2021·Electronic·Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Oude Kaas
CommitteeHorse
AlbumAbout
I have been composing for about 10 years. I have had writers block for half of that time, and I've always wanted to make an Art Rock / Electronica / Jazz album centered around the storytelling and poetry. My biggest goal in this project was to create a robust process by which I can continue to make future work. I recorded everything in my practice space, and mixed it myself (sorry! I'm still working on that part of the process) I wrote each piece in the album to challenge a different aspect of my musicianship. Some of the tunes are targeting improvisational, conceptual or specific music theory skills, while others are simply challenging the fact that I'm trying to play all of the instruments. It definitely crept away from me and became something that I didn't plan, but watching it unfold was the magic of it! I spent 3 days systematically generating over 150 musical fragments, loops, grooves, synth patches, and seeds, and then I picked the top 5-10 on day 4 and started chasing it.
Favourite Moment
It was the moment earlier this week when it clicked that I definitely wasn't going to get everything done that I had planned, in the way I had hoped: after that moment I have felt the liberty to make choices that I otherwise would have not made, and in the end some of them ended up being better than my original concepts.
Advice
Trust the process. Don't be attached to any particular way of doing things or any particular result. Just watch it unfold in the moment and you'l get something amazing out of it.
