{"id":178,"date":"2009-03-09T19:10:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2009-03-09T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:10:43","slug":"surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My creative work precedes my mixdown \/ mastering work by a large gap of time, normally.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve recently begun mixing and mastering for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/releases\/electretquintet.html\">the Electret Quintet part 3<\/a>, work which was composed and assembled in March 2008.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nAfter a working through a few passes at a mixdown over the last few weeks, today I found &#8212; nested in the folder for one of the tracks to appear on the third part of this project &#8212; a folder titled &#8216;alt&#8217;, which contained a <em>radical<\/em> remix of that track&#8230; I haven&#8217;t heard this mix in over a year, and I&#8217;d completely forgotten about it!  Pretty exciting discovery, for my part.  The downside is that adding this new part in will add another couple of minutes to the total length, and I was already thinking it was reaching the limit of lengthiness.  The first two tracks alone have a longer duration than the entirety of &#8220;The Electret Quintet part 2&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s funny to me that the creative side of my psyche works quickly enough that I can record something and completely forget that it even exists.  I wonder how much stuff I&#8217;ve created and then misplaced forever?<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t the Residents record something that they intended to have released only once they&#8217;d forgotten they&#8217;d ever recorded it?  That&#8217;s a good m.o., IMO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My creative work precedes my mixdown \/ mastering work by a large gap of time, normally. &#8211; I&#8217;ve recently begun mixing and mastering for the Electret Quintet part 3, work which was composed and assembled in March 2008. &#8211; After a working through a few passes at a mixdown over the last few weeks, today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,37,40],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progress-and-plans","tag-electret-quintet","tag-mastering","tag-mixing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eIxq-2S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vuzhmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}