9/29/2023
WHY am I typing about late September on a hot muggy afternoon in June? Read and find out…..
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An Exercise
My brains are increasingly scrambled. Time to focus – time is getting short. But how? Thus, the Experiment.
Thinking While Recording
of Kitchen Timers, Thinking, and a big red Record button.
CONTEXT
Ruts, stuckness, colored light bulbs, and possibly a bout of serious laziness.
Stuck
Uh Oh…. the album project has come to an impasse. What to do? Tune in next time, when Tom will probably type about something else because that’s what is in the queue……
Consistency is NOT My Middle Name
Marketing, consistency, it that always a good thing?, plus tweets that are longer lasting than my deodorant.
I **STILL** Have No Idea
Why create an album> Whence comes the drive, the necessity? … and even more probably unanswerable questions. Then there’s my shoelaces….
Meetings and Schedules
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.
A Favor, Please
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
Process Part 2
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.
Process
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.
The Week Begins – March 2022 Update
News about Tom’s new album-in-process “The Week Begins”.
The Week Begins – another update
Typed up in May, 2022, here’s a quick update on how Tom Rule’s new album The Week Begins is going.
The Vinyl Revival
Vinyl? Really? They outsold CDs in 2021. Why? The typewriter pondereth…..
Vocals
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.
Just in Case
An SATB/choral arrangement of A Mighty Fortress finally gets published. #Why?
Something a Little Different
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 […]
No Guarantees
“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.
Paging Eloise…. Paging Eloise…..
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?
Music, Goals, and Confusion
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.