For a few months last winter, I was stuck having to take the regional “GO” transit to get to work. I found it strange that so much of my schedule was now much more dictated by train schedules, and the associated stress of getting to the station on time, and frequent delays. At the time, [...]
I wanted to write a song about society’s obsession with gadgets and technology. This is not a new idea, I realized. A good lyric writing trick for me is to adopt the point of view of a made up character. That gives me the freedom to be silly and quirky, while at the same time [...]
I don't write much dance music, but having recently downloaded a bunch of sampled 80's synth sounds, I had to give it a go. I wrote the music and beat in one evening, but being an instrumental piece I couldn't easily come up with a title. By the next morning, I pondered and came up [...]
I recently purchased a new audio interface for my studio, after the mic inputs on my old one starting giving me static or no signal at all. I thought it would be interesting for others to see how I went about making the choice of which interface to buy, within the framework of the evolution [...]