8-19-07 UPDATE: Two things, I'll start with the latest on my 3-step WIP. It's finished. It's been named. And right after this, I'll go submit it! And right after reading this, YOU will go listen to it if you haven't yet! ;D It was made for fun, with no intent of progress or original breakthroughs. Just for fun. Keep that in mind when listening to/reviewing it. ;)
Second thing is that school gets in for me tomorrow. Yeah, my insanely long summer comes back to kick me tomorrow. I won't be working on music nearly as much, nor will I be nearly as active on here. Don't worry, though, I will be whenever I get the chance. >:) Just a heads-up.
8-14-07 UPDATE: I've been finding it much easier and more fun to work on my 3-step project than on the others so I've been working on that one! It's actually almost finished - I just need to fix up some transitions and get that mixing/mastering just right, and it'll be on my audio page in no time. Stay tuned. ;D
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I'd be submitting more often, but I've been finding it hard these days to finish a full song, let alone one I'm satisfied with enough to submit. Here, let me explain:
1) A couple times every week, these days, I come up with some GREAT inspiration for a song of some kind or another, be it trance, ambience, classical, some other thing... and, thanks to Nexus, which offers me a huge amount of resources, I can nearly make that inspiration a perfect reality. After so long being limited by my resources, I'm not anymore. So you'd think I'd be able to make plenty of songs, right?
2) Wrong. I begin working on my song and for a while, the inspiration comes so quickly I can barely keep up. But I do, and very quickly the song takes form. However, sooner or later, the inspiration comes to a screeching halt and I have no ideas of what to do. Usually I can't figure out where the song should go next, in terms of progression - and I ask people for their opinions. Thing is, as much as I like their ideas, it doesn't work. I'm standing here looking at a fifty-foot brick wall, and for each person that I ask for help, it doesn't help much more than taking one brick off of the top.
Now, you'd think, a collaboration would work quite well for this situation. I get inspiration for a song, I work on it until I lose it, then hand it off to my partner, and keep switching around. The collab partner would progress the song, and when I get it back I would have a reasonable idea of what to do next. Problem is, how many people do I know here who have Nexus? People here that I know: None. And, if I can't use Nexus, then making that inspiration a reality is much more difficult.
Thoughts, comments, suggestions?
Also, since I'm probably not going to submit anything for a while - though the first chance I get, I will, believe me - I may as well give you a list of what I've been working on lately. As well as links, I'll list their names(if they have one), their genres, and a short description. Comments, praise, criticism, etc. on ANY of these is more than welcome!
(Untitled) - Trance - The trance project I was talking about in my last news post. I've suspended this one until I get the experience I feel I need to work on this efficiently.
Ocean Depths - Trance - One of my more original trance songs which hopefully will use dissonance liberally.
Black Jungle - Dark Ambience - Well, I don't have too much to say about this one. It's dark, and it's ambient. The rest you'll have to figure out by listening to the song itself.
(Untitled) - Classical - A peaceful classical piece with strings, piano, and a harp. Not a serious song, in the sense that this was an experiment and I'm not intending to finish it. I'll likely be making little effort to add to it as is.
That's about it. Again, if you have anything to say about any of these, don't hesitate to say it!
Buoy
Don't you just like, wait until you have an idea on how to continue, if it NEVER comes again then you're just unlucky
why don't you just link the WIPs in the news post?
Karco (Updated )
Yeah, that's what I do. And yeah, I'm unlucky. :\ Though it's a bit extreme to say it never comes again.
Linked 'em all, why don't you give them a listen? Comment on whatever you want to. All 5 if you're feeling generous. ;D