Wendi

Frustration Blues

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 [...]

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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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Wendi – November 2 – Development

November 2, 2011

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Raw mix from this morning’s session. The string parts are almost there and the keys are pretty much dialed in too. This is using the raw audio from the Roland HP203 which I kinda dig. No balancing and just a little bit of panning. Still not got the parts on the back end – but [...]

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Wendi Development – Anam Cara

October 17, 2011

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Took a week off the Wendi development last week to let some ideas sink in and incubate. Started back on it again last night and will be working through it this week. It’s interesting how some themes suddenly pop up and last night I had a visit from an old friend – The Anam Cara. [...]

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Wendi Initial Strings

October 6, 2011

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Been listening to this all week along with a deeper variation of the core piano theme – the strings need editing but you can hear where they’re going. I love the initial C# where the top string comes in – it delivers a subtle spookiness which is appropriate I think for this theme! Don’t forget [...]

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Working on Wendi

September 24, 2011

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Have arrived at the actual tempo – 108 bpm – slowing it right down and leaving huge amounts of space for the strings. This is the first run of many to really dial it in and see where the voices sit – no mixing – just a little panning and the occasional clam… And who [...]

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Wendi 107 – String Development

September 7, 2011

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Back after a lazy labor day weekend (yes – American spelling but it is their holiday ya’ know!) and already fighting the heat. 101 yesterday, promising to be 106 later today – so – up early and getting stuff done before it gets too hot. I really like this tempo – 107 bpm for the [...]

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Wendi – Development

August 23, 2011

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Everybody in my family has themes, some I’ve worked up, some are still in development. My wife has at least three that I know of and I have yet to complete any of them – I thought it was about time (so did she!) This is the basic outline of the core G minor theme [...]

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