From the category archives:

Music

Turning 31, A bit of Perspective, A Year in Blogging, insert Zen Here

May 31, 2010

That’s right, I’m officially the age of the name of a famous ice cream franchise. And to keep from getting sued, or worse, chastised by the blog police, a story is in order about 31: You see, in Japan (and pretty much everywhere outside the US) Baskin Robbins is called 31 Flavors. And it’s an [...]

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Voice Over Work Samples for Bread

May 16, 2010

This has nothing to do with Arvale. Well, not directly You see, I am working on the next Episode of Arvale. However, I am currently not working at a formal job. And… a man has to eat. A man has to pay for other development costs too (like art). In any case, Japan has surprisingly [...]

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More Royalty Free Music Projects

April 30, 2010

It’s been awhile since I posted some projects using the Free Royalty Free Music, so I thought I’d share some recent ones The Admiral Digby Museum in Nova Scotia (that’s in Canada), is doing some video about promoting archives and museums. I love museums!

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Dakishimetai Piano and Singing Video

April 26, 2010

I found this lying around on my hard drive. It’s the song 抱きしめたい (Dakishimetai) by ミスチル Mr. Children. I was practicing it to perform at a Japanese friend’s wedding (yes, that wedding actually, long story…). There are plenty of mistakes to find, but the biggest thing that sticks out to me (this was recorded about [...]

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Behind the Music: Arvale: Treasure of Memories Ep. 1

January 18, 2010

Many people are curious how the creative process goes when I write music. So I recorded a bunch of clips while I was writing the music for Arvale: Treasure of Memories. It’s a short video at about 3 minutes and it it’ll show you pretty much how a song gets created from start to finish.

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The Incredible Shrinking Studio, Part 5: Mimo Mini Monitor

January 11, 2010

Continuing the Incredible Shrinking Studio series… I needed a little more screen real estate. While I’m quite used to using Digital Performer on one monitor now, I really wish I could have just a small extra monitor where I could tweak plugins while composing and mixing.

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The Incredible Shrinking Studio, Part 4: Walkstool Portable Chair

January 9, 2010

To continue on with The Incredible Shrinking Studio series, I needed a portable chair. ‘What?!’ I hear you screaming. Why on earth would I need a portable chair?

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The Incredible Shrinking Studio, Part 3: Akai LPK 25 Keyboard

January 7, 2010

This is continuing from The Incredible Shrinking Studio article. I had to pick up an AKAI LPK 25 because my Korg nanoKey broke. This was right in the middle of writing the music for Arvale: Treasure of Memories and I was on a time-line since I had to finish before heading out to Budapest (I’m [...]

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Something I’ve been working on

January 5, 2010

I was recently discussing a new header design with a fantastic designer and artist, and I was kicking around ideas about the Music, Audio, Games, Music stuff in the header, which I never really thought was necessary as it takes up too much space and leaves the site a bit unfocused right off the bat. [...]

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