Consistency is NOT My Middle Name
Marketing, consistency, it that always a good thing?, plus tweets that are longer lasting than my deodorant.
An AntiBlog
Marketing, consistency, it that always a good thing?, plus tweets that are longer lasting than my deodorant.
Why create an album> Whence comes the drive, the necessity? … and even more probably unanswerable questions. Then there’s my shoelaces….
Some info about recording “The Meeting” – the next being recorded for Tom’s next album The Week Begins. Some pix will be available over at tomrule.info – take a look at the righthand side.
I have a LOT of trouble describing what I create. You could probably have a field day figuring out why….. but for now, I need some help. https://bit.ly/TomsMusicDescription
More pondering about how I go about creating music in the studio, and how it relates to these artisanal missives cranked out on a vintage typewriter. I don’t know why I’m writing about this – perhaps it is because I’m still figuring it out, even after all of these years.
I may have a really weird workflow – but it [mostly] works for me. Then again, how I work in the studio keeps changing, which is…… weird. Further proof I am an odd duck? Read on to see what you think.
News about Tom’s new album-in-process “The Week Begins”.
Typed up in May, 2022, here’s a quick update on how Tom Rule’s new album The Week Begins is going.
Vinyl? Really? They outsold CDs in 2021. Why? The typewriter pondereth…..
There is indeed a gulf between two camps of musicians. Seriously…. and most musicians are only dimly aware of how differently the two camps think.
An SATB/choral arrangement of A Mighty Fortress finally gets published. #Why?
Since it’s a week before Christmas…. or CHRISTmas, as I like to say…… and you are probably a bit tired of the same ol’ tunes on the radio that are played year after year….. Back in 2015 I released an album called It Should Be Called CHRISTmas. Along with it […]
“That Music Thing”, an advantage to getting older, no guarantees, and a really odd space in my head. By the way, the heart surgeon really DID say that to me. Yes, he really **IS** a heart surgeon.
The Week Beings update, a tune, and a decidedly different modus operandi for me. So what do Beethoven, Fur Elise, bad handwriting, jazz, and ribs have to do with the typewriter?
A small update on “the music thing”, along with some annoying platitudes, the War of Art, Resistance, and a few small steps. #music #goals There I go, being blog-ish again.
Working on HOW MANY albums? HOW MANY different production processes? HOW MANY choices to be made? no wonder I’m nuts.