Is a horrible phrase especially considering that it doesn't exactly make sense. I suppose it comes from a different time period where it would have made more sense.
That's not why I'm here though. I guess I'm back to muse and pass the time while I contemplate the world around me.
"Waste not."
I guess it rings in a different tune for me. I hear it, and immediately think of wasted opportunity. Wasted potential. Wasted space. Wasted time. There are so many instances where our most important and most irreplaceable assets are taken from us. Our valuable resources just taken a way from us in an instant.
I think the one that hurts me the most is wasted opportunity. I'm always too involved in the tinier less significant aspects of every day life that I sometimes miss the obvious chances to better myself or my position. Maybe it's because I've just grown accustomed to getting the hand-me-downs from those who've gone before me. Maybe it's that I like the challenge.
That was a joke. I hate having to read into situations and more often than not I get frustrated that people don't just say what's on their mind.
In a way I guess this is me venting what's on my mind at the moment.
To really get to the "meat and potates" as they say, I've been thinking about someone a lot lately. No names, that would be stupid. I guess in a way there isn't a name as well. I've been just as comfortable with the thought of having a significant other that I sometimes can't even tell if I'm really still hurting to find someone like I was before. There's an eerie calm that I've noticed about my entire being. Granted I'm not always calm but it settles over me in waves. Maybe I'm finally starting to understand who I am and what I'm feeling. It's hard to say or describe and even now I can feel a meditative like trance setting in. I suppose I'll keep with my self examination as that's what I feel has been the catalyst for my "awakening" of sorts.
Being an introvert as well as somewhat depressed has allowed me to see the world from a unique perspective. My parents always spoke of how I would be wiser as I got older; that as my knowledge and experience increased that I would understand more.
That's bullshit.
There's so much of this life that I'll never understand. What they should have told me was that as I got older, the smaller unimportant pebbles get washed away much easier and suddenly you can see the ocean for what it is. Not all that glimmers is a shiny nickel and all that jazz.
But what's really difficult is thinking about tomorrow. Sure you make plans, but for what? Bad weather to cancel them? Friends to bail on you? Maybe everything went according to plan but for some reason it just didn't work out. We can only account for so much. We can only plan so far ahead.
Our hearts can only take so much.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Monday, October 3, 2016
Let's Call That a Hiatus...
I'm extremely lazy and I won't deny it.
There, I said it. But in all seriousness a lot has happened since my last update. A lot musically and just as much personally. I won't act like I'm a new person, but I will say I have a tad bit more knowledge.
I've released quite a few works since Homecoming, and to be frank, they're mixed a little better as I've improved a bit. Re reading my previous post sort of put me in a humble state I guess as I know that i always have room for improvement but when I wrote that apparently I was cocky sob.
Whatever.
Oh, btw, things still don't hit as hard as they should but instead of just ignoring the underlying lesson I try to apply it and move on. There's a lot that's happened in my life that I'm attempting to move on from. Most of it is me being a stubborn old coot and I know it. I can't wait til I'm old enough to be a stubborn old coot so I can read this and laugh at myself, again.
But that's the circle I live. I've just sort of accepted that I'm an odd quirky dude and people may find that off putting at first. In a sense you could say that I've become a hermit, but that's getting a little too personal.
In reality, I think what's been happening is a growing. My world has been expanding as of late and there's "a storm brewing" if I want to be as cliche as possible. Truth be told, I don't know where I'm going or what I'm doing but I'm interested in the direction that I'm headed. Is that all I need? Based on what I've seen from the examples around me, pretty much. Now I'm not saying I'll be flying by the seat of my pants forever, but when life gives you lemons you zest the ever living shit out of those fuckers and use them in some fancy recipe that everybody will have to google just to figure out what it is.
Too much? Deal with it. I've become bitter and even more cynical. I say even more because I've always been aware how cynical I've been even as a child. In a way I guess this blog has become my way of writing out how I feel in a semi-personal, semi-anonymous fashion.
To be blunt I have issues talking to people and in a sickening, morbid way, no one is really going to read the musings of some back water underground musician (I can't even finish this sentence without a huge laugh at still saying I'm underground. I've never played a live show.)
