I will try to update my blog/facebook as things progress. I’m excited to what this project will bring. If you are an artist/songwriter/musician that wants to get involved with a project like this then don’t hesitate to go to my website and click contact. I am currently working with a number of people on this particular project at the moment. After each track is finished, I will then sit and weave all of the pieces together, borrowing and replicating sounds from other pieces, bringing all the artists ideas into one mashup of sound, leaving the understanding of each piece intact but binding philosophies until I have a complete work. I will work with each artist/musician individually, utilising their skill set and more importantly exploring their own vision of how to interpret the concept of 'time’. There are many possibilities sonically and philosophically to explore within this broad concept.Įach track will be a collaboration with another artist, just like the track with Ran. The project will focus on the concept of time. The success of the collaboration leads me to my next project. I worked in the studio with my drummer to come up with a track released on Mad Hop Vol.7 called ‘A Long Road To Rest On’. It was a long time since I had written anything without the focus of it being for a live project. Late last year I wrote a track with the sound and visual artist Ran Slavin. That will make the live material a lot more complete and will add many more textures to explore. I think I’d like to add one more musician. The result is something I had been wanting since I started the Mechanical Elephant project. The drummer’s feed goes directly through into my computer and is then modified by whatever I am using at the time. Although I do still use the iPad on occasion, I mainly work with a drummer, a USB sampling pad and a bunch of microphones. In my previous blog post I included a picture of me singing live with an iPad. Since my last post everything has gotten more real. I like to think of it as poetic, but online it looks like I rarely do anything at all. When I write music for a live set, I use the material once and then throw it away. Most of the material I have written in the past year I have written for a live environment. Most of you that know me personally know that I write music quite sporadically. Make sure that the beginning and end of each song work well by themselves.It has been a year since my last blog post. Just be mindful of how each song sounds in isolation. So my advice is this: Do use seamless transitions, as they offer a very smooth listening experience for those who do listen to entire albums at a time. That said, occasionally I'll listen to music on internet radio stations, where there is no coherent transition from one song to the next. This works out great, for me at least, and I get to hear songs in context of an album as a whole. I'll normally listen to the first half of an album on the way to work, and the second half on the way home. I rarely listen to music at home, where I'd rather work on producing it. Like many people, the majority of my time spent listening to music is in the car, on the way to and from work. I very much enjoy hearing an album the way the artist intended, especially when there is a theme or narrative present in the album. Just to offer another perspective, I typically only listen to complete albums, rather than individual songs.
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