Dear Archive Of Resonance,
Where have you been lately? You started ArchiveOfResonance.com, you put up a few posts, we got to start hearing about your recording projects and adventures to go catch them … but then you kind of fell off the radar. What’s up — what is AOR currently working on — when does the next album get released?
Sincerely,
Your Minions Of Adoring Fans
Dear Adoring Minions, (and I do mean both of you)
Thank you for your inquiry! The short answer is …. I have been BUSY!
$urviving in the current economy is no small trick, and while I’m keeping afloat I also have to hustle — which makes life a juggling act. As many of you know, a big part of my life is also my music. I have been preparing to record 2 & 1/2 albums — one on my Scottish smallpipes, and an EP & LP for Nae Regrets. Providing I can keep my musical focus during the coming months, I project that I will be able to start record early in 2013 — and I have other album projects I would like to soon follow.
As for AOR work — past, present, and future…
- The first copies of Wind & Harps have been available for a few months now and have been consistently receiving positive responses.
- As my blog-post readers know I tried capturing audio for the Trains & Waves project during Autumn & Fall 2012 — with little luck. I am looking to Spring 2013 with new recording fever as in the meantime it is my intention to contact local railfans AKA “train spotters” to get tips on better locations.
- The recordings of the Oyster Run motorcycle rally is of course ‘in the can’. I should be meeting soon with Adam about capturing the source artwork and getting the album art completed. Following some work — and headaches — I now have a new-to-me computer working which should enable me to produce the final surround-sound audio. This may require acquiring a set of 4-channel speakers first. Whatever the case, I’m looking to get this together by late-spring 2013.
- Also come Spring I want to record Water Drums! There is a functional-art fixture on Snoqualmie Pass that I’ve wanted to record for years, and finally it looks to be coming together. This should be an interesting project seeing as I intend to get it turned out in an ‘over-night’ fashion.
Lastly, and more recent, my life and ‘work’ are getting both more-nuts and likely-better. I will be moving AOR’s headquarters (in other words, I’m moving house) and aiming to start a company making and selling my baked-goods — in particular, my biscotti. People have enjoyed it and encouraged me to market it for years, and now — thanks to a friend — I’m seeing how to do so realistically and pursuing the endeavour.
So, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth, nor have I gone into hiding — I’ve just been busy. I have not dropped AOR, only I have had to take a bit of a step to the side of it briefly. We survived the Mayan end-of-the-world and with the re-boot of their mighty clock I am now going forward on numerous dreams and aspirations.
Keep an eye out in the following months ~ Don 25Feb2013
