That Very Hairy New Video!

A.I. is everything these days. It will be a question of time when we're all depending on it I guess. Is this bad? Every invention has its positive sides and in my case I try to keep up with the "modern standards", new tools to stay creative, to create something mostly funny. I've always done that. And it sure was fun to do.

There are a lot of A.I.editors online where you can create a whole little movie from a simple picture. I've kept it low budget of course, that's the DIY principle! I had a lot of pictures already for the albumcovers, so I uploaded 2 of them, a start frame and an end frame. Then you come up with a story. This was my tiny fantasy: a man running scared, tries to escape a black planet with a balloon, but fails most of the time:

 

Go for example to Image to video to create one.

Subsequently, I had something like 15 little SD movies with a 5 to 10 seconds length frame. I loaded them in Veed, an online video editor and tried them out on this new funky song: De Nada

There's not a lot of singing on this song, only a few familiar Spanish shout-outs like: Gracias! De Nada and Adios! So it's a mostly instrumental funny funky groove with only the pretence than to get up and dance say gracias!

Enjoy!

De Nada op YouTube  

 

Next: The Very Hairy New Standard Is Released

Keep the Temperature Down promo

Hey there! How to promote a new album better than some eye candy. O yeah promotion... As a musician I can't help but feeling a little bit awkward to be featured in a video, posing lip-sync stuff, but on the other hand, a funny, self-mocking one can do no harm that much. Something I'll always strive for is to keep it upbeat and not to be taken too seriously. No pretensions in me, just a DIY attitude understates what you'll get to see (still a lot!) as I've used a lot of Instagram effects to enhance the experience. 

Any messages behind the song "Keep The Temperature Down"?

Overall a call to cool things down! Hey, hey Joost!

 

Mixed Up

So...I'm in the middle of these final mixes. Thoughts are racing all the time: "don't mess with a good thing!" The choices I've made are more or less definite. I mean, the intensity and the emotions (FEEL) of the "first take" makes it mostly the best one to go for. Both the organic energy and the freshness of a new song motivates that. Sure there are the unavoidable overdubs and edits to be done later (only in case if there are disruptive mistakes, all in the name of smoothing it all out).
I've got a lot of ideas while arranging and recording a song. Those filling intervals, melodies come from the piano mostly. Some even counterpoint perfectly with eachother. And sometimes you have to choose, wipe away what's getting in the way.
Every song has got its own personal handling of course. After a few weeks of self-imposed distance I've listened again with "new" ears. Aha. Yes, that distance helps to be more objective about the sound, especially if you work alone (!). Watched a few youtube tutorials of generous sound engineers again to learn more about their professional mixing methods. Let's get it on.

My method? The "meth" method.

 Ok, I need some more distance perhaps haha....CU!