Weekly Post: Sunday 11th of November 2018

Hello World,

I’m being optimistic there, which is not like me 😉

My new idea is to post here once a week, on Sunday’s I think will work, and give some thoughts and info on the state of things work wise. Or perhaps just a summary of the week. Or a best track of the week… Or something.

Today I’m going to summarize my current projects:

Live Performance – Lots of my work is collaged over time, pieces built and assembled in a DAW, usually Auria in my case. Other tracks are ‘jammed’, meaning built and performed in one session, often in one app like iMaschine or Gadget, or managed in one app like AUM. One aspect that I haven’t explored much with the iPad is live playing and I am currently building a ‘Performance Tree’ with this in mind. Something that could go on stage and be the focus for a live show. I envision one or two mike stands, one or two ipads, two iPhones, plus a few peripherals, percussion bits, guitar (or something) etc. I’m slowly gathering bits. Here is an early look…

Related to this of course is building up a way of working that can be used with this. I’m thinking of LaunchPad for loop controlling, a looper for adding live loops, plus some apps that are designed around screen manipulation like TC-11 for instance. But we’ll see…

Release An Album – Nearly 800 tracks on Soundcloud plus many others unposted and I’ve never had the courage or the get-up-and-go to officially release anything. I can’t afford to pay someone to master stuff and I’ve no real interest or patience to learn that stuff myself. However I did make a collection of tracks in August that I want to release so I’m going to try and push myself to get it together.

Novembeat – I’m not sure how long this has been running, I just came across it this year. It’s another one of those social media things that try to get people creating. Others include FAWM (February Album Writing Month) and Jamuary both of which I have participated in before, and National Solo Album Month (see below). I don’t tend to engage in the social side too much but I find them useful as a focusing tool. Novembeat is making a beat a day for the month of at least 16 bars. I am focusing it even more by using only Korg’s Gadget app and mostly using the gadget Bilbao loaded with my own samples. So far I’m very pleased with the results. You can check it out if you wish at…

National Solo Album Month – Write, record, and release an entire album this month. The write and record bit isn’t a stretch for me at the moment, I made 43 tracks in October for instance, but I struggle with the release bit as I mentioned above, but I’m giving a go. To make things more interesting and challenging I have conceived the idea of making this a one track album. A sort of “symphony” if you will. A multipart track lasting 30 minutes or so with various inter related movements, or moments perhaps. I envision a mix of spoken word, soundscape, beatscape, and smooth downtempo EDMmish stuff. But it’s only now beginning to take form so we will see how it develops.

There are other projects hanging around or ongoing but that list will do for now 🙂

Enjoy your week peeps.