Twilight Mediations II Setup Day One

So, I find myself in between terms, so it seemed high time to finish this followup album thats been percolating so long.

Setup went okay today. Wrote a minute of melodies, using Omnisphere (what else would I be using for the first track :), then I tried booting up one of the PCs to offload some of the playback, cause this first track is going to be orchestration heavy.

It started up, Synergy loaded, VStack loaded, the patches loaded and I got a MIDI pulse, but no sound. I think the Audiophile 24/96 card might be fried.

I think it might be just me, but am I blowing up sound cards too much? Anyway, They(tm) finally opened a Guitar Center about 4 miles from me. Guess where I'm headed in the morning?

I'll keep you apprised as the nights continue on.

My best,

Jack

Bad Cat Music Collective – All Pumped Up

Finding Seoul is finished. Definitely feeling the sad its done, but can’t wait to see the final cut – thing. Ya know?

Next up is to get the musical geniuses I work with approved to be pumpaudio.com artists. We’re going to go under our current moniker, Bad Cat Music Collective. It started out as a drop-box working music collaboration between some pretty scary individuals. It became clear after the fifth genre of music we tackled that this group needed to be official, at least in music placement people’s eyes.

So wish me luck while I try to get the Bad Cats pump audio green lit.

Twilight Meditations 2 is back in the news as well. One more track and it’s done. Mix should go pretty quickly (I usually mix on the fly anyway). I’ll let you know as soon as I get a release date. Until then, I will start posting snippets on the Facebook page. Comments, good and bad are always appreciated.

j

Seoul In My Soul

Evening everyone.

I just finished pre-production and instrument selection for a new documentary I’ll be scoring next week. It’s a beautiful piece, and pretty much what I look for in any passion project. It’s real, well produced, and has a great narrative. I’ll begin the downbeat this Wednesday and should have the first drafts out by Friday afternoon.

Check out the documentarian’s weblog here:

http://findingseoulfilm.tumblr.com

As for TM2, I have hit a wall. I’ve written 48 minutes of the record and only have about 12 minutes to go, but those last 12 minutes are so hard. I don’t know if anything I’ve done is even worthy. I guess that’s why us artists can sometimes get to self-conscious and think everything we do is crap.

I know I do.

I still haven’t finished the music for my new demo reel, which is going to feature music that’s been everywhere. I mean, A&E, WE, NatGeo… You’d think I’d be rarin ta go and get the demo reel soundtrack going... And to boot, one of my friends who’s probably the best editor I’ve ever known is cutting the damn thing together! I mean common Jack!

But like I said it’s hard.

Any of you having the same problems I’m having?

Thanks for reading,

j

Twilight Meditations 2 - Pre-Production

Heya gang. Yup, I'm in the middle of putting together instruments and ideas for a second release, tentatively named Twilight Meditations 2. I know, very creative naming. Heh

Anyway, I intend to do this release a bit differently. Specifically, I'm going to record it so that it can be mixed and released in 5.1 surround. I also have a very sexy and talented photographer and graphic designer that I think I can bribe into doing visuals so this can turn into a multimedia relaxation release.

Plans are to make its flow somewhat similar to the last release, starting at around 70 BPM and slowing to 58 BPM, but sticking there. So instead of a gentle slope down then slope up, this will be a very gentle slope down. Hopefully listeners will be able to fall asleep. I know a couple of people who suffer from insomnia and I'm eager to see if this is successful in helping with that.

I'm going to try a bit more with the piano this time. There was a lot of piano in some of the pieces from the last CD, but after listening to George Winston's new age stuff, I realized that you can really carry the material with very limited instrument choices.

I plan on using some more world instrumentation as well, some of the textures that are produced when you combine instruments from two totally different regions of the planet are unique and strangely familiar. There will be some experimentation. If you have any ideas of what might be neat to try, please by all means post some suggestions.

I have a prelemenary release date of quarter 1 2010.

My best

Jack