An attempt in progress to do something that’s still complex enough to be interesting, while being dancable: the shaolin signal - black heart event (synth fragment) The opening is a 3 part loop that’s squeezed into 4 4/4 measures. This then goes into a main riff that’s an overlapping 4 part 4/4, with an added 2/4 [...]

So I was doing a remix of a REALLY, REALLY  happy cheery early-90s style song. I figured should probably write down the process I use in case you do your first remix soon. First is preparation: open up the song, put it on loop, figure out the BPM and chord progressions. Like a lot of real [...]

Posting is a bit sparse cause of convention season. It was Comicon last week and now it’s Defcon this week. Ah, summer on the west coast. Quick VST recommendation for the some of you who never heard of the Delay Lama: try the Delay LamaIf you heard either Kovenant’s Neon, or Preteen Pornstar’s the Infinite then you [...]

Imagine the drive between San Diego and San Francisco. It’s in the neighborhood of 7 hours and fairly boring. For a large part of the northern part of this drive you will be on a smaller one or two lane freeways, and stuck behind somebody going a bit slower than you would like to go.  It’s [...]

This is the flipside to the “Don’t force yourself when you’re not inspired” post, called “Don’t be lazy.” While yes, if the creative part of a project isn’t coming to you, you’re probably better off not writing something mediocre simply for the sake of writing, it doesn’t mean you should stop working on audio. There’s a [...]