Whoa

So no post for awhile. I know you missed me. Well I'm back in North Dartmouth, MA at UMass for college. 2nd Semester of my junior year. It's really strange how fast this is going by.

Well, Something About Horses recorded some stuff yesterday for our 3 song Sampler we are releasing quite soon. It was a grueling 7 hours and there is still work to be done, but it will be worth it. It sounds great so far, and our excellent engineer Dan Warren will make it even better. I'm really happy to be in a band I love playing with that's actually getting things done, and might go somewhere. Who knows where music is going to go now? The interwebs have destroyed record labels and it's about time. Fuck.

We are also playing a show with California Smile and Irepress at Firehouse 13 on Friday the 13th. That should be swell.

What else? hmm. Well classes are alright. I'm learning how to use this crazy software called MaxMSP which can pretty much do anything with audio you can imagine. Gonna make some crazy noises. Expect that on a few SOmething About Horses releases in the future.

Also, now a composition major, and also preparing material for a composition concert in the spring at school. I'm really looking to do something entirely different lately, because I've been writing for the band for so long I wanna just do something different with different instruments. The first idea i have is to make a horror movie piece. Sort of an homage to the good and the hilariously bad ones. It will be for voice and maybe percussion, and maybe one more instrument. I'll probably use MaxMSP on it. I'm gonna make a lot of creepy atmospheric noise and put some loud screams and percussion and shiitt. It's gonna be terrifying. Some clips from horror films would be swell too. I'm really just gonna go as avant-garde as i can on this one. I wanna just push myself to not care about any sort of normalcy and just scream and make a lot of weird noise.

I have a weird relationship with avant-garde stuff. I go through periods of loving it, and times where i don't so much. Not like I hate it, but I for some reason don't understand it anymore. Not talking about musical phases either, I just don't get it at points. Though at my heart I am just a rocker, and avant-garde is just another genre, but it did change my music quite a lot and actually enabled me to write music I liked. I couldn't finish a rock song very often until I wrote my first electronic concrete piece. So it always comes back. It's like zen. Always coming back to me.

My other band now called "Impeach the Wizard," now needs a bassist. but we're writing some kickass songs. It's a lot more listenable than my other stuff but it rocks hard. It's cool to be in a band where I don't write primarily, and just come up with parts on my secondary instrument (drums). It's a lot of fun, and helps me out with my own music in someway.

I need to travel. I've been pretty happy at points lately. But I feel like I need to get away for even a day to just put some things into perspective. And plus, I've barely ever left massachusetts.

Oh and Gavin Castleton's album "Home" comes out next friday the 13th, and what he's released so far is amazing. I really encourage you to check out his page and buy the album when it comes out. This guy's music has literally saved my musical life so many times. It's incredible. http://www.purevolume.com/gavincastleton


Well, once the sampler is done and we play some shows I'll be writing more for my adoring fans (LOL).

ta.