It's been about 2 months since I ordered the parts for the second half of my arduinome 128. Finally getting around to getting it together. Over the weekend I've soldered the bright orange LCDs (in contrast to the blue of the first half already built), and put the 64 diodes in their proper place, ready for soldering. Hopefully I'll get that soldering done by the weekend and get the thing wired up before Easter. After that, I just need to look into the enclosure, which means a trip to home depot for supplies. Going to be awesome when it's done, and will make a great production and live interface with the help of the LiveControl app.
I'll be posting up album artwork for the new EP. We're in the home stretch.
That's where I'd say I'm at on Vol. 2. 3 of the songs are at or very near completion. One's about half way done and I'm a bit stuck on the other. Got some new toys to play with tonight (namely Sylenth), so maybe that will give me some ideas.
If Hues, Vol. 2 gets released before the end of Spring (which it should), that puts it at around 6 months from inception to release. Not bad, I'm getting better at getting shit done. So the goal would certainly be to keep this up, and have Vol. 3 finished by the end of fall. Where to then?
Beyond a physical release encompassing all 3 volumes into one, I'd like to get some more rock influence into my work, and ultimately, vocals. I think Vol. 3 might be able to help me bridge the gap there, and even Vol. 2 (there's some guitar sneaking in there). Now, I'm not a great guitar player, so what's there will either be pretty minimal, or will be played by guests. "Enemy" will likely resurface during this time, though by then it will probably need a little work.
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.
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