Matt Bowen's minutes of music, photography, et cetera
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It’s been a whole year! The format of my Minutes of Music has evolved quite a bit (this one is more like two minutes), but I keep loving doing it, and I’m so glad to have the opportunity. I’m hoping in the coming year that these can move from “whatever I can manage to put out in time” to “sketched for a coherent album of music.”
As for this one specifically, I’m starting to really love playing guitar, and I think this reflects that. We’ve got vocals again, only this time I didn’t write the lyrics, which feels like an improvement.
There’s not a ton to say about this one; it’s not one of my favorites. I mostly was playing with the new synths I’ve got, trying to get a feeling for what they could sound like. I think after doing a whole song, and with a good deal going on at work, I’m running a little dry on creative juice. But, hopefully by the end of the month, I’ll be back on my game.
My guest singer has returned to great effect in definitely the most energetic track I’ve done so far. I still have a lot to learn about mixing, particularly with vocals, but I’m not going to pretend I’m unhappy with this track. Having a blizzard on Saturday probably helped, because it gave me an excuse to spend all day working on it.
This is supposed to be a minute of music, but it’s more like four minutes. I decided that this would be a good weekend to try my hand at learning Ableton Live, and I spent a ton of time making tracks of learning how to make music in Live. Unfortunately, all that time led to me making something much longer than one minute. The quality is middling, but I learned a ton.
