Monthly Archives: May 2011
Odds and Ends: June 2006 track “Burro”
I discarded a lot of recordings along the way to my first three albums — most, if not all, for good reason. Though if a recording had been considered at all, there had to have been something decent about it.
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Notes from Fresh Twigs
I was going through a box of cassettes and minidiscs the other day here at Workbench HQ (i.e. the studio/office in the second bedroom of our apartment) and I pulled out a small pad full of notes I had taken when I had started working on Fresh Twigs.
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Astral Law CDRs are Here
It took me longer than I expected, and I changed my production plan along the way, but hard copies of Astral Law are finally available. They’re CDRs which are being burned from a disc image of the master prepared by Scott Hull at Masterdisk, and they sound great.
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Idea Sorting
Apropos of my last post, here’s what Ursula Le Guin wrote this morning in “The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction” at The Guardian (thanks to mysterious Facebook algorithms and Oliver Arditi for the link).
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Adventures in Genre
As I mention up there in the header, I’m working on my fourth album. It’s going to be very different from my first three — I thought I’d tell you a little about what I’m planning.
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Switching Gears, Part 3
This is my final post for now about dealing with time management. For the earlier posts see: Switching Gears, Part 1 and Switching Gears, Part 2.
Now to talk a little more about time spent on craft.
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Switching Gears, Part 2
Back to time management. Actually, I wish there were a better term to use than that — it’s so business-y and one of those terms that future generations will snicker at as being so “turn-of-the-century.” But it’s the best shorthand I’ve got at the moment, and I don’t mean for these posts to be real long, so shorthand is a plus.
Switching Gears, Part 1
I’m a musician; there are four things I need to pay attention to every day. 1) craft, 2) career (i.e. audience), 3) job(s), and 4) personal life. All of these require specific skill and attention. But what I really need to get a handle on — more than any one of these areas — is how to fit them all together.
