We made due though, and after introducing myself the Edison and Owner/Operator, I was able to tie directly into their sets. I wished they had started an hour earlier so I could have gotten to see Egadz set. Anyway, here’s the resulting video(s)

I hadn’t known the Bachrans super well while attending church with them, but I’d served alongside them a number of times, and ran into Daniel more than once at the Mac Store. When I found out that Kelly was an American Idol hopeful that went on to Hollywood week, I jumped at the chance to shoot a quick video with them. I had seen that they were recording some cover songs in their house, so I offered to come and shoot something with my own gear in their home setting. This was the result. While I need to work on a better way to stabilize my camera during shooting, I was pretty happy with the way it turned out, and my reward ultimately, was the experience of shooting and producing it. I need to remind myself of that more.

Now since then, Ableton has teamed up with Cycling ’74, makers of Max, and developed a Max4Live, that allows you to run Max patches right inside Live. This has been the tie in that everyone has been waiting for, and now has once again piqued my interest. I think this time i’d like to build one though. Here’s one of the original videos that sold me on it:

The Northern Sound is one example of a project that grew out of someone coming to me with a few simple songs, taking those and trying different instruments, and textures till we got something that we liked. What I really like about how these turned out, is that they have drive and atmosphere, but yet still have their acoustic coffee shop vibe.

The Northern Sound – The Widow’s Song

The Northern Sound – Collapse

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