Must post something…… News from the front: Music production blah blah blah’s
How do you do, my fair blog readers… Matt’s feeling like referring to him self in the 3rd person.. . one could almost use an editor’s note here?
Yeah.. so.. I’m in this “I should post something” sorta mood.. how often do I speak of these moments? These are the moments when.. any old wind could hit your sails and take you just about anywhere.. which makes for an interesting thing.. but I don’t know that I have the energy to fully follow such thought tangents today.. I will.. however.. as a Poem of Mr. Sketch once said “give you the news from the front.”
The lyrical madness has made its way to the back burner.. or has it? Appearances can be misleading out here in the land of mystery management.. In any event.. the spirit moves me in the direction of…… well its trying to pull me in many directions at once, actually… and the directions I actually walk are a little different from spirit’s calling….
Any who.. lets look at some of them spirit moves
- Electroacoustic music: Perhaps the best way of putting this is “hard core serious experimental electronic music.” This is being fueled by.. well I’m reading the Cambridge Electronic Music Companion.. or something like that.. It takes you deep into the history of the medium.. a large percentage of which I’m pretty familiar with.. In any event.. between that and listening to OHM.. there’s a drive in me to jump far out into the deep end of electronic madness…
- MTFS: Have your self a little Jam session.. in our case one that involves playing the guitar an bass.. and use the results as the basis of something. So far this has yielded results I’m happy with..
- “Song Writing,” we are talking about a more or less traditional song writing process.. which you then record and realize via the studio.
- The vocal madness adventures.. as described in recent entries.
- An exploration of my own consciousness: I’m feeling like.. well lets say “Matt has issues.” These amount to emotional things that seem to be seeking to block my progress.. exploring this stuff, in one way or another, seems like a good idea.
There’s much more one could say at this point.. about many other directions and thoughts and what nots.. I suppose all I can really say is I want to go deeper then I ever have before.. make a more profound kind of music.. I can see… somewhere off in the witches brew of a.. voodoo chili sorta thang.. possibilities that strike me as amazing.. some of these ideas have made it into blog entries.. I don’t know if you, my dear reader, find in them anything like I do.. or find anything in them to get excited about.. but it is what it is, I suppose.
A few seconds latter:
I just recently fired up Kore.. and pulled up Massive. Massive is a fairly new-ish synthesizer from Native Instruments.. I bought the Komplete upgrade this past winter… and still haven’t really used it all that much.. haven’t gotten to the point of setting about trying to create my own patches..
Patches, if you don’t know.. when you program a synthesizer.. the result is referred to as a patch. My desire to travel more deeply into electronic music… well, you gotta get serious about synthesizer programming, right? There are ways in which early electronic music is expressive.. that I don’t really feel like modern electronic music really is.. and certainly my music isn’t.. . My music is, I would say with some arrogance.. more interesting then much that is out there.. for “the taste police” haven’t really effected my journey too much.. so I have a voice that is powerful in its originality.. So I suppose this adventure is one of extending the uniqueness of my sonic vision..
So the question is can I create patches that would allow me to be expressive in these ways I think it might be important to be expressive? Some of this is as simple as changing my attitude towards what I’m doing..
Early the next morning, still not awake:
I think its good to try and run in a lot of directions at once.. I feel as through there’s a massive number of ways I need to develop going forward.. In part because.. it seems like I’m making a bigger commitment to music making then I ever have before.. and doing so really asks of me that I rase the bar a whole hell of a lot, in a whole number of areas. I suppose its the bar raising that the central core to what’s pushing me forward… or the feeling of needing to.