Just a little something for the Naviar Haiku Project.

Chippy chip!

Just a fun little 8Bit Drum'n'bass tune using a Refill from Moon Echo Audio.

Victoria, What Are We Really Burning?

A non-profit in Australia used one of my tracks for this video about deliberate burns of the countryside to prevent wildfires.



Caution, some of these images are disturbing.

Orchestral

A piece for the Naviar Haiku project.

Flirting with war gods
Dancing underneath red moons
Hiroshima cries

Take the time

Been trying to participate in the Naviar Haiku project whenever possible.  This is the first entry in awhile.  I kind of like it.

What are we doing?

Tried for an Autechre type of piece.  I think it came off alright.

Lots of non-typical routing to get these sounds.  Well, non-typical for me.

Day 499: 500!

It's been a long and productive trip.  I doubt that I will ever again produce so much music in so short a time.  I will be surprised if anyone I know (or don't know) has actually listened to everything I put out.  It's all been heard, even if only by a few.  Just under 18,000 plays as of today on Soundcloud, so I think I can safely say some people out there were listening.

I want to thank a few people for their encouragement and collaboration during this grand experiment.

Colin Fox (partner in crime in The 117th Parallel)
Frank Georg Lucas (excellent sound designer and composer)
Carl Holmes (awesome supporter)
Inphasouk Inthasomsack (awesome supporter)
Aaron Ciesliga (awesome supporter)
Laura Elvenly (awesome vocal collaborator)

There are a few more I'm probably forgetting, so I'm sorry if I missed you.

The album 500 Days album will be up on Bandcamp in another day or two.  To celebrate I'm making all 5 albums PWYW (Pay What You Want) for a brief period.

Thanks for listening.

Chad J. Taylor

Day 498: Kind of Blue

Lyrics:
You lied through your teeth, you knew what the fuck you were doing.
You lied through your teeth, you knew just what to say.
You goddamn bitch, you told me everything would be ok.
You lied to my face, I had no idea.
You lied to my face, but you looked just the same,
You goddamn bitch I don't think I can trust you, not even your name.
You goddamn bitch I don't think I can trust you, nothing is the same.

Day 497: Not Blues

Not often that I have tomorrow's piece written in advance, but I do today.  Today it's electro.  Tomorrow it's blues.

Two Days Left!

Day 496: One Minute to Liftoff

A musical cue.

Day 495: Vishnu

Here's one more taste of glitch music plus indian vocals.  With strings this time.

Day 493: outlast

less than a week to go!

Patches by FGL (except the bass and some effects).

Day 492: LIstening

It's just a simple electronic groove today.  Nothing too fancy.

Day 491: Mars Haiku

Flawless face of rouge,
Serene, silent elegance
Gracing her, named War

Today's work is for the Naviar Haiku project.

I wanted to make music that was alien and human at the same time.  It came somewhere near that.  Also, every patch used has "Mars" or "Martian" in it's title, so it's got that going for it.

Day 490: Drifting Along

So I can adequately inform the next iteration of Drift from New Atlantis Audio I used patches that were only in that refill today.  Came out very, very ambient.

Day 489: Ten Days Left

I'm pretty tired right now, so I don't have much time for commentary.

I will say that this was done mostly using sounds from New Atlantis Audio.

Day 488: Live it love it

An electro track for Monday.

No time to talk, got shit to do.

Day 487: Romance

Per one of my previous posts I wanted to take a stab at something that sounded "Romantic".  I don't know if this is that exactly, but it's a start.  Especially considering I've never tried something of this style before.

Enjoy.

Day 486: All along the pacemaker

For the Disquiet Junto:

My process in creating the "baseline" rhythm was to study the picture, in particular the top row, and look at the subdivisions therein. From the subdivisions I decided upon what would represent a "beat" for me and made those attacks a kick drum with additional noise and tonal elements built on top of it. I tried to vary the attack velocity based on the EEG readout to create some variety. It ended up being a bit more random than expected, but still musical in its own, more organic way. After this I added some "melodic" elements that are maybe less than melodic, but simultaneously created texture and melodic components. Finally, I automated the additional tonal and textural elements that were part of the kick drum and tried to shape the overall piece into something listenable and pleasant.

More on this 120th Disquiet Junto project — “Write a song based on the heartbeat of Marcel Duchamp” — at:

disquiet.com/2014/04/17/disquiet0120-duchampbeat/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Photo associated with this Junto project sourced from the following URL, which notes “Image – margins cropped for clarity – is courtesy the artist, P! and Simone Subal Gallery”:

blakegopnik.com/post/81699274569

Day 485: Piano Haiku

Today's work is part of the Naviar Haiku project.

