Album Writing

[futures_untold]

Personally at least, if I just sit at the computer messing with synths etc, I never get anything done apart from loads of patches.

Writing a storyboard helps guide the process and keep it on track.

i'm not saying don't write anything down, it's just the way you said you're not making any music til EVERYTHING is written out. i just think that might slow things down, you obviously know where you're going so you can start exploring those ideas and you might find parts of it write itself. that may or may not work for you, i find that being so concrete about the process can sometimes inhibit the results.

as always though it does totally depend on how you work.

True, I understand what you're saying.

Happy accidents are often the best productions.

Been compiling a folder full of reference tracks today.... Got 60 of 'em so far.... Perfaps it's just an excuse to listen to d'n'b all day?!

[futures_untold]

And yet I'm in no rush to make this album. Part of the fun is just scheming 'n' dreaming.... Something I'm good at lol

[symmetricalsounds]

Personally at least, if I just sit at the computer messing with synths etc, I never get anything done apart from loads of patches.

Writing a storyboard helps guide the process and keep it on track.

i'm not saying don't write anything down, it's just the way you said you're not making any music til EVERYTHING is written out. i just think that might slow things down, you obviously know where you're going so you can start exploring those ideas and you might find parts of it write itself. that may or may not work for you, i find that being so concrete about the process can sometimes inhibit the results.

as always though it does totally depend on how you work.

True, I understand what you're saying.

Happy accidents are often the best productions.

kinda half accident half planned.

i've had the concept for a while and thought and planned about how to translate the ideas into audio, but it wasn't until i got some ideas down that the whole thing opened up before me and i saw what the album could become. progress-wise i have the intro track done then another 15-20 ideas in various states of completion. i think this project is going to have a pool of probably 30-40 tracks that will get wittled down to an albums-worth.

[ChadDub]

it's going to be mind blowing shit, .

you ever think there might be some benefits to quietly getting on with it instead of biggin it all up on here?

lol, when is this coming out chad, cnt wait for my mind to be blooown

ps. dublerium + chad TUUUUNE BATTLEE!!

Should be out whenever it's done.

[futures_untold]

kinda half accident half planned.

i've had the concept for a while and thought and planned about how to translate the ideas into audio, but it wasn't until i got some ideas down that the whole thing opened up before me and i saw what the album could become. progress-wise i have the intro track done then another 15-20 ideas in various states of completion. i think this project is going to have a pool of probably 30-40 tracks that will get wittled down to an albums-worth.

As many as that?

My approach is to write the story first, then create the music to the story.

If you imagine a sequencer timeline, I pretty much want the whole album/story to be one large track which ebbs and flows from one another. I'm trying to set out the flow of the album in terms of energetic tracks and chilled ones beofre making any tracks.

To be honest, although it should end up as an all original album, I'm actually aiming to copy what other people have done and put my own take on each thing that I hear that I like. One could say that it's like graffiti writers who learn by biting other peoples styles before mastering their own styles and techniques.

I guess I'm of the mind to copy tried and tested song parts instead of sitting down and thinking 'right, I'm gunna create a banger'. Lego rather than plastacine...

[symmetricalsounds]

yeah man, i might have the plan in mind but that doesn't mean i get it right first time. having that pool gives me chance to get the best out of myself. not all of those will get finished, just far enough for me to know. there's always gonna be different ways for an idea to play out so letting that happen.

my album is full of references, steeped neck deep but whether anyone gets them is another matter. i remember listening to mezzanine a few months ago, first time i'd heard it in a while and i realised i was trying to make my mezzanine. my album doesn't sound anything like it, but trying to recreate something that brooding, that dark, something that can catapult your mind into a squalid damp room where bleakness reigns and dreams are shattered.

some people make soul music, i make tortured soul music.

[hasezwei]

today it went 'click' and i feel like i have found my sound. well, at least a common thread going through all the WIPs i made in the last months.

so i decided to single out the shared elements, certain samples i keep using et cetera and added other 'rules' and limitations to the pool. the idea is to redo a couple of my ideas from the last months into full tracks within these limitations and adding one or two new productions to make a 4-5 track EP. kinda like a showcase of my sound imposed on different styles of electronic music.

gonna try out the storyline/tracks working together as a whole idea in a few years i guess, when making tunes has become routine enough that i don't waste creative time with technical details.

[Ldizzy]

dude i cant wait to hear that shit.

!!