i pushed Sheer out yesterday. Not completely happy with the vocals, but what's new. Music is often more akin to a bodily function than I'd like to acknowledge. Sheer is sappy and cheesy and to be honest, I don't like the song all that much. I've struggled with "fixing" it for years now and can't. The message is simple and excruciatingly personal. I guess that's why I released it. I realize it sounds weird to hear someone degrade their own creation, but what can I say. I'm compelled to get it out there, just as one might be compelled to sneeze or well.... Anyways, I hope that someone out there finds comfort in the song. I for one am glad to be done with it on a number of levels.
Publication Date: Jul-06-2008
I released the 4th track on Mirage tonight. Since I'm doing this particular project piece meal style, I'm pretty fickle as to which tracks get released first. Also released hallelujah under misc yesterday. Not sure where that track fits in the grand scheme of things but thought I'd go ahead and throw it out there. If something congruent comes along that goes well with it, i'll likely group em up under some name or another. Just having fun in the studio as usual and makin a little progress for once...
Publication Date: Jun-01-2008
Just got through tracking and uploading editFreeArdour and thought I'd drop a couple of notes on the track.. The first thing is that this was completely recorded without edits and is adlib on my part. I played all the instrumentation (drums too ;) ) one time through without punch ins (hence the warbles here and there.)
However the really impressive thing is that this is recorded on completely open source software. Ardour is a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW,) being written and distributed by an open source group of developers. The software runs on any platform, is 100% free. I am really quite amazed at the quality and stability they've achieved with this application. If you know much about digital recording, you know how expensive most DAW packages are. The fact that this thing is cross-platform (I used a Mac,) and is as close in functionality to Nuendo as anything I've ever seen totally floors me.. I just want to give a shout out to all those developers dedicating their nights and weekends to providing society in general with professional tools for making music. Their contribution will ultimately touch all of our lives in one way or another... starting here ;)
If you're a musician and are looking for a comprehensive DAW please support Ardour on their website http://www.ardour.org/ They have a number of ways for you to contribute, but $$ always works the best...
You can find the track under Misc.
Publication Date: Mar-08-2008
There have been inquiries into Paradigm Mind and whether or not that band is defunct. The answer is that yes the band is defunct. However, I don't have any problem answering questions about Paradigm Mind. Paradigm Mind was a place and time with people that I'll treasure for the rest of my insignificant little life. To me the manner in which it came about, persisted, and even ended, was more than just being in some garage band. The music itself had a life of its own that exists with or without any one of us that participated. That music reverberates in everything I write now and likely ever will write to be honest. So much so that I actually wrote a song about it under the same name (you can find it under Joel Johnston.)
The guitar element is a derivative of the song Paradigms written by Cullen Lisbony. In essence the song describes the timeless state from which inspired music comes. I write it from the point of view of the music itself and it's inception into being through the mind. CH-CH-CHeesy as that may sound, I invite you to envision it for yourself through the music. It's not perfectly performed or produced as a result of bad backup strategies on my part (and the fact that I'm not all that good in the first place,) but I hold that song in high esteem.
As for the band, there's a number of tracks for you to sample for the good-ole-days. I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we had fun making them at the time.
Publication Date: Feb-23-2008
To start things off, Welcome to my music blog. I'm a musician, computer freak, and developer (among other things,) living in Encinitas, CA. You've happened upon my music blog and I'm glad you're here.
I've been working on this site for much longer than it should've taken. My initial intent was just to have a place to post various compositions and recordings, so that friends and family could follow a simple link instead of burning 40 cd's with 40 different versions of however many songs. However, as I started laying things out, the simple page needed a flash music player. Being a relatively novice developer, I plugged in the first thing I could find. However, I decided (in all of my infinite wisdom,) that a simple player wouldn't deliver the content or gain the feedback that I want. So, I dove into actionscript and ended up writing this database back-ended tool that can grab the id3 tags from any track, index it, sort it and serve it up, all in one fell swoop.
Two years (and change,) later, here we are... Like any idea that lingers around my head, the concept behind the site continues to grow and I intend to add functionality up to a certain point. At any rate, the point of this particular section is to focus on Music and the process of creating and/or recording it.
Publication Date: Jan-20-2008
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