what is going on in your musical life

Interesting! I'm in the final stages of obsessive mixing for this drums-only record I'm working on (a collaboration with my main early drum teacher, which is a really nice thing). Getting to like "v14" for some tracks. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel though, just tweaking a few more tracks. I had a big breakthrough the other day when I remembered the existence of parallel compression/processing (exported five tracks of drum kit that I had processed to death down to one, brought it back in, took most of the processing off the original tracks, and blended the two).

Meanwhile I did this session, it was basically a sight-reading/first rehearsal/recording session deal. It had been a long time since I've been in an "everyone recording live" situation. I wish I had been able to play a little more freely, but after a couple takes you don't want to be the one who fucks it up when it's going ok. I only made one mistake that will haunt me the rest of my days on this one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFC3kAXjKg

I only made one mistake that will haunt me the rest of my days on this one

real!!!! you sound fantastic tho

meanwhile i'm going through a very intense unwound phase so i've decided to learn a bunch of unwound songs on drums. discovering that my drumming goal specifically in my band is "play more like sara lund"

great goal ivy. i did not realize that i followed one of your bandmates on letterboxd (and previously on twitter/bluesky when i was on there)

sounds hot jordan

Hornado!!

Great drumming jordan

Thanks guys <3

The other tune on that session was an intricate arrangement of the Zelda dungeon theme, curious/apprehensive to hear how that came out

i really want to hear that!!!!

album has been distributed to stores/streaming services. first single out 5/1. so nervous i feel like my body's gonna turn inside out and also so happy omg

Congrats!

Congratulations!

Zelda, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCM-YRSZFlw

I keep thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_/_Void_Split

i have a solo show coming up, that's good. Looking forward to it etc.

at the same time, the band i was invited to join may 2021 and has taken up three years of my time/effort/money/creativity and has never formally recorded or played a show just dumped me via text. the pretense was that our schedules were incompatible and they couldn't make the progress they wanted to make (????) with my schedule. i just -- i am pissed they wasted my time, money, effort, and creativity. if i weasn't good enough you could have told me years ago, and if i was -- is this seriously how it ends?

WHATEVER i have other fish to fry

nooooo i'm so sorry ll. what dicks!

i only wish i had left of my own accord -- the truth is that my life has been pure chaos since i met them (employment tumult, abundant family issues including death of a parent, a pandemic, etc -- little of which I told them details about and rarely did it interfere with our rehearsals) and it was going nowhere. but i figured it would be better for me to continue playing regularly and i enjoyed it most of the time.

i just cannot believe i was blindsided like this. it's shocking. UGGGHHHHHH