Here's the haiku:

A piano is a conversation

best answered

by a violin

Here's the music:

Day 484: Space Jammies

Only a moment to upload this and get on with the day.  It's short, but I'm really happy with it.  I think it's because of the horn.  See what you think.

Day 483: In your movie

Here is a short piece that is basically a music cue.  I feel like I've gotten pretty good at this brooding,
intense, ominous, type sound and now need to expand my chops into some other orchestral areas.  I'm thinking that I need to work on Romantic, Adventurous, and Comedic things as well.  Better go watch some movies.

This was all done with Miroslav Strings and samples from Nine Volt Audio Action Drums, Cinematic Edition.

Day 482: Thinking about thinking up

While deleting emails from LinkedIn I stopped and read one of them (I know, crazy).  It was about the "90 Day Music Licensing Challenge".  I investigated it a little more and after very little thought I bought the materials for the program.  For whatever reason I haven't pursued licensing in the way I should have, but after just dipping my toes into the material I am very excited/scared/happy to feel like I can do exactly what's being mentioned.   After having the success I had with writing music for some youtube commercials I feel/know I need to go after this.

I'm thinking about genres/styles to pursue and music that I should be making (that's "hot" right now) and I have some work to do.  I have 17 days left of the 500 Days project and then it will be on to new and different things.  There will be a bit less music for awhile, but hopefully, there will be more money once the new music arrives.

Day 481: Skip to my Droop

A quick experiment using FGL's loops and SugarBytes Loop Slicer.

Day 480: Nigh

This is a pretty weird little glitch piece.  There are some strange things going on with compression that weren't intentional, but I decided to just keep them because they were so unique.

In these last 20 days I'm trying to "finish strong" as a friend of mine would say.  I want the material at the end to be as interesting as the beginning.  Truth be told, it should be better since I know a LOT more tricks now.

I'll let you be the judge.

Day 479: More Metal

For fans of Isis, Neurosis, Mogwai, or post-metal.

Done on the iPhone in Garageband.

Day 478: Lay Back

A chill, laid back beat for Friday.  Even though the weekend will be lots of work, this beat is still cool.

Audio field recordings are from the Lost and Found Refill from New Atlantis Audio.

Day 477: Leave this Better than you Found it

I was randomly perusing profiles on Soundcloud yesterday and I came across this guy's.  He's got some neat stuff on his profile and he had the beat to this track posted there as something he couldn't do anything with.  I did something with it.

Day 476: Haiku

Third entry into the Naviar Haiku project.

I imagined the sun rising on an alien world and the day beginning.  Initially there are only a few things moving around, but with a few minutes life awakens and goes about its day, exploring, eating, hunting, hiding, doing what ever it does.

There are some scary things here, there are some cute things here, there are some things here.  Welcome to Tropical Hoth.

At the first sunlight

Seven happy roosters yell

A new day is here

Day 475: Listening like a boss

A glitch hop piece.  Laid-back and groovy.

Am going to start on seriously licensing some music after I get done with this project.  24 more days left.

Day 474: Last on the Phone

This is the last track from my lost "phone" songs.

Here's a blurb about it:

I love the book, 1984, written by George Orwell. If you haven't read it you should probably go buy it right now. It's the internet, so you can literally be reading it within 5 minutes. I think it's one of the most important books of the 20th century. As such, this song is a little bit of an homage to it. I won't spoil the ending if you haven't read it, but these lyrics refer to the last page of the book.

Again, this was all recorded in Garageband on an iPhone (yes, even the slide guitar 

- there's an app and attachment for that). I mastered it in Reason.

lyrics:
This is our way to control,
another method to control.
This is our way to control,
Another way to control you.

Look behind you what you'll see is love.

This is our way to control,
another method to control.
This is our way to control,
Another way to control you.
One more way, One more day.

Day 473: Another from the phone

So here's the second one that I left on the phone when putting together i, Album.  It's post rock.  As with the others it was created in Garageband on the iPhone, then mastered in Reason.

Lyrics:
Bring me the fire.

Day 472: Forgot a Couple

Was going thru Garageband on my phone, trying to clear up space, and realized there were a few tracks that were supposed to be included on i, Album last November.  Totally missed them, so I'll be putting them up here the next few days.

