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Dang, y'all! I'm in the middle of releasing my album into the wild, and this digital-only releasing stuff is time consuming! Then I find out that the title track has been truncated by one note (and that song really needs the cadence). So i'm in a holding pattern until the guy who mastered the project sends me the new track. It's exhausting, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. #albumrelease #singersongwriter #digitalalbum #musician

Since my sleep schedule is well and truly fucked (not sideways, but nearly completely upside down), what has this (succu)bard been up to the last 12 hours? :shiba_confused:

Well, let's see... :cat_think:
・recording a reading of a certain Elder Scrolls book
・dealing with my audio driver BSODing my computer
・editing typos in the book :cat_facepalm:
・listening through the Skyrim and Oblivion soundtracks in their entirety to figure out what's sorta cozy and what's not
・trying to figure out how to make VLC have a proper dark mode (that has the same interface and isn't some wildly stunted "skin" from their website)
・wondering if I want to go through the Neverwinter Nights 1+2 OSTs and the Guild Wars 1 OSTs to pick out some more good music out of those
・spending what little energy long covid has left me with to jitter my legs around, for some reason :neofox_facepalm:

At least the audio track is finally finalised, I guess? :zerotwo_shrug:

SubstackSimon Campbell on SubstackWhen starting a new musical project experience tell us that getting the business side of it clear from the outset is crucial and saves a lot of heartache later on. On Tuesday, @Suzy Starlite , @Dave Boyd and I arranged to meet down at Ginjinha do Sanguinhal, a cool coffee shop located close to Dave’s house. This tied in nicely as we were off to visit a luthier in Óbidos that very morning as I needed the nut of our Fylde custom 12 string modifying slightly to accept a thicker low G string. Roger Bucknall MBE—the owner of Fylde—usually fits a plain G string which, although it sounds great, is tricky to keep in tune. It’s a simple job, which along with other minor repairs I would normally undertake myself, but I don’t own a suitable file and they are very expensive, especially considering it’s a one off mod. ////// We had never been inside the walls of the historic City before and were blown away with the architecture and vibe. It was raining but still very busy with visitors and the selection of shops, albeit tourist centric, was quite amazing. Luís Eusébio’s studio is located in the North of the City and we arrived to a very warm welcome. He makes a variety of high end traditional instruments and also undertakes repairs on anything with strings! Whilst chewing the fat we found out Luís was a good friend of Andy Manson and Adriano Sérgio, who are both superb luthiers and good pals of ours. Small world—there is certainly something happening up here. We left with the mod completed and a spring in our step. Before leaving we checked the route to Ginjinha do Sanguinhal only to find it was closed on Tuesday so we rearranged to meet at Prohibition—where we are playing on June 1st—which is located just outside the walls of the City. We had a great meeting and nailed down all the financial and practical issues of working together. It was also a good time to flesh out the content of the Vibrationists website. A great afternoon. ////// We went home and I cooked dinner using recipes from the excellent Lebanese Kitchen cookbook featuring a pumpkin gifted to us by Dave and his wonderful partner Freya. Whilst the vegetable was roasting we whipped up the final four acoustic panels in the mixing end of the Lab. ////// Yesterday we had a great six hour rehearsal and are really making progress with our new set. Onwards…
SubstackSimon Campbell on SubstackApart from remantling—surely this is the opposite of dismantling and if not, it should be—The Supertone Sonic Laboratory, our music focus is on our new side project Vibrationists with @Suzy Starlite , @Dave Boyd and myself. ___________________________ Sound vibrations are the movement of air molecules caused by vibrating objects. These vibrations travel through solids, liquids, and gases as sound waves. When the sound waves reach our ears, our brains interpret them as sound. ___________________________ One of the first steps when creating a new project is describing what we are doing for our supporters and media. We have always struggled defining our music as it varied and covers many genres. Suzy and I are songwriters and if the tracks need a solo piano or acoustic guitar, that’s what they get. Frantic arpeggiated sequences—no problem. Things that go ‘boing’ or ‘clang’—a natural addition to the soundscape. At first, Vibrationists is a live performance multimedia project where we are reimagining a selection of songs from our five studio albums in the format of a three piece with Bodhrán, percussion, drum machine, Wurlitzer electric piano, synthesizers, guitars, bass and harmony vocals. Fortunately, I only have to play guitar and occasionally synthesizer plus sing leaving all the heavy musical lifting to my very talented band mates who are able to rub their tummies and pat their heads in multiple directions and time signatures whilst whistling a tune by Soft Machine at their most abstract. We are thinking of how describe what we are up to. ////// One gig is equivalent to 20 rehearsals and on June 1st we have our debut at Prohibition, in Óbidos—the first step in readying ourselves to tour. Keep an eye out for news, here and most social media, except X. https://vibrationists.eu