Outro (with bees)
Posted on | May 30, 2008 | No Comments
(since I’m updating this more with random album statuses, I’m just going to pick random song titles as my post titles)
After my daily dose of The Simpsons I crawled back into the studio last night. Since my cold has mostly cleared up, I recorded some much better vocal takes for the track I’m hoping to finish in time for a compilation submission. It’s tabla-tastic, and is pretty much sticking to the vocal-techno mold (so not a ton of modulation). I made it through three verses and two choruses before my head refilled with goo and I had to stop.
I also pulled out the fiddle and an irish tunebook and started sightreading my way through some jigs and reels. It’s been a loooong time since I’ve done any amount of sightreading and it’s a skill that has atrophied a bit over time. I’m not exactly planning on using these particular slip jigs or anything, but I am trying to re-familiarize myself with the idioms and techniques so I can fuse it with other things. We’ll see what comes of it – the resulting experiments could be very cool, or they could be achingly twee and saccharine.
What I’d really like to attempt requires one heckuva balancing act. If I go too far one way, the tracks sound like pedestrian electropop. Too far another way, they become too experimental and borderline unlistenable. Too far the third way, and they’re watered-down world music. Difficult. I’m not sure how sucessful I’ll be, especially since at least one of the tools I want to use is being fussy with Logic.