The track was done on my phone, 100%.  I mastered it in Reason to give it more "oomph".

Day 471: I just did this

So I posted today's track just a few hours ago and now I'm about to post tomorrow's track.

It's my second stab at the Naviar Haiku Project.  A collaborative group, like Disquiet Junto, but focused on a simpler idea.  Each week is inspired by a haiku.

This is the haiku for this week:

Sunday afternoon

The phone ringing

In a vague way

Day 470: Minimal

Playing with Crapre some more.  I hope that it doesn't go away after it's no longer offered in the Propellerheads Shop.  It makes a boring instrument instantly interesting.

Day 469: Round and Round

Thirty days left now.

Today we go on a reverb-soaked, ambient world music trip across the seas to distant lands where robots try to find their chakras and humans try to become robots.

Day 468: Not Really Crap At All

So, for April Fool's Day Peff released the Crapre.... except it's awesome.  It simulates really crappy tape recording and does a great job.  I mean, instant lo-fi experience.  I used it with different settings on guitar, drums, and vox here.  Hope you enjoy.

Lyrics:

Someone stole my front tire.  
Some stole my innertube. 
I'm gonna hunt them down.  
Make them a fool.

Someone broke into my bike lock.  
Stole the code and the key.  
I wish I knew what their name was.
I'd steal their identity.

I want my bike back.

You are so full shit, 
you are so full of it.  

You are so full of rage.

Day 467: Depths of Despair, Cave of Wonders

Piano improv recorded in the depths of despair.  Altered in the Light of Day.  Using Sugarbytes Slice Arranger, piano patch from Reason Pianos, and good ol' Scream4 for distortion.

Personal drama really sucks sometimes.

Day 466: Quiet Struggle

Today is a quiet meditation on dreams.  I wanted to do this project and had very specific goals in mind (not world domination, but close - that's a joke.)

I have grown immensely as an artist and producer (I feel) during this Opus.  I also feel it is very much something to be proud of.  I've created a lot of music that will hopefully get placement somewhere, someday.  I've learned SO MUCH about using Reason software, which will continue to reward everything I do musically for some time to come.  I wish I could keep it going.  Part of me wanted to go for about 3 years, but I truly would like to spend some quality time on a few projects and it's just not possible when I'm doing this every day.

Here's Day 467.  Thanks for listening.

Day 465: Haiku Junto

Today's piece is the first work I've done for the Junto in awhile.   It's also a collaboration with the Naviar Haiku Project.  It's based on this Haiku:

“They encounter

A cathedral of ice

At the end of the world”




My process is a little boring (to me).  I imagine a group of people searching for the end of the world, then fill in the scene of them discovering an ice cathedral with post-rock music.  It could have just as easily gone in a different direction (ambient, more experimental, etc), but this time it was post-rock.

More on this 117th Disquiet Junto project — “Compose an original piece of music in response to a haiku” — at:

http://disquiet.com/2014/03/27/disquiet0117-naviarjunto/

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

http://disquiet.com/?p=16588

Join the Disquiet Junto at:

http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/

Join the Naviar Haiku Project at:

https://soundcloud.com/groups/naviar-laboratory

More on Naviar at:

http://naviarlab.tumblr.com/

Haiku by Nite Rote, more from whom at:

http://niterote.com/

Image associated with this Junto project is by William Warby, via a Creative Commons license:

https://flic.kr/p/8HqHv9

Day 464: Throwback

No time for a new creation.  There are some things in the works, but they aren't ready yet.  Here's a piece that you probably haven't heard.

Day 463: More Peace, Less Understanding

Due to unruly children yesterday was a struggle just to get a piece up on the web before the day got

away from me.  Today everyone is being more cooperative, but I'm less sure about the piece.  Mixing issues and confusion about spectrums, but I suppose it gets the point across.

In another 36 days I guess I'll be done with this and I won't have to struggle like this for a little while.

Lyrics:
There is no tomorrow,
Only today.
You have to wish for what you want.
Why don't we play?

Day 462: Upward Mobility

Screaming crying kicking ambience.

Day 461: Don't Act Confused

A dark, lo-fi glitch piece on the day when I saw one of my best friends for the first time in six years.
 Too long to not see a friend.

Lyrics:
As you march to your death, 
we all turn and face the ground.
The paradox of your life leads to the truth that is your end.

The leaves shade your face,
the breeze is cool, 
it's almost perfect here.

Bones in the grave, 
dirt showers over you.  
A pine box, 
two coins, 
and a suit will take you home.

