Tag: Music Meets Technology

  • Finishing the Tech Battle and Releasing a New Anthem for Lehi Pioneers

    Finishing the Tech Battle and Releasing a New Anthem for Lehi Pioneers

    As a follow up to last week, the journey of tech hasn’t fully ended. But it is getting very close to being finished…

    While out on vacation in the Northern California area, I didn’t have a lot of downtime while my girlfriend and I were running around to wine tastings and amazing meals. Despite that, I was able to fix some email issues I had.

    The fantastic thing is, my email has never worked this well. Very consistent, and not getting stuck anywhere. Plus substantially better spam removal before it even hits my inbox. Ahhh.

    Websites are working smoothly without choking. Which means I can update the web store. Another ahhh thing, where it’s a sigh of relief.

    There’s a few more websites I have to transfer over, but they’re low hanging fruit. The task at hand is an sftp server so that I can transfer files with co-writers and music supervisors. Once that is done, I’m ready to fully relax and use it to its potential.

    Last week I heard from my girlfriend’s co-workers that they really appreciated the anthem for their school’s team. I was told they thought it was super cool. Apparently there is a plan in place to get it into their games for audio backing. Which is music to my ears.

    This week is the follow up release for Lehi High School with a version of Do You Want to Play for Lehi High’s basketball team. As they say: “Go Pioneers!”

    Stay tuned…

  • Overcoming Setbacks: My Unique Story of Progress and Perseverance!

    Overcoming Setbacks: My Unique Story of Progress and Perseverance!

    One step forward, three steps backward. This is a type of proverb that originally spoke of one step forward, two steps backward. The concept is that progress is made, but setbacks have occurred that delay the project.

    It’s likely there isn’t a person on earth that hasn’t experienced this problem.

    Right now, it’s a problem I’m experiencing with getting the updated server up and running. It’s also occurring with some musical things that I’d like to be working on as well.

    Today I was hoping to have the new server running the websites. Unfortunately admin user error (meaning me not understanding something about Kubernetes) caused a need to roll everything back and start over again. ARGH.

    Right when I was feeling like hell yeah this is gonna happen today; the data and server gods said: NOPE!

    Sadly the learning curve is proving a tad more than I had bargained for. Which is not what I’m used to and it’s tremendously disappointing.

    The irony is, another artist I recently chatted with thought that my ability to even attempt such ventures for computing was wild sorcery. That’s a nice thought, and in a way it is, but alas, I’m forcing my own hand to make sure its done right.

    On the musical side of things, I know that starting today, I need to get the next batch of animated cover art to the distributor. Which puts me a little behind on creating some music for a project.

    On Friday I got a call asking for me to create some music similar to something I did several months ago. This is for a client abroad. The last piece of music I did in this nature was my first jump into the genre. Apparently they liked it enough they want me to do it again.

    Therein is the issue. There isn’t enough time in the day to get everything done. Especially when stuff is piling up due to setbacks like the one I experienced today.

    Is the server important? Yes. Is it dire? No.

    However I’ve been working on this close to a month and if it was my previous method, it would have been done in a day. In order to grow, one needs to push thru the setbacks.

    To that end, I appreciate that you’ve read this far to find out that today’s musical launch is the Motor City Cruise. They are the G League basketball team for Detroit. This particular animated covers is one of my favorites. It feels subtle and also appropriate. Though I do wish I could have added some motor revving sounds to the animation.

    Of course once all these things come together for the server, I will quietly make it known.

    Come back again, same bat time, same bat website.