The release of Continuum: Decade in 1997 pretty much signaled the end of my music run. Family, work, more work, eating and sleep consumed all of my time. All the plans I had for this endeavor unceremoniously tapered off to nothing. To be fair, it wasn’t nothing. Sure, here and there I’d press the “record” […]
By this point in my journey, I’d self-produced two albums. While those words in that order are true, they do give the wrong impression that I’m some sort of Peter Gabriel churning out music in my multi-million dollar studio and selling copies by the hundreds of thousands. Close, but not quite. The first album (Eclipse, […]
Voiceover: Previously on Charlie’s Blog. Charlie began to tell the tale of his musical life story. He stopped talking about it when hit with the one-two punch of NaNoWriMo and The Holidays. The previous episode ended on a cliffhanger: Charlie was about to buy his first multitrack recorder. This is it. This was my big […]
This post is part of a series on my adventures in writing and recording music. If you’d like to read these posts in order, start here and follow the links. Recording solo piano pieces on a crappy cassette recorder gave me a good start, but I needed two big things to realize my aural vision: […]
It’s not uncommon for kids in college to experiment with various things and stuffs. Doing so is a natural part of growing, especially when kids are out on their own for the first time — and without the near-constant supervision of parents. Me? I was no different. I experimented with sleeping in until two o’clock […]