Tiredness Pervades

Minimal amounts of sleep the last 48 hours mean I had trouble keeping my eyes open to mix today's piece. Recorded it in half an hour tho, so I have 30 mins left and will get onto it tomorrow sharp to put the inaugural improvised production up on this page. I'm also hoping to fit in a second piece tomorrow too, but we'll see how the day goes. Today's piece was inspired by the drooping of eyelids and the total collapse of my short term memory; I want to add some kick drum from bar 6....hang on, which bar is the kick drum coming in at again? Yup, that's how the whole piece went down. I was amazed to find I managed to create around a minute and a half of music (however spaced out and psychy) given the state I was in. I'd never advocate working like that on a serious project, but the aim of this one is to work with my back against the wall, so I soldiered on with it anyway.

It's off to sleep I go. Update soon, so fix up.

The Point Of Audio Flasher...

Hi, and welcome to my blog, Audio Flasher. I'll be regularly uploading snippets of music as an online audio diary of sorts.

Why?

I'm a musician (primarily guitar, primarily blues, rock, funk, and jazz), and I am studying recording and production, so my life is lived around sound. I mainly use Nuendo for recording purposes, and tend to work more with live instruments (my own guitars) than with VST synths, so I'm always looking to learn more about using computers for music creation. That, and I've just got a copy of Logic Pro and don't know how to use it (why don't all my key commands from Nuendo work in Logic, I wonder?). So, I'll be keeping a daily (or almost daily) diary in which I create, improvise, or otherwise fabricate some sonic weirdness and then upload it here for people to check out. I'll include a few notes on the sounds I used to create each piece.

I'm giving myself a maximum time limit of one hour per day to work on this, so don't expect every post to be a pristine copy of a finished symphony. In fact, don't expect any of them to be symphonies - I'm not Beethoven! The point of the music I'll be posting here isn't to be commercially viable, on trend, or even complete. I might work on a piece over several days, but each day you'll get an audio of what I did that day. And, as the point is to create new stuff using a DAW I'm not familiar with in a set time limit, I'll be working towards doing a complete short piece in each session, rather than working one piece over several days (wherever possible) - the idea is to improvise the work as much as possible. The hour time limit starts when I open the app, and runs until the final mix/master - after that hour, I go straight to .mp3 and up on here.

Comments on the stuff I post is always welcome, but don't bother telling me "that beat is whack" "you'll never get signed" or "why isn't there any X on this track?!? you can't possibly have a track that doesn't have any X on it!" because that would be missing the point completely. But general feedback on how it sounds is always good, and constructive criticism is great, too.

You prolly have a stack of questions, like why am I bothering with this? Who is Audio Flasher*? Don't I have the latest Guitar Hero to play with instead? Where is my first diary entry? I'd answer those, but I have a piece to go create....

*Audio Flasher is a lowly serf to ProScrybed Productions. That answered that one easily enough. But this is something else entirely**.

**Always wanted to say that - "something else entirely". God knows why. Sounds a bit mystery-novelesque. Or novellish. Or whatever, you get my point.