Future plans

I took a long rest after Thar desert videoclip: I was really overhelmed after three videos in one month - and without a break, I started to work on clips right after Outskirt's end.
In these vacation days I still was thinking to music, some new songs came in my mind, and forgot as well (except one, which will be the first I'll work on). I think what I forgot was not so impressive, resulting in kind of filter for bad material. I mean, thinking this way it's at least conforting.

This time I would make a less eclectic record.
For many reasons:

• few people can listen to a whole record if it's made of mazurkas, death metal, classical, pop, funky, electronics, punk, general absurdities... the average listener likes one or two... maybe three (not very) different genres.
• having more than a musical identity result in a vague global identity. People can't remember You, it's the same dynamics in advertising, unfocused=forgettable.
  
• I could say I don't care about the previous two points, as I play for my pleasure so if You don't like it, listen to another musician :-D. But I myself want to make a record more compact, and go into deep in a single genre.

It's hard to decide what genre. I think I'll finish to split my ideas on smaller units, like Eight-Bit Deboned which is less than 18 minutes.

Another 2 Awards on Garageband for LaGuardia, 3:00 A.M.

Yes, this time it happened something I couldn't imagine: my composition style impressed reviewers as they massively voted LaGuardia, 3:00 A.M. as

Best Programming overall, week of 16Feb2009

and, consequently,

Best Programming in Progressive Rock, week of 16Feb2009

I'm very proud about this fact, there are many keys to analyze it. Many listeners hate the plastic sound: they called "sounding like midi", referring to the fact I used willfully very basic sounds - bordering GM - in that and other songs on Outskirt, but they perceive as bad (or better: not very cool) result; or - worst - that's an error in choosing samples. They didn't get they're not samples, I used just three in whole Outskirt :-D Anyway, somebody punished me remarking the fact it's "programmed". I'm not so dumb I didn't get it. Somebody else, instead, found it's a positive feature in my music.

So seems like people, for instance, believe real bass is a midi score when it's played tightly and with plastic amplification, and can't hear the difference from another song with a VST bass emulator... or they even believe VST bass is a real bass (or the opposite), so they're totally faked. It opens a wide array of opportunities.

But going back in theme, giving an award to programming means that people perceive it as a coherent work; whether they like it or not, music sounds reasonable and having a logic underneath.

This is important as I had a precise feedback on my work's reliability. I don't really aim to be a rockstar, as I know I'm moving in an avantgarde context, despite there are listenable - not mainstream - melodies in many songs of mine, so I got it that my genre is about 0,1% of world's listeners taste. I mean, the best in this area is a Big Badass if he can sell 5000 copies of his record :-D.
No, I point to a very small group of people around the world who share my ideas. And hopefully find into that number some people are making music in total freedom like me, so we can exchange our tracks and experiences.

Let's see what's next.

LaGuardia, 3:00 A.M. "Track of the Day" at Garageband

Despite it's in Progressive Rock contest, and probably should stay better in Experimental Rock (but I already had first reviews so I gotta go on) LaGuardia, 3:00 A.M. was elected Progressive Rock Track of the Day on february 8th.

Here's the badge with link:

And now let's hope I got better reviews than last two :-(( One said it seems videogame music, (very interesting carrier opportunity, but wasn't what this guy meant); the other "hold music"... Jeez!

Actually Rockstar's life is very hard nowadays: blood, sweat & tears!!!

HVB - 3rd videoclip: Thar Desert

Yesterday afternoon I modified last tiny details and saved master file for Thar Desert, 3rd videoclip from an Outskirt track.

This time I worked on a more ordinary videoclip concept, but I couldn’t just trace out. I recorded by a viewcam me playing Thar Desert and extracted a discreet number of frames (a nightmare cutting them out, really), then assembled again in animated sequence form.

Alberta Marchiori gave me pictures she shooted in Egypt last December, so I made a great use of them to create the environment and some absurdities (as usual).

The result is obviously grotesque as I still believe in The Residents / Frank Zappa / Pere Ubu and share at 101% their nothing-is-sacred approach.