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Oh, Hello There

After some time away from this here blog o’ mine it’s high time to get an update going. Rather than ramble on in unsightly paragraph format I think a nice numbered list of goings ons would be best. You agree don’t you?

1. Call this a meta-post but I am slower putting together ideas for a new website – that is – a REAL website. You know, professionally done, with bells, whistles, blinking lights and the such. And media pages with my song reels and clips from previous work would probably be good too. I will be calling on my good friends at digitallySOCial to help achieve this. We all have seen what I can do by myself…. The whole point is that I have a nice little body of real and demo work behind me now and I want to be able to present it in the best manner possible. Judging from digitallySOCial‘s work, these guys can get it done right.

2. I have fallen woefully behind in the much previously mentioned 12 in 12 project (completing 12 pieces of art [music] in a one year span). I have fallen victim to the excuse of a broken computer and never really got back on track. Some of this was due to completing other projects for clients, vacation time, or just plain creative self doubt.

3. However! New songs are in the offing! I am one vocal track away from finishing my first country pop song. Inspired by some recent trips to Shuswap Lake, and as a way to see how far I could stretch this genre thing, all I need is for @bspence88 to lay down some twangy vocals and we’re there. The most interesting part of the process was actually recording myself singing the demo vocals. Singers of the world – you have my utmost respect

4. I am also working on a trip-hop song. Why? Something different of course. The downbeat groove, the dirty sounds, the mysterious moody misinterpretations of it all! I had a beat rattling around my head for a while and simply needed to get it out of there. And there is also the matter of my french female reading poetry. Why? I dunno. But the picture is in my head and these are the pieces of the puzzle that seem to be needed to complete the whole. This on is going to be nice and different.

5. One of the previous shorts films I scored and sound edited (using .OMF!!! ) **Watch the trailer**—> “The Fence” has been submitted for screening at the Toronto International Film Festival this fall. How cool is that!?

6. A song I did over 2 years ago, “In The Cool Room,” was used in the credit roll of a local improv show which aired last month on Shaw 4 TV. “Not Another Council Meeting” is a 1/2 show detailing the daily dalliances of a local city council. Profoundly funny if not creepily accurate, I was very glad to contribute this little ditty of mine to some fine comedy.

7. A project I did the theme and bumper music for quite a while back is still slowly coming together. The first episode of “Now Back It Up” has been put together and while I can’t give y’all a link to it yet, it was crazy neat-o to hear all the clips I did running throughout the episode. Was just so, well, real you know?

So all this was a bit of a stock taking on my part I suppose, but we all need to do that now and again. So while there are big plans (scary ones at that) ahead for the fall, we all know that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. And hopefully, soon instead of detailing projects that seem to take forever to finish, I’ll be detailing how little time I have to to finish projects.

And that’s the view from where I stand. Well, sit, c’mon now.

David

PS Lions suck. 0-5.

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