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It all began right here.
In April 2006, I uploaded my first-ever tune to MacJams: the original "Chocolate Rabbits". To my absolute delight, it garnered three positive comments, which was three more than I ever expected. Since then, I've bounced through more Challenges than I can remember, posted some crazy tunes, accidentally deleted my profile once, and even discovered the real, potent magic that drives MacJams - collaboration.
My collabs have been rare - mostly due to a killer schedule that keeps my time on MJ to little more than sporadic appearances, and likewise away from GarageBand playtime. But the few times I have been fortunate enough to join forces with the amazing talents that roam this place (Char, Vic Holman, GuyGrooves), I've been amazed at what can happen.
When I was paired off with MotherofMeursault for the Producer's Challenge, I was, as usual, buried in a work schedule that was worsened by a seemingly endless series of snowstorms that made my job, driving a tractor trailer around Brooklyn, NY, difficult beyond reason. But MoM was very understanding, and worked around the 'absentee artist' with style and skill.
My directive to MoM was pretty open: take any tune of mine, and do whatever you want with it. The choice turned out to be 'Chocolate Rabbits' - preferably an early version. Fortunately I still had the GB file for that debut 2006 version, and after figuring out how to use YouSendIt (previous attempts have, err, not been successful) the GB file was off to my producer, and this is what resulted.
What can I say? I was blown away. It was MoM's philosophy that the producer should be mostly hands-off, and true to that ideal this version is substantially similar to the original. But the changes, subtle yet distinct, made a huge difference in the footprint of the final song. The somewhat inconsistent, 'pasted-together' feel of the original has been smoothed out, with some dramatic stop-and-start moments that really made me sit up and notice. Shifting things around in the midpoint, playing with touches of echo in exactly the right places all highlight the cool little things I've liked about this song all along... I often thought, "that's exactly what I should have done!" In short.... a fantastic production.
My considerable thanks to MotherofMeursault for such a great job on this, and being so understanding about how little time I was able to put into this. First class all the way.
In April 2006, I uploaded my first-ever tune to MacJams: the original "Chocolate Rabbits". To my absolute delight, it garnered three positive comments, which was three more than I ever expected. Since then, I've bounced through more Challenges than I can remember, posted some crazy tunes, accidentally deleted my profile once, and even discovered the real, potent magic that drives MacJams - collaboration.
My collabs have been rare - mostly due to a killer schedule that keeps my time on MJ to little more than sporadic appearances, and likewise away from GarageBand playtime. But the few times I have been fortunate enough to join forces with the amazing talents that roam this place (Char, Vic Holman, GuyGrooves), I've been amazed at what can happen.
When I was paired off with MotherofMeursault for the Producer's Challenge, I was, as usual, buried in a work schedule that was worsened by a seemingly endless series of snowstorms that made my job, driving a tractor trailer around Brooklyn, NY, difficult beyond reason. But MoM was very understanding, and worked around the 'absentee artist' with style and skill.
My directive to MoM was pretty open: take any tune of mine, and do whatever you want with it. The choice turned out to be 'Chocolate Rabbits' - preferably an early version. Fortunately I still had the GB file for that debut 2006 version, and after figuring out how to use YouSendIt (previous attempts have, err, not been successful) the GB file was off to my producer, and this is what resulted.
What can I say? I was blown away. It was MoM's philosophy that the producer should be mostly hands-off, and true to that ideal this version is substantially similar to the original. But the changes, subtle yet distinct, made a huge difference in the footprint of the final song. The somewhat inconsistent, 'pasted-together' feel of the original has been smoothed out, with some dramatic stop-and-start moments that really made me sit up and notice. Shifting things around in the midpoint, playing with touches of echo in exactly the right places all highlight the cool little things I've liked about this song all along... I often thought, "that's exactly what I should have done!" In short.... a fantastic production.
My considerable thanks to MotherofMeursault for such a great job on this, and being so understanding about how little time I was able to put into this. First class all the way.
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magnatone
ooh - Firsties!