The moral of the story? I'm going to be writing more to figure myself out. I think a lot and have some pretty intense meditation sessions, but for the most part I don't understand who I am or what my own opinions are on some very important issues. As a child I spent a lot of time watching those around me and rarely stopped to examine myself. It wasn't until I was in college that I even realized how destructive my personality was towards my relationships. And then even after that I realized once again how I could use some improvement even just among friends.
It really hurt to see myself in this light that I have never wanted to accept but at the same time it opened my eyes to a new world of opportunity that was equally as frightening.
But that's not the end. I'm alive and have a goal to strive for. I won't say here what it is, but I imagine it's not hard to gather. I'll keep going until the end. I've got to at least make it to the finish line, I hear there's cookies.
~Noir
There, I said it. But in all seriousness a lot has happened since my last update. A lot musically and just as much personally. I won't act like I'm a new person, but I will say I have a tad bit more knowledge.
I've released quite a few works since Homecoming, and to be frank, they're mixed a little better as I've improved a bit. Re reading my previous post sort of put me in a humble state I guess as I know that i always have room for improvement but when I wrote that apparently I was cocky sob.
Whatever.
Oh, btw, things still don't hit as hard as they should but instead of just ignoring the underlying lesson I try to apply it and move on. There's a lot that's happened in my life that I'm attempting to move on from. Most of it is me being a stubborn old coot and I know it. I can't wait til I'm old enough to be a stubborn old coot so I can read this and laugh at myself, again.
But that's the circle I live. I've just sort of accepted that I'm an odd quirky dude and people may find that off putting at first. In a sense you could say that I've become a hermit, but that's getting a little too personal.
In reality, I think what's been happening is a growing. My world has been expanding as of late and there's "a storm brewing" if I want to be as cliche as possible. Truth be told, I don't know where I'm going or what I'm doing but I'm interested in the direction that I'm headed. Is that all I need? Based on what I've seen from the examples around me, pretty much. Now I'm not saying I'll be flying by the seat of my pants forever, but when life gives you lemons you zest the ever living shit out of those fuckers and use them in some fancy recipe that everybody will have to google just to figure out what it is.
Too much? Deal with it. I've become bitter and even more cynical. I say even more because I've always been aware how cynical I've been even as a child. In a way I guess this blog has become my way of writing out how I feel in a semi-personal, semi-anonymous fashion.
To be blunt I have issues talking to people and in a sickening, morbid way, no one is really going to read the musings of some back water underground musician (I can't even finish this sentence without a huge laugh at still saying I'm underground. I've never played a live show.)
The moral of the story? I'm going to be writing more to figure myself out. I think a lot and have some pretty intense meditation sessions, but for the most part I don't understand who I am or what my own opinions are on some very important issues. As a child I spent a lot of time watching those around me and rarely stopped to examine myself. It wasn't until I was in college that I even realized how destructive my personality was towards my relationships. And then even after that I realized once again how I could use some improvement even just among friends.
It really hurt to see myself in this light that I have never wanted to accept but at the same time it opened my eyes to a new world of opportunity that was equally as frightening.
But that's not the end. I'm alive and have a goal to strive for. I won't say here what it is, but I imagine it's not hard to gather. I'll keep going until the end. I've got to at least make it to the finish line, I hear there's cookies.
~Noir
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Homecoming.
I've finally decided that my album is done. If nothing else I do with my life, this album is something that I can say I have really put a lot of effort and time into. I haven't done it for recognition or some hair-brained scheme to get popular to make a ton of money. It's simply something that I want to do. I have several plans for more works in the future, but as a medium, sound itself is just something that's so hard to master, and as an artist, I find myself wanting to touch and feel as many artistic mediums as possible.
I suppose this delves into the realm of my original intentions of taking band so long ago. I wanted to get to know and understand sound and how it worked. I wanted to create. It's one thing to make a still image that appears living. But to make something that has a rhythm and flow to it, just as the walk of life, to me, is what art is. Yet mastering it is nigh impossible. I know I haven't done so. I know I never will. This is something that I can continue and work on and strive with to keep me and myself collected.
