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I felt like maybe I was “in the zone” tonight, so I had a go at doing some music for the next PDF DVD. Here, reduced to a low bit rate (and needing some serious equalization), are the better pieces I came up with. Below each clip, for your amusement, are my timing\/tone notes where I laid out what I needed in terms of length, hitting any specific cues, and what it needed to “feel” like. <\/p>\n
RCA Studio LIV<\/strong> (approx. 2:15) No shorter than 1:57. Mid ’70s flavor, no big accents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (I dunno how “mid ’70s” this really sounds, but I was aiming for a kind of spacey early Alan Parsons Project instrumental feel. It really kicks in about halfway through and gets a little hypnotic.)<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Jupiter II<\/strong> (approx. 0:45) No shorter than 35 seconds. Spacey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (I really liked how this one came out – a bit like some of the spacier, more sedate stuff from Paddy Kingsland’s music for the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy TV series.)<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Spike’s Odyssey (approx. 0:50) No shorter than 41 seconds. Big kerpow at 38 seconds for year intro.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I did a couple of other tracks not heard here; in all, it represents nearly four hours of work.<\/p>\n This was the first time I’ve “spotted” before going in to create some new music – the previous PDF DVD was tracked entirely with instrumentals I had already written and recorded, in some case nearly 10 years before the DVD came out – so we’ll see how it all works. I thought it was an interesting challenge to have some fairly rigid structural notes to stick to – hit a big sound effect piece here<\/em>, and no sooner, that sort of thing. I generally made about 5-10 seconds more music than I absolutely needed, but not much more than that – what you hear is what you get.<\/p>\n I know that for some folks – including me – none of this material will ever even come close to replacing the cool 8 Bit Weapon stuff that was heard on the 2004-2006 version of the DVD, i.e. the version that I could show off, but not sell. Incidentally, I had 8BW’s permission to use their stuff on that edition of the DVD, so it’s not like a big scandalous secret, but I couldn’t exactly sell a version of the DVD that was crawling with their music either. So, as with everything else on the DVDs, it’s kind of a direct transmission from my brain: graphic design, writing, editing and even music. Scary thought there, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (This is one of those things where the Facebook folks will have to punch “view original post,” otherwise this will make el zilcho sense.) I felt like maybe I was “in the zone” tonight, so I had a go at doing some music for the next PDF DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-toiling-in-the-pixel-mines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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