Still workin' away.

So the new song I've been sort of sketching out isn't ready yet. For fun here's a song live from my last show at The Boat. If you weren't one of the forty people in attendance this will be something new for you. This is another song that will soon be recorded for my upcoming E.P. due out later this year.


But until then hold tight with this.


House

Back to sea.

Here's a fresh song I finished and recorded today for everyone's enjoyment. This song is the result of listening to Atlas Sound's new album "logos" too much. Wrote it fairly quickly and recorded it just the same. Rough around the edges, covered in reverb, and ready for you ears. Should load into itunes with art work supplied. Leave feedback if theirs any issues or if you just like it in general.


I'm also thinking about signing up for the RPM challenge at RPM.com. The challenge is to write and record an album (10 songs or 35 minutes) during the 28 days of February. No real prize at all, just a matter of bragging rights and forcing some creativity to come forth.


Please tell you friends about this blog if you are enjoying it thus far.

Stay tuned for friday! friday will be digital mix tape day.

M.

Back to sea

State of the Art Hard Drive.

So it's day two. And Since I haven't had enough time to get some fresh b-sides rolling out, I figure I'd start from the back catalog. So available for the first time in glorious .mp3 format, is the four star daydream cover of the Beatles' "No reply" from the album "Beatles For Sale".

On a side note it’s been heard that some[1] of you are displeased by the title of this blog. So let me shed some light on how Art Hard Drive came to be. It originally came to me as a lot of titles often do, and that is misreading something and taking it in a different context. Much like Ringo reworking common expressions and turning them into song writing gold with titles like “Hard Days Night.”

So as it was, I was reading an article on recording at the time and took a second pass at the sentence and saw Art Hard Drive. What the hell is an “Art Hard Drive?” After a third pass of this sentence, it actually read something along the lines of “using a state of the art hard drive…”

I then thought of what an Art Hard Drive might be if one actually existed. The answer is with modernization and technology, art is no longer limited to canvas or recorded tape. Purists might cry foul but art's everywhere from viral video, to mashups, and now this blog[2].

Art Hard Drive welcomes you to the modern portfolio.

no reply

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[1] I’m looking at you Alana.

[2] My apologies for discrediting the art community when referencing my work as art. But it is in the eye of the beholder mind you.

last crash.

Here's a song I started and never finished writing. one of these days i'll get around to finishing it. It was the last song i recorded before my computer crashed and i lost all of my recordings from the past eight years. all that's left of this gem is the .mp3

enjoy

January 2nd unfinished vocals

Resolution don't fail me now !

Okay, welcome to Art Hard Drive.
You may ask, what exactly is Art Hard Drive? Or maybe you don't even care.

Either way, Art Hard Drive in it's original conception was a project in which I put all my music ideas that didn't have a home with the musical projects I was working on at the time. And now since I don't seem to be doing much of anything I've decided to make a blog and force myself to be creative and just purge all of my ideas insecurities and run-on sentences with an audience present.

So with this blog I plan to try and put up as much new song material, regardless of style quality or stage of process it's in, In hopes of bridging the gap of music making and music listening.

Rather than having a proper website, I felt this would be the most instantaneous way to keep in touch and get feedback on a more personal, less formal way. Now I just need to get some shit done.


For now please feel free to stop by my Myspace at:

www.myspace.com/fourstardaydreammusic *






*Myspace is a really old website that bands and kids used to use in the 00's to show their music and gain fans before facebook and twitter washed all of that away.