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Remixed and reissued

Will you look at that? It's been six months since I've had anything to report.

I've been busy with night classes these past two semesters, so I didn't make much progress with anything in the last 10 months. But during the semester break in December 2005, I did remix a number of tracks on Restraint, and back in May 2006, I remixed some tracks on Imprint.

My original plan was to upload these remixes after I start laying down vocals, but after hearing how much work my vocals need, I decided to upload the remixed tracks now. After I've had all summer to improve my singing (bleah!), I might, just might upload demos with actual lyrics.

These remixed tracks sound much closer to what I have in mind, so if you have earlier versions of these songs, do me a favor and overwrite them with the new versions. (Thanks!)

As for new projects, I'm sort of juggling a few ideas. I've been trying to write lyrics before I write music, just because I'm so terrible at sitting down to write lyrics. When I first started writing songs, I went with words first because I didn't know any better. Now I'm going back to that method because it feels easier for me to set music to text than the other way around.

Speaking of music set to text, I'm fishing out the Requiem I wrote in high school and revising it. There was some interesting and ambitious stuff I didn't know what I was doing, and I want to see if I can polish those ideas up now that I do know what I'm doing. I've already rewritten the Introit.

I'm not taking classes this summer, so I can focus on Eponymous 4.

-- Posted: 2006-06-02 10:42:22