Mike Ramnarine

Music, Technology, Life

WN27

Slowly pushing these later and later. I was blocking out time on Sundays to write the first Weeknotes ahead. I’ve since weaved some other creative projects into my week, and I’ve been spending that time on those projects. So, writing Weeknotes has fallen into the cracks. I’m slowly growing a roster of things that I…

March 8, 2021
WN26 Superskirmish Finish

That’s it February Album Writing Month over! In the end I published eight tracks, and 18 minutes of demos. Not bad considering how patchy my time commitment was, and that I started a week late. On Sunday, I did a superskirmish for half that track count. In FAWM parlance, a skirmish is a one hour…

March 1, 2021
WN25 Refinding my Fluency

Less to show for FAWM than I hoped this week, but I do have three ideas in progress that I’m going to revisit. Two of them felt like pulling teeth, but the third idea’s first cut came down cleanly. Seems like I need to have a piano keyboard in front of me to write effectively.…

February 22, 2021
WN24 Don’t Rollback, Update!

It feels like last chewed me up and spat me out. It’s not been the best past couple of weeks. I’ve spent way more time than expected battling a configuration change that would not die. But, along the way I learned a few things. February Album Writing Month didn’t get much progress until the weekend…

February 15, 2021
WN23 Riptide

So, here it is track number three; Riptide. Three tracks in one month. What a wild ride. Three tracks brought to you by a time box and peer accountability. I’m amazed at the number of hours that I managed to find. A few too many ready-meals and too much evening screen-time, though. Now the time…

February 8, 2021
WN22 Can’t Talk, Producing

Writing three tracks to a releasable standard has been an intense month. And the pressure of having not-terrible lyrics for the third track has been a time drain. Much thoughts, but after the final submission for peer feedback tomorrow.

February 1, 2021
WN21 No Buttery Biscuit

Song two from Andrew Huang’s Monthly course done! Here it is. Some retro drum ‘n’ bass action. The theme of the second part of the course is sampling. No drums samples were used in the production of this track. All the percussion are sounds from my kitchen. Some of them have been pitched and tweaked.…

January 25, 2021
WN20 Fly By Night

Finished Song: Fly By Night Track one done! And I’m pleased with this. I’ve learnt a lot about how to put the pieces together into a usable workflow. Don’t begin, Finish by starting I spent a lot of hours working on this track. Having the timebox and peer commitment really helped with my follow-through. Almost…

January 18, 2021
WN19 Move Fast, Move On, Revisit

I’m a week into Andrew Huang’s Monthly Course, which is a songwriting/producing workshop. Over 30 days, we’re writing three songs. Which means at this point, I should be most of the way to having having the first song. I think I am, but I’ve been pushing on the “everything sucks” phase. Thinking back, it’s been…

January 11, 2021
WN18 Rest and Games

Having had a solid twelve days off has been really nice. I haven’t had the opportunity to chill and sleep in like that for a while. Spent plenty of time reading, playing games and catching up with people. As well as doing nothing in particular! New Years Eve was spent playing games online with a…

January 4, 2021