"Fencing Wire":
Soundtracking Your Life, Part Seven: (words will be here. check back later)
I refuse to say the SotWW word or I'll curse myself. Let's just say I'm making up for lost time.
UPDATED 4/22: I've been trying to learn more about scoring and composition*, mainly because I'm a dork but also to help me with this project. One of the things that intrigued me was the idea of underscoring, where you have music in the background, but it's not super important to the tone or whatever of things. Basically background noise. The other thing that I keep coming back to is trying to find new and interesting sounds (considering I've previously used a piece of paper, TWO trashcans, and various toys as instruments, you have only yoursleve to blame if this surprises you).
So it was inevitable that these two ideas might intersect (read this sentence again if you didn't catch that). I was sort of just tapping on a guitar and liked the sound (again, an idea with some precedent), and decided to record it so I wouldn't forget it. I knew going in that the sound quality would be kind of crappy but figured the idea was interesting enough to post anyway. By the way, if you've ever wondered the difference between what makes the cut for release and what doesn't, "interesting" is probably the criterion I is using more than anything else, including "good."
An additional note on Sountracking Your Life: there probably won't be much more StYL, at least in the near-term. It's not because the project is over so much as I want spend more time on each song than SotW gives me.
I have another song I want to do for the blog just because I want to write about it (it has a strange concept that I feel might need an explanation), but even though it's sort of partly written I haven't started recording yet. It might get posted tommorow, it might get posted next year, I don't really know yet.
In the long-term I want to rework and most of the songs you've already heard, and start recording new ones. When I'm all finished I'm hoping for something like 15 or 16 full-length songs, and then a smaller number of short pieces like this or "X's Theme." And you'll be able to download it and take it with you, which was kind of the point anyway. I'll probably release the blog versions of these songs as "demos" or something (I'm thinking of signing up for a site that'll help me do all this).
*Bear McCreary, who did the score for Battlestar Galactica and a bunch of other TV shows, has a pretty informative blag on the subject.
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
[This song can only be downloaded by downloading the full album. To see the page for this track, go here.]
Rerelease Notes: As with "Rose," I mixed a new version, but ended up reverting to the old one because songs always sound worse when published then when played in GarageBand.
I refuse to say the SotWW word or I'll curse myself. Let's just say I'm making up for lost time.
UPDATED 4/22: I've been trying to learn more about scoring and composition*, mainly because I'm a dork but also to help me with this project. One of the things that intrigued me was the idea of underscoring, where you have music in the background, but it's not super important to the tone or whatever of things. Basically background noise. The other thing that I keep coming back to is trying to find new and interesting sounds (considering I've previously used a piece of paper, TWO trashcans, and various toys as instruments, you have only yoursleve to blame if this surprises you).
So it was inevitable that these two ideas might intersect (read this sentence again if you didn't catch that). I was sort of just tapping on a guitar and liked the sound (again, an idea with some precedent), and decided to record it so I wouldn't forget it. I knew going in that the sound quality would be kind of crappy but figured the idea was interesting enough to post anyway. By the way, if you've ever wondered the difference between what makes the cut for release and what doesn't, "interesting" is probably the criterion I is using more than anything else, including "good."
An additional note on Sountracking Your Life: there probably won't be much more StYL, at least in the near-term. It's not because the project is over so much as I want spend more time on each song than SotW gives me.
I have another song I want to do for the blog just because I want to write about it (it has a strange concept that I feel might need an explanation), but even though it's sort of partly written I haven't started recording yet. It might get posted tommorow, it might get posted next year, I don't really know yet.
In the long-term I want to rework and most of the songs you've already heard, and start recording new ones. When I'm all finished I'm hoping for something like 15 or 16 full-length songs, and then a smaller number of short pieces like this or "X's Theme." And you'll be able to download it and take it with you, which was kind of the point anyway. I'll probably release the blog versions of these songs as "demos" or something (I'm thinking of signing up for a site that'll help me do all this).
*Bear McCreary, who did the score for Battlestar Galactica and a bunch of other TV shows, has a pretty informative blag on the subject.
DOWNLOADABLE VERSION:
[This song can only be downloaded by downloading the full album. To see the page for this track, go here.]
Rerelease Notes: As with "Rose," I mixed a new version, but ended up reverting to the old one because songs always sound worse when published then when played in GarageBand.
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