PA Songwriters'/Composers' Association

This is a place for songwriters and composers to share their works, advice, criticism, exercises, etc. to hone their skills for whatever they wanna do with their music.


Edited by Polymorphia - August 24 2013 at 11:34

Well, I have the problem of starting a lot of projects but finishing very few. I'm also very perfectionist about my work, so the things I do finish take a while. Right now, I have a psychedelic indie folk-rock band, "King Stevens," of which I am a primary songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, and keyboardist, and which I will introduce to PA when we finally get some presentable recordings. I am in two other groups, both untitled at the moment. One is a psychedelic crossover-prog goth rock type thing, and the other is a more democratic minimalist post-punk group. Both are far from having anything to show.

On my own, I do a variety of different things. I've written orchestral music, chamber music, electronic, prog rock, jazz, avant-garde, but I think I've just recently found my niche. It's hard to describe, so I won't try.

I realize I'm not giving you a lot, but I really don't have any recordings I'm willing to show anyone, just yet. I have a few electronic recordings in the vault, which I can pull out if anyone's curious, but, otherwise, I've not yet done anything substantial.

Pekka wrote: A while ago I was thinking about starting a thread called PA Musicians' Collective Journal where we all could ramble on about what we're up to and pat each other on the backs. This seems like at least somewhat close to the same idea, thanks  From time to time I've been thinking about pressing a small number of CDs of my album (burning the music myself to pre-printed CDrs, probably), and as I've lately been doing a bit of remixing to the material, I guess I'll wait until the mix is done and then I'll get on with it. It's going to be interesting to see what happens to them, I've been thinking around 20 copies at first, there might be a possibility that I could get rid of that amount. So what do you do?

I would recommend using Amazon's CreateSpace for producing limited runs of CDs. For 20 copies you can do it yourself on a PC but CreateSpace produces a more professional looking product. Both these would be CDR but glass pressed CDs are only viable for quantities over 500.

We all know about you, smart Speaking of which, I need to check out some of your more recent releases... but there's just so many!

Luna wrote: My method for making music is playing stuff until it sounds good, then mixing/remixing/completely destroying it on my computer. If anyone's interested, my music is in my signature.

Some nice stuff you got there, Luna. There's a strong noise/ambient scene on PA. I like that a lot.

smartpatrol wrote: Polymorphia wrote: We all know about you, smart Speaking of which, I need to check out some of your more recent releases... but there's just so many! xD yeah, I have a habit of releasing a lot of stuff. Which was the last one you checked out?

The second one

Polymorphia wrote: smartpatrol wrote: Polymorphia wrote: We all know about you, smart Speaking of which, I need to check out some of your more recent releases... but there's just so many! xD yeah, I have a habit of releasing a lot of stuff. Which was the last one you checked out? The second one

Man, that one seems like such a long time ago!
I suggest Going to the Pet Store, Big Foot Business Casual, I Went on Vacation EP, and For my Grandpa

There's plenty of stereo mixing on Pet Store

You've got a point. But I have been and still am getting much more creative with my mixing. But I also don't think there's anything wrong with a more mono-ish approach to mixing

smartpatrol wrote: You've got a point. But I have been and still am getting much more creative with my mixing. But I also don't think there's anything wrong with a more mono-ish approach to mixing

There's not if you do it intentionally, for a good reason. There is some music that's a lot more enjoyable as a mono mix. I was making this suggestion, however, for your music specifically. If you feel a mono mix would further your music, more power to you.


Edited by Polymorphia - August 24 2013 at 17:25

I'm one of three songwriters in a rock band called Rare Goat.  We've been together 9 years, but only got serious about developing original material in the last two years or so.  We're nearly finished recording our first album of all original material.  I'm pretty pumped about it.