Integrating New Media

Tracking for the Boy at Heart debut album is underway. Guide drum and guitar tracks have been created so I can track the bass guitar and so far bass is complete for about half the album. The next stage will be focusing on getting the drums tight with the recorded bass tracks.

I am just starting to get into the different video streaming and posting services out there and it seems like a perfect opportunity for me to play around with that while I track this album, so watch out for video updates of the album being recorded. There is an interesting post about such things by Christian Payne, who goes by the alias Documentally and is quite a pioneer in social networking, especially new media. In this post post he tells an interesting story, which highlights the power of new media on the web.

Only a few days ago I was feeling that I had too many projects on the go all at once and it pretty much slowed my progress with everything I had to do. I am am now seeing the possibility of integrating many of those things into this album project, so having the idea to make video clips of recording the album and writing songs for the 50/90 challenge (another ongoing project) will enable me to also add another job from my To Do list, namely learning how to use multimedia within social networks. Initially I had put that all off until everything calmed down a bit, but on reflection, things never calm down enough. It’s called life and that is why many things in life never get done! This is the perfect solution, so expect to see some embarrassing moments (for me) and some mistakes.

As is my philosophy: Whilst I am a real stickler for quality with what I create I always see something wonderful about the unpolished, ‘as it happens’ state of artistic creations, especially in music. Some of the best music I have heard on the internet is what people have done spontaneously, using their mobile phone etc and sticking it on Youtube. That is why my Weekly Songcast is presented the way that it is, so it is more than a listening experience; it is also a chance to witness of the development of musical ideas.

We’ve never really had this chance to see our favourite bands and artists during the creative process until they had a big-budget film crew on hand and then much of what makes it really interesting is edited out, so this is an opportunity now for independents, like me to share our experience of fulfilling a musical destiny with other people… assuming you are interested of course!

If you are one of those who is interested then I thank you and I invite you to subscribe to the RSS feed to be regularly updated. You may also like to join the Boy at Heart mailing list via the Reverb Nation box on the right and if you are really interested then you may like to pre-order the debut album (working title ‘I Can’t Lose’) by purchasing a 13-song volume of The Weekly Songcast.

I also recommend these interesting, multimedia, social-networking types too:

• Christian Payne aka Documentally
• Walt Ribeiro

These guys really make me want to make the most of the technology and the reach available to everyone right now. Thanks gentlemen!

Enjoy!

Tagged as: albums, Music, new media, recording, social networking