Jan Civil's Blog (3)

{A critic who is engaged in the act of what she is talking or writing about, on a regular basis, has pretty much earned the right to publishing a strong opinion or editorial regarding that activity, IME. On the other hand, if one has never done, or eschews to do, it's really not valid to pretend to 'know'; it doesn't matter if one has all the published information in the world about how something is built. If one has never had to make something from a blueprint, or ever discussed the blueprint i… Continue

What an amazing thing is a self-appointed critic. A critic of music, of art. Words about things which transcend words, about things which the whole reason to do them is that words are inadequate. Words about music, can be entertaining a pastime, you know. It doesn't mean squat to talk about it. Words about music is like soccer about painting or something. A blog, at least I am writing about a process, sort of a diary, I don't take pictures of many things, I don't write a lot about what I do, I… Continue

I made some demos of the ideas I had the last time I had a place to work, but on a really slow computer for the task. and with the result of a lot of deficiencies even for demos. but people seemed to go for a lot of it, I think the music is sound. So, I'm remixing, and just rearranging and even reworking most of it. there are a couple things where there were no deficiencies in the tracks and I managed to have them mastered, but that's about 10% of what I had. One thing is the title sequence f… Continue