There’s a challenge to create a CD in the month of november, aimed at us music creators types by NaNoWriMo. It’s a reaction to “National Novel Writing Month” where novelists attempt to write a novel during the same 30 days. I heard about this challenge a couple of days ago from the Project Studio Network podcast, and seeing as I’ve already done a good deal of sound work this month, it seemed like a reasonable challenge to try and meet, even if the month is already half over.

But to meet this challenge I have to go down some creative / process / methodological directions that are not my standard fair. The result is a project that’s a lot more experimental then my work normally is.

The process:

The process I’m taking starts with a “sound generation phase.” For the most part this involves recording sessions that are real time improvisations… involving ether strange electronic music tools.. usually Reaktor orientated, or they involve picking up a guitar.. and just jamming away.

The material thus generated becomes basic building blocks of compositions. The compositions are basically the product of audio sequencing in Ableton Live, mixed with what might be called a creative application of sound engineering trade skills… And in between, and even after all this, there can be a lot of processing of audio.. which may then lead to further iterations…

So I’ll probably be blogging on my progress for the rest of the month.. and maybe I’ll throw samples of the process into the podcast. So stay tuned..

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