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PING: Artists -- We Want You!
Hey. You with the sketch book.
You with the camera.
And yes, you with the laptop!
mdlbear wants to start gathering fan art for his music. It can be a creative interpretation of a quote. It can be an icon. It can be an image directed at a song. Anything artistic you can think of. If you got the skills, he would love to gather art ( Read more... ) -
Latest News -- Amethyst Rose
As many of you are aware, mdlbear released Coffee Computers and Song at my urging.
What he hasn't told you is he's recently recorded scratch tracks for Amethyst Rose. This has an estimated release date of (I think) 2011 sometime.
He has also been in negotiations w/ Tempered Glass about releasing an album, but status of this project is unknown ( Read more... ) -
Album pre-order!
mdlbear finally has the mail-order pre-order form live. Newness. Go for it. I reccomend it.
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Tracks
Finally got off my tail and finished the last little bit of editing for "The Programmer's Alphabet" -- cutting off the end and inserting a little bit of white noise. Audacity is quite happy to generate white noise, so that worked fine.
At this point the track count stands at 19, with only 8 marked as having ( Read more... ) -
Tracks!
Finally got off my tail and recorded a clean take of "Little Computing Machine". Also fixed a too-loud chord in "Silk and Steel" that was making it impossible to balance the guitar and vocals.
I think that I now have reasonably clean versions of all the tracks on the album. So here's the tail of the to-do list:
- add track ( Read more... )
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Tracks
Made an attempt to put down clean tracks for "Little Computing Machine", using the old track as a guide. Started out pretty good, then fell apart completely at the end. Some really weird things were happening with tempo; couldn't tell whether it was on the guide track (which did have problems), Audacity having trouble keeping up, ( Read more... ) -
Album covers
Over the last couple of days the subject of album artwork has come up. Since this is a fairly specialized topic, I'm putting it here in mdlbear_albums.
I have a pretty good idea of what I want for the cover of Coffee, Computers, and Song: a picture of me as a street ( Read more... ) -
Bugs
After much pestering, I finally recorded chaoswolf saying "nice try" in the last verse of Bugs. You can hear the result [here]. Not bad. Life would be easier if Audacity had a way to replace the selection with silence, instead of always inserting it. I thought you could do that, but either I was mistaken, or they changed it.