LONG POST ALERT.
Iām on tour at the moment, and I really miss making music when Iām on the road. You can force yourself to, but a lot of the time between shows is travelling, dealing with sleep deprivation, resting, and trying to get out in the time off to enjoy a place you might never come back to.
This often has me doing a bit of reflection. I realised I hardly posted, or even talked to people about a big project that I finished off at the end of last year, between one tour and another. I made a sample library with
@orchestraltools called āThe Low End Orchestraā. That in itself is special, but I didnāt really reflect on, or let myself be grateful for the quite unique opportunity to come up with a concept for what I want in a sample library, what I feel Iām missing as a writer, and get the chance to turn that into a reality.
I canāt describe how fulfilling it is to sit down and write with a new library that is all the sounds I already had in my head.
And to conduct musicians at
@airstudioslyndhurst (even if weāre just sampling) is something I felt I should push myself to do, rather than sit in my usual spot on the other side of the glass. Being able to craft sound on the spot with players of that calibre is extraordinary, and I think itās what injects music back into a process that can sometimes be very unmusical - and Iām quite proud that result feels alive.
Anyone whoās read this has probably now heard my first demo for the library attached to the first picture, called Nostromo.
Originally it was called Nebuchadnezzar - after the ruler, and its namesake in The Matrix.
If anyone here has played with the library, Iād love to hear what you think of it!
