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
NB: The featured image is of snowdrops in one of my back beds — the recent snow melted in that area and there they were, on March 18. Spring is springing! (I mean, here in northern New England, it’s not really going to be springing but more loitering for awhile, but still.) Every Sunday, I … Read more
Every Sunday, I pull all of my posts from my Mastodon account into a blog post here. 03-11-23 The only song on my upcoming album without bass is the easiest to mix and currently sounds the best. Hmm. (Yes, before you say it, this definitely says more about me than about bass.) #MusicProduction #Mixing 03-11-23 … Read more
How do you name a musical project without vocals? With a little help from Adam Curtis, of course! Here’s how we did it for Doctor Body’s “Live from the Orgone Accumulator.”
Want to know the primary reason I use Firefox/LibreWolf as my daily-use personal browser? It’s one feature.
This week’s regularly scheduled wrangling has been interrupted by covid. It finally got me. I’m back to the land of the living at this point, but barely, and am still not feeling capable of any meaningful creativity or expression. So yeah, zero Mastodon posts to wrangle from the past week. I’ve gotten to spend a … Read more