stefkeB

During the last two decades (I'm showing my age here) I have drafted more than 200 snippets/songs. Some of them only short riffs, others full songs, with lyrics and instrumentation.

Now I'm slowly reviewing them and thinking of recording a number of them. For myself and for the rest of the world... I'll have to leave something for the kids, someday.

I'm not sure what to do with them, although. I might as well form three different bands:

I am slowly getting reactions from people who are interested in a possible collaboration. Strange feeling, as I have been doing (most of) my recordings alone, by now.

It ranges from someone playing progressive rock seeking a guitar player till two drummers and a singer, who has had quite some television exposure. I have not made any decision yet, as the most important thing is that we should just meet and see if the music starts flowing. So exciting times ahead, despite of the current lack of time and sleep.

I have joined the vi.be website at http://vi.be

It is our local equivalent of Myspace for bands, which allows you to discover and contact other musicians. If you're Flemish and you play music, it is a recommended community.

I am re-installing everything. My Powerbook's drive died, so I had to start from scratch (and the partial backup I could recover). I've switched from Tiger to Leopard, but still have iLife '06 for PPC on that machine.

On the iMac, I have the more recent iLife '08 which is nice (especially iPhoto, which we used to reorganize most of our family snapshots). Garagaband seems to be improved somewhat, but not dramatically. I have not had the chance to try others.

Last week, because it was my birthday, I bought a new iMac. It is meant to replace my old Desktop PC from 2000, which did not serve for music for quite some time. While I am happy with the Powerbook, it's still my laptop for work and it's disk died recently. While it is recovering and a new battery is ordered, I had to replace my home computer too. Because of music and graphics I chose the iMac, which is reasonably priced and comes with iLife (including the nice Garageband).

I had a rehearsal/brainstorm with the "Reverse Violin Company", yesterday evening. We listened to eachothers tunes, looked at lyrics and gave suggestions. We also wanted to record a new song, based on a lyric I wrote. It was hard to find a suitable "genre", so we decided to try with drum loops to get into a particular groove. After a few rock oriented drum samples, we settled with a more electronic beat and then the creative energy got bigger.

If you look for a Linux distribution oriented towards multimedia, you can try one of the 7 distributions as discussed on http://www.junauza.com/2008/08/7-best-linux-distributions-for.html There are several interesting options for Open Source music creation applications, which include Ardour, Audacity, PureData, Rosegarden, CSound. I tried many of them, but not as extensive as Cubase or Ableton Live.

Check out http://www.whateveriswrongwithyou.com to download the new song from Marillion for free and participate in a video-contest. You could win £5000 along the way.

While playing on your own has its advantages, such as full creative freedom, no pressure and no arguments, I would like to start a band. So if you live near Leuven and like some of the things I created, please send something to my hotmail adress, using "stefkeB" as username.

I don't understand Drupal anymore, but anyways. Music posting works again so I have uploaded many new songs again to this site. I also am recovering from a hard drive failure: the disk of the Powerbook died WHILE MAKING A BACKUP! So I end up without disk and with only 18GB from the 100GB drive backed up. I still have to restore the last backup from june from our local system, which I hope was made as late as possible. I will surely have lost some of my personal pictures, but by pure luck, some of my latest recordings did survive.