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Some great comments here on the direction of the music industry and how things will be changing for artists. He suggests that artists should give their music away and monetize elsewhere, which is something that has been said by many people for a while, but it is particularly interesting for someone in his position (multi-platinum artist) to say. Some would even go as far to discount what he says because of his success.

Although I’m not 100% sure how I feel about this, it made a lot of sense… This was the best quote from the segment:

“The true art isn’t necessarily creating the music, the true art is seeing how many people that music can touch in various ways… you can be as artistic as you want, and no one hears it and no one likes it, but I always thought the true art was trying to break through the noise and getting millions of people to notice what you’ve created.”

Watch it here:

I’m finally satisfied with the reworked site.

Lately, I have been working on nothing other than getting “Monolith” released… It is finally available on iTunes, as well as our own storefront, http://fromexile.bandcamp.com (which I would reccommend). It is my best work and we are very proud of it. Ordering CDs and T-Shirts next week, as well as more band member tryouts… An exciting time after 2 years of basically sitting on the bench.

I plan on using this site to serve all of my pursuits that are not From Exile – related. I will release music here; most of it completely unlike my band. For example, I have an old acoustic record that I want to make available here, as well as an electronic record. Even rough demos I have collected over the past 8 years of recording. I want to be able to experiment and this website is for that purpose. For now, you can get an idea of some of the older stuff I will be posting at on the myspace

my mom would love this video, she teaches high school

I love feeling this evil…

After buying the iphone, I searched out the best way to arrange music on the damn thing. Right now, there aren’t too many options, but the most in-depth applications I found, noise.io and beatmaker, seemed like they would combine to give me enough features…

Although these programs are about 10 and 20 bucks each, they were worth it… Limited in comparison to a computer and a DAW, but still powerful for what it is.

I spent a couple hours learning how use them, and this is what my learning curve sounded like:

I’ll probably go back and rework it later (its a part of a larger piece probably destined to be From Exile material)

Onset played another show, this time with Stephen Dimmick on drums. Ohmpark has posted some pics here

Ben and I started a side project today, because we have a show in 2 weeks:

ONSET

Visit http://www.myspace.com/welcometotheonset for a short preview…

I’ll upload the final recordings here when they get done.

From Exile record still going; should be mastered by September and out shortly after that… Shows in late September, we hope…

Check it out here:

http://www.fromexile.com/2008/07/studio-update-4-piano-session-and-new.html

I would like to find more details about this… Some people seem to think its fake, but I doubt it.

This time; in German!?

YouTube via LustigAkustik
“Hier mein erster Versuch, dem Korg Kaossilator Klänge zu entlocken. Hab mich noch nicht ganz durchgehört, aus dem Grund sind ein paar Stellen konfus geraten. Entschuldigt meine hässlichen Finger.”
“This is my first attempt, the Korg Kaossilator to elicit sounds. Do I have not quite durchgehört, on the grounds are a few bodies being confused. Apologies my ugly finger.”
“düren music musik korg kaossilator usbest us-best electro minimal synthesizer ambient”

And also:

YouTube via LustigAkustik
“Die Sounds von einem alten SK-1, veredelt mit Garage-Bands eigenen Effekten. Ein Roland S-330 sowie ein paar Apple-Loops sind auch vorhanden. Nicht zu vergessen den Korg Kaossilator. Trotz fehlendem MIDI-Sync läuft die kleine Tischhupe erstaunlich tight. enjoy!”
“The sounds of an old SK-1, finishing with garage bands own effects. A Roland S-330 and a few Apple Loops are also available. Not to forget the Korg Kaossilator. Despite missing MIDI Sync runs a small table horn surprisingly tight. Enjoy!”

via Matrixsynth.blogspot.com