omelet In groups on Facebook & places like Upwork, it is really common to see people who have made recordings that have not turned out as expected and hope to somehow transition from a problematic recording to something "perfect". Sometimes this is very doable, sometimes not. It all depends on the raw recording. Now before … Continue reading Audio Restoration – Getting Recordings to Work
Putting Flow into your piece – the missing Pro-Tip
All over the internet, there are people offering one essential (click-bait) Pro Tip after another. If you just do this (often silly) thing, your music will suddenly become Pro. Interestingly one of the things often not mentioned in this flow of material is the concept of Flow. If a thing flows, it feels organic, real, … Continue reading Putting Flow into your piece – the missing Pro-Tip
Melting Machine – a sleep music album
Play it Quietly this is Sleep Music - not EDM Melting Machine was an album that wanted to be written but was not on my plans for right now. I was still working on my Goth record (working name Beauty of the Dark) but it had to be put on hold because I made an … Continue reading Melting Machine – a sleep music album
Seth Godin’s: Pyramid of Modern Marketing
Everything past this initial paragraph is a copy & paste of Seth Godin's article. With the exception of the image that I made to help illustrate what he is saying. Seth put it so well and people are more likely to believe it when someone famous for working at Yahoo (and other cool places) said … Continue reading Seth Godin’s: Pyramid of Modern Marketing
Eternal Battle ReFill for Reason 12
Eternal Battle ReFill Cover https://youtu.be/b_PwvPXA6Hg https://youtu.be/W1wY6k6VWgc $19 via the Reason Store The Eternal Battle ReFill is designed with/for Reason 12 with some instances of Mimic & Combinator 2. The 284 sounds are spread across categories with an emphasis on Polyphonic & Pad sounds. Some sounds are in Combinator 2 form, others are deliberately left as … Continue reading Eternal Battle ReFill for Reason 12
Music Cannot Be Cloned
I was taking a walk on the beach with Jane and we got to talking about making art and the impediments that people seem to meet and how they try to solve them. I said something like "Oh but Art cannot be cloned". Jane said "Oh but it can these days" Huh! She explained how … Continue reading Music Cannot Be Cloned
Many Moons – music for unpopular arcade games
Many Moons was deliberately written to be relatively simple music, with a strong emphasis on being very "classic" electronic. As I was busy doing a lot of review work at this time, my time was limited. I was using some of these pieces for demonstration of the synths or DAWs I was reviewing. If you … Continue reading Many Moons – music for unpopular arcade games
Travel Without Movement
Travel Without Movement happens to be my 100th Published Project (album, film, etc). It also happens to be the first time that I have worked with more than one person to bring the whole project together and the first time that I have worked with a guitarist in my own studio! Guest Artists Jake Cropley: … Continue reading Travel Without Movement
SpaceTape VST
SpaceTape VST Benedict-Roff-Marsh While this SpaceTape VST is completely free to download, if you find that you get value from this device please pop on over to my Bandcamp music store and buy one of my albums. This gives you some music you may like (better than just "donating") as well as encouraging me to … Continue reading SpaceTape VST
Courage
The role of music is to help people feel confident; to feel courage that tomorrow (or even this afternoon) is worth facing. People don't want Rock & Roll to make them feel less confident. If you don't approach your own music with courage, you can't expect that it will deliver the courage that people want … Continue reading Courage