this was the first time i seriously considered producing music for film. another class project where we were given free reign to arrange, and audio distortion was the only rule. it opened a whole world of hybrid composition ideas at the time. like what would J.S. Bach be doing with protools if he was alive?
he called himself tapeman. i made a file full of sounds design samples that hadn’t been organized, and whoever as watching from the shadows knew i had no idea what to do with them yet. i came back one day and this entire mix was put together for me. i was so inspired and determined to be able to do what he did that i recreated the entire thing from scratch, exactly AS IT WAS, three years later.
the beginning of my everything <3 i tired so many lyrics, wrote dozens of songs to fill out an EP but nothing could play next to it. it washed over like cold sleet & burned my eyes like a campfire in kings canyon, while my heart curled in on itself with longing. so dramatic. only fitting.
production was limited for this track because i made every mistake in the book recording it. the bleed from my headphones was outrageous, so once the vocals were done they were done. i also learned a lot about reading myself as a recording artist. it was a total flub, or a one take jake — and thats a standard i still live by.
one of many endeavors that experimented with a dark and brooding mood married with poetically delivered lyricism. however seemingly simple and repetitive now, i remember obsessing over nuance and movement nearly indefinitely. sweet spot in my heart this one.
working in the studio gave me a lot of time to write and play. this was the first and last project completing that epoch of my life.