The more I think about what we consider genius, the more I wonder what it really is. What is the real difference between the person we consider a "genius" and the average person on the street? Is there really a core function of their brain that doesn't function like what we consider to be the norm? It's amazing to me, but I've come up with many of my own theories as well as what I consider to be viable options for answers to other things in the human Psyche.
If you've secretly been with me this entire time then you may understand that I'm always asking questions and looking for answers. I'm always wondering where the river will flow, where the next trip wire is, so to speak. In honest terms it's sometimes hard to concentrate on things more than I let off. I would like to hide certain, what I consider flaws about my person, but hey, we all have problems. I won't post them here, that's just crazy talk....
But every time I listen to a track I've produced I hear myself in it. Almost like an echo of the emotion I had while making it. It's as if my past self is speaking to me to push me forward.
I hate to say it, but I haven't had as many close friends as I'd like. Having said that, I've always clung to art, and secretly, music more so than just your typical run of the mill painting ( I use that term loosely of course!)
But when I could finally make my own tracks...I latched on to spilling my emotions there. Letting myself concentrate on only the moment what I was feeling. Sprawling my feelings, all of my desires, all of my needs displayed and arranged in a pattern of sounds and rhythmic beats. All of that emotion with the driving force of drums to really help and stimulate the mind. Afterall, isn't that art? That was the point.
At some point, I was scared that I had lost it. Like I would never be able to finish the sentences that I had written, so to speak. I had so much to say, so much emotion to release, yet the avenue that I was on was holding me back.
In a sense this is the story of my philosophical journey through time and space to understand why I love music so much. I often wonder many things. But the most that I wonder about is what am I here for. I consider that purpose to be making music.
There is no other way that I can fully release my inner being. I don't really understand how I really feel it, but it's as if another man is living inside of this outer man. That man inside longs for release, yet he knows that if he comes he is unwelcome. Not to be recognized, or respected, but merely noticed; that is his only real dream.
I suppose it would sound cooler if I put it in quotes and said it was from some guy that made something someone found impressive. And that's how I feel about a lot of my writing. Call me conceited. I have all of the confidence, but why flaunt it?
Call me week willed then. It honestly doesn't phase me. There in lies the problem. A lot of what happens around me simply doesn't phase me. I have to keep up with things a lot more than I anticipated. I never realized when I was younger how detached I was. In a sense I wonder if I would have been diagnosed with any sort of dissociatiative disorders in the past had I not had certain outlets, music being the one that I look at the most.
I would say physical art comes second, and writing third, but I'm striving to close down those gaps. Always perfecting, always pushing forward. I feel that's the whole point to why we're all here. The more I read the more I understand. The more I watch, the more I witness, the more I interact, the more I understand.
Even the release of this album I feel was timed perfectly to coincide with this flow of consciousness. I feel that that is the reason I wanted to release it earlier than the fifteenth but couldn't really find a reason to. Something in my very being knew that this day would suite better.
And back to music. I glance at the title of this post, and I remember that I had a serious debate about what I would call this album, and specifically the track Liberation. For that one, I simply couldn't find a name that I liked, one that was fitting for how I was feeling. Finally I settled on what I knew was the answer. One word that by itself was enough to convey all the emotion needed.
Awakening. Breathing. Meditating. Fixating. Understanding. Grasping. What makes us live? What makes us move? What pushes us towards that uncertain future?
There are tons of answers, but mine is simply: Hope. We watch the horizon with hopes that the sun will rise again. We lay down in bed at night in hopes of awakening the next morning. We get in our cars and start the engine in hopes that we'll make it to work on time. There's so much that we hope for.
Some things more than others.
I'm reminded now of my hopes, and my dreams. I do have many, just as any other red blooded human. Useless metaphors and similes. I would put them in as filler but I fear I've already drawn this on long enough. You see, this clipping, this article is self-aware. I'm fully aware that I'm rambling and wasting roughly 30 minutes of my life listening to my album to type this up. That's what I told myself I would do and that's what I'm doing.
The purpose?
