The Imperfect Mirror
The Imperfect Mirror Theory, popularized on the internet over the last few years, postulates that if you try to copy something, you’re not that something, and what you put out, if you can do it, will be more like yourself.
Musically for me, this means if I try to copy a style, it will still come out sounding kind of like me, given my experience level and the production that I do. And here, I would say, by producing so many tracks, that’s probably even more true.
This is all to say that for June, I’m going to try to modernize my sound a little bit and see what happens, taking cues from Colorize and Anjunadeep.
I tried to make this kind of music a long time ago, but it just hadn’t settled into my subconscious. Now it certainly has. I hear it on a different level. I know what I would do. And I know I can do it because of its very rigid song structure. And I would just like to see what my stuff, modernized, sounds like anyway.
So, I’m hoping that this imperfect mirror thing really works here, as it has in the past for me. I will be producing my own tracks, trying to do about one track a week, and put that up on YouTube, of which I took a break from last week because I was just between worlds, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
And then I’m going to try to apply it to my music for sync and production tracks as well, which, incidentally, I’ve really been enjoying making in the Ableton Note app lately and trying to figure that out. So a lot of my production music will come from that. The nice thing being I can start them on my iPad in the morning and then port them into Granddaddy Ableton at night to see what I’ve got and mix it and all that good stuff.
So, a lot going on for June. I’m really looking forward to the month. I’m just trying to level up around here.