PA Songwriters'/Composers' Association

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.

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.

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.

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