Some of you may be wondering whats up with Shadowclast, the musical entity.
Well, I'm sad to announce that it is officially "on hiatus" - due to the time-consuming nature of school, some technical issues, and some identity issues.
Identity issues? Well, when I released Next Week's Outline and Tesseract back in 2005, I was listening to a strict diet of "emotional" IDM from labels like n5MD, Merck, Hymen, etc. That style, as a result of being almost my sole genre of choice, came naturally to me and I found my material fitting easily into that mold (hence my release through enpeg digital).
However, the past two years have seen a vast and large-scale broadening of my music taste, newly (re)acquired love for a broad range of genres.
So now I face two dilemmas:
1) The music I create sounds identical to my "IDM" period material, but that no longer represents the music I want to make.
2) Tracks that sound more representative of where I am currently seem somewhat formless, jumping from rampant venetian snares drill'n'bass to depeche mode synthpop and are generally lacking overall.
(Possible) Conclusions:
I need to step back, stop making music for awhile.
I need to start recording vocals.
I need some new gear.
I need to stop forcing myself to create demos that don't do anything for me.
I need to join a band.
I need to produce a band's record. (maybe the same thing)
As you can see by the previous post, I am trying my hand at creating poetry. These writings will likely play a big part in my next musical incarnation.
Stay tuned.
1 comment:
Well, I ran into the same probably a little while ago. Here's my story:
When I first started on music, I was doing hip hop, but even at its most progressive, it's still a very limiting genre. I started working with different electronic genres as I discovered them, and I made tracks in all of them that I knew. I settled into a more emotional IDM genre, like the labels you mentioned. But as I discovered new genres I got frustrated because I felt I didn't have the tools to express myself in other ways.
I was still content to work on IDM though because I don't think I perfected my sound yet. Basically I figured I would eventually work on non electronic stuff under a different name. I started another project Horizon's Ghost, which is more focused on possible film or video game scores, influenced by more classical composers like Jeremy Soule and Nubou Uematsu, and genre defying ones like Yoko Kanno.
Unfortunately all my musical activicty came to a halt around December as my computer suffered some sort of odd failure that I haven't been able to fix and it no longer run my music software :( I hope to get another PC soon.
I'm sad to hear Shadowclast is on hiatus as I was looking forward to those tracks I spotted many months ago. I think all your conclusions are good ones. And also instead of one musical incarnation which is "Shadowclast" why not have more than one? Hopefully you get it all sorted out because ya gots talent kid. I would keep working on little bits of pieces too just to keep with it.
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