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...
Thursday, November 22, 2012
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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