Because.
There's that man inside that longs for release, and sometimes he needs to live a little. He deserves his chance in the light sometimes. I would hope that I could release him more often. I prefer being the carefree, ever questioning, mind rampantly wandering yet oddly entertaining mind that I am sometimes.
Call me a lonely adult, because that's what I am. But that doesn't mean I have to live my life as a sad individual. There are things that I have that I can live for and want to do. As long as I strive to those goals I have not only purpose, but added benefit of seeing the stones I've stepped on through my journey.
I have a host of witness of my journey and the winding path I took on my way through life.
~Noir
I suppose this delves into the realm of my original intentions of taking band so long ago. I wanted to get to know and understand sound and how it worked. I wanted to create. It's one thing to make a still image that appears living. But to make something that has a rhythm and flow to it, just as the walk of life, to me, is what art is. Yet mastering it is nigh impossible. I know I haven't done so. I know I never will. This is something that I can continue and work on and strive with to keep me and myself collected.
The more I think about what we consider genius, the more I wonder what it really is. What is the real difference between the person we consider a "genius" and the average person on the street? Is there really a core function of their brain that doesn't function like what we consider to be the norm? It's amazing to me, but I've come up with many of my own theories as well as what I consider to be viable options for answers to other things in the human Psyche.
If you've secretly been with me this entire time then you may understand that I'm always asking questions and looking for answers. I'm always wondering where the river will flow, where the next trip wire is, so to speak. In honest terms it's sometimes hard to concentrate on things more than I let off. I would like to hide certain, what I consider flaws about my person, but hey, we all have problems. I won't post them here, that's just crazy talk....
But every time I listen to a track I've produced I hear myself in it. Almost like an echo of the emotion I had while making it. It's as if my past self is speaking to me to push me forward.
I hate to say it, but I haven't had as many close friends as I'd like. Having said that, I've always clung to art, and secretly, music more so than just your typical run of the mill painting ( I use that term loosely of course!)
But when I could finally make my own tracks...I latched on to spilling my emotions there. Letting myself concentrate on only the moment what I was feeling. Sprawling my feelings, all of my desires, all of my needs displayed and arranged in a pattern of sounds and rhythmic beats. All of that emotion with the driving force of drums to really help and stimulate the mind. Afterall, isn't that art? That was the point.
At some point, I was scared that I had lost it. Like I would never be able to finish the sentences that I had written, so to speak. I had so much to say, so much emotion to release, yet the avenue that I was on was holding me back.
In a sense this is the story of my philosophical journey through time and space to understand why I love music so much. I often wonder many things. But the most that I wonder about is what am I here for. I consider that purpose to be making music.
There is no other way that I can fully release my inner being. I don't really understand how I really feel it, but it's as if another man is living inside of this outer man. That man inside longs for release, yet he knows that if he comes he is unwelcome. Not to be recognized, or respected, but merely noticed; that is his only real dream.
I suppose it would sound cooler if I put it in quotes and said it was from some guy that made something someone found impressive. And that's how I feel about a lot of my writing. Call me conceited. I have all of the confidence, but why flaunt it?
Call me week willed then. It honestly doesn't phase me. There in lies the problem. A lot of what happens around me simply doesn't phase me. I have to keep up with things a lot more than I anticipated. I never realized when I was younger how detached I was. In a sense I wonder if I would have been diagnosed with any sort of dissociatiative disorders in the past had I not had certain outlets, music being the one that I look at the most.
I would say physical art comes second, and writing third, but I'm striving to close down those gaps. Always perfecting, always pushing forward. I feel that's the whole point to why we're all here. The more I read the more I understand. The more I watch, the more I witness, the more I interact, the more I understand.
Even the release of this album I feel was timed perfectly to coincide with this flow of consciousness. I feel that that is the reason I wanted to release it earlier than the fifteenth but couldn't really find a reason to. Something in my very being knew that this day would suite better.
And back to music. I glance at the title of this post, and I remember that I had a serious debate about what I would call this album, and specifically the track Liberation. For that one, I simply couldn't find a name that I liked, one that was fitting for how I was feeling. Finally I settled on what I knew was the answer. One word that by itself was enough to convey all the emotion needed.
