I’ve been spending a good bit of time working with some other people trying to get some live performance options going. Who knows, maybe this summer you can hear a live performance…but till then you can listen to a couple new tidbits (experiments really) over on soundcloud.
The holidays yielded a couple new things for digital music creation: some upgraded software and a new control surface. As much as I really like the Monome, the last 200 units sold out before I even realized the email saying they were available had arrived. Talk about market demand!
I’m finding free time to compose music for other people’s projects again. If a production of yours is in need of music and you find yourself tapping your toes and grooving to my own works, do contact me for more information.
To that end, here’s a couple recent pieces done on commission. As more accrue, I’ll drop them in the showcase.
One minor frustration on the journey of making music is trying to find a shared language to describe your music to the average person. It’s surprisingly difficult to elucidate the music that comes out of my head to people who haven’t heard it. Most people describe music in terms of other music, as in “it sounds like X.”
I can’t really say what’s right, but I know what doesn’t work. Most genres are loaded with baggage, public expectations that music in a genre will sound something like the top artists also working in that genre. This is not unreasonable, but it makes the average genre fairly useless as a descriptor for me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not standing on some pillar going “my music defies categorization.” Hardly. I’m just saying that my music has a bit of dissociative personality disorder.
I’ve been browsing a list of music “genes” from the Music Genome Project trying to build a list of things that apply to my music overall. This is what I have so far.