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Dave Grohl’s little speech sparked internal conflict, because he is right in many ways. This past week had been a musical awakening for me as I have put a lot of time in to playing the piano and singing, the old fashioned way. It feels good, it feels right, especially given I am hunkered down in a studio writing music on a computer most days of the week. Music is usually most successful in the artistic sense when done with honest intentions; in a humble yet functional space with a bunch of close friends and very little editing or surgery. Having said that, to put his nose up in the air and call out electronic music (right before doing a ‘mashup with Deadmau5 might I add) is super lame and outs him as a geezer. I’m sure there are people think his ‘rock and roll music’ is equally as hollow as the electronic music he was referring to. Main point- not sure riding up on your high horse to get your trophy was the best idea Dave, with all due respect.
In other news, I want to get that new Arturia analogue synth. My guess is the 10 moog audio in Montreal has ordered have been spoken for. Only one way to find out I guess.
Happy interneting.
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Happy February!
I’ve been busy writing music for TV commercials. I’ve got 2 placed in January and more in the pipeline. Also a track from the upcoming album was placed in Standard Films’ TB20, which is exciting! Check all the links below.
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Yeah so , here is my first blog post. Big day, lots of music making, Westmount Squirrels hits the Examiner and I cleaned out all the drawers in my studio. I found lots of solder and Canare cable which is good news really.
I’d love to see and hear from folks, those I do know, and those I don’t know. Please do drop a line.
Any suggestions for cover tunes? I have a list that goes forever, but maybe some outside feedback would help.
Well that’s it for my day to day, for today at least.
//For the studio nerds like me: Looking forward to making some videos about my live rig when I finish building it. Ableton Live is the core, using a BCR & BCF2000, APC40, Korg MS20 controller, Alesis Control pad (even though its useless as…..well, I’ll keep this civil) and a Yamaha CS6X. Wondering if I’d really benefit live from having my 1073 (clone) and Valley compressor on the front end or just settle with the subpar Motu preamps on the 828 mkII….. stuff to ponder on while falling asleep I guess . I’ve made several wildly complex templates only to ask myself if it’s really needed….. which it likely isn’t. In any case, I’ll make some side videos showing some tricks I devised to slave BCR/BCF2000s to an APC40 so that you are always in focus via program change and have a pile of knobs to tweak! As always I’m pretty dependant on N.I Komplete, especially when in studio, but in a live situation , it’s pretty solid too. Also, I must say, the TAL Audio Bassline is a solid little beast too. I get a lot of milage out of that, assign the perimeters to the MS20v and away I go, plus it’s free!! 64bit support (hemmmm….. Ableton!!) and program change response would be sweet, but beggars can’t be choosers! So clearly I need to learn to say stuff that the other 99% care about as this nerd ramble was too long, and I’d rather have pretty girls following this blog. IF there are pretty girls that found this section interesting and informative – I’m thrilled beyond words.
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