Awakening. Breathing. Meditating. Fixating. Understanding. Grasping. What makes us live? What makes us move? What pushes us towards that uncertain future?
There are tons of answers, but mine is simply: Hope. We watch the horizon with hopes that the sun will rise again. We lay down in bed at night in hopes of awakening the next morning. We get in our cars and start the engine in hopes that we'll make it to work on time. There's so much that we hope for.
Some things more than others.
I'm reminded now of my hopes, and my dreams. I do have many, just as any other red blooded human. Useless metaphors and similes. I would put them in as filler but I fear I've already drawn this on long enough. You see, this clipping, this article is self-aware. I'm fully aware that I'm rambling and wasting roughly 30 minutes of my life listening to my album to type this up. That's what I told myself I would do and that's what I'm doing.
The purpose?
Because.
There's that man inside that longs for release, and sometimes he needs to live a little. He deserves his chance in the light sometimes. I would hope that I could release him more often. I prefer being the carefree, ever questioning, mind rampantly wandering yet oddly entertaining mind that I am sometimes.
Call me a lonely adult, because that's what I am. But that doesn't mean I have to live my life as a sad individual. There are things that I have that I can live for and want to do. As long as I strive to those goals I have not only purpose, but added benefit of seeing the stones I've stepped on through my journey.
I have a host of witness of my journey and the winding path I took on my way through life.
~Noir
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Jizue.
Is what I would call an unremarkable new-age jazz band from somewhere in japan. That being said I cant get enough of them to stop listening to the two albums I have of theirs. Both of them are completely amazing pieces of work.
In particular I want to address how ridiculous the ensemble is from a musical standpoint as it blows my mind everytime I think about it. There are 4 members that I can hear. A piano, a bass guitar, a drummer and one guitar. But the guitar is used mostly for nearly psychedelic noise and ambient fretwork that you'd swear there's a member working another electric keyboard somewhere in the mix. That is, until the guitarist solos. Out of nowhere these crisp tones float across and you're wisked off to a fantastic land full of musical elegance, both in outlandish reverance of it and then broken and beaten tragic side as well.
And that's only looking at the guitar...I'm not even going to talk about the piano or anything in this post. But if I can later embed a video of their's I will.
Edit* No embedded video but here's a great track from them:
http://youtu.be/LA0B19GSqng
But anywho, a quick update on my album...I'm pretty much done with all of the final mixing. I'm just getting picky now. I had originally wanted to wait until December 15th to release it
but right now I might just do it sooner. Like next week sooner. I just need to start working on the extras now. Video work, as well as a music video and album art. Most of that stuff is already done as well I just need to get on it.
Quick update, I know. But that's what happens. More to come so keep watching the skies.
~Noir
In particular I want to address how ridiculous the ensemble is from a musical standpoint as it blows my mind everytime I think about it. There are 4 members that I can hear. A piano, a bass guitar, a drummer and one guitar. But the guitar is used mostly for nearly psychedelic noise and ambient fretwork that you'd swear there's a member working another electric keyboard somewhere in the mix. That is, until the guitarist solos. Out of nowhere these crisp tones float across and you're wisked off to a fantastic land full of musical elegance, both in outlandish reverance of it and then broken and beaten tragic side as well.
And that's only looking at the guitar...I'm not even going to talk about the piano or anything in this post. But if I can later embed a video of their's I will.
Edit* No embedded video but here's a great track from them:
http://youtu.be/LA0B19GSqng
But anywho, a quick update on my album...I'm pretty much done with all of the final mixing. I'm just getting picky now. I had originally wanted to wait until December 15th to release it
but right now I might just do it sooner. Like next week sooner. I just need to start working on the extras now. Video work, as well as a music video and album art. Most of that stuff is already done as well I just need to get on it.
Quick update, I know. But that's what happens. More to come so keep watching the skies.
~Noir
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Heavy.
That's life in a nutshell.
And that's a subject for another blog, this one is to be short and sweet.
