TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Monday, January 31, 2005

2:05 PM
Posted by jodi rose

It's an interesting life this week. Deadlines on 4 major projects today - ok with 2, way behind on 1 and almost there with the 4th. Really need to clone myself. Or find an enthusiastic bright young assistant... but even that wouldn't really help.

The CD is almost out on the street - ready to be picked up or stepped on, depending.

I've had virtually no feedback on it, which is strangely OK. I reached a point where I'm actually happy with all the choices made along the line, and even though there were some things I could have changed, especially on the compositions CD - I decided not to. Leaving them as relics of where I was at that time, and experiments in working with the sounds in different ways. It's really pointless trying to make something that is essentially a document of a 10 year (on-and-off) journey into one stylistically coherent, smooth polished audio object.
Although I think it does have a consistency of it's own, and really at this point it's not worth worrying about. Moments of doubt mainly about there being too much wacky panning - but when I listened to a few tracks while selecting the samples for bridge tones (bridge ring tones - they will be available for download to your mobile phone at the CD launch!) the panning sounded quite natural. I mean, c'mon, it's a bridge, stuff travels across it, from one side to another. :)

Roger Mills said good things about it in his email - having a phone interview with him on wednesday for show on resonance fm - more info above. He praised the mastering on the field recording compositions - not sure wether to tell him we actually didn't master them at all. See, maybe it was the panning! And importing them into another computer, spacing them at 2 seconds each then re-burning. Ah transparency, I can't really keep anything secret. Especially not when stepping into the limelight.... here goes!!