So I thought I should start posting whatever I could push out on the subject of what I’m up to. This is a saga chronicled on my old myspace blog, so you can go there for the back story… Now for the today story:

Boston PodCamp 2 Was incredible all the way around. On a personal note, one of the more exciting things I got from Podcamp was a chance at a job creating tutorials on an electronic music production environment known as Reason 4. This leads me into a period where learning Reason 4, by working on sound projects in Reason 4, becomes a chief priority and thus I’m creating a loto f new sound work.

So some notes about Reason 4:

For the uninitiated: Reason has matured into a must have tool for those serious about making electronic music. Reason’s list price $500, the upgrade $129. Where as people who don’t do serious music production may look at that as a lot of money, for people whom are more or less professionals work in sound production, this is considered a reasonable price… Built into Reason are 3 samplers, 3 synthesizers, A Dr. REX Loop player, about 17 effects processors, a maturing sequencer, and any number of other things. Reason is a very powerful tool, and the experience I’ve had with version 4 has been one of falling in love…

Here’s a video in 2 parts, produced by Propellorhead, that can give you a reasonably good overview of Reason in it’s uber 101 form:

My goal with my various blogs and podcasts, and lets say social media presence in general, is to explore things like marketing and public relations in the digital space, and what this can do for the business side of art and in particularly my art. The music that I create is not something that easily fits into any pre existing genera, and thus provides special challenges for figuring out how to eek out a living from. As an artist I fundamentally believing in taking radicle paths because those are the paths that yield worth while results from an aesthetics perspective, but from a business perspective radical paths are ill enough advised that the shit you hear on the radio…..

Well I think Jeffry puts it best:

So what I’m doing is about the fate of our culture, the system, etc..

Latter that night:

I need to cut this short if I’m going to post this tonight!

I’ve made Indra’s Net, about a CDs worth of my music, available for a free download. My goal is to get as many people to hear it as possible, so definitely check that out. It’s been sometime since the Indra’s Net project was more or less finished (It’s not really finished but) and I’m now working on follow up material in the Form of G.G. Moe Cow Gay. I haven’t really decided if I want to give away G.G., or how much of it I might want to.. But.. I am making some of the tracks I’m working on available in for a limited time.. and if you want to get that music.. I suppose the best thing you can do is follow me on Twitter, because I’ll be putting links in my twitter feed that will only work for a limited period of time.

But this is still sorta back story, isn’t it? Well I’m afraid that’ll have to be it for today. Stay Tunes for more in depth stuff.

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