http://www.nascentmusic.com/mp3/shanecarey.net/20051130.mp3
Today’s music was recorded on Saturday. This whole asynchronous thing doesn’t sit well with me, and neither does yammering on about it like anyone cares. Sorry ’bout that; hope you enjoy the music.

Found some more podcasts that inspire and inform me about what I hope to do with my own: Aphelion, Paul Cooper, and We Can and We Must Live are all doing fantastic work. Most is more aggressive than mine, and all more professional, but I mean to learn from both aspects.

And another shout-out to kataStatik, who stopped by and let me know he has some new stuff online… More awe, more envy. I hope I can do some new things very soon with what I’ve learned from “alone”.

Having listened to a bunch of other musicians’ podcasts, it is more clear now that single-song podcasts are common in a non-radio show format. This is fine with me; I prefer to present new stuff more often, and the songs are long enough a first-time listener’s patience is tested plenty without putting three of them in one file.

I haven’t given up on saving some time during the week. As planned, I waited until today to edit the week’s recordings, and to record the opening and closing speech for them. However, I’ll still be releasing them 2-3 days apart, so the one I recorded today won’t be posted until Friday. If I were to post all three at once, a lot of people would think that it was a weekly show, because a lot of people will just look at the most recent thing; so it seems reasonable to me to make it more obvious that there are three files a week by putting some time between each post.

I’m not sure it’s the right approach, but we’ll see how this week goes. I don’t think anybody cares whether the recording is made the same night it’s released. But I might.

http://www.nascentmusic.com/mp3/shanecarey.net/20051127.mp3
Improvised 11/24/2005.

I will not be going weekly after all. Further explanation in a blog entry to follow. Boy, when I document the process, I don’t mess around.

I don’t have enough examples of other recording artists’ podcasts to know how I’m doing. Is it bad that my podcasts are only fifteen minutes long? Good that I offer new music as often as I do?

Capturing, editing, and posting the MP3s takes about three times as long as the actual recording. Boo-hoo, a whole hour, I know. Still, I’m thinking that, if I do something better with those 45 minutes two days a week, like practicing the instrument, then it might be worth that savings to wait until week’s end to edit all of the recordings together into one single file. This would be more like other podcasts I’ve heard, 45-60 minutes long with several different songs in one release (the difference being, of course, that they’ll still be my brand of song, 10-15 minutes long with all mistakes intact). Better to be more like them, or is it better now? I’m still unsure about it, but I reckon that a holiday week might be a useful example, so I’ll try it this week and see how I feel about it. Feel free to let me know how you feel about it, if you have an opinion.

http://www.nascentmusic.com/mp3/shanecarey.net/20051120.mp3
Today’s improvisation finds itself slowly, evolves gradually, finds itself by inches.

http://www.nascentmusic.com/mp3/shanecarey.net/20051118.mp3
A nice, peaceful little ditty, probably as nice and peaceful as the one I thought I recorded before it. Remember kids, stay in school, don’t do drugs, and arm your tracks before you record!

Edit: Now that I think about it, I should be happy that I did two good improvs tonight, even if I can only post one of them. Hurrah!

http://www.nascentmusic.com/mp3/shanecarey.net/20051116.mp3
The title is not what I was thinking while playing, but what I was actually doing. What happens when GNX3 goes BSoD?

http://www.nascentmusic.com/mp3/shanecarey.net/20051113.mp3
Just what tribal ambient has always needed: a waltz. I think it’s time to admit that I no longer have any idea what genre I’m playing in.

http://www.nascentmusic.com/mp3/shanecarey.net/20051109-02.mp3
…Just as quickly, a huge departure from form again. Because reimprovised stoner-metal drones are usually not my thing.

Good to know that the vocals are audible. Well, kinda good.