SOUND OFF (ON)
Added 2020-07-30 07:56:22 +0000 UTCGood grief. I'm addicted to this making music thing. Why didn't I discover it 20 years ago?!?
Aaaaanyway... my album - with guest appearance from Jerden-Cooke - is released tomorrow on all the major digital platforms. If you have pre-ordered it on Bandcamp, it'll go live automatically, hopefully. Or you can just stream it through Spotify and Apple Music.
If you're not a top tier Patron, you won't know that I'm trying to learn how to write songs, rather than rely on loops and samples, and have been posting work-in-progress stuff as I go. I'm getting better at it - which is no great surprise given that it has pretty much consumed my free time for weeks and weeks.
Here's the latest track I've completed, A Love Song (couldn't think of a better title). It starts with some pretty piano, before all going a bit Pink Floyd. As a lot of my stuff seems to do.
My main challenge right now is improving Midi guitar sounds on Garageband, and trying to get them sounding a bit more like real guitars, and less harsh (though when Patreon goes through this month I'll be investing in LogicPro, I think - if only as a birthday present to myself).
My goal now is to release a 'proper', all-original, concept album next year at some point, with guest vocalists and musicians. Chris JC and I are also batting around ideas for some sort of 'band' project. I've proposed that we do it like a game of 'Consequences' - where we work on music, and send it across to one another, tinker with it, then send it back.
Before you freak out... this isn't some career change, and I'm not about to abandon everything else I'm doing! I mean, I'm 49 next week. Too old to try to make it in music! It's just a bit of fun, and I'm loving doing it. I seem to need to have a project on where I'm learning new skills as I go. This is entirely new territory, yet there are weird parallels with editing something like Lost/Found Footage.
Anyhow... if you listen to SOUND Footage and like it, please tell people. I'd love for more people to hear it. Cheers, gang.
Paul
Comments
If you need any help please do let me know!
The Gaming Muso
2020-08-02 09:43:40 +0000 UTCToontrack do some great virtual instruments, specialising in guitars and drums.
Stu The Brummie
2020-07-30 17:33:34 +0000 UTCYou're definitely getting better, Paul. That's a very good song. I love the last part. And it does sound a bit Lost Footage-y, indeed. Happy birthday, by the way.
Rodent of the Astrowaste
2020-07-30 14:53:40 +0000 UTCThat's no small compliment, Chris. Castles In Space is a wonderful label: Polypores, the Scarred For Life soundtrack, Concretism, The Soulless Party... Great stuff.
Rodent of the Astrowaste
2020-07-30 14:47:22 +0000 UTCThat was beautiful. I watched a Gaming Muso video where he did some MIDI stuff. Like taking a MIDI file that sounded like it was from a computer game (it was!) and then processing it better so it was like background music from a film, and then better STILL so it was like listening to a live band or something.
WhatHoSnorkers
2020-07-30 13:24:02 +0000 UTCthe love song is really good, reminds me of some of the ambient stuff on Castles in Space label.
2020-07-30 12:49:15 +0000 UTCIt's so lovely seeing you getting excited and having fun with a new thing :)
John Veness
2020-07-30 09:15:26 +0000 UTCThis is so wonderful. I love the piano parts
2020-07-30 08:14:29 +0000 UTCI'm so addicted to it, Chris. It has consumed me!
Paul Rose (Mr Biffo)
2020-07-30 08:05:45 +0000 UTC
