Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Central 8 Studios + JCK = Sonic Love

Half rant/half plug.

Immediately following High School, I moved to Chillicothe Ohio to attend The Recording Workshop (A professional Recording Engineer and Production training school)

I graduated from The Recording Workshop in 2005, and have been working with bands, artists, choirs, orchestras, and commercial clients for four years now. I have worked at SEVERAL recording studios in Ohio, and have helped design and build three different recording facilities.

This is why I am asking: If you know anyone who needs recording or production, I'm your man.

If you're serious about your music, you should be serious about who you trust with your recording.

My rates are low, Sonic quality is high. Remember, my name is on your project too. That's very important to me, so expect the best when we work together.

You can check out some of my sonic/creative work at http://www.myspace.com/freetruman

And of course, if you ever want to come on down for a tour of the studio, email me at jck@maidmyriad.com

Yippee.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Myriad update

So, there has been a babillion things happening in the M&M world.

We have new members.
We are working on a new record. (For reals)
We have been playing more shows.
We are building a community.
We are moving forward in a new direction.

This starts a new era of MM.

So, As many of you have noticed at our recent shows, We have new team members. Sam Hunt and Alex Popovici have joined the M&M family. It's been a pleasure working with them. We have been working on the new songs that we are writing for our next record. Preproduction is finished for the songs, and we head into Central 8 Studios this weekend to track Kev's drums. I'm pretty excited to hear how the songs are sounding.

As of right now, we're pretty sure Nathan Doutt and Randy Biddle from Central 8 Studios are going to help produce the record with MM and myself. As you remember, I composed, recorded, performed, and produced Embrace pretty much alll by mah self. It literally drove me crazy, and I think some reinforcements are definitely needed for this FULL length. We have 22 Preproduction songs, and we're still kicking around some new ideas.

Like I said above, we are building a community. We'll dig into this another time.

End for now.

Okay, then.

As I sit here staring aimlessly at this wretched computer screen, it has me totally fixated into a staring contest while it slowly caresses my mindless soul in the palm of it's hand. It's like this ridiculous B (maybe even C) Horror movie I watched last night. Tales from the Crypt's "Demon Night."

Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, Facebook, Twitter. Etc etc etc. I’ve become the very thing that I think is clouding our society's youth . Social Network addiction. The best part about this is one of my college research papers was totally written on this subject. Pathological Internet Use. (PIU) Here is my conclusion to the paper:

I have now determined that Internet “addiction” does not truly exist in the real world. We have classified such behaviors as Pathological Internet Use. The dependent personality has such characteristics of an addict, but lacks the physical dependence (such from a stimulus) to be stereotyped and labeled as “addiction.” With the creation of different categorical levels of Internet usage, we are able to identify the problematic uses of the Internet. I picked this subject, not only because I find it fascinating, but also because I hold the belief that we as a generation are stripping ourselves of an active “genuine” lifestyle, and are spending the majority in cyberspace. Now, I don’t claim to be a part of the solution quite yet, as I myself spend hours online working, but I do claim to be consciously aware of the problem. I feel like this subject is important in understanding the psychological need to feel connected to the world, friends, information, business, and all of the splendors that the Internet offers. A constant need for social connection, and a feeling of belonging, colors our thoughts and emotions. (Myers 2005) The Internet is one of the most valuable and powerful tools we as humans have created. The Planet Earth is shaping everyone to be more Internet dependent. Banks, colleges, music, business are leaning more towards strictly online work. If we are not aware of the potential problematic dependence, we can be prone to Pathological Internet use that can interrupt daily activities, and degrade our quality of life.


Hahaha. This is wonderful. The best part of it all, is I have myself thoroughly convinced that all of these hours spend on social networking sites are all for the sake of promoting my musical endeavors (therefore in my mind is a business write off.) One of the most honest conclusions I've come to in the past few days.

Here's how we'll work it from now on. If I need to be on this computer, I'm going to be productive as fuck starting now. I may be switching gears to the world o blogging, but at least it will be informative, honest, introspective, and (hopefully) entertaining. This could be your next favorite thing to do on the internet.

Fucking stalk me.

=)

(sarcasm on it's breath)