Album Cover Design
September 06, 2010 :: Category - Music
Since I couldn’t really sleep last night, I decided to finish up the album cover design of my first CD.
Sunday
January 11, 2010 :: Category - Music, Sketches/Drawings
It’s nearing the 2nd semester of 2nd year and I’m thinking… wow, I really need to push for experimenting around to reach a style by fourth year.
Sunday, sunday, sunday. I hosted the first “art in odd places” event.. (there shall be more in the spring!). We explored the empty UC building… it was interesting, but not as creepy as I thought it would be.
We found this drawing on the door that resembled my friend’s hair!! WEIRD.
I posted this incomplete track a few weeks ago.. I kind of started working on it again (out of no where!) and actually managed to finalize it during the past few days 
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I trekked over to the west end of Toronto yesterday (where Dundas meets College) and found an abandoned warehouse:
I decided to make an infographic about the process of drawing & making music, and how they can overlap.. It’s weird because when I draw, I tend to look at a list of principles that I thought were completely different from when I make music.. but looking at it carefully: they have more in common than you’d think!
This is just a general idea.. of course there are different styles that would use different principles.
On the side note:
Interestingly.. I’ve never really seen beats as holding music together until after I started incorporating it into my music. So I guess the opposite applies, to create airy sounding music: remove beats or use different samples that allow the music to float!
It’s Never Said Once - download
I finished another track. Even though it may seem like they’re all being sporadically produced, it’s only the 3rd final track that I would call a final. The rest were quite experimental, but it all lead to these completed tracks… so as an anology… experimental tracks are sketches? A process to final pieces?
This portable keyboard is soooo useful Making music at the cafe or library? Fun.
So I started logging onto myspace again to promote my music and the responses have been good so far ~
Drawing marathon needs to start soon…
Remixed a Yoko Ono track
December 07, 2009 :: Category - Music, Uncategorized
Yoko Ono - The Sun is Down! (Myra Phan Remix) Download
Maybe I’m not in the loop but I jumped into remixing Yoko Ono’s track without realizing it was filled with simply spoken words. It was a challenge.. I thought the original was a bit too disco-y and cheesy for my tastes, so I tried to bring it to more of an experimental/rock approach to it.. I’m not really happy with the end result though, oh well!
Listen go the original here: The Sun is Down
I was at the Big Pink concert last night.. and I must say it was one of the best concerts I’ve been to. Velvet, Dominos and Too Young to Love gave me a high. They’re one of my biggest inspiration for music making asides from Yann Tiersen and the Velvet Underground.
Lastly…
It’s almost winter break… which means: looking back at the semester, refining and continuing the journey to seeking new inspirations.
2 days
My “full length” track is finally complete.
It’s one of the few that I’m pretty satisfied with and a fusion of… everything I wanted?
Off topic:
I was asking my buddy for some advice about style… and it lead to browsing through fashion sites after fashion sites in the morning:
Image 1, 2: Band of Outsiders ; Image 3, 4 Agyness Deyn
Some pretty useful links:
- Trench Coat inspirations
- Band of Outsiders
- NYC Streetstyle @ TFS
- Paris Streetstyle @ TFS
- Models Streetstyle @ TFS
- Agyness Deyn Online
- Miss Pandora Fashion Blog
Monday the 23rd
November 23, 2009 :: Category - Music, Sketches/Drawings
This is how 1:07 am sounds like.. scrambled:
Monday’s last illustrative drawing project!! I referenced a male danseur photograph somewhere on the internet for this one.
This sign nearly blinded me while walking home:
Current music project: I’m working on a full length song using GOA, 2-step and oldschool break beats fused in with classical strings and dreamy ambient breaks. It’s 20% complete