The 6th week of 2009

I'm shocked. This week flew by so quickly I didn't get anything prepared for this blog. I was determined to have an mp3 or something but with 1 hour to go before week 7 commences there's little hope of me throwing something together. That's actually the story of my life, I always think I can do more than I actually do. 

Anyway, I haven't been sitting on my thumbs for the past 7 days. I managed to finish a new tune for the mythical album that will never ever get released. Whilst I made this tune I was able to brush up on some old sampling techniques, things I haven't done for a long time. It was scary how much I had forgotten and quite liberating once I had managed to work the software once again. I'm keen to get back to the type of sampling that people were doing in the 80's, a time when the idea of sampling a milk bottle or a can opener was actually really exciting. Sampling these days quite often means looping a big chunk of an existing track and not really doing anything with it. I want to get back into the world of modulating, manipulating and twisting sound into new forms. I want to use the sampler as more than just a loop machine and to do so I'm re-learning all the deeper programming skills I've left to atrophy over the years.

So that's it really, I spent a great deal of time this week with my head in a manual. Not very exciting but well worth the time spent because I can now do things I wasn't able to 7 days ago. I think it's important to go the extra mile with these sorts of things or I'll just end up using the same software in the same way as everyone else and my music will more than likely sound the same too.

OK, enough of the boring talk. Next week I will have a new mp3 on this blog.