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I’ve been doing a lot of introspection over the past couple of weekends, and one of the things that I’ve realized that I’ve got some serious retooling work to do in a couple of areas. Music If you’ve been reading the blog for any amount of time, you’ll have read all about the ongoing saga with my musical projects. While Philistine on the Sidewalk is the one that’s going to stick around for the foreseeable future, there are things about the project that I feel need some tweaking. I looked back to my [Creating a Music Project] post from the beginning of February, because I remember that I listed the foundations of the project there. Looking at that list about four months later, some of it is still applicable, but some of it needs to be revised. I’m fine with the “one rhythmic loop continuing through the song” idea, but the “one drum loop slowed down for the chillout vibe” idea has already been refined. I’m going to be layering multiple drum loops together, having one panned 50% to the left, one panned 50% to the right, something going down the middle of the stereo spectrum, and perhaps other drum parts as well. The “one extended guitar track drenched in reverse reverb” idea will be sticking around as well, though I plan on adding more reverse reverb guitar to the songs too. The aforementioned idea ends up in the song in the higher registers of the guitar, but I want to add reverse reverb parts in the lower and middle registers of the guitar to the upcoming songs to give them a thicker and more ambient chillout jazz vibe. I blame listening to too much lovesliescrushing lately. The “one noise loop that’s rendered from the picture used on the page” idea will likely stick around, as I can edit that in many different ways to sculpt the sound as I wish. It would even be doable on an album, since I’d have the same source loop for all of the songs. I also want to keep the “at least one vocal sample slowed down and reversed” idea as well, but I need to figure out how to make that idea blend into the song more effectively. I think lots of reverb and turning down some of the frequencies will make that work. I’ve also instituted a couple more things, like recording the bass sound one way only, but using Reason to add post-production effects as needed. I also want to start doing some actual vocals, but that means I need to get back to writing lyrics again. I’ve been meaning to for a while, so there’s no time like the present. Websites While honing my sound is definitely a time-consuming task, retooling my websites is going to be the more massive undertaking of the two. I want a more streamlined look throughout all of my sites, and I think the look that [Nintendo-A-GoGo] has is the one that I want to go with. With close to 100 pages on this site and around 150 on the Concatenation site, this will be quite a project and it’s likely good that I’m slowing down the blog, as a couple of those three mornings a week will be dedicated to honing sites. The others will be dedicated to creating music and content for said sites and maybe a little gaming too. Conclusion All that I can conclude from this is that I’ve got a lot of work to do. That should be my slogan! Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on May 24th, 2010. |
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