Digital Media

Video editing takes a serious toll. I'm currently developing a splash promo video for a client, and it's reminding me how incredibly absorbing video production can be - keeping track of so many simultaneous threads. For a while I said I could never produce video for a living because I'm not anal enough. I don't say that anymore. Aside from the gratifying feeling that comes when a video reaches completion, this particular video has resulted in an additional perk. While composing the theme music I created a song that won't work with the video, but which will make an awesome standalone piece. I hope to have it posted here within the next week or so.

While on the topic of music, lately I've been making my way over to Jamendo.com for a number of listening sessions. Jamendo hosts the works of a number of musicians and composers all under Creative Commons licensing. Plenty of albums on Jamendo are truly excellent, and all of the music can be accessed on demand or even downloaded as compressed .zip files. I've been visiting Jamendo on and off for the past year or so, and created a profile while looking into .mp3 delivery systems for this blog. Jamendo was ultimately beat out by the xspf player (now xspf jukebox) in the battle for blog audio player, but I've since discovered that maintaining a Jamendo account has benefits in it's own right. These include listener feedback, access to a community of dedicated composers and musicians, and the possibility for collaborations. I haven't yet produced a body of material that could be consolidated to fill an album, but once that happens I plan on posting to my Jamendo account. I'll also keep posting all of my audio creations here on this blog for the foreseeable future.

The below album by humeka is one of my
current favorites on Jamendo. Enjoy!