My studio is set back up!  Ok, so “studio” is a bit of a stretch.  It’s really just a computer desk in the corner my basement with some synths next to it and some studio monitors.  But hey, whatever works!  Being back and working on music feels great.  It’s always been a creative release for me, and so not being able to work on music usually leaves me feeling bottled up.  My first two priorities since getting things set up are working on treeFungus stuff (the joint project my friend started), and finishing a new Partition 36 song tentatively called “Alice”.

The new Partition 36 song is part of the new album, which I briefly talked about back in this post.  As I mentioned there, the album is sort of a reverse Inside The Beat, where it starts as a very inward-facing, personal album, and then moves outward.  “Alice” fits the introspective side of it perfectly.  The pseudo-lyrics I’ve been working on for it are based on a poem I wrote at the beginning of the year, and deal with my feelings as I came to terms with being transgendered.  What I’m thinking of doing is recording them in either a whispy/whispery voice and then applying some effects to make them sound ethereal, or doing something on the verge of spoken word and then doing some heavy processing.  Either of these should fit well with the song, which is already pretty atmospheric sounding.

Aside from that, I’m thinking I may do some remastering work with some of my old pre-Partition 36 pieces in order to practice some new engineering tricks I’ve been researching.  Furthermore, some of my old master CDs have been scratched, and I don’t have the original master files anymore, so making new recordings will also serve an archival purpose.  These shouldn’t take long at all since everything is written really just needs to be re-recorded into a multi-track master, and they aren’t a priority.  But expect a few to be released here through the blog.