Muy next album is done. Yes. Done. I've just been sitting on it for about a week because I feel it isn't the time to release it. I'm sure that within the week though I won't be able to hold any longer and I'll just let it all out. But more importantly, I'm getting ideas again, for stuff that I'd really like to redo, and things I want to continue working on. I'm already getting ideas to work with recording more of my surroundings and using everything as music.
In short I'm getting back to wanting to make music the way I originally intended, and I like that.
I like that a lot.
~Noir
P.S.- keep a look out for that next album drop...
And that's a subject for another blog, this one is to be short and sweet.
Muy next album is done. Yes. Done. I've just been sitting on it for about a week because I feel it isn't the time to release it. I'm sure that within the week though I won't be able to hold any longer and I'll just let it all out. But more importantly, I'm getting ideas again, for stuff that I'd really like to redo, and things I want to continue working on. I'm already getting ideas to work with recording more of my surroundings and using everything as music.
In short I'm getting back to wanting to make music the way I originally intended, and I like that.
I like that a lot.
~Noir
P.S.- keep a look out for that next album drop...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
LIberation
happens to be the name of the song I just finished. Unfortunately for anyone hoping to hear it, you'll have to wait. That sets it up to 4 tracks that are finished and waiting to be mixed so that the levels all around sound good, but you guys don't care about all of that techy mumbo jumbo.
But what you guys do care about is hearing about my musical progress (or so I assume otherwise you wouldn't be here reading this blog of sorts.) Currently I have 6 tracks going toward this new album (I'm still thinking of a title for it, but more than likely it's going to be called Homecoming, so look for it on my bandcamp around Christmas time.) I had wanted to make it more tracks than that, but seeing as I'm shooting for a deadline and also that I want this to be a well-rounded album with extra care taken to make sure it sounds amazing no matter what device it's played on, I'll settle with quality over quantity. That doesn't go without saying that it should still be around the same length as my other album as I already have 2 songs passing the 7 minute mark and I haven't even fully begun to flesh out the opening or closing tracks.
I've also been thinking of which ways I can make this album really special. I've already decided that I'm going to make a few "special" editions for this album as gifts for friends and family and I'll be starting on those sometime this week. By special edition, I only mean special cover art, as well as a fancy case that I'll figure out what to do with once I figure out how to actually make it.
In other project news, I'll also be working on a few music videos to go with this album. I've already listed my youtube account in the previous update so I won't repost it, but that's where those will end up once I complete them. The biggest issue with those though, is that all the footage so far is taken from my phone since I don't have anything else to film with (granted it shoots in 720p so that's not all that bad.) I'd like to one day obtain a newer camera that can shoot at least in full HD but I don't have the funds for that, not to mention that I'd like to get newer hardware for actually making music first (mics, monitors, controllers, etc.) But all of this goes without saying that I'm not going to be releasing anything unless I absolutely am positive that I want it released. I tried before to be that guy that makes music and is always posting new stuff on soundcloud and beatport, but I don't have the drive to do that anymore. I want to make the music I want to make, and unfortunately to get the end product sounding as good as I envision it I have to make a cut somewhere, and I'll cut my release dates for later ones before I release tracks that aren't complete again.
That being said, After this album I already have a 3rd planned, but that one won't be originals. I want to work on a video game soundtrack remix album (say that 5 times fast!) and I'll figure out how to do that when it's no longer 2012. On top of working on that album, I'm also planning to re-work a few of my favorite tracks that I've created. Some of my earlier material just feels rushed, while others just need a tiny bit of polish to make them really shine. In short, I know I'll be working on at the very least Culmination of Tragedy, Into the Nexus and Mourning Breaks, simply because after all of this time I'm still not satisfied with how those tracks sound.
But for now. I'll leave you with a link to a friend's music project simply because he deserves it.
He's got some seriously chill stuff so if you're down for it take a spin:
http://seaweeds.bandcamp.com/
~Noir
I've also been thinking of which ways I can make this album really special. I've already decided that I'm going to make a few "special" editions for this album as gifts for friends and family and I'll be starting on those sometime this week. By special edition, I only mean special cover art, as well as a fancy case that I'll figure out what to do with once I figure out how to actually make it.
