Here’s one for the demo, since I regularly put a demo up of my songs.
By the way, I now have a sample of my cartoons, most of which are from my Munhwa Experience blog, but the muso-related ones are from this blog. It’s called ‘Cartoon Freebies’ because it’s free! Later on I’ll put some cheap collections of my cartoons up on iTunes but right now feel free to get this sample…
Cartoon Freebies on iTunes
Yes, this is my latest ‘amatronic’ demo…
And my latest Strugmo cartoon.
I’ve read some stuff about Spotify and how some musos complain although I’ve never had access to it myself. Anyhoo, here’s another cartoon gag… (I do most of my carts on my Munhwa Experience blog.)
This is the first demo for October which was done on Garageband. I also have another demo for October 2013, but done on Reaper software. Reaper’s a bit more technical to use (I find) and not so geared to just loops and beats like Garageband. It’s inhouse synth is pretty primitive, but it’s for that reason I like to play around with it.
And here’s a gag…
Still finding the lyrics a real bummer… However, I have got a full rough draft of verse and lyrics, so I did a test run on the vocals today. It means I can start mixing around the vocals with all the other parts. It’s sure taking me a long time to get this song done, though…
And just for fun, here’s my latest ‘Strugmo’ cart…
It’s not always easy to tag one’s music with the right genre tags, especially as the use and description of genre has become more refined, more specific and more niche… so I did a gag about it.
The Paper Scissors are one of the local Sydney bands that I’m into -I’ve bought their latest CD and all, but I’ve wimped out of gigs lately, possibly because being in my late 30’s I’m a bit of an old fogey -I’m tired of standing through 2-3 support bands to see the main act (buying pricy beers and all), and then the main act finishes past midnight and it’s a headache to get home by bus… The previous gig I saw was Sonny Rollins at the Opera House -not cheap (but not too expensive) and finished at a manageable 10.30…
I think I’m tending towards just appreciating recorded music, since that’s what I’m striving to produce not having a band… Hopefully the future will have more of a ‘cottage industry’… I’m starting to get into Soundcloud and listen to similar ‘struggling musos’ around the world.
One of my favourite blog reads is the Lefsetz letter (http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/) but having spent so many years in Asia there are always a few terms I need to look up… For instance I hadn’t realised that a ‘purveyor’ is a person who ‘provides’ or ‘supplies’. Another term: the ‘hoi polloi’ is a Greek term that literally means ‘the many’, but has come to mean in English ‘the masses’ or ‘common people’…(technically if you say ‘the hoi polloi’ you’re saying ‘the the many’, but it sounds right in English anyway…)
On another blog I also do cartoons with a martial arts theme, but sometimes these blogs share the same characters, such as the ‘Happy Cappa’. You can check it out on http://munhwaexperience.wordpress.com/
Struggling Muso 