Happy New Year, everyone!
I think it’s easy to get jaded about the New Year and the mindless and commercialized sense of renewal exploited to hawk exercise programs and self-help books. But human beings really do work in cycles, and I think it’s a great thing to view the New Year as a time of planning and anticipating growth, change, and new adventures while reflecting on the journey thus far.
All the best to you as you take on new challenges and make new friends in 2012.
I have recently discovered a few things:
(1) I think of the taste of a beer in terms of an EQ curve.
(2) I am not alone in this odd perspective.
What’s the “frequency contour” of your favorite brew?
There are so many amazing things happening online now with music and audio software. More and more is possible with software that doesn’t even live on your computer. Noteflight, a cloud-based music notation program, is one example of this. It doesn’t compare to Sibelius and Finale (yet), but considering it’s all taking place through a website… it’s fantastic. And of course, this engenders an entire social facet of the music-creating experience that never existed until now.
I’m continuing with my drummer lists and keeping it short and sweet this time around. Here is my shortlist of drummers you’d recognize on any song. Their sound and feel and style are so distinct that their fingerprint on the music they play is every bit as unique and influential as a great singer’s voice. Is it a coincidence that so many of them played with iconic singers and bands?
I have finally gotten around to sharing some of the modular score elements I wrote for David Kronmiller’s webseries, and Boris. There is a lot of music in here that I didn’t write, and I had no part in any editing or mixing of music or sound. I just wrote some fun percussion cues, part acoustic and part synthesized, for David to use in his work wherever and however he chooses.