I'm a proud owner of a Palm Pre, and it looks like today they'll be adding video recording capability in their latest OS update.  Great news for me, as I don't have any way to record videos currently.  Possibly some studio videos on the horizon.

I never really know what direction I'm heading musically until I'm already halfway down the road, so to speak.  But if, after Hues 2, that road leads immediately to Hues 3; I'll be thinking about combining them all into one 15 track album, and getting them made into physical copies for sale at shows(hopefully soon)/online/freebies to friends & family/etc.  Probably cheap too, around $5-$6.

Wasn't really the original plan, but the creative center of my brain apparently disagrees with that.  Hues, Vol. 2 is well underway.  I have a majority of the music planned out already, should only be another month or two until it is ready for release.  Definitely the quickest I've ever got something done from start to finish musically.  More info coming soon, but just as the first Hues, we're looking at 5 tracks, all centered around a central theme of color.

So my plan of having an album or EP done by the end of February is falling apart somewhat.  The past few weeks haven't been all that productive in the studio(being sick is a bitch), though I have come up with some ideas that I feel are pretty interesting.

Before I progress with any of them though, I'm taking myself back to synthesizer school.  I've always felt I've been pretty knowledgeable about how my synth and VSTi's work, and how they make the sounds that they do, but I could probably use a refresher.  So my goal for this weekend's studio session is to sit down with my Blofeld(and possibly its manual), as well as a few select VSTs, and just work on writing my own new synth patches from scratch; to really understand everything a little bit better.  As a bonus, I'll get a nice handful of my own custom patches to work with in the end as well.

Anyway, it's releasing today as a free download in just a couple short hours.  For now though, it is available for streaming at Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/publicspaceslab/sets/ps015-va-number-stations

When it's available, you'll be able to download it here: http://lab.pubspaces.com/2010/01/ps015-va-number-stations

My track was placed as number two, fitting as the title of my track was inspired by The Prisoner.

From now til the end of February, I'm going to attempt to write a completely new EP (not including the mixing and mastering parts).  Similar to the RPM Challenge, but different rules.  Doubt I'll make it to 10 tracks like the Challenge, though that would be really nice.  I have a really cool track started using the new Tattoo drum VSTi from Audio Damage with a really cool Absynth pad.  Really cool and chill so far.  So I've got things started.

If all goes well, I'll switch gears for the month of March/April and try to jam out a chiptune album under a new moniker.

By then, Pennsylvania will be thawing out, and I'll begin to think about live shows again.  Hopefully there will be someplace cool to accommodate us this time around.

In gear news, I will be receiving the final parts to put together my Arduinome 128 by the end of this week.  Lots of soldering to do, and I still have to work out my enclosure for it.  Got a faceplate though at least.

Audio Damage's new drumsynth/sequencer called Tattoo is very close to completion.  It's also going to be VERY fairly priced (I'd even go as far as to say UNfair to AD).  It looks absolutely amazing and very fun to play with.



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