In today’s post I will guide you through ‘how Beautiful Life project actually started’. I am going to cover:
• The composition process in an international environment
• The transition into the recording phase
As mentioned in the DIY blog post, I have met a lot of people and build an artist network during my first songwriter project in 2009 – the Katsy Redstar children CD. One of those artists was Maja, a painter and writer from Pennsylvania, US. Maja was enthusiastic about the children CD and helped to promote it within her network. She also created handcrafted sleeves for the CD, which fit perfectly to the project. We have been in touch for a while over the Internet, exchanging emails about how to write songs, lyrics, music and other independently creative things.
After the release of the children CD in June 2009 I was a kind of burned out on creativity and did not play a lot guitar. Early October 2009, Maja has sent me a poem that she has written and asked for my feedback. I had some spare time in the evening and took my guitar and gave a few chords to the text. Very simple, but I liked it myself. Thus, I recorded it with my Zoom H2, which is a very easy to use recording tool. Just like in the good old times with tape-recorders in the garage: press play and it runs. Naturally, you can directly plug it to your PC and have the song send as MP3 to the world.
I send it to Maja, and she replied very amazed about the song. Which in turn energized me to start playing again. With this emotional inflection point we started to exchange ideas. Maja send me lyrics and I tried some new tunes out, started to arrange and sing to the lyrics. The process worked by recording on H2, send to Maja, getting feedback and improved the structure of the songs.
By January 2010 we had a couple songs together, where we both had the feeling, that this can become very interesting to have them in real good sound quality, and even as a professional produced CD. Thus, I started to think about how we can potentially realize this with the constraint of a small budget and very limited time besides my daily job and family activities.
Unfortunately, the line-up of people that helped to produce the Katsy Redstar children CD didn’t came together at that time. But as mentioned in my last blog post, it’s an advantage to be flexible within self-contained projects. And if you are in a creative flow, talking to people, thinking about opportunities and what to do, somehow things come together. How that happens, you can read in my next blog post about the orientation phase I had around January to March 2010. • The motivation behind it
• The composition process in an international environment
• The transition into the recording phase
As mentioned in the DIY blog post, I have met a lot of people and build an artist network during my first songwriter project in 2009 – the Katsy Redstar children CD. One of those artists was Maja, a painter and writer from Pennsylvania, US. Maja was enthusiastic about the children CD and helped to promote it within her network. She also created handcrafted sleeves for the CD, which fit perfectly to the project. We have been in touch for a while over the Internet, exchanging emails about how to write songs, lyrics, music and other independently creative things.
After the release of the children CD in June 2009 I was a kind of burned out on creativity and did not play a lot guitar. Early October 2009, Maja has sent me a poem that she has written and asked for my feedback. I had some spare time in the evening and took my guitar and gave a few chords to the text. Very simple, but I liked it myself. Thus, I recorded it with my Zoom H2, which is a very easy to use recording tool. Just like in the good old times with tape-recorders in the garage: press play and it runs. Naturally, you can directly plug it to your PC and have the song send as MP3 to the world.
I send it to Maja, and she replied very amazed about the song. Which in turn energized me to start playing again. With this emotional inflection point we started to exchange ideas. Maja send me lyrics and I tried some new tunes out, started to arrange and sing to the lyrics. The process worked by recording on H2, send to Maja, getting feedback and improved the structure of the songs.
By January 2010 we had a couple songs together, where we both had the feeling, that this can become very interesting to have them in real good sound quality, and even as a professional produced CD. Thus, I started to think about how we can potentially realize this with the constraint of a small budget and very limited time besides my daily job and family activities.
Unfortunately, the line-up of people that helped to produce the Katsy Redstar children CD didn’t came together at that time. But as mentioned in my last blog post, it’s an advantage to be flexible within self-contained projects. And if you are in a creative flow, talking to people, thinking about opportunities and what to do, somehow things come together. How that happens, you can read in my next blog post about the orientation phase I had around January to March 2010. • The motivation behind it
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