Digital Music Front

Archive for June, 2009

Actually, when I say I’ve done pretty much nothing with regard to working on my music, that’s not strictly true. I have been working, just not on my own stuff. Rather, I’ve been whoring my musical ‘talents’ out again to some people whom I am eternally grateful to – the porn industry, this time for ifeelmyself. At the request of a friend who works for them I produced a quartet of pieces to be used as backing music for video clips. Harder than it sounds, contrary to what you might think, not all porn music is bom-chika-wow-wow. Atmoshperic stuff is generally pretty easy to produce, but trying to picture how some track is going to go along with a naked girl feeling herself up is…. well, distracting….  ’scuse me….

Anyway, so far they’ve only bought one of the four, so at 3 – 5 hours work per piece, I’m not getting a very good return on investment. That said, I’ve been told that rather than the tracks getting bought grouped together its more likely they will just pay for them as they want to use them, which makes sense. Be interesting to see how long before they want the next one, or if they start asking for more without buying any of the others from the last batch.

Lately my musical endeavors have been much like this blog, which is to say, I’ve done pretty much nothing. After my last rant regarding my craptastic monitors, I’ve felt less inclined to put much effort into producing, almost as if the effort is not really worth it until I can over come this hurdle (which is fundamentally a financial problem). Ideologically speaking  this shouldn’t really be stopping me, I was talking to the Rockstar Philosopher just the other day about the realisation that I could and should just focus on getting the music down and worrying about post when I’ve got better equipment. Practically speaking I’m not very good at this, I hate leaving something unfinished… I just sank 100 hours into playing Lost Odyssey to completion before I would even think about picking up another game.

I have however, mostly by accident, managed to start working on another track while ‘Thru the wringer’ languishes in its unmastered state. As seems to be my modus operandi I stumbled upon the beginnings of this next track while cobbling together unfinished bits and pieces from previous work. Every now and then while I’m working on something I will stumble across a bass line or a note progression that I like which isn’t really suitable for the piece I’m working on and just save it in a different file. Then one day when I’m bored I go thru all this crap aiming to clear most of it out and end up using half of it. Behold, Frankensong is born… Actually… I should use that.