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Miner's Canary

So perhaps if you are reading this you have listened to my music, and wanted to find out more. Basically for the past four months I've been writing, practicing, learning, recording, and mixing Miner's Canary. The first day of recording I started this blog to chronicle it. If you care to know the process and progress. Take a look back into the past. Thank you for listening.

Uploading

Well I'm putting it all out there. Months of near secret work exposed and judged in ten insignificant minutes. Is it worth it? Hell yeah!

*edit*

myspace is a pain.

Listening

It's 11:30 and I am now listening to the demo as a single piece. I must keep remembering why I did this. It is great to see months of work finally come together. A neat little collection of three songs.
I will listen to it around three times then put it on myspace.

The Battle Continues

So I missed out on my first set upon due date which was before my friend Joanna moved. But I am soldiering on, now with more excitement than ever! Steven's vocals are recorded and sound really great. I will continue mixing!

I am just looking for an exit

What an inspiring event that Turn Thieves (my friend's amazing band) should release their new songs last night. I am pushing for a release late tonight, tomorrow, or at very very latest Sunday. Unless something unforeseen should happen.

I am 90% sure that the name of the project is Miner's Canary.

Status Report:

Design for myspace: 50%

A Opening Parenthesis: 100% (Probably no chances of making major changes)

Everything Between: 98% (just a few more run throughs and volume tweaks)

A Closing Parenthesis: 90% (one more vox track, and master eq needed)

My ace in the hole for A Closing Parenthesis is my vocal accompaniment from my dear friend Steven Gray (Turn Thieves' Vocalist and guitarist), and my dear girlfriend Kim Hovencamp. One of my philosophies of doing these three songs was to go it solo, which I did for the most part. But I really couldn't of done it without these two people. To listen to my songs in progress, and give me some advice and encouragement.
Kim really helped me out with my singing. Steven was a huge encouragement and exactly what I needed to pull through. I decided to reveal their involvement because I figure that no one will read this without first listening. So Hopefully its still a surprise.

I need to eat and mix! Fortunately I was given the day off!

Post Production Update

An Opening Parenthesis - 99.9% (Probably just going to give it a few more run throughs and eq tweaks.

Everything Between - 80% (Very Close to done, probably going to change the name)

A Closing Parenthesis - 90% (Lots of editing done already. One more part to add in.)

Unfortunately I'll need some sleep tonight so Idk how much editing I'll get done.

Song 3 Finished recording

Im done recording all three songs. Now I pretty much just have to master them, and put on the finishing touches. Oh yeah, and think of a name!

Tropical Storm Day

Today we have Tropical Storm Fay cruising over my normally sunny state of Florida. So I have some time to myself today, because my classes are canceled and I'm off work. So its a blustery, and rainy lazy day. I've mainly been web surfing on this web browser by Mozilla coincidentally named Flock. If you are reading this by now, I'm certain you've heard my music, and my name is something other than Flock, but as a reminder this is what my name was going to be.

Today I have also been reading Watchmen, and I'm coming closer and closer to the end. It's probably time to take a break from that and start constructively using my time to try and finish my final song.

With my unveiling of my music so close. My friends leaving soon. The summer ending. I am feeling nostalgic.

Being so close to the end making my first demo I want to recap.

• Flock (or my music project) has been in the back of my mind for most of last year, and vaguely even before that. It is undated but the first time I actually sat down and wrote out ideas for the sound I wanted were in my small notebook.
  
• In my notebook I detailed that Dynamics were going to be one of the most important aspects of the songs. I listed Manchester Orchestra, Radiohead's Exit Music for a Film, Feist, and The Mars Volta among others as influences. This has obviously changed looking back on things.
  
• I believe shortly after that I made an incomplete song. This was unrecorded.
• Project ideas remained mental for some time after that.
• Once again undated but sometime after Christmas of last year I wrote in an Idea Log I received from Steven as a gift that I wanted to do a music project. I listed inspiration from Dntel, Iron & Wine, Bright Eyes, and Radiohead's In Rainbows.
  
• Once again Ideas simmered for a while.
• My blog has been in production along side the recording of my music for a little less than four months.
• It dates my earliest serious recording as May 31st. This recording was titled "Hopefully This is okay with you" and It was abandoned later and evolved into An Opening Parenthesis.
  
• First real song recorded circa June 9th or 10th. Then called Still, Quiet, Certain now called An Open Parenthesis.
  
• From the end of July to the middle of August I work on recording A Closing Parenthesis. Note: I am still perfecting and adding to this song.
• August 13th I begin recording the final song for the demo which will be track 2.

Present: I am finishing recording  "Everything Between". I am putting the finishing touches on "A Closing Parenthesis".

Starting on song 3

I've begun recording song 3, and so far it's going quite well. Probably going to be the easiest one to record. Hopefully I can get it mostly done before monday.

Unfortunate

Well it seems that there is every variation of the name FLOCK on myspace already. I have to think of a different name all together. Or one with FLOCK in it. I'm discouraged, but not going to give up.

The Latest

Song number 2 A Closing Parenthesis is recorded, and being perfected. I want to be completely satisfied. I'm trying to work out everything in my mind. My classes start next week. So I have about 2 weeks left before it will get much harder to work on my stuff. I will keep with it though. I revised my third song, and I'm almost prepared to record it. I hopefully will be done soon. I have a secret ace in the hole for song number 2.