Day 460: Converge

A short instrumental intermission to nod your head to.

Day 459: On the Dark Side of Mars

Another "4x4" track with some dark elements.  I'm apparently on a tear with these things lately.

I've pretty much made up my mind now that 500 days will the end of this project.  500 Days is an Opus, no matter how you slice it.

Day 458: Like Plastik

An unintentionally influenced track that reminds me a lot of Plastikman.

Had a good day at the Nashville Zoo today.  The dinosaurs are back.  The kids loved it.  Only one meltdown, and that was when we were leaving (to be expected).

Just trying to to keep it together for another 41 days.

Cheers.

Day 457: Keep It Simple Stupid

A simple, minimal techno track today.  Maybe it's electro... I can never guess with genre's.  Whatever you call it, it's a track.

Day 456: Electro Experiment

Getting over illness, may be able to focus a little more intently on what I was doing before I got sick.  Have felt spread too thin lately.

Even without the illness I'm coming to the realization that I just need to call it on the One-a-day project for now.  It feels like I could put out some top-notch quality stuff now and need the time to focus on it.  The OAD project prevents that from happening.  As much fun as it is and has been, I've got to come to terms with ending it in another 43 days.

Day 455: 5 minutes

Was trying to create and record the creation of a 5 minute song for Propellerheads competition, but I could NOT get the audio portion to record.  I made the song though, so here it is.

Day 454: Had to take it easy

Am still sick and I just don't have the energy to focus on something as hard as I did with yesterday's project.  I did something fun, less musical, but still exciting for me.  I hope you like it also.  If not, tomorrow is a new day.

Day 453: Collaboration - Beyond the Sea

Today's music is a collaboration with a random person I met via Soundcloud.  She's in France, north of Paris.  The internet is a wonderful thing.

She felt like my instrumental track "Stuck in Three Boroughs" could use some vocals, so she recorded these and sent them my way.  I took those and worked them over quite a bit, played with the order and extended the track.  Below is the final version.

I know it's done, because I'm starting to get silly with the things that I'm tweaking every time I listen.  It's about to get to the point that I'll be doing more harm than good.

Here are her lyrics:

Drowning in this crowd wave
They're assaulting me
They're threatening me
How could I breathe?
There is no air
My lungs are squeezing
My ears are buzzing
Please someone please someone
Please someone
Help

I'm floating in this clouds of words
Bubble brain
The story gets louder
rolling of rails
Blinding lights of trains

And now these doors are open
And the river flows
There're all together
Like a gigantic snake
Eating me alive

(Noises around
Going back and forth
They're twisting and melting my brain
Like a bee sting
with Vicodin
Blurry eyes and cotton legs
All I can do is sit and wait
these bars like trees
Are overgrowing
these hands trying to reach them
But they're escaping their grab
Rooted to the ground
like the last tight rope to prevent their fall
And they fall they fall
like feathers in autumn)

Day 452: ER

Had to put other pieces on hold due to an emergency room visit today with one of my children.  It wasn't very serious, but it was the first one ever for us as parents, so it was a little scary.

Speaking of scary, here's some scary noise landscape stuff.

Day 451: Such Doge Much Power

So, I've decided the name of the band will be SUCH DOGE MUCH POWER, and yes, the music will be on iTunes.  I'm already paying for the ability to upload as much as I want to iTunes thru Distrokid so I figure I should take advantage of it.  Won't be any worse than that Paris Hilton album.

LYRICS:
We stand on a pedestal, 
10 feet above all, 
The children try to touch our feet, 
the children can't touch our feet.  
We allow the people to come and view our form, 
the people try to touch our feet.
The people can't touch our feet.  

WE ARE ALL GODS IN OUR OWN EYES, 
NOTHING HERE THAT SHOULD BE A SURPRISE, 
ONLY EXPECTATION AND INVOCATION.

We dream small, we dream big.  
It doesn't matter our dreams are reality.  
The slaves, they try to make it real.

THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTER IN YOUR STORY IS YOUR OWN, 
EVEN THOUGH YOU STILL DIE ALONE.

We are generous gods, 
you may please us as you wish. 
yes, you please us as we wish.

Day 450: Lifted

Day 2 of my "fake band".  Here they get a little disco.  Don't know where it came from.

Lyrics:
the end isn't quite as close as you think,
the door is within reach,
the air is thick with doubt,
don't doubt at all.

We have the power,
we have the height,
we have the drive,
we have the might.
We can reach our dreams tonight.

