Last Song Before Mixing

I'll be mixing TRAUN in February in Portland. stay tuned for info :) 

dave m

Mostly Tracked

quick note to inform that getting the parts done has taken a long time and a lot of energy. i have just a few vocal parts to get and some bass parts then it is ready for drums and mixing. about 1hr and 45 min of music. will be 4 albums. thanks

Update on Traun progress

apologies - i have not updated this in a while. i am still working on things, and although i can't work full time on the project i am dedicated to finishing it. at this point i think i have 4 month of finalizing my midi and recording audio from virtual instruments or easily playable instruments. after that i'll be reaching out to the humans that will fill out some of the more detailed instrumental parts and vocals. one part will be a male opera part which i am excited about.

i think i'll get a facebook page up soon to get support rolling for this. i am feeling good about the music and the flow of the trilogy - its just a huge amount of work that i have little time and energy for. baby steps...

making progress on the albums

its been a bit of time since i have written - so for the few of you curious - Traun is steadily being assembled. about 5 months ago i finally committed to recording the audio of my midi compositions. I purchased some great virtual instruments and set up a small recording situation for easy instrument tracking. there are about 50 tracks spread out into 4 albums - synced with the story. if you have not seen them already - the album art is actually finished. i decided to work with Colby Bluth early on the albums because the timing seemed right for him, and it helped solidify the albums and their particular arrangement. if i can continue to fit in 10 to 20 hrs a week, i'm looking at recording drums and mixing next summer. thanks for listening
DM

Deserts of Traun update

i know its been a while, but the project has seen little motion since last i posted. there have been macro level refinements to the music/story/ and organization of the album - but i have yet to start really committing my pieces to audio. a lot has been going on that has had to take over my available creative time. One good distraction has been working on making the Deserts of Traun into a movie project - now titled the Fruitless Kingdom. see my other post for details. Health issues have also slowed things down, but i am hopeful and can see time opening up to finish the project soon. if the Deserts of Traun version 3 is something you are looking forward to - then i thank you in advance for the patience - and i'll try to post more updates in the future.
dave m

Fruitless Kingdom

Just wanted to announce here that i have been working hard at making the movie portion of the Deserts of Traun a reality. As some may know, Traun is a concept album/project based loosely on a science fiction story - which can best be realized by watching the 3 minute animated trailer by Colby Bluth (video is on the Fruitless Kingdom's homepage).

In order to really attempt to get the project made into a movie or series, the story had to become solid, and much of it reverse engineered to stay true to the trailer, and the musical project. piecing it together was somewhat like working on a rubiks cube. As it stands we have almost all the pieces to pitch the project for production - including a script written by a veteran writer and producer. check out the site fruitlesskingdom.com or the facebook page if you are interested in following the project.

The Deserts of Traun Version 3 is in production

The Deserts of Traun Version 3 is in production. It was a difficult process to get the project to take shape, as final parts, 'life' and compositional assets had to be attained from monster infested role playing game dungeons.

The plan is to combine about an hour of new music with the music of Lilac Moon, and Tholus yielding a finished conceptual piece. Multi-genre mayhem may once again make this the ultimate unmarketable project - but for those who fancy this art - i hope to make this a balanced evocative musical adventure. 2 CD's probably - with special guests planned.

DM

TRAUN - version 3 new material almost finished composing

the new material for TRAUN is almost complete. i am happy with it and although it was a beast to compose with all the restrictions of a proper conceptual piece i am happy with it. the next step when this is complete is to add another round of finishing touches then open up the Lilac Moon files and raise the bar there a little. Still going to take some time because life is busy but as with all my projects - i get them done.