Art School Confidential

Watched Art School Confidential this weekend. I thought it was great. The ending was kind of odd but it was a good movie. We have a show tomorrow at Next Door. It was advertised in the paper this weekend. I recorded guitar parts with Phil at Highway Recording Studio yesterday. Phil and I are butting heads when it comes to what to play where. Music video planning meeting tonight.

Pro Tools just stares...

With the lights out, pro tools just stares at me with its green and yellow eyes.

I know, I know. I should be writing and recording music now that I have the tools.

Revisiting old friends...

Most of my friends know that over the past few months I'd given up on listening to music. That I'd only listen to podcasts, honoring the art of the spoken word over the manipulation of musical instruments. Well today I revisited some old friends, Rufus Wainwright and the Vetiver boys. I think I've started to make the transition back to listening to music as a recreational activity.

Rough show last night...

I really need to start taking my digital camera to shows so we can document this stuff. Last night we had a late show at SoundHouse. Not sure what they're going to do with the building once they move out. Demolition? Probably.

Let me be the first to let you know that we're working on a Music Video. Finally, I know. We've partnered with Chris Potts of Potts Pictures. He's got some tight editing skillz. More to post when we start shooting.

Found a cool art/design blog: Form Fifty Five

Dead frog with a webserver can be controlled over the net...

Found this weird experiment on boingboing.net Remember making the frog's leg twitch in biology class? Now you can do it over the web.

Been a long time...But I finally got Pro Tools!

Alright, it's been a long time since I posted and I intend to track my progress with Pro Tools here. That's right! I finally upgraded my recording setup. Now I'll be recording in 24 bit. That's a big step up in terms of quality. I'll be tracking my progress with the songs I'm making here. Here's the game plan:

1. Import all LINUS tracks into pro tools.
2. Add hum track over the length of each song.
3. Compose on the hum track.
4. Bump each desirable part to another track.
5. Rerecord desirable tracks on desired instrument (guitar)
6. Mute bed track and export desirable tracks to CD/IPOD

Once I finish tracking the second and third guitar parts on these songs that we've already recorded at phil's I'm going to start working through a 10 song list I created with all the songs I'd like to pursue as the next LINUS CD. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself...

Show this Saturday at Coffee Talk - All Ages!