Mama Said

Mama Said

As soon as I had the ability to record music using multitrack machines, I became fascinated by production techniques. The process of recording made me pay more attention to the tapestry of sounds that make up any given record, and every once in a while, I would...
Studio: Welcome Back

Studio: Welcome Back

After only a handful of rehearsals with the new band during the spring of this year, I felt like a good next step would be to get into a studio and hammer out a few songs to act as a booking demo, and perhaps the start of a releasable recording. I settled on The...
Human Created Music

Human Created Music

The development of AI for public consumption came on fast and strong a couple of years ago. I think 2023 was the year it really broke open and ChatGPT became a household name. Since then, it’s been the Wild West and a lot like the the late 1990s and the early days of...
J Mundok 25 Live

J Mundok 25 Live

As 2024 wound down (now over six months ago), I had a realization that, except for the open mics I’ve hosted at TCF over the past few years, the last show I played out was five years earlier. Never in my life, even when I had infants and toddlers, had I gone that long...
Rage for Order

Rage for Order

I recently came across a video by Robert John Hadfield from the AudioMover YouTube channel about Queensrÿche’s epic 1986 release, Rage for Order. For some context, during the summer of ‘86, I was soon to be 15 years old and between my freshman and sophomore years of...
When in Rome

When in Rome

My interest in ambient music (or new age, as the genre was often referred to at the time) began in earnest during the early summer of 1990 when I was introduced to The City by Vangelis. It was the featured album on an episode of Echoes, the syndicated radio program...