Cold Words - Daryl Pierce
I use an audio program called Reaper and in the past two years or so there has been an ongoing discussion on how to make the program’s automation system more suitable for audio post-production. In this post I’m going to lay out an idea I had resulting from these discussions. I would also like to [...]
This is a continuation on some of the ideas expressed in my previous post Standing Up To Our Ears
Working with audio involves a randomness that can rightly be attributed to creativity. Professional audio gets confusing because this randomness becomes involved in the evaluation of the tools (as discussed in Standing Up To Our [...]
Of all my five senses, the one I trust the least is my hearing. My ears give me some fantastically useful and entertaining information yet all the while they sneak little falsehoods and bias into my mind. It’s like they say “The Brooklyn Bridge is 486.3 meters long, it spans the East River from Manhatten to Brooklyn and having falling on hard times we can sell you it for the low price of $500k”. I would be a fool to take everything these tricky lobed appendages have to say at face value. I am speaking in a strictly technical sense of course, I am not losing my mind (yet).
Shame Spiral from the album Blues Kid City by Absofunkinlutely, a great album that I had the pleasure of mastering, has been voted the song to represent the book The Best Laid Plans in the Canada Reads soundtrack competition.
I had the privilege of mastering the three song EP this tune is on. Nice tunes, cool guys. Be sure to visit their site and listen to more.
The show on November 27th with Alexis Korchinski was fantastic fun and to commemorate it I’ve released a new six song album/EP. Lofty Ideals contains all the songs performed at the show including two previously unreleased songs along with four re-mastered versions of recently released tunes. It’s selling for five dollars in [...]
Some music from my mistaken identity crisis. Many thanks to Ruth Eliason for lending her voice to this song.
This song is a duet that’s been turning over in my mind for years. Ruth Eliason has done a fabulous job of singing it with me and bringing it to life. Thank you for supporting my music. Listen, download, enjoy!
Dome of Heaven by Daryl Pierce
This song is a tribute to all the vacations I never took in a style that can only be described as Electro-Bruce Cockburn.
March 15th and the song releasing continues. This time it’s a lovelorn mix of Massive Attack meets Benny Goodman.
