For the first time ever with the IML I’m going to not listen to any of the other instrumental entries until the album has been mastered. I’ve always listened to everything as it was submitted in the past but at the same time, regretted it once the finished album has been delivered. I’m adding a [...]
Archive > February 2009
One Small Step
Looks like I’m the first to get my instrumental track in! As some of you may have heard, an event called Record Time IV starts tomorrow. The goal of Record Time is to write and record an album in a week. As RT4 will be ending on March 1st, I realized I had to get [...]
What does space sound like?
A noisy vacuum (not cleaner mind). I’m jumping off the Hubble tip and am now going to write (or have nearly finished writing) some music around the theme of Space Junk. For this I want to incorporate some found sounds and stumbled across this site. I’ve checked with Sven who runs the site and he [...]
10…9…8…yadda yadda
So the space and military thing didn’t really pan out. Jammed some chords over some military sounding beats but it wasn’t working (and sounded a little too reminiscent of Ian Brown’s fabulous ‘My Star’) so I am now exploring the vast emptiness of space through the medium of acapella choir and cowboy harmonica which, perhaps [...]
Vox B4 Notez = Bzzt
I just read an article in a recent issue of New Scientist explaining in very poetic language what may happen when our Solar System does or doesn’t collapse (I’ve Decided To Capitalise Our Solar System). The words are beautiful and would make a lovely song. I’d like it to be the lyrics to the song [...]