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Wow, no posting in days!
Aug. 1st, 2010 12:53 amWow, hi! I haven't posted in days. And no time now, I need to get to bed! But I am anyway.
First, see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annathepiper's post on the Great Big Sea show at Woodland Park on Thursday.
Other than that I've mostly been working in the studio. I'm currently working on "Stars," and one of the things that happens when you perform something a lot is that you can lose the music of it, and I'd kind of lost that in "Stars," but with the addition of a djembe track, I've found it again. That'll go up on the band site with all the other completed tracks which you should listen to if you haven't already as soon as it's done; I'll probably release one more after that before holding off until the whole album is complete.
But mostly this weekend, I'm really working onannathepiper and my entry into the Great Big Sea Karaoke Video contest. Anna is project director, and video director; I'm musical director, second unit video director (lulz), and have mostly been running the camera. The band released instrumental tracks from three of their songs and said "get creative," so I've added a zouk track (because it NEEDS MOAR ACOUSTIC), and some new lyrics and melody in the second half of the bridge, and Anna's on lead vocals except for where I sing the bit I wrote for the bridge, and she and I are both in the harmony brick, and technoshaman was over today to provide a bass voice in this solid brick of harmony they do several times, and so on. Lots of work, and I'm tired, but it's the good kind of tired.
Tomorrow, more recording - Anna has some lead drop-ins to do, we both have more additions to the harmony block (and some plans to re-record some of our current work), andcflute and mamishka are both coming over for more harmony support. Then it'll be time to edit and properly mix. I know what I'm going to do, fortunately; it's going to involve more of the dreaded automation (dreaded because that crashes so damned much), but mostly it's pretty straightforward. The zouk mix is the most difficult part, but even that's not hard - it's just scary because it's what needs the automation.
Then it'll be back to "Stars." But I like these side projects, I always learn something. This time's no exception.
Oh, and please enjoy Anna in studio a couple of days ago:
First, see
annathepiper's post on the Great Big Sea show at Woodland Park on Thursday. Other than that I've mostly been working in the studio. I'm currently working on "Stars," and one of the things that happens when you perform something a lot is that you can lose the music of it, and I'd kind of lost that in "Stars," but with the addition of a djembe track, I've found it again. That'll go up on the band site with all the other completed tracks which you should listen to if you haven't already as soon as it's done; I'll probably release one more after that before holding off until the whole album is complete.
But mostly this weekend, I'm really working on
annathepiper and my entry into the Great Big Sea Karaoke Video contest. Anna is project director, and video director; I'm musical director, second unit video director (lulz), and have mostly been running the camera. The band released instrumental tracks from three of their songs and said "get creative," so I've added a zouk track (because it NEEDS MOAR ACOUSTIC), and some new lyrics and melody in the second half of the bridge, and Anna's on lead vocals except for where I sing the bit I wrote for the bridge, and she and I are both in the harmony brick, and technoshaman was over today to provide a bass voice in this solid brick of harmony they do several times, and so on. Lots of work, and I'm tired, but it's the good kind of tired.Tomorrow, more recording - Anna has some lead drop-ins to do, we both have more additions to the harmony block (and some plans to re-record some of our current work), and
cflute and mamishka are both coming over for more harmony support. Then it'll be time to edit and properly mix. I know what I'm going to do, fortunately; it's going to involve more of the dreaded automation (dreaded because that crashes so damned much), but mostly it's pretty straightforward. The zouk mix is the most difficult part, but even that's not hard - it's just scary because it's what needs the automation.Then it'll be back to "Stars." But I like these side projects, I always learn something. This time's no exception.
Oh, and please enjoy Anna in studio a couple of days ago:
