Naw
I tried to write something about why I’m not going to write something, but even that turned out to be too much writing. So instead I wrote this. Here’s some music instead of words.
Category Music
Sizzle
It’s been really hot, I don’t have air conditioning, and I feel like taking a break. Yes, I know this is ironic after last week’s post. My phone tells me it’s supposed to be like 10-20 degrees cooler this time…
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I ran out of time and the work I had wasn’t coming together so no post today. Here’s another compensatory music that I made last month.
Fog and Sound
I’ve been having a hard time thinking this week. This isn’t the real essay. This is a placeholder. The real essay is incomplete, pending a time when I can think, and pay attention, and construct a spine and ribcage to…
EverEnding DevBlog 81: Resyncing
Lots of ups and downs this week. As I got closer and closer to finishing my album (AVAILABLE NOW!) the stress of having such a relatively substantial project mostly complete and yet not quite out there started to really eat…
Songs of the Uncanny Valley
I have made an album. It is entirely instrumental electronic music, largely inspired by video games but not beholden to the formatting constraints I’d worry about if I were actually composing for a game soundtrack. Right now I’m still too…
Technique and Aesthetic
There’s a danger in getting better at things. Well, there are probably several, but I have one in particular in mind right now. As you improve in your chosen field, art or music or writing or whatever, you gain the…
EverEnding DevBlog 69: Following Music Tracks
It’s been a pretty good week. At this point, I’ve got maybe 90% of my total sound code finished. As I wrote about this previously I’d developed a bunch of the foundational classes and I was just about to integrate…
Eve DevBlog 52: Times Past
This week was a music week. I had naively assumed that, because a lot of the music I’d worked on in the past had gone fairly fast and easy, that this track would be no different – oh, it’s real…
Dynamics
All things are relative. There’s a phenomenon that’s been ongoing in the music industry for the last 30 years called the Loudness War. It goes like this: Audio producers are pressured, both internally and externally, commercially and artistically, into creating…