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Echo Bloom
Jubilee Update
My brothers – I have been woodshedding these past few weeks during my redneck riviera sojourn and have made serious headway on Jubilee. My macro approach has been more subtractive than additive, and over the past few weeks I’ve done my best to hack the haggard outlines of an album I previously introduced into something … Continue reading
The Word – Song Development
Over the last few weeks I’ve laid out the skeleton of how Jubilee is going to be structured. I’ve got a starting batch of songs, a bunch of writing, and some overall thematic arcs. The first song on an album is without doubt the most important. It has to illustrate everything a project is about … Continue reading
Meta-work structure
A while back on my Echo Bloom blog Scratch, I laid out how I was planning on working on Jubilee. It’s pretty relevant now, so I’m going to republish the original in its entirety before talking about how I’m currently applying the method. Creative Project Management – Seeing the forest for the trees You can … Continue reading
The new project – writing samples
I’m in Montana this week exploring the wilds of Glacier National Park, so I’m hoping this posts automagically appears on Wednesday morning. It’s related to my post from last week about my new full length project, and some of the source material. Last week I showed some really rough audio sketches I’d done for some … Continue reading
Style, black boxes, and a new project
“The most important thing in life is style. That is the style of one’s existence the characteristic mode of one’s actions is basically ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing then style is doubly definitive because style describes the doing. The point is this happiness is a learned condition. And since it … Continue reading