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With 2009 wrapping up, I’ve decided to sit down and map out my musical goals for 2010. I was able to make good on most of my goals for 2009, but I have a feeling 2010 is going to be even better. New project I’ve got a new solo project that I was hoping to have at least one track finished for by this morning, but it’s still in progress. That’s just as well, since I’d have to launch the page for it as well and time’s rather short at the moment. Anyway, the project falls in the experimental ambient drone realm and it’s heavily inspired by [Bull of Heaven]. I’ll blog about it in full once it’s ready to launch, which should be next month sometime. The idea for this project is to do one song at a time and put them up on the page, rather than strive for an album. I don’t have any set idea on how many tracks I want to do for this project next year, though one a month is a goal that’s showing up in my head. Ambient album with xoc I’m in the process of putting together an album with [xoc], who is best known for his video game remixes, but has lots of projects as well – definitely a kindred spirit. We’re also both musical workhorses, so it seems an obvious pairing. We do have one collaborative effort between us on [The Wonderful World of Willow] compilation as The Powerful Shizzards, but that included quite a few other folks as well. This time, we’ll be combining a thick ambient and musique concrete sound, though we’ve still got some more details to work out about everything. Cyanidic Rapture I’ve spent the last three months putting together the framework for a four-song EP under this project. While it’s an EP, it still exceeds thirty minutes. It’s a little more upbeat than [Dragons of Putrescence] and definitely more textured. I think most of the Reason work is done, so it still needs lyrics, vocals, and live instrumentation. It’s going to be called “Sphere of Conspiracy” and it’s going to be the 23rd release on Concatenation, due to the relations of that number to some of the album content. The next open slot is number 20, so I’ve still got a little time, but I want to have it done by the time that the 23rd slot is ready to go. Concrete Mutant I want to get the first actual Concrete Mutant album out this year, and it’s already starting to come together. Its working title is “Ruination” and it’s looking to be ten tracks of reworked old and new material. It’s still in the very early developmental stage, so things are subject to change. I keep having sound changes with this project, but I think things are finally settling. I continue to record new songs for various compilations and competitions, and the sound comes together even more with each track I record. I think that’s how it usually works, and I also think the sound is ready for recording an album with. Amaranthine Skies I’m hoping to get two albums done for this project this year, but that might be a bit too lofty a goal with everything else on my plate. I have so many albums that I want to do for this project that it’s hard to pick between them all, but the one that seems to be calling to me the most is a Norse Mythology-themed one entitled “From the Roots of Yggdrasil”. It’s going to be nine tracks with an instrumental intro and outro, and I’m finally going to flex my vocal muscles as I’m going to sing on this one. There’s also a couple of recording-related things I’m going to do with this album that should have it sounding different than my other Amaranthine Skies albums, but then again, none of them have really sounded the same. The second I want to do is the full video game cover album, which was a goal for this year that was severely derailed by the two compilations this year. I think I may drop everything in September and get on this if that’s what it takes. The two compilations should be wrapped up by this point, so it shouldn’t be a problem. Mystic Nova I’ve had some decent output from this project, but I’ve been meaning to get a full chiptune album going for a while. I tried putting one together in 2008 and 2009, but I only managed a few mostly finished ideas and quite a few ideas that still need a lot of development. I want to take those ideas and reapply them to a more realistic SNES sound template (eight tracks in each stereo channel) and put together an album that has a fairly similar sound running throughout. I think what foiled me last time is that I was working with far too many things to keep track of. Instead of working with eight tracks in each channel, I had 27 tracks and samples. I’ll likely go over the eight sample mark, but not to that extent. That means that I’ll have to do some rearranging of the old source material, but that suits me fine. Voices of Epic Fail I may go for this, as if I really get on it, I could get the album knocked out in a couple of weeks. Video game-related digital grindcore isn’t exactly the most time-consuming pursuit, but it certainly is fun! To recap – I’ve got at least six albums (potentially seven) that I want to do, not to mention the monthly project, and the two yearly compilations as well as other compilations that spring up on online. With all those things, I’m going to have to find new ways to optimize my time, as that’s a lot of work to do. It should be doable, as I’ve already started on at least half of the aforementioned things. My old modus operandi was to be happy with finishing half of the things on my list, but I’d really like to get all of those albums done this year. Though they may not be as lofty as mine, do you have any musical plans for 2010? If so, what are they? Please post about them on the forum! Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on December 28th, 2009. |
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