You shared your thoughts,
you shared your gifts,
you wished upon star that we would be lifted.
and we were.

Now we can sing to the gods,
sing to the beats,
sing to the wants and desires we've lost.

You shared your thoughts,
you shared your gifts,
you wished upon star that we would be lifted and we were.

Day 449: One More Project

I'm going to take a stab at creating an album within an album.  For the next 12 - 20 days the tracks will feature (mostly) the same instrumentation and the songs will be a concept album, or something like that.  Today's track is the first track, hence the title: Introduction.

Day 448: Soaking in Ambience

This track kind of suffers from too much everything, but they aren't all gonna be grammy winners.  Hope you like ambience, reverb, and long decays.

Day 447: Sickly

So I'm looking after two sickly little boys today.  I believe they also may have infected me with
whatever virus they have.  Stomach is torn up, am not hungry, felt feverish earlier.  Being sick is shit.


In other news, I'm trying to continue and make patches for the New Atlantis Audio User Library.  This track features a glitchy drum kick from the Glas refill.

Day 446: Light, end, tunnel

I came to the realization today that 500 days may be the end of this particular Opus.  I'm feeling that there are other  things I need to put some time into and this is preventing me from getting to them.  I still have some ideas to explore for the last 50 days, but that may just be it for awhile.  I think I'd much rather end this at a point of my choosing, rather than a day when I just "couldn't make it".

Now here's new music.

Day 445: Hothouse

A nice, warm day today.  A good day for Indian Electro Weirdness.

Day 444: Cinematically

Something orchestral to add to the portfolio today.

Day 443: In the outback

Another Junto project.  Here are the details:

My initial feelings on production were that this was going to be a boring project, but after listening to the variations that other Junto members were able to coax out of the source material I got more excited.  Getting different tones could have been very easily done, but I wanted to finesse it a little more and try to create something more nuanced.  I opted for a foldback distortion that ended up sounding (to me) a bit like a didgeradoo.  Once I had a point of focus the piece sort of fell together on its own.  A moving filter/gate applied to one piece created an intermittent pulse, another couple of pieces ended up being pads (with subtle background additional harmonics added, just for flavor; but not another instrument - done solely with effects), a last piece was additional percussion with the slightest bit of pitch bend after applying a phaser to it.    All summed it -- we're in the dreamtime.

More on this 114th Disquiet Junto project — “Combine elements of Dave Seidel’s album ~60 Hz (Irritable Hedgehog)” — at:



http://disquiet.com/2014/03/06/disquiet0114-60hz/



More on the Disquiet Junto at:



http://disquiet.com/?p=16588



Join the Disquiet Junto at:



http://soundcloud.com/groups/disquiet-junto/



The source audio is from Dave Seidel’s ~60 Hz album, released on the Irritable Hedgehog record label. More on the album at:



http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/dave-seidel-60-hz

Day 442: Sleep for none

Went back to working with NAA patches.  Created one more and sent another batch to the User Library site.  This piece also relies heavily on pieces from the Miroslav Strings and Nine Volt Audio patches.

I will continue to operate based on the faith that this project will lead to something.  Truthfully, it has.  I've had a few projects that wouldn't have happened if I had not been doing this, or at least, would have been less likely to have happened.  That itself is justification for me to keep going.  If I don't do it this way I'll still be creating something every day.  At least this way I have a rudder.

Day 441: Let's Start again

Lyrics:

Do you wanna go for a ride?
Come on now, hope inside.
Do you wanna make new friends?
Let's start again.
This is the end.
Let's start again.

Taking a break from my experiments with NAA to try something a little different.  OR back to my old tricks.  Take your pick.

Day 440: Glitch Electro Ambient Noise Recording

Still working with NAA stuff and creating patches.  Here I wanted to try and create a patch that had a lot of the same effects that are created using Buffre, by Peff, but without actually using any rack extensions.  With a little bit of thinking around the problem I managed to come up with a close approximation.  A fun little experiment.

Day 439: 440

New Atlantis Audio is now sharing user-created patches via the site.  I'm kind of making them like crazy.  This work and tomorrow's will feature almost solely these new patches.   I'm trying to be ultra-creative, but still keep it musical.  So far, so good, I think.

Day 438: Mixing it Up (with mixed Precipitation)

As snow and ice fall outside my window I contemplate the deepest questions in life...

Who am I?

What are we here for?

Where is my burrito?

42?

This piece is another go at working with Drift by New Atlantis Audio.  It's kind of awash in ambient-ness, but you know, you get the idea.

