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David Keller
After several months of wondering in the desert (AKA real life hit), my wayward heart is back with audio...
In a nutshell, it is September 14th, 2015, and this will be my first blog entry since FRIKIN FEBUARY! Needless to say, I am re-adjusting to a whirlwind of drama, which includes, but is not limited to: losing a lover, losing a job, and unexpectantly losing a roommate. Then, laborously but successfully, I regained all three (different roomie, same gal).
So, my current thoughts on my audio state of the union. Well, I have learned alot already. Conveniently, I had left off at the start of the midterm in February (Chapter 11), which put me at a point of being able to re-cap the chapters and "test-in" again, in order to help pick up where I left off. Andy, my gracious and wise mentor, besides being SUPER understanding and chill with everything, accepted me back at the pace I was at. Not only that, but he ALSO set me up with his close friend Tim, who is in a couple of bands at the moment, to get a recording session setup to wet by session legs again, and practice running a recording day. Tim got scheduled to come in and record a handful of drum tracks for his band Big State (songs: "Green and Gold Eyes," "Sick of Love," "Marfa," and "Long Way"- over 2 different sessions), and gave me practice "running" a session so-to-speak! He basically bossed me around in the right away (being more a producer-minded person), so that I could focus on not "screwing up" the session but just focusing on ProTools (the recording program that serves as the control center of the recording session, for those of you who don't "habla audio").
Besides those awesome couple of Saturdays, I have been able to do a Folly movie project with Andy (which was SO fun and I will post later!) Basically, what the Folly project was about, was that Andy filmed me as I walked around making makeshift sounds with different things, then recorded a couple of minutes of random video around his house using only a handheld microphone after that) And then, we muted the whole video recording, and layered in its' place random sounds that I picked up on top of the video (and we might have used a random explosion sound that we stole off of the internet too, put don't tell!)
The latest exciting development, however, would have to be me having the chance to have my current roomie Joe, who is a 62-year-old printer company sales manager, (who happens to play a mean jazz guitar and even used to play in a Chicago tribute band back in the olden days), will be coming in to lay down a few songs for me! I will have photos and posts soon. However, what is even MORE exciting (no offense, Joe), is that after Joe it will be Mystery Loves Company, an acoustic guitar and cello act coming in, frontlined by my old U. of Houston architecture friend Carlos Machado and his girlfriend Maddie, to lay some sweet sounds down in the studio for me to mix! SO stoked!
So, again, what can I say? Here I am. Trying to juggle a little thing called the real world, with this amazing and budding new career passion of the audio arts. Ill timing perhaps, but more like I would think of it, LONG OVER DUE!
With that said, enjoy the photos and experiences which are to come. Hop back up on the horse with me, and let's see where she gallops!
