Wow, October already? Sometimes, it blows my mind how fast time moves… having a 9-5 on top of my music and sound design stuff always seems to drain me, and I get far less stuff done than most of my audio peers, but that doesn’t mean I don’t keep trying.
In fact, I’ve been fairly busy: I’ve done two pieces of music for Elevation Studios, and I’ve been session-guitaring for Juliet Richardson’s new project.
Unfortunately, I can’t show you much of Juliet’s stuff, but, trust me, it’s awesome, but I can show you are the two Elevation Studios projects.
First up, K2.
For this, I was asked to not just emulate, but straight-up COVER the iPhone 3G commercial music — a song called You, Me and the Bourgeoisie, by the Submarines. I ran into a problem with the drums, because midi-based drum fills NEVER feel that good, so I followed the general rule of thumb with covers and added a breakbeat instead.
After that, came ARC.
Elevation Studios has been busier than usual, too, so I was asked to write another piece of original music, within the same vein as the rest of the music I’ve written for ES. In this project, I ran into something that was both a blessing and a curse — a track limit. I prefer to mix my music in Sonar LE 8.5, because the interface just feels better for mixing than Sonar Home Studio, but when I transferred my project over, I lost somewhere between 4 and 10 tracks. At first, I was upset, though I could always just mix in HS, but after I listened to the music, I was a lot happier with the stripped down version than the version that had all the extra bells and whistles (not literally).
This is the track I wrote:
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And this is what Brandon did with it. I love being able to trust Brandon with my music, knowing that he’s not going to have any obviously bad transitions.
Thanks for listening.
As usual, let me know what you think.
