What I'm doing and NOT doing
Well, I ended up posting nothing here since July - but oh well, here's an update.
I've got good news and bad, and let's do the bad news first: I'm pretty uninspired on the music front, really. The Quadroon project is near mastering and we put a single out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaO-nCuGPEg), but that's the only project I've made progress on for months; it may have been unofficial for a while, but I'm essentially taking a break.
A little history here: I bought my first turntable in 1999, when I was 14, and made beats using samples from records until 2007 (filling up 10 80-minute minidiscs in the process). In that year I gave away my records, and didn't start to rebuild a library until a cross-country drive in 2011, where I literally bought cheap gear in Kansas City and made beats in the hotel room to scratch the itch. Since 2011 I've made around 10 EPs and 6 albums using records, although this year I switched to using found sound samples (for monetary and storage reasons) and haven't produced much in the way of projects. Anyway, the break between 2007 and 2011 was long, but I may end up doing something like that soon.
Anyway, another project I was working on was clothing-related, and involved making collages out of random clothes I would buy - well, I'm allergic to fabric glue, and too lazy to learn how to sew, so despite the one project I did make getting a great reaction, that endeavor is dead in the water. Oh well.
The history stuff ebbs and flows, but is at a low point right now as well - the video essays and interviews I've done aren't going anywhere, though, and you can find them here: (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsHMtKZ9_ikHj9pvLCV3XVg)
Lastly, though, I recently sent the Detective out to a publisher's contest. The name of the game with that industry is waiting, for long periods of time, so I'll only find out about rejection in January. While I almost certainly won't win, it's still a good step to actually send something out, so I'm stoked.
Writing is coming to the forefront of my creative work, which is the good news. I've decided that in addition to my record-based music production alias (Ghost Hour), my name for my Noir-movie-jazz project (Noir Films), the found-sound music alias (The Ectosonics), and my general fiction name (Matchstick), I'm going to have a separate name for genre fiction (which may or may not involve the number 54). This will allow me to write more literary, pushing-the-art stuff, like the Detective, while also producing work that could more just be considered entertainment. With the latter in mind I'll be finishing up a superhero-centric novel I left half-done in 2017, but I'm also working on a more literary work exploring the history of San Francisco.
Anyway, that's an update, I'll check back in when other things start happening. Peace!
I've got good news and bad, and let's do the bad news first: I'm pretty uninspired on the music front, really. The Quadroon project is near mastering and we put a single out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaO-nCuGPEg), but that's the only project I've made progress on for months; it may have been unofficial for a while, but I'm essentially taking a break.
A little history here: I bought my first turntable in 1999, when I was 14, and made beats using samples from records until 2007 (filling up 10 80-minute minidiscs in the process). In that year I gave away my records, and didn't start to rebuild a library until a cross-country drive in 2011, where I literally bought cheap gear in Kansas City and made beats in the hotel room to scratch the itch. Since 2011 I've made around 10 EPs and 6 albums using records, although this year I switched to using found sound samples (for monetary and storage reasons) and haven't produced much in the way of projects. Anyway, the break between 2007 and 2011 was long, but I may end up doing something like that soon.
Anyway, another project I was working on was clothing-related, and involved making collages out of random clothes I would buy - well, I'm allergic to fabric glue, and too lazy to learn how to sew, so despite the one project I did make getting a great reaction, that endeavor is dead in the water. Oh well.
The history stuff ebbs and flows, but is at a low point right now as well - the video essays and interviews I've done aren't going anywhere, though, and you can find them here: (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsHMtKZ9_ikHj9pvLCV3XVg)
Lastly, though, I recently sent the Detective out to a publisher's contest. The name of the game with that industry is waiting, for long periods of time, so I'll only find out about rejection in January. While I almost certainly won't win, it's still a good step to actually send something out, so I'm stoked.
Writing is coming to the forefront of my creative work, which is the good news. I've decided that in addition to my record-based music production alias (Ghost Hour), my name for my Noir-movie-jazz project (Noir Films), the found-sound music alias (The Ectosonics), and my general fiction name (Matchstick), I'm going to have a separate name for genre fiction (which may or may not involve the number 54). This will allow me to write more literary, pushing-the-art stuff, like the Detective, while also producing work that could more just be considered entertainment. With the latter in mind I'll be finishing up a superhero-centric novel I left half-done in 2017, but I'm also working on a more literary work exploring the history of San Francisco.
Anyway, that's an update, I'll check back in when other things start happening. Peace!
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