a little more messing around in the studio with hard time limits. posting sketches like this hold me accountable in a way. it really is less for anyone out there who has the inclination to download and listen to the track and more for me to put my work and process out in front of even a potential audience. any feedback i get is greatly appreciated so don’t hesitate to drop me a line if you dig it or can’t stand it.

besides, now that lost is back on, i have some time to kill. the score for that show drives me insane. i can’t tell if it’s the key or the irritatingly trite content that makes me crazy but i can’t even sit in the same room with it. i should be in my studio during that time anyway so it makes for a good motivator.

have a listen, if you don’t mind, and drop me a note. i’ll go back to my banjo now.

missed-it

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i was up really early last sunday and while the dude was sleeping i got a little extra time in the studio. since he was asleep and i didn’t want to take any chances with waking him before my coffee was brewed, i plugged in the headphones and started messing around. i dug out some old field recordings and started stretching and processing them. it was interesting, so i kept at it until i had something that was listenable.

this definitely falls under the category of compositional exercises as i had only about 45 minutes and i wanted to have something that could be considered “done” at the end of that time. short bursts are sometimes a great inspiration. it silences the inner critic and makes some of the decisions that might be debatable under other circumstances very black and white. i should do more of these.

i leave the origin of the samples as an exercise to the listener.

babies-and-bats

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