Archive for August, 2007
General News: Summer 2007 Summary
As summer comes to an end, I’ve been looking back on the massive amount of work that’s been accomplished. This summer has certainly been a musical workfest for me, and I’m very excited about finishing the mixing up on the three projects I’ve been working on. First of all, in June Erik and Rob Ogden went into the recording studio to record about 50 minutes of music for the first full-length Grimfeather album. There’s still a lot to do on that project – recording my bass and keyboard parts, and recording Erik’s vocals – but to have that step forward was nice. Next, Rob and I composed 40 minutes worth of orchestral music for a new project called Make-Believe Machines. We’ve got ten minutes left to create before the album’s complete. We hope to share some of that material with you soon! Then, last week, Rob and I went back into the studio and he recorded drums for about 30 minutes worth of An Umbrella material – totally re-recorded versions of “Vegas Anesthetic Peddler,” “Three-Pronged Fork”, and “Glacier Park”. On top of that, a great artist named Mary Rose completed the first phase of her work on a new piece of interactive artwork for the An Umbrella Web site. In other summer news, I also did a lot of writing and animation work for the first six episodes of a new online comedy series. Yes, we’ve been busy, but our hope that we’ll be able to share this stuff with you all during the latter part of this year. Until then, have a wonderful fall season! I suspect you’ll be hearing from us again shortly!
The familiar image of Joe Richards’ headphone mixer.
No commentsTracing the Seams: “Scratching at Stars”
Wes has another new piece of writing up at Tracing the Seams called “Scratching at Stars”, which is a sad, yet pleasantly hopeful piece of work, in my opinion. It’s another two-parter, and makes for an encouraging read, if you have the chance to take a look. In other news, the last of many recording dates this summer has been set for August 10th. More on that later. For now, I’ll simply say that I have a beastload of music to mix this fall!
