Thanks to Joey StLucas for the live recording of The Gore Horsemen's "Take Your Soul" performed live at Soda Bar in San Diego on April 2, 2015.

Performed by The Gore Horsemen

Lead Vocals/Lead Guitars - Jared Montalvo
Lead Guitars/Rhythm Guitars/Vocals - Daniel O' Grady
Upright Bass - Tony Keil
Drums - Charles Eck

"Take Your Soul" (Live) by The Gore Horsemen

While at work during the day, I constantly think about getting home and heading straight for the studio to start composing. Admittedly, in reality, I get home from work, have dinner, chill out, watch Netflix and sometimes go straight to bed. 

That stops now.

My goal for this year is to release one jingle per week over the next 52 weeks. Sure, it might not be a complete song, or a full band, and it may only have one note, or it may be only 30 seconds, but goddamnit, I want to express myself musically while enriching my skillset. I am trying to become a better musician, composer, engineer and creative this year, so, here goes nothing.

I am currently brainstorming soundtrack ideas for a short horror film that we are filming this year and I stumbled across several ambient pads in Kontakt 11. This was just a theme I was messing with. 

WIthout further ado, this is "Shiver."

Jingles After Midnight / Session 001 / Shiver

It has been raining for a week straight in San Diego, which is not very common, and I love it. Thunder echoed through the sky today which inspired this next Jingle After Midnight I like to call, "Thunder."

I don't have my drums hooked up yet so this is me just triggering samples on my Oxygen 8, which is no where near as fun(or responsive) as drums, but sometimes you just have to make with what you got.

Jingles After Midnight / Session 002 / Thunder

I have fallen a couple weeks behind schedule on my "one jingle per week" promise but I am trying to catch up and get back on track over the next week or two, which means I need to crank out five more of these so I will keep this brief.

This one is called, "Lore."

Jingles After Midnight / Session 003 / Lore

2020 may be the year of the synthesizer for me. 

The first coarse I studied in college over 15 years ago was Music Synthesis with Dave Bradfield at CSUDH. He was an amazing teacher that dove deep into modular synthesis and it was a bit intimidating at first. 

Fast forward to NAMM 2020 this past January, and as I walked around the show floor with my buddy, we stumbled across the modular synthesizer section of the show floor which we dubbed Synthlandia.  I remember playing with the Cr8audio Nifty Bundle and was instantly hooked. I recently purchased their Nifty Bundle modular synth housing and it came with their Chipz and Cellz Oscillator/LFO/Sequencer Combo. 

So far, I'm really loving the grittiness of this synth and look forward to creating more with it. Here is my first attempt and something resemblant of a song which I am calling, "Neptune."

And to help ease you into what I am calling the Synthlandia Sessions, I'll leave you with this. Dave Bradfield, my Music Synthesis instructor in college, used to preface every class with these words,"if this goes through you, rather than to you, not to worry."

Synthlandia Sessions #1 - Neptune

Here's another live performance I captured using the Cr8Audio Nifty Bundle. It's just me messing with two oscillators, one LFO, a sequencer fed directly into ProTools. Enjoy!

Synthlandia Sessions #2 - Falling

I've been using the mirack App on IOS which is essentially a virutal modular synthesis application. Here is a little arpeggiated tune I put together using the app.

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