Friday, 20. June 2008, 07:23:57
digital media, 48hr, class, status report
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Work continues on the Vacant Sky Parlor album "Octopus Zoo". I'm just making tiny tweaks here and there now, because the music is pretty much done. All that remains is to record the vocals. The lyrics are written for all but one song, not considering the instrumental track. "Anchor Light" needs more work on the words, but I am extremely happy with the music. If I manage to get time to record vocals and get them mixed in, then this album will be done and released at the end of summer.
In other news, my "Intro to Audio/Video" class is participating in the
48 Hour Film Project this summer. Or more specifically, this weekend. I'll be doing the music and be involved in the audio/music side of post-production. I'm also going to be with the rest of our team working on other bits as well. It's going to be a long and busy weekend.. with me completing the final draft of a essay in the middle of it. The movies for the 48 hour film are to be up to 7 minutes long, so I figure that means maybe 2 - 12 little pieces of music for the thing, depending on what all the thing requires. Whatever happens, I'll offer up versions of the songs for download in a couple weeks.
Thursday, 26. July 2007, 20:00:34
songs, piano, in the dust, class
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I mostly spent my free time on my days off reading for my Psychology class.. However, I've really started fleshing out the song 'Not A Drop To Drink'. What I had before was nothing more than some simple drums and a piano line. However, I'm really starting to build things around that piano line and feeling really good about it.
Things really need to change with 'In The Dust'.. I don't feel good about most of it, but it's good. There's a thing I wrote that wasn't meant for this album that is starting to seem like a good thing to do for 'In The Dust', and it's got a rather menacing and horrific storm on the ocean sort of feel. Like.. it's late evening and the clouds and lightning are rolling in across the tide. Great stuff. very powerful, and I feel good about that. I think I may switch it out.