Saturday, April 04, 2009

OLYMPUS MONS

Click on the images to get to the final (for now) version of Olympus Mons. To the right you will see a PayPal donation link. Please, do not feel obligated to donate, but if you like the music and wouldn't mind more, then I encourage you to help out. More than anything I want the music to get out there and for folks to enjoy it.

I've had a blast working on it and learning so much about Logic 8 and a host of other things as well. The more I do, the more I learn, the more I want to be doing more and more of this.

On listening to the track, you may notice some references to the great David Byrne and Brian Eno album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. To say that it has been an inspiration is just the beginning. If you don't know the record, do a search on it and buy it. It is nothing short of amazing.

As for the technical stuff, I used Logic 8 as my digital audio workstation software, the Mac OS X text reader for the vocals, Crystal soft synth, Logic's sound sculptor and Ultrabeat. I also played the guitars with the Line6 POD XT live digital sound modeler. The track was produced at Dangerous Enlightenment Studios in association with Stolenflowers Media with assistance from Richard Cravens.

In the not-too-distant future there will be a dedicated page for more music and podcast downloads, images and information about my work, Hormone Junkies and other projects. Again, if you choose to donate some funds it would be greatly appreciated but it is by no means necessary.

Thanks to everyone, especially Dick and Joel for all of their help!