So here is Day 7's piece, brooding today, lots of Kontakt and Stylus RMX, a little bit of Omnisphere and some Absynth to for good measure. Just that and my new 13" Macbook Pro 2013 today, nothing else. All I have to say is, actually Reason and Logic are a little bit small, it is perfectly possible to do work on the move, but I might have to invest in a separate monitor!!! (any recommendations?)EnjoyPeaceNeil
Day 6 - The Future Was Bright
Just upgraded to Reason 7 and thought I would try and knock something out very quickly! Lots of new features to mess around with, it is still awesome!!EnjoyPeaceNeil
Day 5 - Escape Velocity
Here is day 5, sometimes you reach the right momentum to escape.EnjoyPeaceNeil
Day 4 - Powers Of Observation
Here is Day 4 of my challenge. The challenge is proving to be just that, with SO many issues I am facing with my new Macbook Pro and Logic and Digital Performer, so many of my plugins aren't working, I am having massive latency issues with my Focurite Scarlett 2i2 (it is pretty much useless now), and I am getting my CPU maxing out with 3 tracks of audio!!! Anyway, we move ahead.PeaceNeil
Day 3 - Random Memories
Here is my piece for today....Reverted back to Logic 9 today as I am having so many issues with Digital Performer 8 and Apple's new Marvericks operating system (which was forced on me with my new macbook pro). A real shame, but there are simply too many glitches to make it worth using. I hope these will be fixed soon, I should state that these are Apple issues and not Motu as it it works fine on my other systems. So today we have a little bit of Omnisphere, Stylus RMX, Session Strings, Ez Drummer and Absynth.
Enjoy
Peace
Neil
Day 2 - Changes and Change
Had a few teething issues with my new Macbook Pro and Digital Performer 8, unfortunately I found a bug, so today was a tad on the rushed side. I broke out some Native Instrument' Session Strings, Stylus RMX, Spitfire Dulcimer and Omnisphere. This is what very quickly came out, there also seems to be a problem with the bounce in DP which I will need to investigate as it slightly truncates the start and end.EnjoyPeaceNeil
A new challenge - Piece a (week)day
As some of you may remember, between 24th August 2011 and 31st December 2013 I wrote a piece of music everyday (or towards the end also expanded that to doing something creativity, be it drawing or photography). The piece a day challenge was born out of a life situation where things weren't too great and everything was all rather negative, my thought in developing the challenge was firstly to do something creative and hopefully get into a 'creative routine' where creating became a habit (it did!) and also trying to do something positive and creative in amongst all the negativity.
Needless to say, I completed the challenge and it was one of the most inspiring, thought provoking, liberating (and difficult at times) things I have done. It also showed me that the only thing that holds one back from being creative is oneself! Anyway, roll forward 11 months, through a year which to be honest has been one of the worse I have ever experienced for some many reasons, I have found that once again there is a lot of negativity and bad stuff happening. My first thought about dealing with this now is to rekindle the Piece a day challenge and get creative again. I also found that after nearly a year and a half of being creative, since I stopped I have done very very little (okay pretty much nothing!), so I am also hoping that this will get me focused to get a couple of big projects actually completed. These projects include a new Light B4 Sound album (pretty much written!) and a 5 track guitar EP (half written!).
The goal now is very similar, but with a couple of small changes. I am going to start today, 13-11-13 and go through until 31-12-13, so just over a month really. The biggest difference this time is that I am only going to write pieces on weekdays (Monday to Friday), why....well I am still doing a course at Berklee and I have assignments to do at the weekends, so I don't really want to overload myself (with work as well!). The other rules stay the same
The rules I set myself were as follows
- Piece has to be longer than 30 seconds.
- Can’t be an existing piece or idea.
- Can be music or sound art or soundscape.
- Has to be uploaded by midnight on the day.
So without much further ado, here is the first piece today and yes I have been listening to a bit too much Paul Hardcastle this morning!!
Enjoy
Peace
Neil
