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Grant
November 25, 2018
Weekly Post Sunday 25th November 2018
This month has turned out to be my most prolific ever. 54 tracks posted to SoundCloud already, 16 Jams unpublished, and numerous tracks on the way. I just can’t seem to stop, it’s an obsession. Most other activities seem tedious just now, I turn to playing around with sounds and for some reason things flow.
Enjoy it while it lasts I guess.
Working this intensely is a wonderful experience but I wonder if I’ll crash and burn like I did in February. I hope not, perhaps it will just fade back to some sense of normality.
Most of the tracks are from my ‘NovemBeat’ series made with Korg Gadget and my ‘Groovebox Jam’ serious made using Groovebox by Ampify/Novation. One involves carefully crafted short pieces and the other longer looser compositions and this juxtaposition is endlessly fascinating at the moment.
There are other tracks emerging as well although my idea of doing some longer form ‘suite’ or ‘symphonic’ style pieces is proving difficult to realize just now. Never mind it has stimulated my thinking and will bear fruit some time I’m sure.
Here is one Groovebox Jam and one NovemBeat track to illustrate the different approaches…PS they both sound like me I think 🙂
Grant
October 30, 2018
Hello World October 30 2018
Hello Peeps,
If there are any peeps out there 😉
It often feels like I’m alone yelling into the abyss but I guess yelling into the abyss is useful for it’s catharsis if nothing else. Perhaps I should change the name of this Blog to ‘Yelling Into The Abyss’.
Anyway, Hello again. It’s been a while I know. It’s not that I haven’t been working, in fact the last few months have been very productive and I have a number of projects on the go; it’s just that I’ve been unsure of the future or direction of this blog or the place it might have in my process.
Today I decided to start posting again and see if or how it develops.
So, here is todays piece. Yesterday and last night was the first snow of the season and this feels like my homage to the beginning of winter.
Grant
December 1, 2017
Grant’s Music Diary 1st of December 2017
My intention this month was to write lyrics, I joined the November Album Writing Challenge and hoped to write at least 30 odd minutes of Spoken Word/Sung pieces but alas although I wrote 5 texts, I failed to find a setting for all but one of them. No matter, their moment will come.
However, though I failed at my intention, I did manage to make 24 tracks of various kinds this month and here they all are if anyone is interested. I think I will call this pseudo album ‘Words Are Hard”.
Grant
November 24, 2017
Grant’s Music Diary 24 November 2017
Tumbleweeds abound here lately.
It’s not that I haven’t been working, just that I’ve been a little discouraged of late. Not to mention a little lacking in direction; or perhaps it’s just lacking in energy. My head is always full of music, so perhaps I’m just in a period of gestation. Soundscapes, Beatscapes, Synthscapes, Spoken Word pieces; all swirling around in my imagination crowding around for my attention, and me a little bemused and unable to focus.
Anyway here is a Beatscape that I made yesterday which gives me joy. May it give you some too.
Grant
October 19, 2017
Random Post
Nothing particular to say today, just that I finished this track and it’s unusually happy…
So I though I’d share 🙂
Grant
October 7, 2017
Totally Fictional #5
Seven tracks inspired by the Cassini mission this week, various takes on the space theme; some serious, some wimsical.
Grant
October 1, 2017
Totally Fictional #4
Five tracks made over one week plus one from earlier in the year, all very synth and beat heavy. Two are jams; I am experimenting with ways to build up a live set.
Grant
September 13, 2017
Totally Fictional #3
It’s been a while but I finally got around to making another radio episode for Mixcloud.
It’s a concept that I’ve been developing as another way to showcase my tunes and as a fun way to indulge myself in a little fantasy; so I have the lovely but totally fictional Trudi Mcboody run her own radio show.
The previous episodes had tunes all made in one week but since it’s been a year between shows I’ve included tracks made from September 2015 to June this year.
I hope you enjoy it.
Grant
September 6, 2017
Grant’s Music Diary September 6 2017
I’ve spent more time sorting and organising my many files, and unposted tracks, and bits and pieces, than I have actually making music this month. Hey housekeeping chores are essential and I am guilty of procrastinating my way around them (more than once) till my iPad is choked and groaning under the weight. So while my inspiration levels are low I decided it was a good time to try and catch up.
It’s still an ongoing process which has surprised me at times; lots of good tracks unposted, lots of unfinished tracks that deserve more effort spent on them. As well as lots of crap to go in the trash of course.
So if you’d like to check out some of my discoveries my Soundcloud postings of the last month is all full of these old tracks.
This one I discovered today and I’m only partially happy with it; I probably need to re-record the vocals, probably in a more spoken word style rather than this half sung monotone, and perhaps in a different setting…I’m happy with words…Open to suggestions.
Grant
August 17, 2017
Grant’s Music Diary 17 August 2017
Hi guys,
Just letting you know that I’m still here and still beavering away; perhaps a little unfocused at times but beavering away nonetheless.
I seem to have accumulated several unfinished projects that are lying around weighing on my mind, not to mention slowly sorting through the Track A Day pieces for release which is a huge weight of it’s own.
One of the new projects is an idea to do some live performance videos which I hope will interest people as well as encourage myself to develop the live aspect of my iPad music making; an aspect that is sorely in need of some attention.
Here is my first attempt, more a proof of concept video; I hope to improve all aspects both of video making and sound ideas in future vids. Hope you enjoy it anyway.