In other project news, I'll also be working on a few music videos to go with this album. I've already listed my youtube account in the previous update so I won't repost it, but that's where those will end up once I complete them. The biggest issue with those though, is that all the footage so far is taken from my phone since I don't have anything else to film with (granted it shoots in 720p so that's not all that bad.) I'd like to one day obtain a newer camera that can shoot at least in full HD but I don't have the funds for that, not to mention that I'd like to get newer hardware for actually making music first (mics, monitors, controllers, etc.) But all of this goes without saying that I'm not going to be releasing anything unless I absolutely am positive that I want it released. I tried before to be that guy that makes music and is always posting new stuff on soundcloud and beatport, but I don't have the drive to do that anymore. I want to make the music I want to make, and unfortunately to get the end product sounding as good as I envision it I have to make a cut somewhere, and I'll cut my release dates for later ones before I release tracks that aren't complete again.
That being said, After this album I already have a 3rd planned, but that one won't be originals. I want to work on a video game soundtrack remix album (say that 5 times fast!) and I'll figure out how to do that when it's no longer 2012. On top of working on that album, I'm also planning to re-work a few of my favorite tracks that I've created. Some of my earlier material just feels rushed, while others just need a tiny bit of polish to make them really shine. In short, I know I'll be working on at the very least Culmination of Tragedy, Into the Nexus and Mourning Breaks, simply because after all of this time I'm still not satisfied with how those tracks sound.
But for now. I'll leave you with a link to a friend's music project simply because he deserves it.
He's got some seriously chill stuff so if you're down for it take a spin:
http://seaweeds.bandcamp.com/
~Noir
Friday, November 2, 2012
Version 1.1.2?
Wow....er, I mean welcome back!
Yes, yes, it's been a long time since I've posted here. But with moving twice in a year and finding work as well as leaving a job to find a second and third job makes things a little hard. I guess rather than that I should say that it puts things into perspective.
I've been somewhat hard at work trying to hone my sound and collectively get my thoughts and ideas together to produce an album...or second album I should say, as I've already released a first one. For those not in the know I have an album out already call Defocus'd. I posted that one a while ago on my bandcamp but I haven't really had any time to master the sound to my liking (well I have, but I decided in the grand scheme of things that instead of trying to make that album sound better I should just work on a new album and put into effect all the skills that I've garnered over the past few months of browsing youtube videos, experimenting with new genres and generally working on my sound as an artist.)
Mah bandcamp page:
http://ervahnoir.bandcamp.com/album/defocusd
Also last year at some point, I started to release songs on youtube as well. That channel doesn't have nearly as much going on simply because I haven't had time to produce videos for it and I even had to jump through several hoops in order to even produce the videos I do have uploaded. Don't despair though, I have many ideas for that channel in the works and plenty of material to add music to as well as plenty of songs that need video (or rather are screaming at me to add video to them.) I also have plans to help a friend with sound design for some of his videos so we'll see how that goes as well.
Mah youtubes:
http://www.youtube.com/user/phillipmignott?feature=guide
Also, also, I have a soundcloud account as well (seriously, what musician can't take advantage of a cloud made entirely of sound?) That account is probably my most active one at the moment because of its simplicity and ease of use. I can jump on it and check who's uploaded something interesting, enter remix contests (something I've taken to doing a lot more often now that I have the confidence to do so), and uploading songs there is easy as Pi (that's 3.14159 amigo.) I also accept any comments and critiques that anyone might have and there's even a built in drop box just in case someone has some amazing piece of music they wish to share with me and only me. All this goes without saying that my soundcloud has most if not all of my current works (and at the very least it has a bunch of my more recent remixes.) The ONLY downside is that the space is limited, and by limited, I mean I can only upload around 2 hours of content currently. That just means that with such limited space I'll only be uploading sounds there that I feel deserve the spotlight or something. My full length albums will continue to spawn on bandcamp.
