Category: Music
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First Album Syndrome
Music plays a substantial part of my everyday life. From activity to inactivity, it’s like second to the air that I breathe. Apparently, there’s a thing called “second album syndrome” or the sophomore slump. But this isn’t anything about the literal first-released album of a musician but the first album of that musician you’ve heard…
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SodaPop: An Audacious Project
I got FruityLoops 3 to manipulate and produce tracks, good ol’ Winamp 5 to play exported materials and convert files to uncompressed WAV. And now, Audacity to trim and stitch raw materials. What is this project all about It’s all about SoundThemes™ wherein sound effects is another layer of the user experience. But that’s not…
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FruityLooping
Boy did I miss clicking tunes in FruityLoops. I remember the sleepless nights in 2003 just composing electronica. I revisited this app (software as we call it back then) to produce some sound effects for a mobile app. It was sometime in the early 2000s that I’ve discovered this electronic machine and got hooked to…
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Graphic Design Playground – Part 1 of 4
I remember my humble beginnings in Photoshop and didn’t have the files to prove it because my hard drive crashed. Well, it really did and that will be another story. The second batch of practice files are still with me though. Not everyday did I experiment on lo-res stock photos and found pictures on the…
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Save Myself Music Video
Here’s a “music video” with the song, Save Myself, which I composed on August 2, 2003 and recorded it with Jaycelle on June 28 this year. The footage and stills are from her birthday picnic last November 28. This song is for you, darling.