As a few of you might have heard, I am currently working on a full length album entitled “In the Hearts of Seeds.” It’s a collaboration between myself and one of my best friends Madam Roar, a talented singer/songwriter with a bent well towards the experimental side of her craft. This album is fully avant-garde, a balance between acoustic and electronic, between waking life and dreamscape.
A few weeks ago, we recorded Ms Roar’s sister Jamie singing some parts on a few of the songs. It was her first time ever being recorded and she was a tad nervous. It took her a few takes to get into it and find her pace, but when she did the raw beauty of her voice totally blew me away.
At 52 seconds into the song (listen below) Jamie sings “I’m letting go” a few different times. I was so inspired by these few seconds of singing that it ended up being the pivot point around which I built and balanced the production and mix for the whole song. I was compelled to carefully frame her in this way.
I’m coming away from this experience with a renewed understanding of how inspiration builds on inspiration. This methodology is the life blood of truly uncompromised art and innovation.
Thanks Jamie, this wouldn’t be half the album without you!
My first hardware review is going to be a big thumbs down for the Novation Remote 37 SL & the Automap softare. I have had so many issues with this keyboard that it now lives in its box under my bed.
Below is a recent email that I wrote to Novation. Unfortunately (and irresponsibly I think) my request to get my money back was turned down.
“I have had so many problems with my Remote SL ever the last year and a half of ownership that I have now had to get another keyboard. I am a professional music producer and have a number of projects that need to be done and I can’t be spending hours trying to troubleshoot this controller. I have already spend many hours with these four issues and a host of other issues that I’ve had in the past.
I ask that you please give me my money back for my Remote 37SL. It cost me $660 Canadian dollars including tax in the summer of 2008.
FYI the issues that I have had don’t stem from the fact that I don’t know what I’m doing. I understand the MIDI language and MIDI controller programming. The problem I am convinced is that there are too many bugs located in the Automap software or the Remote SL firmware. Or both. I have had no problems with any of my other MIDI controllers. Pretty much every problem that I have had with my software/workflow over the past year and a half has been solved by taking Automap or the Remote SL offline. I do not exaggerate here. No joke.”
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