Alison Wilder 
The transition from spring into summer is one of my favorite times in New Hampshire. As today marks the unofficial start of summer (Memorial Day, wooo, boats and beers!), I want to record a few of my spring projects that I’m excited about.
Like most of the songs on IX, “My Softest Side” questions how to relationship. How honest should we be with each other? How much do we, and how much should we know about the person on the other side? Are we really better together?
Every Sunday (or not-Sunday, as it were), I pull all of my posts from my Mastodon account into a blog post here. 04-17-23 Any #linux types out there have experience with running Linux on a Lenova Yoga series laptop? I have a Yoga 9 and I think I’d like to switch it over. I found … Read more
I’ve heard people talk about how a recording can come out fully formed, but I’ve rarely experienced it myself. The album version of the song Enough’s Enough, though, just kind of happened one day.
Every Sunday, I pull all of my posts from my Mastodon account into a blog post here. 04-11-23 I love Plex’s sonic analysis features. I listen to my personal music library through Plex, and it’s such a blast to see what pops up together. For example, some of my more #experimental Blix Byrd music comes … Read more
I couldn’t be happier to put this album into the world. It’s been quite the journey, and I’m both thrilled and a bit sad that it’s over. The blurb: IX serves as a tall, intricately-carved shrine to Alison Wilder’s songwriting. It combines sparkling synths with menacing guitars, a Texas swagger with an East Coast snarl, … Read more
I’m writing this as I wait for bounces to happen in the creation of the final masters for my new Blix Byrd album. It’s a big moment in my life, so I want to do a little live-blogging so I can remember how it feels.
Every Sunday (or, in this case, not on Sunday), I pull all of my posts from my Mastodon account into a blog post here. 03-20-23 Mix procrastination achieved: I just designed and priced out a new, very sturdy Jaspers keyboard stand to replace my mediocre Standtastic stand, on which everything moves when I play with … Read more
I’ve been feeling a building impulse to stop using Gmail for my personal email and calendar, and somehow today became the day that I moved over. I’ll be forwarding my Gmail, but will be using Proton Mail for my personal email and calendar for the foreseeable future. As all moves away from Google go, it … Read more