Hot Damn!
simonjoseph.ca - coming soon to a computer near me.
I reckon it'll just be a home for blogging, and a few mp3 downloads. But it will bloom.
Mmm hmm.
Remaining shadows of words which helped me move.
"not my fault"
"not my responsibility"
"bury my head"
"work hard"
"all works out"
Leveled out. This thing is my responsibility. As it turns out, my school expects to be unable to sell me one of their old iMac computers, MIDI keyboards, and M-Boxes. Last year they thought they could, that's all.
It's not a show stopper. It means i'm starting in a bit of a financial hole. But when i work my way out of it, i'll have better recording equipment than if i took these old computers now, on the cheap.
It seems like a big deal, when i think about little old me, needing to busk my way to a few thousand dollars in order to get a computer, a DAW, and cash to rent an audio interface and microphones. Run on sentence. All this in order to make a little bedroom EP? It doesn't sound like i'm moving towards financial stability.
But i can take a step back from this particular little situation. If i think of myself as a world class musician/writer, than this hiccup in recording hardware accumulation is totally unimportant. If anything, it'll give me some extra rehearsal and compositional time, and my first recordings will benifit from it.
If i don't think of myself as a world class musician/writer, then there shall be no loss in the failure of this experiment.
Work hard, simon. You know.
Certain amounts of effort are necessary to do well. The deadlines are known. Assignments have outlines. You tell me what to do, i take some time to do it, i get a passing grade.
Most things in music school i have a knack for. My marks are good.
I'm going to graduate in a few months. And there'll be nobody telling me what to do. I'll be musicianing my head off, i assume. But johnny professor isn't going to come by and give me a passing grade, a place to live, and some party money.
It's going to be a funny summer.
I'm asking them for funding so i can move to a french speaking city (quebec or paris) to learn the language, involve myself in the music scene, and compose an album of singer songwriter material in the french language.
I want to be multilingual. I want to write music and words that everyone will understand. I want to be canada's poet songwriter.
Peace and Love, bretheren. We'll speak again.
Just finished a recording of The Norm. It's got drums, bass, vocals, and a string orchestra. We had a comp assignment this week to write music for a string section.
It sounds pretty good. If you're interested, leave a comment and i'll send you an mp3.
simon
sorry to have ignored you. I'm still writing, just that it's mostly on paper.
I'm trying now, finally, to get a blog hooked up through simonjoseph.ca Maybe i'll write there. People will visit you to see where i've come from. You'll be fine.
xo
simon
simonjoseph.ca - coming soon to a computer near me.
I reckon it'll just be a home for blogging, and a few mp3 downloads. But it will bloom.
Mmm hmm.
Flash in the pan optimism.
Remaining shadows of words which helped me move.
"not my fault"
"not my responsibility"
"bury my head"
"work hard"
"all works out"
Leveled out. This thing is my responsibility. As it turns out, my school expects to be unable to sell me one of their old iMac computers, MIDI keyboards, and M-Boxes. Last year they thought they could, that's all.
It's not a show stopper. It means i'm starting in a bit of a financial hole. But when i work my way out of it, i'll have better recording equipment than if i took these old computers now, on the cheap.
It seems like a big deal, when i think about little old me, needing to busk my way to a few thousand dollars in order to get a computer, a DAW, and cash to rent an audio interface and microphones. Run on sentence. All this in order to make a little bedroom EP? It doesn't sound like i'm moving towards financial stability.
But i can take a step back from this particular little situation. If i think of myself as a world class musician/writer, than this hiccup in recording hardware accumulation is totally unimportant. If anything, it'll give me some extra rehearsal and compositional time, and my first recordings will benifit from it.
If i don't think of myself as a world class musician/writer, then there shall be no loss in the failure of this experiment.
Work hard, simon. You know.
I'm still in a bit of a fictional world. Still in school, i mean.
Certain amounts of effort are necessary to do well. The deadlines are known. Assignments have outlines. You tell me what to do, i take some time to do it, i get a passing grade.
Most things in music school i have a knack for. My marks are good.
I'm going to graduate in a few months. And there'll be nobody telling me what to do. I'll be musicianing my head off, i assume. But johnny professor isn't going to come by and give me a passing grade, a place to live, and some party money.
It's going to be a funny summer.
Pounding away on my canada council grant application.
I'm asking them for funding so i can move to a french speaking city (quebec or paris) to learn the language, involve myself in the music scene, and compose an album of singer songwriter material in the french language.
I want to be multilingual. I want to write music and words that everyone will understand. I want to be canada's poet songwriter.
Peace and Love, bretheren. We'll speak again.
Yo yo yo,
Just finished a recording of The Norm. It's got drums, bass, vocals, and a string orchestra. We had a comp assignment this week to write music for a string section.
It sounds pretty good. If you're interested, leave a comment and i'll send you an mp3.
simon
Hey there,
sorry to have ignored you. I'm still writing, just that it's mostly on paper.
I'm trying now, finally, to get a blog hooked up through simonjoseph.ca Maybe i'll write there. People will visit you to see where i've come from. You'll be fine.
xo
simon