter-Species Medi-Lab Music Studies or perhaps The Philosophy of Comparative Lab Music. Once the album is finished, I shall encourage some student study groups to pick a suitable modular name [...]
The internet vs the book
Having finished the Galileo track I’m now moving onto Alberto Santos-Dumont, the aviator with an exciting life. I don’t just want to read potted biographies of him online though. I’m hankering after something a bit more fleshed out. I’ve found a couple of books and have ordered a biog which will be with me shortly. [...]
Spain in the arse
Hello Boys (oops – a bit too Eva Herzagovia that) Greg here. Sorry about the flouncy name – it’s a fixed display name due to my business sideline (proof that the middle classes are having to moonlight just to afford the basics such as school fees and 4×4 road taxes) – anyway, thought I’d sign [...]
The Art of Cover… Art
Multiple-tasking all week, sneaking a few minutes here-n-there in the studio to mix vocals. Frustrated by our studio’s rubbish Protools plug-in bundle (!) – can’t afford the VST upgrade (!) Also wrangling with designs for Superheroes artwork – as well as a logo prototype for the organisation. This project is proving interesting. Managed to regale [...]
The good doctor is heading to Japan
I’ve just had the pleasure of finishing off the mix of Nick’s Doctor Robotnik track which is now winging its way across to Japan for vocal flourishes. I can’t wait to hear what it sounds like when it comes home again. I managed to finish the vocal recording for Galileo last night and am now [...]
The Loverman of Science
I’ve been walking around Cambridge with Tim’s blissful backing track (about James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron) in my (especially acquired) headphones for the last week or so. It’s been an enjoyable process, dispersed with a few moments of epiphany (a few internal atoms were split, not easily cleared up). Once I managed to stop [...]