I’m trying something slightly different.
\nI’ve got a bunch of songs that are little more than melody and harmonic rhythm, and some of them are years old, never having been set to MIDI, let alone recorded.
\nI don’t have a feel for what they may turn out to be — I don’t quite hear them in my head.
\nSo I’m going to just program them all with as they are — chords and melody and hooks if there are any. I figure once I have a general architecture laid down for each song, I can start piling stuff on top of them.
\nIt’s a method I stumbled across while working on “Choices”, and while I can’t say I’m married to the mix I created for that song, I like the surprise from seeing how it turned out.
\nPlus, it’s a good way not to be bogged down by a stopped dam. I was trying to create yet another mix of an old song — one I could never get right the first two<\/i> tries — and I’m still stumped. This way, I feel like I’m making progress on work even if I’m nowhere close to finishing anything.<\/p>\n
\nAt first, I thought I was going to work a little less traditionally, focusing on a particular project and finishing it before moving on to something else.
\nFor Imprint<\/i>, that felt like the absolutely correct working method.
\nI don’t think I can do the same for whatever comes next.
\nI’ve got a backlog of material sketched out, and a number of different ways to group them. I assumed I was going to dismantle A Ghost in My Shadow<\/i> completely, but now that I’ve reconstructed the rest of it, I’m not so certain.
\nSo now, I’m just working on everything<\/i> to sort out later — which is how projects as these are usually done.
\nI’ll come back later when I have something ready to show. I hope to have something new done before the semester starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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