A Little Taste

(After a few aborted attempts earlier today, I've gone with another 'brand' of embedded playlist which seems to obey and not autoplay when it's told not to...I don't like the adverts it chooses to put at the bottom of itself, but such is life)

Along with some questions being asked on other blogs, for me this week is becoming a bit of a journey through history, so in further response to my Monday post, here's some of the music that has spewed forth along the way.

The playlist is basically in reverse chronological order, and includes...
(a) "Unchangeable Truth v2.0" (yes, I know that's somewhat ironic titling) - added some hall reverb while keeping the initimacy of the vocal, also boosted the bass slightly (maybe too much?) and dropped the lead vocal to sit better in the mix. I need some studio monitors for the study!
(b) "I Am There" - the first thing I recorded in Garageband, all of 6 weeks ago. The lyric was written by a netfriend in NYC for another friend of hers who'd been through some major challenges; everything else is my contribution.
(c) "A Lover's Song" - our wedding song, which was a surprise for my wife when we danced to it; we were both a bit overcome I think.
(d) "Your Smile" - a 70s/80s MOR love ballad pop song, which got played on local radio a few times when it was done, yonks ago.

There's a reasonable amount of diversity in there, which might go part of the way to explaining my 'probably not expecting this' statement on Monday. The diversity covers everything from style to the quality of the songwriting/singing/recording; quite apart from whether it was done in a real studio and mastered, or by me in the study. Regardless, all fun.

'Course, this doesn't cover anything I recorded before I started writing my own music...maybe later...maybe...

Comments always welcome, including criticism (maybe especially the criticism, cos I can't get better if all I get is praise or silence ;)

Some explanation

In response to my last post, which for a few of you is the first time you've heard some of the loony creative stuff that comes out of my mind and mouth, some background. This may be reminiscent of the 25 Things tagging on Facebook; I really must do that, I was tagged a while back...

1. I don't play any instruments, so it's me and my voice. There are loads of reasons for this, at least one being the amount of time I spent in choirs at school and university.
2. Most of the music I've written in the past 5 years has been congregational praise and worship music, often to suit a specific season in my church, but a few that have lasted the distance too.
3. We're going to do some studio recording this year which will hopefully result in an album.
4. I'm getting off topic.
5. Despite not playing instruments, I know lots of theory, so instead of playing a guitar or keyboard, I sit and move dots & lines around the screen, adjusting intensity, length, pitch, etc. However, it means that what I create in this way is very different to what I create with my church worship team. This is a good thing.
6. I love electronic music, especially the crossover of electronica (or armchair techno & intelligent techno, my fave names from the early 90s) with choral music.
7. Writing for me, rather than congregationally, only restarted in December 08. However, I was a little distracted by how much fun Garageband is and have only completed this one song...and then only because of joining @ourcc. Nearly everything else I've done on there has been (somewhat dodgy) recordings of some of the more congregational songs I've written, usually in a very different manner.
8. I might post some of those here for your curiosity too :) This may also include some older recordings, and maybe even some that I've done which don't have explicitly Christian lyrics.
9. My wife and I often discuss the difference between relative and absolute truth, and the general shift in society to the whole "this is my truth, tell me yours" type of thing, rather than an acceptance that some things just are, no matter what you do or do not believe. This was a major seed point for what became "Unchangeable Truth".
10. With the idea floating in my head for ages, the process of physically 'getting it down' only began on Saturday after the huge week of prayer at my church meant zilch self-creativity time...it was worth it though.

That's 10 lines of somewhat interconnected thought. I'm looking forward to where all this goes!