Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Q&A - Session Five

More Q&A.. No video this time, because my computer is still out in California getting fixed. Hopefully not for much longer.

A few people have asked (6 to be exact) why I haven't been replying to emails and whatnot lately, and I think I can guess who a couple of them are. Long excuse made short- no computer, I use someone else's maybe once a day (twice if I'm lucky), and I cannot open attachments on my phone. My inboxes are a mess and it's going to take me forever to catch up with it all once my computer is returned. Unless it's uber important, you probably won't hear from me for a little while.


Delirium is pretty kickass. What did you use to compose it?
- punk_goth

Thanks. :)

I used Ableton Live Lite 8 on a MSI u120 netbook running Windows 7 Ultimate. And I used my computer keyboard as a midi controller. There are a couple other tracks I haven't made public yet, and the vocals were recorded with a Blue Snowball USB mic.

But for the actual EP tracks, I'm using Logic 9 on OSX to edit them as I like. The demo versions were just an experiment that became something a little bigger.


what is your favorite song you wrote nd why?

That's a really hard question to answer because, to be completely honest, I tend to hate the songs I write once they're finished, and then it takes some time for them to grow on me again. I listen with a very critical ear and think, oh, I could have done that differently, etc. But if I went back and fixed every little thing that bothered me, I would never finish any of them. "Just finish the damn song already" is the best piece of advice I've been given.

But to answer your question, I like the earlier songs I did for T7N. "The Hollow", for all the rhythmic layers and the eerie sound. And, I guess I became a little biased when it was picked up for Industrial Underground. I like "Poet's Dance" because I put a lot of work into the lyrics, and that seems to be the song that everyone says they like best. I like "Entice the Dreamer" because it was a very different sound for us at the time. And "Otherworld" fucking trips me out. The music, that is. As for the solo project, I feel that "Delirium [demo]" is a sort of turning point, and paving the way for a lot of the new stuff I'm working on, so I'm kind of attached to it. Can't wait to release the EP version, with lyrics. (But that's on hold until the computer issue is fixed.)


How much time do you spend on Twitter each day? I swear your always tweeting or retweeting something.

Maybe an hour or two, three at most (when I'm really bored). But on average, about an hour, spread out throughout the day. It's a great way to connect with friends and other artists, and to find a laugh every now and then.


Thanks for the questions guys, keep them coming. More Q&A, not next week, but the following Wednesday.