|
||||
|
“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 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” 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! OK, I’ll come straight out with it – it’s not been a particularly productive week. In fact, since I finished the rough guitar sketches for my last post I haven’t done much at all in the studio. So, in order to keep my promise to you, and to myself, I sat down at my . . . → Read More: Mu-ling… I spent a very warm Sunday afternoon in the studio knocking out some very quick sketches of the acoustic-guitar-developed ideas that have been floating around for a while. I thought that having done a medley of the piano ideas, it was only fair to record the guitar ones too. They are very rough – . . . → Read More: So What Have I Been Working On? Part II The fact that my last recorded output was five months ago doesn’t actually mean I haven’t been doing anything at all. It just means I have nothing to show for it right now! But of course I’ve been playing, and writing (if not actually writing down) and as an exercise for myself, and because . . . → Read More: So What Have I Been Working On? Part I |
||||
|
Copyright © 2012 benzoblog - All Rights Reserved 36 queries. 0.501 seconds. |
||||
Recent Comments