What I’ve been making, playing, and thinking about — straight from the studio and the stage.
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I’m Making an Album! Capturing the Moment
Read the note →: I’m Making an Album! Capturing the MomentPart of my creative process is to just free jam and improvise over an initial idea. The idea is most often just a Splurge (a 20-30 minute quick brain dump of free flow ideas that I do EVERY day, first thing in my studio). These splurges are usually quite bare bones and just the initial…
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🎶January’s Monthly Notes🎶
Read the note →: 🎶January’s Monthly Notes🎶Wow, one month down in 2023, already! It doesn’t help the music planning when I only got back into the Sydney studio on 21 January after some global gallivanting (yeah, I know, 21 century problems 😏). So far, my 2023 musical plans are all up and running: 1. Make an album for release 10 June:I’ve…
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I’m Making an Album! – the splurge and rate process
Read the note →: I’m Making an Album! – the splurge and rate processSo, as planned I was about to do a live stream of a part of my creative process. BUT…. Technology has screwed me again. It’s a few days before I leave my Rome studio and head back to Sydney, and my slackness with streaming over the last while has come back to haunt me…with none…
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Save the Date – “Live” Album Release Party
Read the note →: Save the Date – “Live” Album Release PartyRight, it’s 2023 and about time we got a few dates locked in. Save the date – Saturday 10 June 2023, for the Steve Pottz – Album Release Party. “Live” will officially be available for download on that day and we might just have to a have a bit of a party to celebrate. Venue…
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I’m Making an Album!
Read the note →: I’m Making an Album!2023 it’s all happening! Why? What? When? How? All will be revealed over the next while. All I can say at this stage is that it’s all going to be going down in the first 5 months of 2023. If you’re not already a supporter, sign up here to get all the updates of the…
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5-5-5! A win if I was playing the Pokies?
Read the note →: 5-5-5! A win if I was playing the Pokies?55 years old young on the 5th of December! Eek! That’s a shit load of Fives. No longer can I claim to be in my ‘early fifties’. You don’t get much more mid-fifties than 55. Still I don’t feel 55! Hmmmm? Can’t even really claim that anymore these days, was what I was thinking as…
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Not Built in a Day…
Read the note →: Not Built in a Day…Ciao from Rome. Finally I have escaped the Murphey’s Law vortex that ensued in the month before we managed to leave Sydney and get over here. My temporary studio for the 3 months is set-up, and the creations are flowing. Unlike my previous overseas creative sabbaticals, I haven’t yet worked out what the music goals…
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D-Com-Pression
Read the note →: D-Com-PressionThat’s what you go through post a Burning Man session. So much physically, mentally and spiritually to unpack after 8 days in the dusty, smokin’ hot (this year particularly), craziness that is Black Rock City! I had some great musical plays out there – some of them even had some people attending (!), and all…
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Feeling the Burn
Read the note →: Feeling the Burn4 weeks before I hit the dusty bowl of Black Rock City, Nevada for Burning Man. I’m getting just a little excited! I’ve spend the last 2 months paring back my equipment set-up to my reduced Burn set-up. The Moog Sub37 and Novation Peak (2 hardware synths) have been ditched and I’ve replaced any sounds…
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Bad weather stops Play
Read the note →: Bad weather stops PlayOr something like that. I have to find some reason for falling behind on music tasks, and the weather is a pretty apt excuse right now. A week behind on my monthly Musical Notes (this post), and 5 days behind on my weekly BandCamp track. It’s the 3 extra layers of clothing I have to…
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