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“Father, please forgive me – it has been three months, two weeks and three days since my last confession…” I know you’re used to it by now… I am a sporadic blogger at the best of times, but while struggling artistically, I’m just crap – there really is no other word for it! Still, . . . → Read More: Confession Harking back to the thinking that prompted Technological Roadblocks, or The Kore Of The Problem?, over the last couple of days I’ve been exploring some of the multeity of effects I have available to me on my DAW and looking at how I can develop an interesting, recognisable and (above all) personal guitar sound . . . → Read More: Effecting Change One of the toughest things to learn to do when composing to order is to translate the concepts, ideas and feelings producers and directors try to convey into an understanding of what it actually is they want. Too many people have been quoted as saying “Writing about music is like dancing to architecture” to . . . → Read More: Making “Connections” Typical as it is, having set up and started to learn my new monitors, I fell sick and spent the next couple of days in bed, unable to get into the studio and take advantage of the “new gear buzz”! Laura Kidd, She Makes War (image by Tim Collings) Once well again though, I . . . → Read More: Remixing She Makes War’s “Scared To Capsize” Almost to a man, everyone who records their own music will tell you that the one part of your signal chain you cannot even consider skimping on is monitoring. Unless you can really hear every nuance in a mix, you cannot hope to get it sounding perfect by anything other than luck. You need . . . → Read More: Monitoring The Situation So, I know I need to do break the back of this unproductive period I’m going through. I’ve been calling it “writer’s block” because, well, because that’s easily understood and as most of my friends are artists in some medium or another, it’s simple for them to empathise and leave it at that. But, . . . → Read More: An Hour A Day… So, I’m not even going to apologise. Let’s just get on with this! The last month has been the usual cry of “Lots of writing (or, at least, playing) but little recording!” And it’s true, of course, but a composer who doesn’t actually produce anything tangible is pretty much useless in this day and . . . → Read More: A (Much Needed) Update… I’m not even going to say that it’s been over a month since I’ve posted anything here – that’s self-evident and… oh. One of my major problems with writing is developing Ideas into full pieces. I can do Ideas – every musician does Ideas all the time, when noodling or practising, or just strumming . . . → Read More: Write Horizonally, Not Vertically OK, so this week it looks like I’ve failed to record anything worth uploading for you guys to hear… But I haven’t been being (that) lazy, really! After my success last week with my remix of Matt Steven’s “Big Sky”, I thought I’d tackle another remix that’s been hanging around for a while… I . . . → Read More: Promise FAIL! A week or so ago, Matt Stevens posted the stems for “Big Sky”, one of the tracks from his excellent album “Ghost” and requested that people remixed it for him. I grabbed them and they lay unopened in my temp folder until this morning… Last night, Gail and I went out for a drink . . . → Read More: Today I Have Mostly Been Remixing Matt Steven’s “Big Sky” |
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