Frustration Blues

by on February 3, 2012

I don’t know why, but, when I get to the end of a piece I find it incredibly hard to finish. I’ve spent the last month rewriting, tweaking, hating the tone quality and generally being dreadfully unhappy with everything about the Wendi piece.

This is normal – I wish I didn’t go through it but I do. I’m probably another couple of weeks away from publishing but it will come eventually. While I work through the bullshit – every now and again I have to sit down and beat the crap out of my frustration on the keys. This is what it sounds like…

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Wendi – Second Keys

January 16, 2012
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transition from one theme to another – no editing yet – just volume and tones – lots of listening to do…

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Frustration – 1,000 views a week!

January 11, 2012

While we’re finishing off the mix on Wendi, couldn’t help but be pretty stoked by the fact that Frustration is now generating over 1,000 views a week on YouTube. Check it out… Free members of music2work2 can download Frustration along with the rest of the Writer’s playlist.

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Brain Hub that links Music, Memory & Emotion

January 6, 2012

Brain Hub That Links Music, Memory And Emotion Discovered |bit.ly/x2VCNj — Andrew McCluskey (@music2work2) January 6, 2012

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Caroline

January 5, 2012

I’m an uncle again – heh! This is her main theme, popped out yesterday – I’ll be working on it after Wendi is published. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

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New microphone…

December 27, 2011
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I love Christmas – the boys conjured up a new room mic so I put it to use yesterday afternoon. A buddy was going to come over and record a track as a present for a friend but the session got cancelled – so I thought I’d record one instead. I worked as a writer [...]

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Helping a Family in Croatia

December 19, 2011
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One of the great things about the Creative Commons license that we use on music2work2, is that it enables other media creators to easily use our music in their projects. Last week we got a request from a Croatian channel asking if they could use the music from Irene to highlight the problems that a [...]

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