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Jan 24.2009
Hi folks,
Sorry it’s been a little while since I’ve written. I’ve been extremely busy, as I have finally finished setting up my studio in my new place in the country and have been settling down to business. Why did it take so long… well, that’s another story! But rather than gripe, I’ll keep positive and talk about what I have been up to creatively.
So the album is being formally, and physically, released in late March. It’s actually been available on iTunes, but for a number of problems originating either with my label or iTunes I haven’t wanted to make an announcement. Looks like soon I will have to be performing some of my music and I’ve been trying to develop an interesting way to merge the sound experience of multi-vocals and some of my visual techniques.
It’s slow going though. Video is very difficult to stream live. That’s just a fact. But I have been practicing my live looping technique and have had some interesting results.
I’ve been a bit on the fence for a while about live looping. Why? Because I like structure! A lot! I like key changes. I like the transformations a finished piece of music makes. Looping live seems a similar, but at once wildly different aesthetic. It’s constantly growing. The repetitions are a bit of a challenge for me, frankly. But I’ve been having a lot of fun and will soon have some new videos.
Here’s a tiny image:
Anyway, I’m heading off to France next Saturday to do some promo and possibly a first tiny performance. I’m QUITE nervous! hahah.
My new studio…
Jan 07.2009
I’ve moved back to the countryside! I now live back in Woodstock again. I’m so happy, and slightly sad as well, as I have left several close friends and creative acquaintances… and all that lovely energy of the city. But it’s quiet here. And I can sing at the top of my lungs without worries! I have to say, the first night I spent here I had a very schizophrenic night of dreaming. The first was a horrible nightmare, which I won’t recount as it will wig me out again. I awoke almost screaming. But when I went back to sleep I dreamt a lovely new song sung by a female soprano, and recorded it immediately into my cell phone!
I’ll post some pictures once the room is done. It’s lovely. The house came with all this great, colorful Danish Modern furniture. Piles of it. There were some down in the basement that I dragged up to my music room and it feels so great.
By the way… how could I ever have avoided hearing the music of Moondog??? I recently came upon it and really love it so much! Such a strange eclectic mix of styles, and a wonderful sense of rhythm and… well the word verve comes to mind, hahah! But I guess it’s appropriate. Anyway, the ones that caught my ear instantaneously (and set my imagination on fire Viking 1, Pigmy Pig, Sea Horse, Do Your Thing, Frost Flower. It’s outrageous. Gorgeous. All the -geous words!
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