What I been up ta

Busy week for music last week.

My press release is nearly ready - I am sorting one out for Broken Into Tumbolia's net release (see the releases section of my website for more information) - finally got a professional writer to describe what I do, and it's getting sent to, as far as I can tell, everyone; press, radio, etc..., etc... You can see the first draft on my michaelforrest myspace profile. Looks like we're going with a kind of 'scientifically experimental musical pioneer with a penchant for heavy basslines' as my USP.

I spent a lot of energy on L1NA last week too. You can see our new L1NA myspace profile here. It's L1na with two ones. 'l11na'. I don't mind it. Plus I think I did a decent job on the page design - looks much better than the michaelforrest one :-S. Maybe that's because I'm doing stuff a with reduced perfectionist tendencies when I work on that project.

Predictably enough, L1NA has run into some complications, so I'm likely to be doing more solo stuff for a while. That's okay though - I want to finish an 'up' album with Bumpy Bosbo, Dreaming of Polygamy, Anger Belly and suchlike on it. I reckon I need about four more tracks to get that ready. Just got Reason 4 because I want to keep the Ableton+Reason combo going for the rest of the tracks on this album (rather than Logic) to retain consistency.

I did a bit of visual programming last week too. I'm gonna go for a kinda literalist 'forest' thing to go with my name -trees are cool, animations of trees growing are cool, I like fractals - I try to make my music fractal so it all kinda works. Having the Falling Leaves video set in a forest wasn't a conscious decision, but it works for me - this feels like a rich vein. So I will tap it. With my syringe. Where syringe is a metaphor for 'programming skillz'. Which is another way of writing 'programming skills'. But I digress. Which is another way of saying 'but I'm gonna shut the f*ck up now'.