echoecho

i always have as much echo on my guitar as possible

reverb, analog, digital, looping; they all really do the job of getting yourself to sound about 10 million times bigger than you are.

but the final question comes down, what is the best for the job out there?

tap tempo?
tape delay?
analog vs. digital?
eq?
anywhere from 40 millisecond to 21 second delays....


there is a lot to look at, and you really need to look at what you need for the context. everything has it's place

pan's perfection

what would be an optimal film for this venture?

subtitled or silent (nothing american and long scripted)
adult themes (a film that has some sort of turmoil that is more epic than normal day - to - day drama)
psychedelic visuals (something entertaining for the eyes to match the music)

pan's labyrinth seems to fit all of these

so why am i questioning it as a film?

dark crystal

upon re-watching, this movie has a lot going for it
pro:
~little to no music
~epic story
~visually stunning

cons:
~childish
~a large amount of inaction
~a lot of script

very compelling.

dwindle

the list is starting to be eliminated

 seven samurai (so long)

 2001 (i cannot improve)

 eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (too much dialogue)

 dark crystal (dialogue again)

 night of the living dead (not as good as i thought)

 all quiet on the western front (too much war)

 pi (almost perfect, willing to reconsider)

Masterwork

Today is the begining of my masterwork.

I have been thinking long and hard about what I need to do as a musician if I want to break into the field of music in some way. While there are many options for me to look through, there is one concept that had been tossed around in my head endlessly. The idea of redoing a movie soundtrack

I want to construct a whole new sound for some movie that will be a rebirthing movement.

Some sort of reinterpretation.

Something to spend a year of work on. Every minute detail. Show what I am really capable of.


So now what movie?

toys

how essential is each instrument that you own?  is that second delay pedal more of an instrument that you play, or is more like a toy?  would that tremorama really flush out your pedal board for later in your musical career, or is it just another sweet investment that you never really needed to invest in?

where does the line end, from your first pedal which is the turning point for dynamic music making, all the way to collecting your 5th germanium fuzz, and where can you define it?

will they become less or more meaningful to you?

can you tell im reading "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"?

hillcrest

music takes a lot out of a person.  emotionally and physically draining, the idea of making your music as heart-filled as possible every night on a 3 month tour across the world seems near impossible to me.

So how do you make a song that means the world to you and play it every night for a thousand people and have it mean the same amount to you?

how many times does it take to play a song until it looses its meaning?

does "your hand in mine" mean the same to explosions in the sky as it did when they wrote it?

is this why clapton no longer plays that song about his son?  and why radiohead no longer plays creep?