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A week has past since I finished the WAlbum project. With what little distance I have from the experience, here are some thoughts: OBSERVATIONS: This was a lot of work. I’m proud of some things and embarrassed of others. I learned a lot about myself and how I work. It was great fun and very [...]

The official page for the WAlbum Project is: http://www.brendanburns.com/walbum06 All the recordings and scores are up and available. Final thoughts will show up on Sunday.

Procrastination is becoming an understatement to describe my adherence to a production schedule. This week was mostly editing and re-recording. I’m a little behind (as usual) for recording all the tunes, but I think I can finish it up this week. I’m so excited to get the finished product out there. If all goes as [...]

This week’s big adventure was the concert debut of the WAlbum music. I had a great time taking the tunes out for a test drive. Valerie sat in as guest cellist and we both had a blast. A recording from the show will be up (along with everything else) by the end of the month. [...]

This week is the performance debut of the WAlbum music. If things were going as planed, I would have had all 10 songs written, recorded, and published online by now. As it currently looks, I have 6 tunes ready to go. For a while I was feeling pretty bad about not reaching my goal of [...]

Most of this week involved traveling and getting back into the swing of things here in Boston. I dumped the contents of the Fostex onto the computer late in the week, and today I did a lot of editing. I trashed 3 tunes and wrote up a list of some things that I need to [...]

I brought my Fostex home with me for the Holidays, and as the week begins I’m thinking of downloading some editing software and finishing this album on my family’s computer. I have a couple tunes that I’ve finished back in Boston and I’m knocking out tunes left and right while I’m here. The recording setup [...]

This week had a couple big gigs and some last minute Holiday pressures, so in order to give my hands a break (that they needed) I’ve put this project on hold for a couple days. I think I’ll still be able to get everything out by the 31st, but if I’m a little late, it’s [...]

I began this week by pruning my song ideas. After throwing some things out, i have 17 scored tunes (or tune fragments) and 2 or 3 songs that i haven’t written out yet. – I’ve been suffering from quite a bit of stress and self-doubt the past few days, but I saw shinning ray of [...]

I think my colds are gone now. I’m starting the week with ideas of multi-tracking in my head. I bought some strings for my uke, and I’m thinking of incorporating some piano into the recordings. I’ve more ideas than time to do them, so I’ve got make sure I stay focused. It’s crunch time. – [...]