Day 437: Drifter

Just playing with Drift, a new Refill from New Atlantis Audio.

Day 436: For Commercials

Listened to some heavily downloaded tracks on Pond5 and quickly realized that I can easily do much of what I heard.  For pieces in the Pop Rock genre they're mostly instrumental imitations of popular bands/songs, or original compositions influenced by such.  In the area of film scoring that was a little more complicated, although I don't think that stuff gets sold as much, so I should probably focus on the areas where I can make some kind of money.

This piece isn't quite as "commercial" as it could be.  I had already started it before listening to the above mentioned works, but it could still be in something.

Day 435: Source it Out

Playing with rock and electronics and strings and more.

Day 434: elec

Tribal styled percussion mixed with electronic mixed with modern instruments.

I thought it came out pretty neat.

Day 433: Getting Better

This lyrics should be self explanatory (though not wholly true).

Lyrics:
close your eyes, 
close your mouth, 
listen to me.  

close your ears, 
open your hands, 
listen to me.

I got my voice back today.

hold your breath, 
there are moments left, 
listen to me.  

hold your words, 
hold what's said, 
listen to me.

I got my voice back today.

Pay attention, 
to what's said, 
listen to me.  

This could impact you, 
Everything you do, 
listen to me.

I got my voice back today.

Day 432: Don't Dance

Still sick, but getting better.  Finally going back to work today.  Was playing with Malstrom a bit on this one, along with some other sounds I haven't used in awhile.  Felt like it came off all right.  I probably could've added a good 30 second intro and easily had something that was pop song length.  Oh well, this is what we got.

Day 431: Great Sounds

I have several very high quality instruments now.  Sampled at unbelievably high levels, they sound better than the real thing in many cases.  I frequently find myself leaving in mistakes to make sure they sound more "human".  Funny how far we've come.

Today's track features Harmonium from the Abbey Roads Refill, drums from the RDK 2.0 Refill, Bass from the Electric Bass Refill (all by Propellerheads so far), acoustic guitar from the iStrum Refill (which is just awesome), and Dombra from Impact Soundworks.

Day 430: A Little Bit of Noise Goes a Long Way

I promise, when I started this I really meant to make something very minimal.  In my head I was thinking of a Pan Sonic vibe with very little going on, the synth being the center of attention.  Somehow, somewhere it went off the rails and I ended up filling up the entire spectrum with sound.

Don't get me wrong, I like it, it's just hard to focus sometimes.  I guess it's worth mentioning that I did this at about 2 a.m.  I woke up as my meds wore off (I have the flu) and I started coughing uncontrollably.  I went and took my meds, then sat down and started creating this, waiting for them to take effect.  45 minutes later this was almost done.  Finished it this morning.

Day 429: In the Jungle again... the wood jungle... I mean, the real jungle... aww hell

Still exploring those oh so awesome Refills from New Atlantis Audio.

This track started as a goof around, but turned into something that I quite like.

Day 428: NYC

Using several kong's from the Krush Refill from New Atlantis Audio.  They are each named after a NYC borough and they all have a very unique character.  Subtle, but unique.  It made me instantly feel like I was in New York.

The piano is from the Abbey Road Refill.  It's the "Mrs. Mills" piano from Abbey Road studios.

Day 427: Welcome to Atlantis

Playing with new toys here, with a little assistance from Henry.  He was kind of randomly hitting keys while I was trying to record.  It added a nice texture and a bit of unexpected beauty, so I kept it.

Day 426: A minute

So, it's been a minute since I've been able to actually type anything here.  Mostly it's been because I've been quite busy with the children and family/home life and making music daily, let alone blogging about it, has just been impossible.  There have been many days where I was holding a baby with one hand and typing with the other.  Even a few sentences in those cases was difficult, let alone a full paragraph or six.

Right now, I've gotten a cold and lost my voice, so that video I was going to do on a day when I was at home alone (like right now) isn't going to happen because I can't talk.... sigh....

One thing that is happening is more music on iTunes!  An artist by the name of Abe Wantland painted a few water colors for me that will be the album covers for six albums that I have ready to upload to iTunes.  The albums are compilations of the first 400 days of music.  I tried to limit each album to 25 songs and got pretty close.  I originally wanted to only do four, but all the genres weren't really covered by only 4, so it got bumped to six.

The first album, Ambient, Like You, is already up there.  Here's the link.

There's more, but I need to go do house work and I'm getting dizzy again.