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Music: There’s a new [Philistine on the Sidewalk] song up that I finished on the 24th and entered in the [Dwelling of Duels] competition that's leaving some positive impressions (even if it didn’t place all that well). It’s called “In Appreciation of Your Service” and it’s a loose interpretation of the “Manager’s Duties” theme from Super Baseball Simulator 1.000. Fitness: After a weekend of eating all but one meal away from home and consuming voluminous amounts of beer, I’m at 203.2, which is actually better than I thought it would be. I did make it to 200.0 on Saturday, so my goal for this week is to get back there and get below it. I haven’t been below 200 since I don’t even know when, so it should be pretty exciting to cross that threshold. On to projects! |
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Perhaps that title’s a little more ominous than it needs to be, but this month is looking a bit cluttered and massive. A few of the projects starting up this month are going to span longer than its duration, but there’s still going to be a lot of work going into things in a somewhat shortened amount of time. A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume Two Today marks the beginning of the next volume of the chiptune compilation that was brought to me last year by [Wizwars] at [The Shizz] to help organize and distribute through [Concatenation Records]. The first volume had some hurdles to overcome in being released, but those hurdles were worth jumping, as the compilation is well-lauded by those that have heard it. This also gives me a chance to fire up the Mystic Nova project and put together a chiptune, which is something I haven’t done in a while. I already have quite a bit of music on my plate for this month, but the deadline for song submission isn’t until the end of May, so I have time to get things together. I’ll be announcing the compilation officially over at The Shizz later today, so I’m looking forward to see who signs up! New Concrete Mutant Album (Ruination) This is an album that I’ve been wanting to do since relauching the Concrete Mutant project back in July of 2009. I’ve been doing songs on compilations to hone the sound of the project in order to get one that I’m happy with, and I was able to do so with the last song I did for the project at the end of last year. I may still need to tweak the bass sound a bit before recording, but that’s the only part of the sound that I’m not 100% on yet. In any event, the album will be called “Ruination” and I already have the artwork and preliminary drum beats done for the songs. This will be one of the last albums I already have parts of the music created for, as all of my old song ideas will be collected from all of my project folders and placed into the [Philistine on the Sidewalk] directory – and yes, that is another project for this month. Of course, that won’t take more than a couple hours, so I’m not too worried there. I’m not sure when I’m planning on getting the album done, but I’d like to get all the music done by the end of April if at all possible. I’ll be working on this one while commuting to and from work, so that should speed things up. Concrete Mutant isn’t all that complex a project, so it should be doable. Creating Project Websites In launching a new album under my Concrete Mutant project, it would be a good idea to have a website that lets people know how things are coming along with the album, when the album will be ready, and links to the Concatenation Records site once the album is ready to go. The problem is that I don’t have one. On the plus side, I already have the template I want to use for these project sites, so it shouldn’t take too long to put them together and create all the necessary information. Obviously, Concrete Mutant’s getting the first one, then I’m going to retool the [Amaranthine Skies] site in that style, then the Cyanidic Rapture one and so on with the rest of my projects. I also don’t need one for the Zud project any more, as it’s been absorbed by Philistine on the Sidewalk. Mastering a Cyanidic Rapture Album I’ve been working on an EP for the Cyanidic Rapture project since October and it’s basically been done since December except for the mastering. I was going to record guitars, bass, and vocals for the tracks, but the songs are already really thick with the layers of synths and powerful drum samples, so I decided the weekend before last that they didn’t need them. I also intend this album to be a specific release number on Concatenation Records, but there are still some albums that need to come out before that number is reached. It's likely that this will be the last album for the project, as the sounds and ideas for this project are mostly covered by Philistine on the Sidewalk at this point. I’ll never say never with my projects, so I’ll say it’s on an indefinite hiatus until I figure out if there’s more material for the project or not. Remastering Two Zio and TEH LOLZ Albums I’ve been asked by Zio of Zio and TEH LOLZ to remaster two of the albums on the Concatenation Records label – those being [Chemicaldyne] and [Subfusion: Ice Light Army]. I said I’d be happy to and I will, since I’ve had some experience with mastering chiptunes now with the [A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume One] compilation and my own work for Mystic Nova. It’ll also be a nice warmup for the inevitable mastering needed for the upcoming “A Chip off the Shizz Block, Volume Two” release. One Week On, One Week Off This is where the fun part begins, as [an article] I read over at Steve Pavlina’s site has inspired me to take this approach. It’ll be more difficult to fully follow this with having to work the full-time job and keeping my fitness in check, but I think I can manage in my remaining time. The idea behind this is that you take one week to go all out and work until you drop, then you take the next week to do things you enjoy without being too lazy about it. I have a feeling it’ll be difficult to place music into either of these categories, so I’ll likely be working on it all month. It may end up being that I work on the recording/mastering of albums during the on weeks and do Philistine on the Sidewalk songs during the off ones, but it’s hard to say for sure as this month is only a handful hours old at this point. I’ll be starting this month with an on week, so I’ve got lots of work to do. Once I get this blog post done, I’ll likely start on the next one, and try to get all of next week’s posts done this week (save for the Status Update portion). That way, I can focus on other things next week, like catching up on reading, gaming (which leads to more material for [Nintendo-A-GoGo]) and working on a new Philistine on the Sidewalk track. Is That All? Nope! I’ve still got some social engagements to attend this month, not to mention all the ordinary minutiae that goes on with life. I may fail miserably at this new approach this month, but as time passes, things should start transitioning well and fall into place. Wish me luck on all counts! Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on March 1st, 2010. |
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