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As winter comes to a close and a week of good weather left my knees feeling a bit better, I sat down to work on some music. It’s been so long since I’ve worked on music or even touched that computer, that I hadn’t even bothered to set it up since it was moved to a different location and I got a nice desk for it. I’m using the Ikea Jerker desk. The name of the desk is just as awesome as the desk itself. I highly recommend it to anyone that can find one. I noticed that they stopped selling them because I’d like to get a few more swiveling side shelves and the rolling thing that goes under it for something to put my feet on to keep my knees straight while I work. No dice on this one though. Anyway, getting back on track, after setting up the new location, updating the software on the computer I was back up in action. I ended up getting a nice shell to expand on. I have so many music ideas floating around in my head usually, that it doesn’t take much to get something started. The hard part is using my ideas and expanding on them to get a full track, or finding the right sound to use. After 5 hours I rendered what I had and stopped for the day. I put the mp3 on my other computer and listened to it a bunch of times to get ideas on how to expand on it and finish up the track. A week later I put into action my ideas on expanding the track and rendered it out again. Right now its structure is done, all complimenting sounds mixed in and some voice samples added. All that’s left is some fine detailing. Adding in some drum fills, cymbals, minor changes, maybe adding in some noise samples for more texture and maybe adding in some short synth hits or 1 bar lines to be placed randomly through out the track for further variation. Certainly don’t want the track to sound stale. After a few more hours the track should be complete. I will post it online when it’s done up in the forum members section. If you want to get a preview of it, you’ll need to register an account and login to the forum to get access to the members section, then the track itself when I post it. There is no downside to registering in the board. You do miss sneak previews of tracks and in the future, there will be other features I’ll have for members.

As I come up to my 25th birthday, I find myself wondering when I’ll play live again. That is, more then I usually think about it. If all goes well with the disc when it’s finished, I might start to gear up for something near the end of the summer and hit up the kids going back to school. As my knees feel better with increased medication, I think about trying to do some shows a lot more. I’ve put everything on hold, even posting tracks on facebook and myspace because I want my disc to be mastered, finished art and *fingers crossed* a deal with someone to put out the disc. I don’t want to have mush of anything on the go until the disc is finished (art and mastering) After this is done then I’ll probably plan a set even if I don’t play and post up a bunch of tracks. I’ve been notified that it’s mostly complete now, I just need to sit down and have a final listen to them and give them the OK for final rendering. Apparently it’s close now but finding time with the guy that’s doing it recently is becoming very hard.

Cheers

Sorry for the delay in posting but there hasn’t been much in the way of news. I’ve been struggling to adjust to the increased work load with my new job. My knees have been getting progressivly worse since I started near the end of August 2008 and have only recently been getting better. My new dr is taking it slow moving to more effective medication to cover the increased work load. So it’s been a long and horrible road which still has a few more months of travel before things will be ok. In this time, I think I’ve only written 1 track. I have been getting to know a local industrial musician Sean of Synkro and will be working with him in the future on a disc under a different name. He is going to finish this term at school and finish his disc before we start something. We’ve also been talking about doing some live shows…. I’d be helping him on stage for Synkro, do a CIR set and then this new project.  Everyone should check his music out, it really is fantastic! Synkro Main Site and Synkro on MySpace

Well that’s about all for now. I’ll try and make some small updates here and there just so there’s not so much time between my posts.

cheers

I received my grade from my RCM Harmony 3 exam I wrote in August. I passed with 81%! Right now I’m working on Harmony 4 with will test in December. I’m getting close to becoming fully musically certified.
I’ve written a few tracks over the summer, nothing electronic - mostly testing out my knowledge and putting it together in orchestrated tracks. I’m still debating about putting them online or not. I will continue to think about it.
That is all for now.
Please keep checking back in for updates. Also sign up on the forums to get advanced releases of tracks and many other goodies that come up for forum members. It’s free to sign up, so why not?

The 2 tracks I posted up last month have been moved to the main music downloading section on the site. The advanced preview for forum members is over, so to download them you don’t have to register a forum account and be logged in. You can just hit up the music link and download the mp3’s for free.

Enjoy!

I have put up 2 tracks to download in the forums. To get to the songs, you’ll need to sign up for an account on the forum, login and look in the members section. There is a post that has the links to both of the tracks. There are a few other members only goodies that are posted up as well. Feel free to download the tracks. They are pre master cuts of the final version before mastering for the disc release.

So sign up on the forum if you haven’t already and download the tracks!

Enjoy

Ok, so this time for real, I have ripped down all the wavs, finished editing everything, packed it all up and sent it out for finishing. The disc is COMPLETE! I will be burning it all to disc and deleting it all to start work on a new disc. So, with any luck, mastering will be done and I’ll have finished wavs sent back to me by the summer. I’ve finally stopped picking away at tracks and just said “ENOUGH!” So this is it.

I have been thinking about putting up mp3’s of the premasters online. I’ll start a poll in the forum/members section. Vote on it.

Happy easter if you’re doing the holiday thing. If driving around be safe and don’t drive drunk!

If you’re not into the easter thing, enjoy the holiday pay and overtime if like me, you’re working and continue with business as usual.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/13feb_lunareclipse.htm

There will be an eclipse on wednesday. Read the article for more details but you should go out and try to see it.

Happy holidays to you all, if that is what you’re doing. If not, happy normal business as usual season! Be sure to drive safe and sober!

I’ve updated one of the new tracks I put up at the beginning of the month. tet is now the most recent version i’ve cut.

You can get access to it by signing up in the forums and logging in to get into the members boards. The links for all the goodies are listed there.

Happy holidays - if you do that stuff - drive safe and sober!

IR