Mah sounducaloudo:
http://soundcloud.com/ervah_noir
And finally, I made a twitter. But I honesty don't care about twitter, because it's dumb and people latch onto it way to easily. Not to mention that using the "#" to designate things is just dumb in my opinion. But if you absolutely have to use twitter....it's there.
Dingdongdidgerydoo:
https://twitter.com/ervah_noir
So! You're up to speed now! Well, almost...you see, I have a secret for you...I'm working on another album that I'm hoping to complete before Christmas but we'll see. I've been sitting on a few tracks for some time now and I'd like to get this album sounding as professional as possible. I'll release it on bancamp when it's completed and more than likely it'll be free to anyone who feels like downloading it, but if you feel like giving me your hard earned cash for it I won't say no. But what I won't be telling anyone is that I'm seriously considering making some completely unique album art/covers for each copy (and even more likely a nice hard copy on CD for anyone that does pay me sweet sweet dosh for it.) We'll see though.
Toodles!
~Noir (man it's been a while since I signed anything like that)
Yes, yes, it's been a long time since I've posted here. But with moving twice in a year and finding work as well as leaving a job to find a second and third job makes things a little hard. I guess rather than that I should say that it puts things into perspective.
I've been somewhat hard at work trying to hone my sound and collectively get my thoughts and ideas together to produce an album...or second album I should say, as I've already released a first one. For those not in the know I have an album out already call Defocus'd. I posted that one a while ago on my bandcamp but I haven't really had any time to master the sound to my liking (well I have, but I decided in the grand scheme of things that instead of trying to make that album sound better I should just work on a new album and put into effect all the skills that I've garnered over the past few months of browsing youtube videos, experimenting with new genres and generally working on my sound as an artist.)
Mah bandcamp page:
http://ervahnoir.bandcamp.com/album/defocusd
Also last year at some point, I started to release songs on youtube as well. That channel doesn't have nearly as much going on simply because I haven't had time to produce videos for it and I even had to jump through several hoops in order to even produce the videos I do have uploaded. Don't despair though, I have many ideas for that channel in the works and plenty of material to add music to as well as plenty of songs that need video (or rather are screaming at me to add video to them.) I also have plans to help a friend with sound design for some of his videos so we'll see how that goes as well.
Mah youtubes:
http://www.youtube.com/user/phillipmignott?feature=guide
Also, also, I have a soundcloud account as well (seriously, what musician can't take advantage of a cloud made entirely of sound?) That account is probably my most active one at the moment because of its simplicity and ease of use. I can jump on it and check who's uploaded something interesting, enter remix contests (something I've taken to doing a lot more often now that I have the confidence to do so), and uploading songs there is easy as Pi (that's 3.14159 amigo.) I also accept any comments and critiques that anyone might have and there's even a built in drop box just in case someone has some amazing piece of music they wish to share with me and only me. All this goes without saying that my soundcloud has most if not all of my current works (and at the very least it has a bunch of my more recent remixes.) The ONLY downside is that the space is limited, and by limited, I mean I can only upload around 2 hours of content currently. That just means that with such limited space I'll only be uploading sounds there that I feel deserve the spotlight or something. My full length albums will continue to spawn on bandcamp.
Mah sounducaloudo:
http://soundcloud.com/ervah_noir
And finally, I made a twitter. But I honesty don't care about twitter, because it's dumb and people latch onto it way to easily. Not to mention that using the "#" to designate things is just dumb in my opinion. But if you absolutely have to use twitter....it's there.
Dingdongdidgerydoo:
https://twitter.com/ervah_noir
So! You're up to speed now! Well, almost...you see, I have a secret for you...I'm working on another album that I'm hoping to complete before Christmas but we'll see. I've been sitting on a few tracks for some time now and I'd like to get this album sounding as professional as possible. I'll release it on bancamp when it's completed and more than likely it'll be free to anyone who feels like downloading it, but if you feel like giving me your hard earned cash for it I won't say no. But what I won't be telling anyone is that I'm seriously considering making some completely unique album art/covers for each copy (and even more likely a nice hard copy on CD for anyone that does pay me sweet sweet dosh for it.) We'll see though.
Toodles!
~Noir (man it's been a while since I signed anything like that)
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