Amazed & Incredibly Proud

My daughter’s masters exhibition in Zurich.

Most definitely the most evolved and mature work.

Of all of her classmates’.

Wow. Inspiring.

Yes, I know that I am biased.

It Is Accomplished

Complicado

Radio show set up

In person and Zoom guests

Multiple frontier models used to figure out the software and audio routing configuration

 

Podcast Prep Checklist — TEMPLATE

Show:

Date:

Guests:

Zoom link:

Recording folder:

☐ Power on Apollo / Mackie

☐ Open UAD Console

☐ Confirm Mackie mics hit Apollo

☐ Open Loopback

☐ Confirm Podcast Send To Zoom meters

☐ Confirm Zoom Guest Return meters

☐ Open Ableton podcast template

☐ Confirm Podcast Aggregate selected

☐ Confirm A To Zoom output pair

☐ Confirm Mackie Mics: Monitor In / Sends Only

☐ Confirm Zoom Guests: Send A off

☐ Confirm Podcast Print armed

☐ Confirm individual tracks armed

☐ Open Zoom

☐ Select mic: Podcast Send To Zoom

☐ Select speaker: Apollo

☐ Test guest echo

☐ Open OBS, if needed

☐ Confirm OBS input

☐ Record 2-minute test

☐ Play back test

☐ Start show

☐ Back up recording after show

TGIF?

Was supposed to be semi-retired by now.

Again, the best laid plans…

Tired as F.

Good stuff happening in the studio though and the reboot of The Sursumcorda Radio Hour is almost realized.

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Vacillation

I keep vacillating on what genre I want to produce.

Dub Techno is so alluring. Experimental ambient so satisfying.

Guitar-based is so tactile.

I need to get back into a process and stick with it.

So many distractions.

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Music Production as a Personal Journal

I’m increasingly less interested in making tracks and more interested in documenting a life.

Most modern production advice assumes music is built like a product: define a goal, optimize the workflow, refine the result. Useful enough, maybe. But the music that stays with me feels more like a memory than an achievement.

So my process has become a form of journaling. Music as blog.

I collect fragments: old jazz records, favorite and nostalgic tracks, degraded guitar loops, field recordings, overheard conversations, books, strange photographs, half-forgotten dreams, cities, obsessions, periods of uncertainty. Small artifacts from ordinary life. Then I let them sit together long enough to begin speaking to each other.

I trust accidents more than formulas. Mood more than technical correctness. I trust the strange moments when machines and memory begin blurring together.

Each release feels less like a statement and more like a timestamp. A note left behind saying: this is what the world felt like from where I was standing.

Years later, I hope I can listen back and hear not just songs.

And, leave a time capsule for my family in friends and hope that a giant EMF event doesn’t erase my legacy.

—- By Dave Wesley with some help from AI.