Author Archives: Damon Siseman

In this final post I want to discuss my process for mastering the tracks and some reflection on the project. Here is a link to the finished product: https://f4rside.bandcamp.com/album/bamboo-peach-boy As mentioned in my post about distribution, we decided for the moment to only upload our music to independent sites and not to work with aContinue reading “Mastering and Final Thoughts”

In this post I want to discuss my process of mixing the second and final track. I used the same mixing workflow as in my post about mixing the first track as I found it worked very effectively. Ciaran sent me his recordings of vocals, guitar, flutes and bass guitar, as well as some additionalContinue reading “Mixing Second Track”

We have had some technical issues over the past week or so, mostly involving microphones not working, which means we are now behind schedule again. This can’t really be helped due to the lockdown so I am not majorly concerned and now that we have working microphones all recording has been finished, leaving just theContinue reading “Working with Audio Recordings versus Working with VST Instruments”

After a conversation where we decided we would like to carry on working together after this deadline, I had some more thoughts on how to distribute the music. Historically, music artists needed a record label to help distribute music, but the change to online distribution has allowed artists to take on a do-it-yourself approach (Bockstedt,Continue reading “Some Thoughts on Distribution and Future Collaboration”

First, an update on sticking to the schedule. After the decision last week to move everything forward by one week, everything has been going just fine and this second track should all be recorded by Tuesday. In this post I want to discuss my writing process for the second track ‘Peach Boy’. I set theContinue reading “Writing Process for the Second Track”

Now that the first track has been fully recorded and edited I wanted to review progress so far and discuss some issues we faced and enhancements made in working collaboratively. We are about a week behind schedule due to difficulties during this stressful time but this does not concern me, there is enough time toContinue reading “First track complete – review of progress”

Script: Slide 2: I came to uni with the hope of being able to produce my own music but I had no idea how to do it. Alongside this course I’ve been learning how to use Logic Pro. For this project, I decided to collaborate with my friend Ciaran who is a freelance composer. WeContinue reading “Work in Progress Presentation”

Seeing as everyone’s plans have changed due to the pandemic, I have had to rethink the schedule and project. It seems that nothing should be majorly affected and we can carry on without any changes. In order to keep us on track I have made a Gantt chart as shown below. I have allowed quiteContinue reading “Updated Schedule”

As we will both be travelling during April/May (unless decided otherwise by the Foreign Office due to current pandemic) this prevents us from being able to record anything together in person before the deadline. This should not be too much of an issue as all of my work will be done with MIDI input andContinue reading “Work in Progress and Planned Schedule”

In this module I have decided I would like to gain more experience in composing and producing my own music. I will be collaborating with my friend Ciarán who is a freelance music composer and sound designer, primarily for video games. Despite being friends for a number of years we have never collaborated before, butContinue reading “Introduction to the Project”