I'm Not Dead...Well, Not Yet Anyway
Hi, folks! I miss communicating with everyone. Hope everyone is well.
I am very tired right now...it's been a coupla almost completely sleepless nights...but I feel buoyant nonetheless, 'cause I just finished a music assignment that I've been working on since, literally, like March. *whew*
You probably heard me talkin' about it (and talking and talking and TALKING about it)...music for a Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre children's show on health and fitness. Half an hour of songs for broccoli puppets to lip-sync to. And I must say, I think it came out pretty cool. To me, at least.
The assignment was quite open: 30 minutes of pre-show music plus some internal songs and cues. I guess I coulda just done three 10-minute loops of computer music, but I thought it'd be more fun to do a dozen 2-3 minute long pop songs in all differnt genres...and frankly, I wouldn't have wanted to sit through 3 ten-minute-long meandering things as a kid (or now, for that matter. Sorry, Rick Wakeman).
So there's a 60's janglepop song. There's a C&C Music Factory spoof. There's an 80's hair metal number, a Bob Dylan-esque folk tune, a James Bond theme-type thingy, surf music, a horrifying country-meets-polka monstrosity, etc., etc. It's pretty silly. Well, actually, it's VERY silly.
You know, if there weren't a deadline, these recording projects would never end, 'cause you're always adding, tweaking, reworking things until the last possible second, seriously. Plus, writing, playing and mixing all this stuff from the ground up was essentially like doing a whole album.
But AH!
NOW IT'S DONE! :))
I'm so psyched.
One of my Kaiser clients was discussing the project with me this week, and she said she was glad I had made the project so fun. I was like, "Well, yeah, fun for me, anyway, but I don't know how much the kids will dig stuff like the 80's hair metal!" Then she made my day by laughingly saying, "Actually, at the last show, some of the kids in the audience were air-guitaring to it; so I guess it lives on."
So WOOHOO! Ah, I'm so thrilled to be done!!
Plus, now I can invoice Kaiser for the rest of my fee (*whew*) and start readying myself for the next project: recording Three Quarter Ale! *bites nails*
I am very tired right now...it's been a coupla almost completely sleepless nights...but I feel buoyant nonetheless, 'cause I just finished a music assignment that I've been working on since, literally, like March. *whew*
You probably heard me talkin' about it (and talking and talking and TALKING about it)...music for a Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre children's show on health and fitness. Half an hour of songs for broccoli puppets to lip-sync to. And I must say, I think it came out pretty cool. To me, at least.
The assignment was quite open: 30 minutes of pre-show music plus some internal songs and cues. I guess I coulda just done three 10-minute loops of computer music, but I thought it'd be more fun to do a dozen 2-3 minute long pop songs in all differnt genres...and frankly, I wouldn't have wanted to sit through 3 ten-minute-long meandering things as a kid (or now, for that matter. Sorry, Rick Wakeman).
So there's a 60's janglepop song. There's a C&C Music Factory spoof. There's an 80's hair metal number, a Bob Dylan-esque folk tune, a James Bond theme-type thingy, surf music, a horrifying country-meets-polka monstrosity, etc., etc. It's pretty silly. Well, actually, it's VERY silly.
You know, if there weren't a deadline, these recording projects would never end, 'cause you're always adding, tweaking, reworking things until the last possible second, seriously. Plus, writing, playing and mixing all this stuff from the ground up was essentially like doing a whole album.
But AH!
NOW IT'S DONE! :))
I'm so psyched.
One of my Kaiser clients was discussing the project with me this week, and she said she was glad I had made the project so fun. I was like, "Well, yeah, fun for me, anyway, but I don't know how much the kids will dig stuff like the 80's hair metal!" Then she made my day by laughingly saying, "Actually, at the last show, some of the kids in the audience were air-guitaring to it; so I guess it lives on."
So WOOHOO! Ah, I'm so thrilled to be done!!
Plus, now I can invoice Kaiser for the rest of my fee (*whew*) and start readying myself for the next project: recording Three Quarter Ale! *bites nails*