Not actually the last thing I’ll do…
The latest EP borrows some threads from my 2011 Cut That Cut Out album. Starting every song with two bass tracks and two guitar tracks was a big part of the process, which seems to work really well for me to get the music down.
This EP also marks the first time I’ve used any extra vocalists on my tracks. I think it adds a lot and I’ll definitely try to do it again next time as well.
My friend Darren again asked me to put together something for a quick animation he made for his sister’s animation club.
My friend Darren Bachynski asked me if I’d like to do sound for a super-short animation he had made. I said yes of course.
Death Wish from Darren Bachynski on Vimeo.
After numerous weekends of trying to figure out how to finish this remix I finally got it done. Pretty happy for the most part and I think I like it better than the original. I had the base line in from the start and it’s been stuck in my head every weekend.
These are last two singles of the summer, so I wanted to do something special. I was starting to think about some kind of an animated music video, but I ended up creating a short arcade-style computer game as an interactive music video of sorts. It’s more of a proof-of-concept than a really polished game, but it’s something I’ve been wanting to experiment with for a while now. At some point I’d like to do an entire album in an interactive format. I used Blender to make the game, which worked pretty well for rapid prototyping.
I also really like the two singles. Have a listen to In The Night.
Two new singles. Had a lot of fun playing around with some new sounds and styles.
My friend Darren provided me with another short animation with which to do accompanying audio. I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do but I happened to learn about the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra just this past week. It’s an awesome free collection of orchestral samples. As far as I know it’s also the best orchestral instrument solution available for linux. I spent a bit of time setting up some samplers with a few instruments. I used both Hydrogen and Specimen. I realized this animation was a good opportunity to record something simple using some of the samples so I made a very short score for the animation. It was a lot of fun working with orchestral sounds.
Cinema from Darren Bachynski on Vimeo.
Two new tracks that I put together in the last week-and-a-half. Feels like it’s pushing some new sounds and ideas that I haven’t really tried before. Following Oh No Oh My‘s example I’ve decided that doing sets of two singles is the best way for me to make music at the moment. It lets me do whatever I want in terms of sound and content without feeling like I need to adhere to some over-arching album theme. Check out the music on my bandcamp page.
Here’s the first track.
My friend Darren Bachynski offered me the opportunity to do sound for this ad he was contracted to produce for YouthRISE. I had a lot of fun putting everything together. It was my first time doing any kind of real sound work in a long time and it really got me excited about it again.
Protect Our Youth from Combination Films on Vimeo.
My friend Darren Bachynski asked me to do the sound for this short 9-second animation he created for an online contest. I coincidentally had just recorded a bunch of new sounds for my sound library so I was able to use a bunch of them for the animation. It was a lot of fun. Hoping to do more of this kind of stuff. Doing audio for animation is especially exciting because it all has to be made from scratch, and it’s up to me exactly what makes a sound, and what that sound is in each case and how I’ll create it. It’s like an open ended puzzle. Definitely gets me thinking about sound.
Diamond Factory from Darren Bachynski on Vimeo.